this week and last

This week was the first back since we finished the 4mations brief. I got the 4Mations brief along with AD202 and 208 handed in on time and have received grades i am happy with. During the assessment week i fixed parts of my robot and replaced his gears and cogs as well as the arm setup. The robot looks a bit better now i think, and is fit to be animated.

This week we had to create our animatics and prepare out presentations and treatments. I will be presenting my treatment on monday because my animatic took over 3 days of solid work to complete, and left me with no time to get everything else i wanted to done.

i will upload my animatic here, and will upload my final 4mations animations and model sheets after.

tiny robot 3

I prefer the second picture because it has better lighting on the robot, but the coin texture is flipped.

tiny robot 2

tiny robot 1

Tiny robot

Since I needed a 3D pound coin for my animation with my robot when I make it, I made one. I think it looks quite good, and will definitely do the job, but after seeing it next to my robot I really liked the idea of a tiny robot as if it is a toy. I rendered out these 4 stills which i am really pleased with and i might make more tiny robot scenes in the future with him in various scenes. Two of the still are very similar, but each had a slight problem or difference so i've uploaded them both. I was also pleased to find that my robots arms have a better range of movement than i first thought while still looking good. I'll upload them one at a time as they are big files

renders of the 4M logo in 3D

This is rendered with HDRI lights and is after i got rid of any messed up polygon sections.

new year updates

It's the end of the first week back in the new year and i've done quite a bit this week. My group has been working on the 4 mations brief which is due in next friday, so for that this week two of us went out to get some footage to track using pfhoe. Since we needed a 3D version of the logo to use i made an inflatable looking version of the 4M logo we were given. I made the logo into a solid object so it should work with the soft body dynamics in cinema 4D.

Apart from the work for that brief i've been trying to get my storyboards sorted which will be used in the next brief. I got about half way through turning my script into storyboards and will get the rest done soon.

To update on what i said i did last week, after i last updates, i got my animation tests done with my rigged character and got pretty much everything sorted for the two briefs i have an extension on.