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Done.

I would just like to thank the academy and everyone in the world. Without your support I could not have accomplished this amazing short animation. The awards and job offers are already pouring in, to be honest it's a little overwhelming, even for someone of my caliber but It's going to be fine and I'm well on my way to 1 million dollars. My goal is in sight, watch this space and as always

CHOW

Film's animated - Compositing has been Composited - Just Sound to go - Smiley Face

As you can probably tell from the title I am oonnn track!

I have finished animation and have edited the film together. It is 3 minutes exactly and it's looking pretty good. There are some issues still with flickering in the eyes and flashing grass but I am in the process of righting these problems to make the most polished film I can.

The compositing is complete on the Burger Barn explosion shot and I'm very happy with it. The explosion looks great and really adds production value to my animation.

I have started the sound design for the film and have managed to find foley for a lot of the sounds I need. There are some that I can't find however so on Friday I will be going to the recording studio to create the last few foley and sound effects sounds.

Next week after Friday I will be working on the score with my composer to add some life to the film with music. I'm pretty excited about this part because music is one of the most important parts of your film and when it's added your film really comes to life.

But yeah, everything's looking good and I'm definitely on track!

Chow

Super Update

Heyo

So the animating is done for my animation bar one little shot and I've just been rendering these past couple weeks. Some shots are better than others and some needed several re renders but I only have about a quarter of the film left to render before mid November.

I am having this weird issue where textures are blurry in some scenes but are crisp in others. So my coupon that I want to be readable is very pixelated in some shots but perfectly crisp in other shots. It's very weird and annoying and I have no idea how to fix it. But I'll let future me worry about that.

My compositing shot still needs to be rendered yet. I have a hefty explosion in my animation that really slows down the computer and is awful to work on. I have it looking how I want and the building explodes how I want but the burger pole next to it doesn't get affected by the explosion because I haven't made it into an nCloth yet. That's going to be a pain but I still have to do it eventually. Soon really. Also the shot after that where the coupon burns up I still have to animate. I've tried several ways of achieving the effect but I can't work out how to make the polygons actually disintegrate. I can get them to break apart but then I have a shite load of little tiny squares floating around which isn't ideal.

Oh well I'll figure it out soon enough.

I'm going to be applying to lots of animation jobs for next year which will probably mean me moving somewhere else and bigger which is a little scary but I guess I gotta grow up and get a job sometime... well maybe not grow up but definitely the job thing.

Anyway that's about all I'm up to at the moment. I can't wait to see everyones films and animations and to read all the graphic novels, The end of this year is going to be awesome and terrifying at the same time so that's exciting and nerve wracking.

PS I'm also working on a side project graphic novel. Here's a picture of the protagonist just so there's a picture that goes with this blog.

Chow

3rd Year Project with TRENT

I'm making a 3D Trent animation for my end of year film. I've got Trent modeled and a script ready that I'm pretty happy with. Here's what he looks like as of right now

There's still quite a lot to do yet so I better get back to work and stop writing blogs.

Chow

Charlie Floyd - What I learned

So Charlie is basically done now. I would like to reflect on my experience of this film. Sweet lets start

So my position on Charlie Floyd was Rotoscoping TD. This is a very time consuming role but looking back I'm glad I took on this role. Rotoscoping is described as "easy but takes a long time to do" which isn't technically true. Sure it's "easy" if you want a sub par looking roto when you're finished but if you actually spend your time rotoing trying to get better and not just get the shot done then it becomes quite a challenging task indeed. After completing over 60% of the shots myself I became far better at rotoscoping. I became faster and more accurate. In the end it would have been faster to do a lot more of the shots that other people came and completed because I was faster and better and I also had to go back through and fix quite of lot of shots others completed because they weren't up to standard. It's not their fault they just didn't have as much experience as me. If I were getting paid to rotoscope I think I would be pretty stoked to be in a job that I know I can do well and fast, even though I didn't expect to want to do something like this before I took on the roll.

Charlie Floyd taught me that even if something sucks when you start out if you push through you can gain skills in areas you never thought you would which is pretty cool. I would be absolutely stoked to get a job rotoscoping now and I never thought I would want to do something like that before Charlie.

Chow

Charlie Floyd coming to an end

The film is picture locked and we're this close to being completely finished with the project. I have been finished for many weeks in my department so I have been helping the vfx team with some of their shots. The rotos are looking good and I'm happy with the work I've put in and the effort of my roto team, which consists of Krystal and Chris. Others helped but my main team was these two. The film looks good but IS it a good film? Cough.

Chow

Big Update

So Charlie's almost done, just a few more shots to finish up but my job is over. Handed in The Mummy animation today. The title might be misleading but that's all I've really got to update on. I might put The Mummy online at some point but as of right now all my attention is going toward my final animation for the end of the year.

Chow