animating scene 3 shot 11a

for scene 3 shot 11a i found this shot to be not hard with the characters but the only issue  had was the throwing of the guts. I found the guts when animating them to be tricky to get the right weight of how they felt. from this video here, the guts I think are to heavy when landing. with not much time left before the hand in, I would say this shot is done because I would end up spending to long on getting the right look of the throw and this shot is only a few seconds long. I would possibly come back to this shot after the deadline to tweak it, but for now it's complete.

correcting the sons texturing

I started off with the hat which the colour that was projecting out was a light green which we wanted a darker green. also a few areas were showing up white. I went back to the layers on photoshop to sort them out.

secondly i went over the hoody which needed a few areas of a dark red and also the sleeve i wanted to be a dark maroon red.

before

after

I then went on to sort out the jeans. the only problem with these were the upper bit was showing a few white areas which easily I only had to paint over with black 

then other problem was the hands. from the mudbox file they showed up fine but when omari brought them into the lighting test, one of the layers i put a low opacity to come up with 100% which i didn't want. I also wanted to add a few more freckles to the tops of his hands as well.

before

after

lastly were the shoes which was the biggest problem. we wanted him to have old pairs of converses and from which a previously textures, they looked to new. Also the bottoms of them were to plain and i needed to add an actual texture of the bottoms of real converse shoes 

animating scene 03 shot 10b

This shot i animated was not to had. i had yet to animate the fisherman yet so this was my first shot. i was pleased with this outcome as i found this shot not to be to hard and it's duration was only a two seconds long.

the only problem with this shot was when his knife is up in mid air and it has a bit of a flicker to it. and also his neck goes stiff when he lands down. these two minor problem won;t take to long to sort out.

lighting test on the son

after the texturing of the son was done, I then gave over the file to omari to begin the lighting test.
here below is a turnaround of the first test

http://vimeo.com/64529480

I was very pleased with the outcome that omari did but there were a few problem such as a few areas were not painted properly and the shoes to look more worn out and muddy.

texturing to animating

I wanted to texture more props but I realised the lack of time we had left for the deadline, so i began animating and the props were giving to the second years to texture. the first shot i started was scene 02 shot 13. I found this shot took me a while as my animating skills on maya were not amazing as i haven't animated anything on maya since the first year. Helping me animate, we had the motion capture me and freddy acted out a while ago to help us, but i found the motion capture to be off at time such as the arm completely flicking out. I was able to use some of the motion capture but most it what i did was animated by me.

when i finally finished this shot, i found the speed of my animation was not in time with my voice (nooooo!) and if i animated it to my voice, the fall would be in slow motion. I talked to ben in the first year and he said it would be a problem sorting out when putting it together, and if there was a problem, i would have to rerecord the voicing for this shot which wouldn't be to much of a hassle.

final voice recording

freddy wanted someone to act the fisherman voice out but with the amount of time we had before our deadline, freddy decided that he would do the final fisherman voice. a few comments were said that my voice fitted the sons from the beginning, so we stayed with myself doing the final voicing. initially kirk was going to be doing the merman but again with time, he was not here over easter for him to do it so we had someone come in to act him out which his voice actually fitted better than what we thought it would. with many retakes and many horse of voice acting, we had the final voice recordings ready.

texturing (bucket)

after texturing the knife i then went on to texture the bucket. like the knife, i wanted to give the bucket that rusty old look to it with plenty of bumps and dents.

I first started off by giving the bucket a bump map. not going to over the top, I started off with giving it a few rough bumps in certain areas.

I then went on to paint the brown rust. using an image i had of actual rust texture, i began to cover the bucket with it.

more different rust textures were added.

 After the the bucket texturing was complete, I then started painting some bloody areas. not going to over the top with the blood to keep it not looking to gruesome.

 not forgetting the handle as well. i wanted to paint under the handle to make the bucket look like it's rusted over time from its original grey metal

not forgetting finally i had to paint the mermaids face on. i didn't want to go to crazy with painting a face because I had to remember to make her look ugly, also the only paint the son can use to paint the face on is red and black.  

last and final motion capture session

the first mo-cap was not used because we developed the story after it and needed new scenes and a new ending. The second mo-cap went very well and the scenes worked nicely, however Heidi (an animator in our project) noticed that the fisherman character  moved to fast for his size and weight. We all agreed with this and decided to do two days of rehearsals before our final mo-cap session. the rehearsals payed off and the motion capture session went very smoothly and worked well. here is a video below of me and freddy doing a pathetic dance at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKC8mcdXqM&list=UUsuu_hld052HDTILnu9EYXw&index=1