My box of doughnuts

This was a half a day job i just needed to animate the old mans hand pulling the box of doughnuts towards him. This is a still camera shot of just the box and a hand comes into place to pull it towards him.

Finished eating her first doughnut

Finshed

now to animate the next scene

Reaction Shot

For this scene i need to make Mrs Allan react to the old man, as he has just open the box and is eating his first doughnut, She will need to be surprised and then snatch the box and bring it towards her and start eating.

One more final attempt

This morning i had one more final attempt and then decided to move onto other scenes as hand in date is near the end.

Scene 7

This a struggle this scene as i have to make Mrs Allan struggle to climb up onto her seat, i mean at the moment i have been stuck on this scene for a couple of days now making me behind schedule so therefore this is the best i can do at the moment, i will have to move on and if i have time improve it but at the monet it seems quiet unlikely as i still have the other half of the film to animate, as Desmond is animating the old man it will help speed things up slightly, although it seems like i may have to animate the old man at some point aswell because i cant keep desmond waiting for me if i have not finished my scene, so therefore i give him the list of reaction shots which he can do with out waiting for me.

scene 6

Putting the box on table did not take long, so this took me at least half a day meaning that i can work on another scene this evening. However i showed Dan scene 4 and he believe that i should change it simply because it gives the impression that the Mrs Allan is gone to meet the old man. I may change it depending on how much time i will have left however for certain it will change for the degree show.

Scene 6

Working on Getting the old man's attention, and asking if she could sit in the spare seat, the old man will be animated by desmond, so i will just have to focus on the old woman for this particular scene.

Scene 3 Almost done

Showed Dan this scene and said it seems ok, i will need to improve it because the hands are abit jolty, plus the reaction of the waitor still slow, he need to be in abit of a shock, at this point i wish i had IK for the waitor.

Scene 4

Scene 4 will be an easy shot to do as i have to make Mrs Allan walk to her table and as she is walking she realises that all the tables are reserved apart from the one where an old man is sitting therfore she goes towards him to ask if he could sit there. Here is a video to show what i did.

Waitor update

I could not get the movement right for mrs allan slapping the waitors hand for attention, so therefore i thought it would be even more comical if she pulled his fingers. however the reaction of the waitor i feel is not right.

Waitor scene

I' ve started to animate the scene with Mrs Allan trying to get the waitors attention, i'm finding quiet difficult as Mrs Allan is extremely short, however if i can acheive a successful scene it should be comical, because most of the gags is because she is small.

Our first complete scene

Our first complete scene only took a few hours, but thats because i did the walk cycle already, and she is only walking past the window of the shop so, only her head needs to be seen. Looking at it, i think its a very nice scene and i think it looks quiet comical as the shot establishes how small she is.

Red Bored in the Office at Wunderland

over the past 5 days, i have been working on a scene for Adam's film, this will be my final scene as i will need to start animating properly for my film. It is a shame , but i would have liked to work on more scenes for adam. Well its lesson to learn and is a lesson i will take with throughut my carrer. But anyways here are a couple of play blasdt for the scene.

New Schedule for the remaining of the final term

We realise that our previous group timetable is un achievable to follow due to big sets back, that being the Dissertation, as Me and Ross had an extentsion due change of tutors, we have spent the majority of 2nd Term on dissertation. After speaking with Dan, it was essential we got our act together at the begining of this 3rd and final term of our time at Ravensbourne. So Me and Des produce this scheduel which we strongly need to follow. As you can see how tight it look as i have come to the impression that i will need to animate a shot a Day, which seems quiet hard, however i know for the longer scenes that i will have to take more than one day.

She Can Walk!!

Here is the walk cycle i did with the Old lady. The rig seems to work quiet nicely, its not perfect but it will have to do. However alot of credit deservedly goes to ross for a good job on Mrs Allan.




Mrs Allan Walk from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.

Wunderland Scene, The Bad News, Mrs Allan ready to animate.

Lately i have been working on some animation for Adam, i have been given a scene where the red monkey is in his office and is basically meant to look bored. I was quiet excited to animate the scene simply as i have not done much animation as off yet, and since i have my computer back i will hopefully be able to finish it within a week or so.

On the downside, however more of a get ur ass together, we spoke to Dan today as he was checking to see what stage we are at the moment, and clearly he could see our film was strugling as we still have not had a complete environment just yet. We also come to conclusion as time is very much not on our side with a 3 man team we will have to jump straight into animation and go pass the 3d blockout stage. This has rally scared us, so we as a group spent a couple of hours reschedualing or schedule to see how long we got and what we need to do untill hand in. From the schedule we did its apparant i had to do a shot a day, but as the cafe shot was not completley modelled yet i had to wait till it was done to do some scenes. However the old lady (Mrs Allan) was finished rig, and i recieved it today thanks to Ross, I will over the weekend spend some time testing the rig by doing a walk cycle. This walk cycle can then be incorporated into some of the scenes. I must admit after our long and scary talk with Dan, it really i think is starting to motivate us to prove everyone wrong that we can finish this film.

WOOOOOOOOOO YEAHHH I GOT MY COMPUTER

Today i got my computer delievered and all fix, touch wood, it seems to be working alright. i could not do much work today as i have spent alot of time reinstalling everything i needed. Now that i have my computer i will be able to work on the films hoefully with out any problems.

Anyone for some tea?

Another test with the rig.

Testing the changes done to the rig

The old man rig has been changed after the first test for much better leg controll thanks to Dave. Here is a rough walkcyle i did to test the rig out.

Testing the old man rig

These videos show the problems i was having with the old man rig created by Desmond. I couldnt move the feet properly, the ik handle seem to stick where the previous frame was, i think the only way to over come this problem is if Desmond creates a foot manipulator.

CPU is DEAD!!!

Bad news have come to me regarding my computer. the cpu is apparently dead and will need to replaced, they company will be ordering a new cpu for my computer which apparently will take about 3 days. once they get the new cpu my computer will go through a series of testss, to ensure everything is working properly.

FINISHED DISSERTATION!!!!!

WOOOOOOO yeah i have finish the dissertation and its due in for today, believe it or not i have not slept so once i had this dissertation in, i can get some sleep and focus on the film. I must admit the dissertation has completly taken over this 2nd term and since we had the 3 weeks extention, its been eating up into my production time for the film, so i will need to work really hard to complete the film project.

Final Run Cycle Of Army Grunt For Wunderland

To take my mind off dissertation i did the run cycle Adam requested, this is the final version of these runcycles of the Army Grunt.


Wunderland, Army Grunt Run Cycle from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.




Wunderland Army Grunt Run Cycle No 2. from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.

No News ON MY Computer

I ufortunately i have recieved no news on my pc, so for the mean time i have been constantly working on my dissertation as i have had an extension. Also i had some run cycles to do for Adam's film but beacuse of my computer its very hard to do try and get the animation he wants delevered on time to him, i will have to bare through the use of my mum's laptop being slow when using maya.

WHY ME??? BIG TROUBLE

Today has not been a good day at all, my computer is completly dead, its not working properly, windows would not load and it meant that i have lost alot of work even my year 2 work which had some cool animation from my show reel. Thank god that my dissertation was stored on my laptop otherwise i would have had a break down. However which is extremely annoying most of my research images, and prop modelling are not lost because of this. I will now have to try and work on my mums laptop which is not great but at least its something i can use to do my work, i also rang the company from where i purchased my computer from, asking if they can repair it, and that i will urgently need it. I will be sending my pc off to get repaired tomorrow.

Adding the joints

As Adam Smith has UV the character already, i decided to delegate the texturing for the waiter to Ross because we want the characters to be in the same style, and as Ross has textured the old lady already and knows what style we are going for, i left it to him. So this leaves me to enjoy the task which i hate so much, RIGGING. Today i simply layed the joints within the mesh.

Blend Shapes

wooo Blend shaping fun. i did some blend shapes for the cafe waiter character for our film Cafe de beginet, which was modeled by Adam Smith. This character does not require much blend shape like the old woman because he does not appear in the film that much, he is a background character.

One thing that i did which was new with blend shaping which i never used to do was the use of the softmod tool, it made some of mouth pieces a bit easier however it was still very hard to accomplish. I enjoy blend shaping for some reason, i remember i did some blendshapping for my captain london project, so i think i have very good knowledge and experience with Blend shapping.

Practicing Animating

I started practicing some animation using the moom rig from highend3d.com, as our characters are not completly rigged i thought i'd get a tiny bit of animation under my belt, this represent something similar to what the old woman Mrs Allan will need to do, because she will be climbing a high chair and she is really short, she will be struggling. However with this video we can see that he lifts his leg up almost immedietly and as Mrs Allan is short and old she will not be able to lift her leg that high. When i get the Mrs Allan rig i will be trying to do anther video of trying to climb the chair.

Dissertation Fun woooo!!!

I did quiest a bit of research this week for my dissertation, i recently purchased a couples of books based on my topics, so for most of the weekend i will be reading alot. I'll also do some prop modelling, while Des and Ross continue to work on the characters.

New and Final Animatic

As the animatic was not completed, it was essential we had a final and complete animatic for our film so we know what will be happening. I took the liberty of doing the animatic myself, but using some of the sketches from the previous animatic Des made. I made the aniamtic following the upgraded story, i discussed with the group just before christmas.

Here is the animatic i did:



Madame Allan's Usual Full Animatic from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.