Week Twelve

MONDAY 10/09/07:- Continuing work on the Calon industry brief. Created a short storyboard for my character's revel scene, I hope to make it as cool as Harry Lime's revel scene in 'The Third Man'. I've also been building a set for my character to appear in. It's very simple. The lighting of the scene will play a important part in the reveal.

TUESDAY 11/09/07:- Today I scrapped the set which I created for my character to have his reveal scene. I also didn't like the storyboard. To me, the manner in which my character was to be revealed didn't have a strong enough impact. The set didn't create the atmosphere that I wanted, however I've made a new one which is much better, and I've also redone the storyboard for the reveal.



WEDNESDAY 12/09/07:- The day has been very frustrating. I've gotten better using the Maya program but there are still aspects of it that I'm having trouble with. There's a lot of trail and error using this program but I suppose it's the best way to learn. Despite frying my brain, I have begun animating the reveal scene.

THURSDAY 13/09/07:- MAYA is the most frustrating programme in the world ever! When you think that you have a grip on things it chucks another spanner in the works. I've never cursed at a computer screen so much in my life.

FRIDAY 14/09/07:- This week my stress levels have been quite high, however I'm ending the week slightly more mellow. This week I've been having problems with my character deforming as I've been animating him. Thankfully Matt Leonard has come in for a Maya tutorial and has straightened a few of the problems out. I basically made my skeleton a bit too complicated, by adding too many IK handles. As I was moving one part of the character it was also moving and deforming another part of the character. I hope now that Monday will be a easier day. Tim Allen also came in to help us with our animation. It'll be great when he comes in next week to give us some pointers on improving our character animation when our puppets are glitch free.