Sunday, 16 January 2011

New Project! New Ideas!

Here is a quick introduction into this blog! My group have received a brief saying we need to make a video with Live action and CG.

My first idea was aliens and creatures! Their will be two briefs for this project. First being about the compositing and Matchmoving that is needed to prep the shots then finally compositing the CG aspects with the live action using a compositing software! 

Second Blog is this blog which is following a brief where we need to improve on something we know and want to get into or learn something new! I have chosen to improve on something I know and that is Creature Creation. I will be Concept Artist, Modeler, Sculpting,Uv mapper and texturing artist for this creature. I will work along side the animators making sure they are animating the creator in the way we want it to move and to make sure the body parts are moving correctly. This blog will show my development and the stages I go through to get my outcome. I will be talking about tutorials I have been using, problems that I have had and finally show the development in the creation, things we change from the original concept.

For this project I want to work on the anatomy of the creature. I have been trained in Anatomy by one of the best modelers in the world, Scott Eaton. He has taught me how to look at models and creatures and build a skeleton where then I can add the appropriate muscles in zbrush then using Topogun retopologise the mesh so it can then be rigged so these muscles move.


First part of this blog will be based on the my creature development and how I have made it ready to be rigged, lit and animated. I will show how I made the base mesh and developing the shape, I will show the details, the retopolosing and finally texturing. I will then later on show the development of the character in other aspects. How it was rigged and show the development of it in shots and how I adapt the texturing and start lighting the scenes to make the creature seem its in the environment.


Second part of the blog will be on my editing and development of the cg in live action. I will keep showing the stages of the creature getting put in to scenes and animated or first compositing tests. But I will show the storyboards of our animation, the filmed footage and then how I have worked with others to edit the footage together.  I will be lighting all the cg shots and also be editing everything together. 

I have been put as Director of this project as the idea of alien attack was my idea. I will try work closely with everyone to make sure that the project runs smoothly and try get the best film we can by the end of it! This project will be a challenge as we got so much to get done but fun as we all are working in the areas we want to get into so theres loads of enthusiasm and excitement as we also plan to star in our little film!

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