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.

Working on intro shot

Vetern Rigging and Weighting Finished

Info

Meeting with Dan

Dan really drilled it home how much work we have to do to get this filmed finished. We sat down as a group and listed key things to do and the time scale we have to do it. It looks very tight at the moment but definitely doable. We have created a new schedule till the end term which will be posted shortly.

Cockerel Tests

I have tried posing the character in its cockerel pose for the finale of our film. I am planning on doing some more tests but here's a quick one i whipped up.

Main character testing

So many problems have been encountered on this character its hard to remember what i have done it. I have finally binded it and weighted. They is still a few tweaks to made to the weigthing but that shouldnt take long. I decided to put him in a variety of poses. Hopefully you will like

Door Handle

Modelled a door handle for the shot where the farmer is struggling to open the door. (See Samirs blog for the animation). Here is a scene shot. NOT A RENDER!!!!!Still need to add bump map. Consists of 300 polygons.

Dont shoot me im not an animator!!!!!!

Here's my attempt at doing some animation for the intro where the farmer walks up to the barn. Its only the first pass and still needs a load of work to it so i might give it to Samir(Animator) to finish off. As there will be loads of animation in the film I intend to give the animators some help so i am trying to find my feet in animation again after a long hiatus from it.

Helping the Animators

I have been going over the controls i built for the rigs with the animators. Explaining certain functions and how to animator certain joints and use the fk/ik blend. Whilst doing to this we found certain things wrong with the farmers rig, this ended up being a good time to fully test the rig and highlighted any issues we may have when we come to proper animating. We found weighting was wrong in certain joints and deforming badly. We also discovered problems with the fk ik blend on the left arm. We the curve of the shoulder was moving the wrist and not the whole arm i was unable to parent constrain it to the shoulder for some reason and we was left in a dilemma as to what to do to animate the arm properly. We decided to delete the fk/ik blend completely and animate the joints individually. This would take longer to animate however there was no other obvious solution.