sin blogger.

forgive me blog for I have forgotten to blog.
Actually not really forgotten... more like I'm just trying to get work done and I didn't have time to blog. SO I'M SORRYYYYY!!

Right now i only have 2 more shots to fix up and place into my composite.
The first being Edgar placing the hourglass on the table. Jack added a filter to it and i didn't like it that much so i am getting another render of the shot.
The other one being Edgar placing the seed on the ground and turning the hourglass. For some reason when the shots are rendering a strange thing happened were the whole shot looks like it has been coated in oil...coconut oil to be exact. I got a lot of help from Jack today and I have sent him the file over Dropbox.
I just really hope i get both of my shots back by tonight/ early tomorrow.

I am going into uni tomorrow to try and get anything else i can done. I have also tried to do as much as i can tonight. I have also been searching for some music as Jack wasn't too sure about the music i had selected for the seed/tree. Which is fine, I am happy to find something else. It is a little ball breaking but mehhhh.

cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool... Jack doesn't like it when i say cool a million times a day.. hahaha

Also what else... I am stressed, my nose bleed for like an hour and a half today. I have been staying back at uni till 5pm since last week and this week. I am confident but want to cry at the same time.

I also got a lot of help from Darren on Monday. He made me add another shot in for scene 4. It worked out well! it is an extra shot of Edgar's face and a shadow passing his face. This is after the shot of him opening the door to outside. New Door...muuummm.

EVERYTHINGGGGGG is in After Effects.. i just want to render this out and i know it is going to take forever. I checked the frames in After Effects and I have 7000!!! and that doesn't include credits and the 2 shots.... 5 min film., IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT NEALEEEE!!!!

That is all.
*walks away from computer*






*comes back*




Did you say something??
ha ha aha

Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I got an email today from Jack telling me that he has worked on the Tree!! YAY!!
It looks awesome! i'm so excited!

where the black area is in the trunk i am hoping that cogs and gears will go there.

I am still trying to work on my 3D animating and I am trying as hard as I can to get it done. Its so frustrating! I just want to punch the computer in the face.
Scene One is complete.
Scene Two is rendered but i am having a few problems with it.
Scene three and four... i am still working on.

:(

week 13.

So it is week 13 now. I am still animating AND i know its bad! I seriously planned to have it done ages ago! But my character wasn't working and so I tried to get everything else done!!
I'm trying to work on my Press Kit which is ball breaking and we don't even get class time to work on it! WHICH SUCKS! So i'm using my animation time to finish it off.

Today Jack helped me out a lot with the animating and I really appreciate it!! One of my weaknesses is 3D animating. It is simply that I don't have a lot of experience and it is my first proper try at doing 3D animating and i am really bad at it!! I'm trying to get things to work but once I move something to animate the whole thing looks horrible!

This animation WILL get done in time!!! Jack has already rendered out the whole of scene 2 for me. So i have scene 3 and 4 left. The only thing i am worried about is how long the render is going to take as Jack told me that scene 2 took a few nights to finish!

MUST STAY POSITIVE!!
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this is all...

3D animating equals mehhhh.

I have continued working on my animating since Tuesday and i am having a lot trouble getting it done. I am trying really hard to animate but I'm not very good at it. I am finding myself animating the same shot for over a long period of time and I feel that i am losing time repeating the same thing.

Today in Darren's class I came across an issue when Edgar opens up the door to go outside. In my storyboards i had only his arm in the shot but when placing Edgar in the 3D scene, his upper body is visible.
I explained this to Darren and he came up with a solution. I keep Edgar in the shot and he opens the door. Then a bright light will come through the door and Edgar will then place his hand over his eyes because its so bright. Then the city shot will come after.

I tried animating the door opening scene and i have spent soooo much time trying to animate his hand. it is so fustrating.

He Lives!!!

On Tuesday Jack gave me the thumbs up for Edgar working. YAY!!!

So since i got him on Tuesday, Jack showed me how to reference my character in Maya which is cool. So this means that if something was to go wrong my character will not get effected within the scene.

Also I suck at 3D animating big time!!! I mean really badly suck at it! i'm trying really hard to animate but i'm making his body look deformed :( and my animating skills are horrible!!
I am doing the most basic animating structure i can so that i have a basic idea of what it is going to look like. I need all the Jack magical power i can get!!

Also for some reason my book that has a page turn, doesn't turn anymore :( whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????
I have stopped at that shot when the page turn happens.

Today Jarrod, Sean and I went into the recording booth and I got Sean to do the voice for Edgar which is cool! It came out great.
I am going to work on other things and tomorrow in Darren's class i am going to try and animate again.

Week 12.

Already in week 12, only 3 more weeks...

On Friday i worked on one of my shots, I got a render of the 3D door and placed it in one of my shots.
For some reason After Effects has been going crazy and super slow! It was also happening at Uni.

I haven't done any other work on my animation as i have a 2000 word essay and a Press Kit to make which are due in a week or two. I am trying to finish them off as soon as I can so that i can just concentrate on my animation.

Edgar is still broken!! i have e-mailed Jack and he is having a look at it! Hopefully Edgar is fixed by Tuesday (tomorrow) and i can begin animating! I know.... don't want the lecture about animating.