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