New scene - List scene

This the next scene i shall be animating where Moom is looking at the list and then pulls down the list from his face and then looking each way.

First live action animation test.

The first test with live action and animation motion tracked an all. :P

Camera work and character Animation

This is a bit of character animation and the camera work for one of the early scenes in the film. The character sees what he is looking for but its on the top shelf!!!!!

First attempt at Motion tracking

This is my first attempt at motion tracking using the software PFTRACK firstly i took the footage and i used the Track and solve option and it automatically tracked the footage and set tracking point data. Then when this was finished it also set a ground plane and initially the ground plane was to high so moved it down and added some some 3d objects into the tracking data and it placed them near the tracking points.

I then exported this from PFTRACK as an .ma file and opened it in maya where i placed some spheres in the terms of perspective.

Heres the Maya 

Playblast

More Character Animation

This is more Character animation for the project.

Character Animation

I have the opportunity this project to really go back to what i love doing which is Character Animation and i  have started some quick tests just to get a head start.

This is a quick test and there will be many more very soon.

Ok so this is a test animation of moom becoming shocked now this version is just at its starting point then there is anticipation down then back up with squash and stretch for the shocked pose, followed by resting back to a neutral position of shocked. It looks good but i think improvements can be made.

Now this test animation is similar but when Moom goes down for anticipation and between the strong pose of the squash and stretch shocked pose he shakes his head. I think this is a lot better it is a lot more consistent with the cartoony style of animation i wish to portray in this project and is a lot more fluid.     

  

                                     START

                        ANTICIPATION


SHOCK(SQUASH AND STRETCH)

                           SETTLE

Green screen tests

On Wednesday 2nd of February we had opportunity to use the Green screen Facilities in the tv studio.Although my group needs only a small amount of green screen footage i decided to just familiarise myself with the process.

So i did some filming and used the green screen and then used the colour keying Software in After Effects to test the quality of my work.

I simply imported the footage into After Effects and used the Key light function and it keyed out most of the areas of green.