Week 6 - Day 3

Today I worked on the making of video and got it finished today in time to make some titles and credits for our main animation. I also had a go at making some sparks for a couple of shots, but we figured it would take too much time that we don't have any more, so we decided to leave it out.

Week 6 - Day 2

Today I helped out with rendering our scenes, I also started compositing the Making of video with the help of Jamez. We got most of our rendering done today, some of the scenes had errors while rendering. A scene I rendered came out black, but Ben helped me fix it.

Week 6 - Day 1

Today we went through and did some occlusion renders for our shots along with setting up the lighting for the shots.

Week 5 - Day 4

Today I spent some time cleaning up a ninja walk in one of the scenes where the Ninja is walking towards the Cowboy and is getting ready to strike. I also started editing the Cowboy in that same shot, and will probably be able to get it finished Friday. I also watched a couple of tutorials on Motion Vectors in Maya and After Effects. I will have to do the motion vectors at home because the computers in class don't have a couple of plug ins I will need to do it.

Week 5 - Day 3

Today again we were still going through the rest of our shots cleaning up and fixing the animation. I spent some time finishing the shot I was working on yesterday, and then I worked on a couple more. Nearly all of our shots have been finished for animation, the next thing we will need to do will probably be setting up the lighting for each of the shots. We already have a single scene with lights set up in it, the next step will be adjusting the lights for each individual shot. 

Week 5 - Day 2

Today we got some feedback on the second pass of our animation from our tutors. We got some really good advice with what to do such as fixing up most of the animation, because at the moment it's too floaty. So after we went through and decided on what things to fix, I started with the shot of the cow boy kicking the table.

Week 5 - Day 1

Today I have been going through all of our shots updating the texture file paths and playblasting the shots for the clean up animation animatic that I also began compiling today.  It's cool to see everything starting to come together, I will finish the animatic tomorrow with the rest of the updated files so we can watch it and comment on what we could change in our animation.