Morph- Elephant to Hoover

I'm quite pleased with this actually, the shading was harder than the actual morph.

I did only do this on an old version of  Photoshop, so wil have to do it properly in college to make it a quicktime file.

Weekly Update

Final week for 2 projects.

First things first, My morph. I haven't actually started it yet because I over heard someone talking about theirs, and realised  they had the same idea as me, so I scrapped that and came up  with another one which I  just need to start.
I'm sure once I do I will be able to quickly do it, will only be a simple morph, no walk cycles like my first idea.

My E4 stinger, well I think I need to change one of my character assets but apart from that I'm all set.
I've taken photos of my set for the first half of the animation, so I need to take photos of the second with the main view (which is annoyingly hard to set up, I think I need to make it all more stable because it likes to fall apart every other frame).

So, plan for the week.
Once I get home today (coming in was kinda pointless seeing as my set is at home) I will firstly have a nap get straight onto doing my morph, hopefully will do at least half the frames in rough. Then I can edit my assets which ever way I need to, but will wait 'till it's dark out to start shooting again because If I start with any natural light the colours will be all off.
Through out the week I will just be editing my animation which ever way it may need; making sure it lasts 10 seconds. And will have to find the E4 sound bites to add to it. So probably on the thursday I will be putting any final touches on it in final cut.
And for college I will just be working on my morph each day.

So I think everything seems to be in control.

End of the week, random modeling

I'm quite happy with the book i made

E4 set

I came to realise that creating the set was a bit harder than I first thought, didn't really know how to do it.
There is probably an easier way than this...

My first attempt was putting it all in a box, but I needed more light.

I also took very rough photos of each frame.
you can see it isn't quite 10 seconds yet, but I can add a bit more to the first and last walks, and will need to spend more time on the ending E4 logo.

You can also see I'm missing a few assets, ( like the table and the actual coffee pot)
These can be very easily added in so I just got all my character assets out the way and will do the last few things tomorrow. So just ignore the fact I'm having to hold the final logo on this.

Weekly Upda- FIIIRREE!!!!

-ahem-
Sorry about that, false alarm.


Anyway

I have stopped hating Illustrator as much.
I started doing Ray's profile view, because I couldn't really be bothered to do the front view again, I was gonna try and find it but I'm better at Illustrator now so I may start over again anyway.
Was messing around and was able to work out how to do the live paint thing for colouring it, i couldn't do it last time, i just used the pen tool on another layer.





One day I'm gonna have to actually ask the tutor for help, but for now I seem to do fine with experimenting until it goes right.







E4 news, I have drawn up my character assets neatly, and i think they are all done (as in I have all the assets, not that they are all coloured up and everything).
So Colouring them up next and experimenting with how I'm gonna animate them (just photos or Cinema 4D)

So I have my week planned,
I'll try and stop doing random other projects, at least until after I have these college projects handed in.

Traditional Hand Model

Something about doing things digitally makes me want to create it traditionally.
I actually just got bored after finishing making my mask, so started papering up my thumb

I'm actually quite pleased with how much shape it kept once I took it off.
(And happy with the fact it didn't get totally destroyed.)

Digital Painting WIP 2

Really enjoying drawing this.
11 hours on it so far