problem with opening file.

I had a look on the internet and found how to change the pivot point, i remember now you press 'insert' next to the 'home' button. Thanks Jarrod for reminding me to look it up.
Anyway I went to open the Maya file and an error came up. Last night i did import Edgar in to see what it looked like and then i think i saved it with him still in the scene. So now the file wont open.
The saved file before that doesnt have the new modeling that i did, so it will be a waist of time if i have to start from there again.

Also in Darren's class i worked on the city and he told me i should make a hazy blur between the city and the power poles in the distance. Its starting to look a lot better.

Still lots of work to do! But i dont know what to do about the Maya file. Im hoping that Jack will be able to help me. I should write an email to him. 

wall&door&city.

On Tuesday i got some help from Jack with perspective. I'm still bad at it but i will keep trying to learn. He helped me with placing the power poles around and to give them a 3D look. He also helped me with the ground and said that i could still use the guide picture but change it up and add some textures to it. So he found a nice brush and showed me the stroke and angle of what i should do.
This is what it looks like know.

There is still a lot of work i need to do. So i will continue to work on it in Darren's class on Thursday.
On Tuesday i started working on making a wall and door in 3D, i would have had it finished but something happened within the family and i found it hard to continue. So today (wednesday) I tried really hard to work and get it complete.

The only thing i have to do is animate the door opening with Edgar. I know i have to move the pivot point to the side where the door hinges are but i dont remember how to do it. So i will do some research tomorrow in class.

Gangnam style!

On wednesday after uni I decided to work on animating Edgar's hand. As i was trying to place his body in the chair something weird happened and the body ended up stretching down and his shoulders staying in the same place. I had a bit of a search on the internet and maybe i was too tired but i couldnt find what i needed to do to fix the problem.
So instead i just kept him in an up right position and placed his hand the way i wanted it. I will soon need to animate it.

Also on wednesday night as i was getting frustrated with the 3D work i stopped and started working out my Outside/city landscape. I'm trying to learn more about perspecitve as i am really bad at it! So when i was trying to do a simple layout of how i wanted things to look, i went a little crazy. Nothing seemed right. So instead i just drew up some ideas.

On Thursday in Darren's class i spoke to him about the problem i have with perspective and that i was finding it really hard to begin. So he helped me by searching up some pictures and finding what i liked then cutting them up and placing them in the right areas. It helped out so much! I finally had some sort of guide to work with. So i continued on working and completed a bit of the sky and I had already finished off the city.
On Friday i continued working on the city and added in some extra towers and put in Steam/smoke coming from the towers. I also designed how i wanted the power poles to look. I also did a bit of fixing up with the sky and made it a bit darker.

Today (saturday) I am now working on placing the power poles around and trying to figure out the power lines. It is getting abit annoying and i have decided to stop and start working on my presentation for Mondays class.

In this picture, the ground is an image that has been cut and placed as a guide. I dont know if i want the power poles/lines to be placed the way they are now.

    

running comp done.

This is my Running comp! I know that the starting is a bit weird, that has been fixed! Right now i am in Jack's class and he said that my test animation is good! he also said that shot 5 in scene one should be changed a little so it doesnt look so flat! and now that is fixed too.

Jack also went through the finger influences so that i can now animated Edgar writing in his note book.

scene one wording problem.

On Saturday I showed my boyfriend my finished scene. he watched and then told me that the wording for each of my newspapers were wrong and that i should change them. I was a little upset and annoyed about it because i had merged all the layers together and didnt have a file were the text was separate from the background.

So what i spent my whole time on was using the Clone tool in Photoshop and getting rid of the old text.

I think now the text is a lot better and makes more sense. I also tried working on my outside scene in Photoshop and had a bit of a problem getting my perspective right.

Also with the transitions between each newspaper i have noticed there is a circle type spot. I cant really explain it. but if you watch it you might be able to see it.

Promotion: DVD Slick and Disc.



This is my DVD cover and Disc that i did for my Promotion class.

I would like to thank Seanmundy for getting both of them printed! And i would like to thank Jarrod for making sure my blurb made sense. 

scene one... a few more touch ups

Today i spoke to Darren about how long my animation went for. He had a look at my running comp and said that the pacing of it is perfect however there is a few stuff ups that i need to fix up.

Mostly the seed when it opens is too slow, i want the seed and tree to open up fast. so that should make the time of my animation not too long.

Darren said that my first scene is a bit too slow so i made it a few seconds faster. I like it but there is a few little things that i will need to fix up. Like having a bit of a feathered dark edge around the papers.

I also started the rough outline of my Outside world matte painting. I will also need to fix up my running comp.. a few little errors to change and then i will render it out and put it on here.

My milestones will be done by the end of next week :)