Animation tests

I have essentially completed the animation for this project, and while doing so, I uploaded several tests to YouTube.

At the moment, as they have only been uploaded within the past 24 hours, Blogger will not allow me to embed the videos, and as such I must hyperlink instead.

1 - Test render of animation with no camera movement

2 - Test render with camera movement

3 - Second test render with camera movement


There are still some kinks to iron out within this animation, but overall I am much happier with this piece of work than I was with my original submission for the project. I feel I completed much better research into viral marketing this time round and it informed the style and colour palette of my advertisement.

Further Notes Regarding Absence

As I predicted earlier, I have not had internet access since my last posts. I actually have not had much access to a computer at all, but have been working away at the project whenever I have had access.

I am currently in the process of animating, as I will be moving location next Monday and I'm not entirely sure whether or not I will be able to continue on with the project from that location.

As I began this blog on the 25th of June, I will have been working on the project for eight weeks as of Monday, so I will have completed the minimum amount of time required by the brief. If I am still able to work on the project after that, I will continue to tweak it and fix any errors there may be, but my aim is to have a complete piece of work by this coming Monday that I will be happy to submit if needs be.

Cut-Out Squirrel

I've made a cut-out squirrel to use. He probably needs some tweaking before being made into the final product, but I made a couple of test stills with him for the moment and will work on getting test animation to see how he looks when he's moving.

Absence

I'm not sure I'll have internet access for the next week or so, and as such, after today I might not get to blog again until some time next week. I hope this does not pose as a problem in terms of the proposed minimum of two blog posts per week, and I shall continue on with my project in the meantime.

Youtube Channel

I have set up a Youtube channel on which to place animation tests and other relevant videos, since the Blogger video player does not seem ideal. The channel can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/LisaDoyleMedia2

At the moment, I have uploaded a selection of my squirrel reference videos, as well as my animatic.

Animatic

Here is an animatic of the piece of animation I have decided to do:

Animation Style

I've been thinking about the style of animation I want to use for this project. I think I'd like to animate it similarly to this music video:

Since it's an advertisement, I will keep the colours much brighter than those used in the video. However, I like the digital cut-out look the animation of the wolf has, and I would like my squirrel animation to be
somewhat like that.

I'll base my squirrel cut out on the bone-structure of the squirrel, and then from that I can change the additional flexible skin/muscle from his hind legs depending on the position of the legs.