Audio Piano Tests

I did some piano tests (mainly to learn how to best hook a piano up to a mic) i couldnt get the audio files onto my blog but they are in the Blog Data files on my hand-in disk under: blog_data > data > audio.

Tree Test

Instead of having Disney trees i decided to have tress made from textures of paper and have them cut down by loggers using scissors.

Although they are still trees it changes the shift from natural beauty to world resource. I wanted to use a paper texture as a reminder of what trees mean to the production of modern living and for a more physical feel then the rest of the animation, textures may be used in other places but not over used.

Short Render

Character Concepts

A few character concepts I haven't yet uploaded to this blog.

Tree Logger

TV Family

Dino

Chicken

Petting Zoo

Pig Boss

Pig Newsreader

Animatic

StoryBoard

StoryBoarding

Storyboarding is a long process that for me feels longer then actually animating the same content. I still haven't come to a final board but will have to start animating something before finalising this to give a feel of workload and length. At the start i felt this was a 1:30 to 2 minute project but i can already see parts that are filling out. May have to do an animatic that i don't really have time for but it would save time to cut content in the animatic then the final animated sequence. As alway with animation projects i wish i had more time.

3D Projection

Me and Ben have been working recently with 3d projection, these are some videos that he found and i told him i could make. we have mapped some chairs in a 3d world just using the projector in university but came across a few snags, mainly from the machine we where using not having any programs on it at all and without internet access. we got round that evenly and i showed ben how to mask objects onto a 3d object and animate it like these examples.

We would both like to take this further but i am not sure if it will help my project in anyway, still it is something i am interested in learning more about. Maybe something interactive would be pretty cool. Maybe 88 boxes in different shapes and sized in a pile with colours projected on them in the colour scale/table i created, then have each assigned to a key on a digital piano?