Week 6 - Day 3

Today I worked on the making of video and got it finished today in time to make some titles and credits for our main animation. I also had a go at making some sparks for a couple of shots, but we figured it would take too much time that we don't have any more, so we decided to leave it out.

Week 6 - Day 2

Today I helped out with rendering our scenes, I also started compositing the Making of video with the help of Jamez. We got most of our rendering done today, some of the scenes had errors while rendering. A scene I rendered came out black, but Ben helped me fix it.

Week 6 - Day 1

Today we went through and did some occlusion renders for our shots along with setting up the lighting for the shots.

Week 5 - Day 4

Today I spent some time cleaning up a ninja walk in one of the scenes where the Ninja is walking towards the Cowboy and is getting ready to strike. I also started editing the Cowboy in that same shot, and will probably be able to get it finished Friday. I also watched a couple of tutorials on Motion Vectors in Maya and After Effects. I will have to do the motion vectors at home because the computers in class don't have a couple of plug ins I will need to do it.

Week 5 - Day 3

Today again we were still going through the rest of our shots cleaning up and fixing the animation. I spent some time finishing the shot I was working on yesterday, and then I worked on a couple more. Nearly all of our shots have been finished for animation, the next thing we will need to do will probably be setting up the lighting for each of the shots. We already have a single scene with lights set up in it, the next step will be adjusting the lights for each individual shot. 

Week 5 - Day 2

Today we got some feedback on the second pass of our animation from our tutors. We got some really good advice with what to do such as fixing up most of the animation, because at the moment it's too floaty. So after we went through and decided on what things to fix, I started with the shot of the cow boy kicking the table.

Week 5 - Day 1

Today I have been going through all of our shots updating the texture file paths and playblasting the shots for the clean up animation animatic that I also began compiling today.  It's cool to see everything starting to come together, I will finish the animatic tomorrow with the rest of the updated files so we can watch it and comment on what we could change in our animation.

Week 4 - Day 4

Today I started working on the last shot in our animation. This shot involves the Cow Boy and Ninja. I finished the animation for the Cow Boy, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I uploaded a playblast of what I've done of the animation so far.

Week 4 - Day 3

Today I finished cleaning up the animation for three shots. The first one was the shot where the cow boy walks into the bar, which I almost finished working on yesterday. After I finished that one I did the shot straight after that where the cow boy is walking towards the bar, but the camera is behind the cow boy. The last shot I worked on today was the shot with the cow boy and the ninja drinking at the bar.

Week 4 - Day 2

Today we finished cleaning up the shots from our feedback from yesterday. We shot some extra footage for our animations, and then we decided to go through our shots from the top of the list and start cleaning up the animation. I chose shot 2 which is the Cow Boy walking towards the camera and through the bar doors. I almost finished the animation by the end of the day, I should be able to finish it early tomorrow and start on the next shot. I want to make sure that my animations look good, but I don't want to spend too much time polishing it yet because we have a lot of shots left to clean up.

Week 4 - Day 1

Today we had to finish blocking out our shots because we had another presentation today. We rendered out playblasts of each of the shots, and I put them together in After Effects.  We got some really good feedback from the tutors, we went away with a lot of things to fix and redo. After we fix these things I think we will need to spend a lot of time on polishing the animation, and we are planning on grabbing some good reference for our animations tomorrow.