Day of the Days

Everyone is saying that Friday the 13th is a unlucky day,
I say it is not.

I got a extension of 3 days (plus weekend) because of my
exhibition I had for the Kinetic Fair art and for the Digital Stage festival.

Now I have enough time to finish my animation and Hugh can relaxed also
finish the sound for it because he is done with his double project.

I will upload later a preview.

6days left

I'm back from Germany,
And now I have 6 days left.

The sound is going well, I hope I will get it soon.
I'm now doing the last cuts with Final Cut and After Effects.

In the same time I'm writing my Artefact and portfolio and the evaluation of process and performance.

I hope in the next days I will upload some new videos so you can have a look on it.

Small over view

So, what Have I done so far in the last view month.

I started first with watching the tutorial collation about Paint Effects.
This took me around 3 Weeks of watching and learning how Paint Effects at maya
Works. After this I started to produce my first own Paint Brushes.

In this time I learnt new view and possibility's how to work with Maya.

I had then to set up my Storyboard so I can stared with the shoots.
At the beginning I had a lot of shots because I wanted to make the whole building.
But in the time of working and spending time on details, I realized that there is
not enough time. So I had to decide between making everything or going into detail.

I decided that going into detail is more important then setting up all rooms of the building. The reason is that my abstract artefact is about the nature reclaiming the man building. And nature is a beauty and this beauty needs to be shown. So that's why I have to go into detail and it is not important to produce all rooms of the building.

The sound is the second important part of the Animation. Because of the abstract and the hidden story behind it, is it important to have the right sound.
After a talk with Hugh, we got the solution that we need a folie sound but not a music-track. The sounds of growing plaints and moving brunches will give the Animation the feeling of reality and true happening.

Just a taste

Finally,
I managed to render this sequence after my Laptop crashed more then once. I have copied all my files, 37GB, and project to my Desk-computer and tried to render everything there. and it worked. It was important for me to render it once in a high quality, so I can see how it look like and see the mistakes (like the window part there is some small stuff to be finxed, or the light).






This is still not done, need still some hours of work. I still need to render 5 layers what needs to be added on the flower, flying in the air, ceiling and Light. But it is going well.

So Far

Hello everyone,

I thought would be interesting to upload my first drawings for the storyboard just to have it commented.

Well

The rendering of the Layers is mostly done. I have already 37GB of frames. I hope it will not get higher then 40gb or I have to start deleting stuff from my laptop.

If everything work well today I will finish my next sequence and upload it.

This sequence is one of the hardest because it is made right now with 37 different renders layers and it is still not finished. I'm trying to give it a good deap into thats why I'm using all those layers.

so see you soon.

First Sound

Well first I will talk about what today I got.
Hugh got me the first edit of the sound, and I really, really like it.
We had then a talk about it.
We will not use a sound track or any music track as background, there will be only the sounds and voices of the growing plants, movements and there "communication".

There is the first edit:





How you can see, the sound is a bit longer then the animation, I need to ask Hugh why this is but some how like this it will be sound :)


After the meeting with Hugh, I met my supervisor Ray. And went over my project. There where a deep talking about Universe and light and non-seen sound. what was really helpful.

Because I'm flying tomorrow to Germany for 6 days, I was using the last days just
for rendering different layers. Those layers will be used with after effects to make
the final edit.

I have now to stop writing because I need some sleep before my fly. I will finish my writing after arriving.

No coventgarden

So,
I actually didn't like the idea of changing all my project to putting place in Covent Garden because the idea behind my concept will be damaged. How ever, this doesn't mean that the Media production group are not allowed to use my designs.

My supervisor want me to take pictures of my storyboard-wall what I have in my room because this will be interesting to see how it is in process. So I will do this tomorrow when I'm back from Uni or on Friday.


I have changed the window shot and have now stars at the background.

but now I am really tired and can't see the keyboard any more, I will post tomorrow then some new stuff... good night.