three shelves done.

I have worked on the shelves and decided to add some bolts around the side, to match the table a bit. And added a support bracket. Just a little bit of detail so it doesnt look to plain and boring.
Everything is very smooth and flat, so i am going to fix up each item and give it a bit of a rough look.

I am now going to make the drawer which i think i might have a bit of problems with but im going to try anyway and hopefully get as much as i can done. 

study room.

I put in the chair and the table together. I added in a wall and also added in three shelves on the side.

I looked up some tutorials on how to make books in Maya. I am going to have page turning in my animation and i dont know how to do it. So i came along this website and video. 

http://www.freemayavideotutorials.com/tutorials/video-how-to-turn-3d-book-page.html

I watched a bit of it and i will continue to watch it later.

Im pretty sure i will be coming into the animation cupboard again on Wednesday. 

table made and complete.

After i finished the chair i worked on the table and it is now complete.

 Sean helped me out with showing me quick and easier ways to do things as i was doing everything the long way. Now i am going to move on to another object and add in the chair to the scene.

chair complete.

Today is Monday and im just in the animation cupboard. I finished off my chair and now im going to start on the walls of the study room and start making the table.

All the pieces are combined together and is now a single object.
I will post again when i have done more work.

chair continue.

Just in the animation cupboard with Sean and worked on our animations. I'm still working on the chair and i know i have spent way to much time on it so i am going to finish it off and start organising the room.
The reseaon its taken a while because we ended up going to the movies and watched BRAVE (WHICH WAS AMAZING!!) i so badly wanted to see it and it was amazing!! 


It gave us a lot of inspiration to work. I LOVE ANIMATION!!!

This is the final bit of the chair i only have to fix the sides and put in arm rests.

im happy with it, i think it looks good!

Sean and i have decided to come in again on Monday next week and continue working.

anyway go watch BRAVE ITS AMAZING!!!!!!!

BRAVE

BRAVE 

BRAVE

BRAVE

BRAVE 

BRAVE

BRAVE

BRAVE 

BRAVE

BRAVE

BRAVE 

BRAVE!!!!!!!!!

UNO.

Today is UNO day Wednesday. Jarrod, Sean and I meet up at Uni and worked in the animation cupboard.
I continued working on my chair and its very slowly coming a long. I need to pick it up a bit. This is only because I'm still refreashing as i go and im learning new things too.

 Once i finished the bottom piece i used the CV curve tool to make a line of how i wanted the legs to look. I then extruded from a face and worked the vertexes around.

I then made a copy of the bottom and put it on the top and made it a bit smaller.

I am now working on the side bar which has a bit of a shape in the center, just so it doesnt look all smooth and perfect.

Through out working on this i have been moving some of the vertex points around so there isnt much smoothness happening.

I think on Friday i will be coming in again, i wil be working on this at home on Thursday.

UNO, UNO, UNO.

tuesday library work.

Today is the 19th. 

So a few of the guys and i decided that it would be a good idea to come into the libaray and work on our animations. So far it is only Sean, Jarrod and I. 

I started working on my chair for my animation. It is slowly coming along. I am still a bit rusty with Maya, but  It is slowly coming back to me. 

I actually have to stop now because i have things i need to do. I will be coming in again tomorrow to work on my animation. This time i can stay till late because i have nothing on, Jarrod and Sean are also coming in too!!
fun times.

Thursday catch up.

Last Thursday there was a catch up class for Jack. I wanted to start on my character blocking because i know thats the main thing that i will have problems with. Im glad that I didnt leave it till during the holidays to start it.

I was having a bit of a hard time working on it. I havent used Maya in a long time and i was trying to remember all the things that i learnt. I got help from Jack and he re-teached me a few things that i forgot.

Jack helped me with the pants and jacket and reminded me about using the extrude tool to get different shapes and also using the edge loop tool to get more detail.
I have a lot to work on and I'm glad that i started with this.

It is now Monday 18th of June and its the 2nd week on holidays. I decided to take the first week off because i really wanted to take a break. I have made a list of my scenes/shots in catagories of 2D/3D/effects...ect...
My first scene is the newspapers and they will be completed in Photoshop I will also be doing to Outside world in Photoshop. All the other sections in my animation are in 3D.

With my fellow class mates we have decided that during the holidays we will meet up at Uni and work in the library together. For some of us, we find it hard to work at home because there are destractions. I think its a great idea because we can help each other out and we all know different types of information.

So today I am going to organise myself and make a check list of things i have to do and start on the basic layout of scene one. 

animatic with rough sound.

This is my Animatic that I put together. for most of my moving shots I cut each one in Photoshop so i could have two-three layers so i can move each of them in After Effects. I know the music is very over powering, it is not going to be like that, i just wasnt to sure how to edit it in After Effects.
The music is also just a rough idea.

 This video is taking forever to load. I just sent an e-mail to Jack asking what information he will need for the mechanical tree. I hope it sent because when i look in the send folder it's not showing.
I can only wait and see.

video block.

This is my Video Block that I handed in for my Animation Bible.

I had a really good time acting and directing others on what i wanted to show for my Video Block.

week 14 ends, holidays begins.

Today i am handing in my animation bible! everything is complete and i am handing it in!
On wednesday i finished a lot of my work off and i was really sick and i still am sick. i tried really hard to get it all done and i am happy with what i got.
Sound for my animatic is done, i might not use some of it but its there as a rough so i have an idea.
all my concept art and layouts i also did on wednesday.

I will put up my video block and animatic soon.
now its time for holidays.. well not really a holiday since ill be working on my animation.

design/concept art.

These are the sheets of work that i was talking about in my post before hand.
concept art of hourglass designs and concept art of the tree design.

Everything is still in pencil and needs to be coloured. I have also done two of my layouts which are both still in pencil. In total i have done 3 out of 4 concept arts and 2 out of 4 layouts.
After this i need to get a rough track for my animatic and then do my front page and content sheet. Buy a new folio with A LOT of plastic sheets in it and organise it all.

Tree Design.

On the weekend I worked on my Tree Design sheet and it is coming along really well. It took me some time to work on it as I found that trying to create things to look steampunk is really hard.
I did heaps of research on how to make it look steampunk and also trying to figure out a few things about engineering.

Matt gave me this really old book on engineering that helped me out a bit. On Friday Sea-Anne Mindy helped me by finding some pictures of steampunk items which also helped me create some unique looking cogs. I also got some help from Bounnong with the tree, showing me that there are other ways to design the tree.

I will upload a picture soon of the tree design and i will also need to give a copy to Jack.