mermaid turnaround

now that the mermaid was finalised, i decided to create a turnaround for her. the mermaid didn't need a turnaround as she is made up of bits and bobs on the boat but i decided to make one anyways just in case.

I also made some front view shots of the gloves as they would be tricky to create in 3D without knowing what the look like with a full view around. I also drew the bucket close up as from the turnaround you cannot see what the bucket is like, example being rusty and full of dents.

more mermaid designs

The mermaid was still undecided and a few of the early designed objects i designed was not what i wanted to use. I thought id try taking off the shell bra and placing it with a rugged old sock, filled with two ball like objects to make the mermaid look like she has boobs.also i changed the supporting stick to a paddle, i thought changing it from a branch to a paddle would be more clearer as you would most likely find a paddle rather than a branch. i also changed the colour of the arm branch. I wanted to change it to a lighter brown as it would make it look more like a piece of drift wood. 

 Here is another design. I found this one to be more better than the others. After designing the sock boobs I was not pleased with this outcome, i thought keeping the shell bra would be a better idea, but having them more hanging down. I also changed the face to having barnacles as the eyes and still red paint for the lips, but making it look like its been splatted on. the other change was the colour of the skirt hanging down to a cornish flag. by changing it to the flag, it would make the animation look more cornish which if people didn't realise that it's based in cornwall. the last thing i added was the eye cut out holed shown on the skirt.

More motion capture

The other day me and freddy spent the day rehearsing and then going into the mocap studion to act out the whole animation. here is a silly little dance we did at the end. we are thinking of having the farther and son at the end (end credits) dancing around, funny outtakes.

working on more animatic shots

When looking over the animatic, we was still not pleased with it. a few shots and camera angles were not strong enough. freddy has been working on adding and editing the start of the animation. I again have been getting the shots off freddy and adding the props, backgrounds, ect. A few example shots below.

Improved student turnaround

It seemed from the first turnaround that the proportions of limbs, nose, ect were not right for being put into maya to then be modelled, so i went back to tweak a few changes.

first turnaround

Improved version

As you can see i have changed the thickness of his thighs, his face and also I have changed his hat. I decided to change his hat for the fact to make him look younger, I found the original beanie hat was not showing his style to look for very teen like.

Mermaid idea 2

Mermaid

Here is a concept i drew of the merman made out of bits and bobs that are lying around on the boat. As you can see i'v draw the son holding her up from underneath. I wanted to make her look as girly as she can with the red lip stick (red paint) and the blode locs (mankey mop), but I had to watch how i dressed her as i could not make her look to girly as the fisherman does not have many girl like objects lying around the boat.