Back Plates

In the film we have a lot of still shots which the character interacts in this enables us to use back plates which means we can render out the environment once and the character on a separate layer. This process allows us to tweak the environmental shots in photoshop if they are not
quite what we are after in terms of lighting or extra colour.

My role is to add detail to environments. This is the 3rd shot in the film which was rendered by Samir. It is a very nice render but i felt in some areas there was too much light piercing through in places which made it feel like it was daylight. I have highlighted the areas i changed in the second image. I also made the spot light more stronger and changed the shadows it produced.




















This is a shot of inside the coop. This was another initial render by Samir to save him spending ages tweaking the lighting in Maya. I decided to do it in photoshop, as well as changing the lighting i added more hay to the scene to give it more depth.

Here is an example of how we approaching some of our rendering. Samir created the original render of the coop i took it away added some features to the scene like the hay and spider webs. Samir then rendered the character on a separate layer along with a shadow pass as well then we composite all together in adobe premeire.

Primary Animation

I am not a animator by trade however in this project i have had to jump in to releive Samir of all the animation.
The arriving at bars animation is one i fully animated myself including primary and secondary animation.

Secondary Animation

This section shows the secondary animation i have been doing for Samir and Gary in there animations. The secondary i have been doing is the comb on the main chickens head, the eye blinks and some follow through on the limbs.

Turbo Shots

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Look at Veteren Chicken

Working on Straining Animation

Samirs animation was a really good start but there were a few places that needed a bit of work. I started by adding the secondary animation on the comb then i went about adding more weight to the character especially when stretching for his strain. There is also a part when the chicken looks over his shoulder Samir had the neck completely twisted which really distorted the geometry so I changed it so there was more twist in the body itself. I continued to make tinny adjustments to the animation. Samir felt the adjustments has really improved the animation which is a real complement coming from the animator himself.

End Title Sequence(Work in progress)

I have been working on the end title credits which will consist of the names of the people in the group and there contributions to the project. We also using this time to explain alot more about character after the finale. Here are MY drawings that i have created that will be used in the end credits. The layout of the titles is undecided but we may go with names either side of each image appearing gradually so the viewer can take in the images but also the names aswell.




















Here is our chicken or should say cockerel chilling with the ladies. What a playa.

































The playboy bunny i have changed to resemble a chicken. This iamge will appear in the images.




















Samir helped define the the look of the images suggesting we go for a washy look. he image above he started and i finished. However the image above is not quite finsihed as a background is needed.

Secondary animation

We came up with a system whereby Samir does the core primary animation and then passes it on to me to do the secondary animation such as the blinks and the comb. This will hopefully enable Samir to focus more on the significant animation.

Composition of Barn Entrance

Barn Entrance design

Reywell laid the foundations for this design with the wood texture and i added some others details and colour grading. Still needs some work.