Ted's Progress
Colour Experiment
18/10/2013 submited proposal.
Doing some doodling on Monskie. I found out that his colour is quite dark...maybe I should make it brighter or experiment other style.
Character Design_Monskie
Do some sketches again and find a best silhouette for Monskie.
Currently still in process.
Monskie_Orthographic
Through all these sketches, me and my sister has discussed all day
long about his designs. Finally I have decided the MONSKIE,his outlook.
I am glad that I finished his orthographic and really excited to make
him into life!!! For the next process,I will be doing some colour thumbs. Hope that I can dress him perfectly which suit his personality.
Monskie_Colour
Today I have done his colour. I search some animations as my
reference and study the colour wheel. I have test different type of
colour. At last, I have chosen a bright colour which is yellow orange
with grey stomach. I made his hair light blue, so there will be contrast between them. I am not sure about his hair yet...maybe I will do some
colour change, but now it seem adorable with blue hair.
Radio_Orthographic/Colour
Trying to sketch some radios out, playing with shapes and finally I
chose a rounder shape of radio. It is cute and has combined of a
modern and old radio look. Monskie is a male and normally male
likes blue. So, I think blue radio will shows his playful personality.
Video Record Dance
During these few days,I have done the Fatty Panda's shoe and video
record dance.I have spent my time and struggling to research
references on youtube.I find it hard for me because I am not a dancer.I don't really know about dance,so I focus on the silhoueete and try to
get a nice pose for Monskie. My sister and I work on this, she helps me record and has given me some advises.
Story Board
Done Story board.Next I will proceed to animatic. About the music on
this film,I have chosen Dynamite(remix) which sang by Taio Cruz. I
wonder if I can use this music in my short film or not.
Changes start (2 person in group)
There will be changes from here.My sister and I will be in same group.
We are going to produce a short film.Between,we have discussed with
our supervisor,Drew and Chris.Through their advice, we will enhance
our short film,which include background.
Complete Model Fatty Panda
Use more than a week to complete model Fatty Panda.Before start to model it, I have studied on face, hand and leg topology.Besides,I look through Kunfu Panda modeling and other panda references.I have research on how panda close his teeth when his mouth is close.
Fatty Panda_UV
UV done in a day.I made it into two UV.One is for close up Fatty Panda's face,eyes,mouth and ears,another UV is for body,hands,tail and legs.Fatty Panda is ready to texture.But,I would to show it to my supervisor to critique before I proceed to texture.Next I will start model Monskie.
Change Story
We decided to change our story due to that previous story is not strong enough.We brainstorm together and look through some references and we decided to choose more fancy type of story.While we discuss,we sketch it out too.This time we add background and more props.Monskie will remain the same but not Fatty Panda.
Complete Model Monskie/UV
Rush to complete this little monster.At last,I have done model and UV of this character.The hardest of this part is his teeth.I made his upper teeth slant out and his lower teeth will be inside,so he could close his mouth.
Touch up - Model Monskie/UV
I have shown this character to my lecturer in rigging workshop.He did some critique on not enough line for certain part.
I add more lines now and hopefully it can be rig.
Mushroom Illumination-Animatic
My sister and I spending time to search music in website. Finally,we discovered that there are 2 websites named Newground and Sound SFX which have nice soud FX and music.
Poster (Version 1)
Still doing on a progress review for this up coming submission.However, we have shown this progress to our supervisor and found it was in wrong format. I do not feel any waste of doing this.I might use this to make an animation bible for this short film
Start Environment modelling
Before I start model,I do some research on leaves, flower and mushrooms. Then I started to model props. I have been asking a friend that how do I reference the props in a scene.He teaches me and I started to reference the props that I model into a scene which I didn't do it before.Now I learn something new.I have arrange the props according to storyboard.In between,I UV some of the props so that my sister can start texture them.
Some changes on storyboard
We have shown our animatic to our supervisor,Drew.He had given us some advise on it and at the same time,he gave some really good ideas to enhance our story.Our story has been change into new story but the environment still remain the same.After class, my sister and I started to brainstorm again.We did lots of research,watch a few shorts film and some video of kids' behaviour.For example,how parents take care of a little child.We spent hours to brainstorm and yet we came out some ideas.We also did some rough sketches and rough storyboard.We are going to show rough storyboard to our supervisor before we proceed it to animatic. I am quite worry about our progress.We are like too slow and our time is tight.There are a few assignments poping up once to another in the same time.I hope we can make it this time. This is my first short film that my sister and I as a team.
Poster (Version 2)
Poster has been updated. A progress review about on our pre-production and production stage.
Complete Model Monstie/UV
Finally completed model Monstie. I have spend 2 days to model and UV. It is able to proceed to texture and rigging.
Poster (Version 3)
This is the final Poster that I have submited.
Rigging in Progress
Using Maya Youtube Tutorial for the body part and Digital Tutor for facial rig. Rigging is new to me since I didnt have any experience on doing it. I have face many problems in the progress and yet I maintain to solve it. Although it is hard for the first time, but the outcome make me smile.
Currently, I am done with the body part and now I am doing the facial rig.
Facial Rig
I have finished rig the face and I have done some blend shapes on it. Now, I am stuck here. Due to using 2 different tutorials, they have different ways of teaching and naming. In first tutorial (Body), I have cut all the GEO and start rigging it (without bind skin). Second tutorial (Face), the face_GEO part to start rigging it and blendshape (with bind skin). I am confuse now, how to join the body and face together ?
Redo Facial Rig
I have search ways to solve the problem. I shouldn't select the face joints and start bind skin without selecting the body joints. Now, I redo all the facial rig again, but this time bind skin with the body joints. Hopefully, it's work.
Done Monskie Rig
I had redo the facial rig again. Between, there are some problems about joining his head and body together,but I manage to solve it.Finally, Monskie rig is done. Zen will be start doing the animation and I will be continue fixing Monstie rig.
Monstie Rig
Zen has redo his facial rig. After she redo, there are a number of problems need to be fix. I have fixed the rotation and scale of his head and neck into the main controller.I have almost done his rig ,but there are a few minor things need to be fix.
Environment Modelling
This environment is for shot 10,shot 11,shot 12 and shot 14.
Arrange Props
Currently, I am arranging props and model some new props to make it more awesome.
New Font for " The Illmuniated Mushrooms ''
The Illuminated Mushrooms has new font! This font is own created which done in Illustrator.
Start lighting
Another challenge part for us is lighting. We didn't try lighting before and we don't really know much about lighting. We got a tutorial about ''Efficient Cinematic Lighting with Jeremy Vickery'' which both of supervisor introduce to us. It is a really good tutorial that I would also recommend to people who are interested in lighting.
These are some parts of our lighting progress.
