3 shot movie characters and colours

We did it lads.

Here are the final products, and to everyone’s surprise, they’re on time.

Credits

Animation:
Matt Rogers
James Chaplin
Natalie Robinsion
Ash Ricketts
Kosta Karvountzis

Story boarding:
Matt Rogers
James Chaplin
Natalie Robinsion
Rachel Poon
Ash Ricketts

3D modelling:
Matt Rogers
James Chaplin
Rachel Poon

Music:
James Chaplin
Rachel Poon

Voice over:
James Chaplin

 

 

For the benefit of Mr Kite

Me, James and Natalie have been working on this shot for the spring over the last couple of days, I think it turned out pretty well considering how little time we had.

Finally finished

As always with animation, I expected this shot to take a fraction of the time it ended up taking me. Initially, I thought it was a one week task, allowing me to help out cleaning else were… I was wrong. As I continued, I kept remembering things that I was still yet to add and things I still needed to do, and so, cleaning this shot took me most of the time we had dedicated to cleaning. It’s quite a complicated shot with a lot going on. There were a lot of layers in use, and the file was a pain to work with, but I got there in the end, and it is probably one of the most finished pieces of animation I have made to date.

One of the main issues I have with animation is attention to details. When you are scrubbing through the frames, things can look off. A leg twitches a bit too much or these lines aren’t clean enough. I get bogged down cleaning these details that realistically will never been seen. When the animation is rendered, these issues are no longer a problem.

A large chunk of time was more or less wasted, as I spent time adding detail to the character during the frames he would be masked out for the texture. At the time I didn’t realise this is how he was going to be masked.

Regret

After spending a tedious amount of time working on this scene, I’ve realised I have been doing it wrong… I didn’t realise that the mask would apply to the entire character, rather than just the clothes I was expecting. Had I realised this sooner I could have saved myself a lot of time working on tracking the face and the white lines to define the characters limbs overlapping one another… Live and learn I suppose. Still not quite finished, but very close now, i only need to add the clothes to the final few frames after the texture fades.