Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Starting up with finishing the project
Since I got the computer to my adress here in Norway I have had disturbing problems related to the same issues I had before. Some of the scenes are very difficult to create in a manner that looks like the same level of quality as the other scenes. Movement is another issue that requires more details and movabilleties in the scelegons of the characters. But I managed quite well to create walkpath for the characters now than last time. After resizing the characters so they could show their expressions again all the scenes set up with old setups is not usable anymore so I have to set up all scenes again. This is alot of extrawork and I am getting a bit bored of the whole thing. The very strange difference with MACs and PCs here is the rendering process. On the G5s it was smoothely easy to render in Quick Time MOV format while on the PC I have now its much more safer with Windows MediaPlayer AVI format. It seems to have a kernel secret in both the operative systems leaning agains a OSX based for the .MOV or WXP based for the .AVI render for each format. Since I now now alot about how to create a 3D film and how to model in Lightwave I feel I personally have accomplished what I was mostly after. I have managed to create a storyboard, created the characters and modelled the characters in 3D made facial expressions with Morphing. I have also put my mind into how to create a 3D scelegon for the movement of the character and know the most of the problems with making a good animation. I also found that animation and scelegon creation is not my kind of work its abit to tideous and is something I would make others do. Another thing is that I dont really have the goal of becoming ananimator out of this but more a designer/illustrator with a deep knowledge about animation and 3D modelling. It will guaranteed come to use later and it will only be a benefit. What I see making in the future is probably 3D character animation for TV ads and WEB ads and maybe some short films in 3D for another animation festival. After I am finished with this MA I will still work on this project from time to time and eventually get finished. But if I do so I will do it in a way where things look more like a proper animationfilm as in The Incredibles, Hoodwinle, Polar Express and many others. There will be more details about all this in my dissertation that will be submitted in September.
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