Dooooooomed!!!!

2 weeks to go till the end. I feel doomed. My project feels doomed. Last week jack and i finished my backgrounds which is all good and well but my concerns are ridiculously high. i feel over whelmed. And this is why.

I spoke to jack about my concerns and he gave me a list of things to do which would set me back firmly on track.

- put rocks on my wall

- import all cameras into the scene with my completed background

- import high quality doors after exporting them from the scene where they where completed

- render out a single frame for each shot.

I completed the first of these tasks before the end of jack's class. However the 3 hours after jacks class where a spiral into frustration and despair (if i'm going down, i'm going down writing in a flowery way god damn it). When Jack explained importing the camera’s from all the scenes it sounded simple enough but once I was alone trying to do so was much more difficult. I simply DO NOT understand how/ why. If I imported the cameras into the scene machan would not be in the scene and the composition I was supposed to make would not make sense. Furthermore I could not figure out how to export the cameras.

So I decided to import the doors, only to discover that they have been modelled backwards so when they are imported into the scene the slope at the top of the door is opposite to the slope on the wall. Garrett and I wrestled with trying to turn them round the right way/ make them match up to the wall but to no avail.

We then returned to trying to decide how to import all the cameras. We decided that maybe what jack meant was that we should export a frame of the camera shots for every scene to use as a flat background for the shots that did not move. Using that layering system to save on rendering when the time came. Garrett tried to show me how to do it and though I began carrying out the task of making these extra layers I did not understand the method of what I was doing.

Huni kindly offered to create the robot screen faces for me which was really great because I was worried that I was simply going to have to scrap that idea being so close to the end. Even though jack showed me how to do the screen faces/ eyes I can’t remember how.

I also have not done a show reel or a press kit.

This is why I feel doomed. Truly, unequivocally, completely, utterly doomed.

The Rocky Shore

We have arrived. Final term, first week. 3 weeks to go.

I am fairly happy with how my animation has been coming along. The animating itself is pretty much done and i completed the texuring on tuesday. Jack and i worked on the background today and the actual ground is pretty much done. I have to do the wall the doors and the panning shot sets which shouldn't be too difficult or time consuming. i am freaking out a little bit though. Mostly cause we have our animation, our 2000 word essay, our show reel and our press kit to complete over the next 3 weeks. i just don't think i will have enough time for it all. at this stage i'm beggining to proritise what's left and what i am ok with coming in late. This sucks so much. i wanted so much to be early with everything this year and i'm thinking things are probably going to end up coming in late. I'll just have to see how i go.

Test Run 2 and "Holidays"

Hooo kay

I animated pretty much all throughout the holidays. During the first week i completed a rough draft of every animation with a plan to polish those drafts the second week. During the second week while i did polish a lot of the animation i also ran into several problems and realised serveral short comings of my plan. I realised that there where props i would have to include in all the scenes in relation to the characters (the rock machan sits on in the beginning must be featured in the rest of the video, the trail the bug leaves must remain in the scene once the bug has passed machan). The characters should be interacting with the back grounds in some scenes. I have yet to put colours on my characters. No comfortable at all with where i'm at. no idea if i'll finish on time. All i can do is work hard and hope for the best at this stage.

over and out