Self-CONFLICT Released!

Hey guys,

My short film is finally done - go check it out and tell me what you think! I will post more THE MAKING OF stuff in future so please bare with me.

AAH! I'm so excited about the release :)

Here's a bunch of people I'd like to thank:

Matt Seligman - my good friend who's pulled through with me on this project with the modelling and texturing side of things. Looks great man, and thanks for working with me on this.

Fernando Zamora - the voice actor legend. Thanks for putting up with all my re-recording requests and under such short notice. Your flexibility and availability is much appreciated.

Tim Bolland, Albin Nilsen, Martin Davies and Ben Klimmek for render advice and post-production tips.

Penny Holton, my project supervisor.

Everyone at the Teesside Animation and Games Society (TAG) at Teesside Uni for watching and giving me weekly feedbacks.

Everyone at Animex Festival who I had the chance to speak to and got constructive feedback from.

And of course all of my friends who have supported me and kept me sane. Ha ha.

FYP Animation done!

8 months of hard work and my short film is finally coming to a close. I can't express how excited I am about this. The animation portion is finally declared done. I just need to spend a day or two finalizing the lighting and camera animations and then it's off to render. Post-production is expected to take a week or so.

Will post images and posters nearer to the time of release. Awesome!

FYP Update

It's been a while since the last update. My short film is going great! It's been about 6 months since I properly started this project and I've been working on it non-stop, practically full time. The animation is mostly there now, I'm just doing all sorts of tweaks here and there to finesse the details and adding the final touches. I'd say it's about 85% complete by this stage, I want to spend a good 15% of the time to really clean up and polish the hell out of this piece to really push it to the next level. That means about another month of animation tweaking, I know it sounds crazy but I am a true believer of doing the best I can and love nothing more than a wonderful polish. 

From what I gather, most students get to around this point of 80% complete and call it finished mostly due to lack of time and possibly even being sick of the animation by this point. No one really spends quality time cleaning and polishing their animations these days! 

It's at this animation stage where tweaking to get better animation is also incredibly satisfying and rewarding that really boosts motivation! Yeah, this is me being motivated to keep going! Go go go :)

You can expect a finished render near the end of March and if I'm still not done by that time, you can start sending your hate mails. 

FYP Work in Progress

Here's a work-in-progress render of my Final Year Project animation so far. I'm currently at the blocking stage and if I keep to my schedule, the short film will be done by February 2011!

FYP - Animation test 1

An animation test for my Final Year Project. The character is modified from a Norman Rig and is by no means final and subject to change. Animation took about 3 hours.

This exercise is mainly to get used to animating in Maya and with the Norman rig.



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