I don't sleep.

Kiwi!

drumboy354 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:05:04 +0000

Unrelated to this class, which is over, but here:

Final

drumboy354 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:35:34 +0000

Checklist

drumboy354 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:06:53 +0000

Checklist of things left to do:

- Fix Peter’s right finger rig

- Fix Peter’s seemed texture (paint it so it’s seamless)

- Make the inside of Peter and Francis’ mouth black

- Make the trees in the background less flat (unlink lights)

- Complete lighting by referencing lighting scene into first scene

- More contrast in ground

- Add pink/red/orange hue to shadows

- Change background gradient from orange to dark blue to pink/red/purple to dark blue

- Render out rest of ambient occlusion

- Fix Peter’s left underarm rig (clothing is stretching when his arm stretches)

Lighting and Textures (almost final)

drumboy354 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:55 +0000

The moment we’ve all been waiting for:

First, a “180″ characters and the pumpkin.

House Texture (You only see it from this angle).

Ground Texture:

Now we have the beauty passes with Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field:

Lighting! Textures! Omg!

drumboy354 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:31 +0000

It has been a while since my last update. I am working my little heart out. Note: There’s one thing I have left to texture…my basket. Although I do have the texture for it, but I have to layout the UVs and then just apply it, but I’d rather spend my time finishing lighting. I ran into some problems with my Peter eating his pumpking pie. See, in the animation, when he takes a bite, I switch out the pie with one that has a “bite” taken out of it. However, this isn’t going to work with my textures because I added geometry to the switched pie ( the one with the bite taken out), so the UV’s won’t trasnfer. However, there is a fix. The camera ganle of this one shot is fixed and the pie can be hidden and later shown with the bite out. But, I will save that switch and the basket texturing for later. For now, on to lighting. Here’s work in progress of my scene:

Note: These are raytrace shadows. And this one frame took about 5 1/2 minutes. I had some troubles with depth map shadows but I think I figured out why. So now I have to redo my lighting with spotlights and try to match this. Shouldn’t be a problem though. Any who, off to work!

Lighting Concept

drumboy354 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:28:03 +0000

My lighting is going to be an outdoor setup (shocker). The picture below is pretty much the feel that I want. However, I’m thinking about having my scene being setup around the early evening; possibly 4pm or 5pm where the sun is just starting to set. I wanted to have the shadows be somewhat long and also not be so crisp around the edges.

Textures, Textures, and more Textures!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG

drumboy354 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:08:43 +0000

Obviously there aren’t textures on every object yet. These textures are just the base for my models. As soon as I get every object with a base texture I’m going to go back and add some variation and modify them.

Updatessssssssssss

drumboy354 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:26:51 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, but I assure you that I have been working.

First:

- Animation is completely finished. I tried rendering it out today and of course I’m getting some odd results from renderman…So I won’t be posting the final animation yet.

Second:

- Everything has been UV mapped (took a while considering the amount of items in my scene.)

Third:

- And last update. Today I took most of the day finding textures to use as a base texture for my items. Some of the items in the background will be just a single color, but most of the items have some sort of texture map. The good thing is most of the items in my scene are duplicates.

Below I posted a WIP of my scene. I textured the house. The roof is what took the longest. I tried making a displacement map out of the texture I found…didn’t work…I got some funky results. I just went back to a bump map. More texturing to come. And possibly posting the animation if I can figure out why I’m getting odd rendering errors.

Color Concepts

drumboy354 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:16:58 +0000

Concept 1

Concept 1 is to show the environment more than anything.

Concept 2

Concept 2 is to show off the colors of the characters.

Final Animation part 1!

drumboy354 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:14:37 +0000

Well here it is. This is my final animation, however, only part 1. This is from frame 1 – ~610. It’s taking a while to animate because I have two animated humans that move a lot. I want the animation to look, at least, somewhat correct. I was sitting at my chair thinking, “How does Pixar make their animations look so good?”…”What makes Pixar’s animation look substantially better than what I’ve done?” So any way, that took a while. I don’t want to show choppy animation. I’ve still got some tweaking to do to try to iron out some choppy-ness. But I will be working on the last ~300 frames this week so I can continue texturing.