Glow

Hello

There was a problem with the glow.  It was flickering.  Now it's not.
Thats all.  Not worthy of a blog entry you say?




Yeah, fair enough, you're probably right.

Bye.

What's left?

1) The crack opening.  I'm gonna get Darrens help tomorrow!

2) The welcome to Hell sign.  it was 3D, but I don't like it, so I'm gonna do it in 2D, tomorrow.

Then I just have to edit the sound together, and export this bitch as an image sequence and Pro Something 422.

Then I have to get a real job...  GULP

Unchained Melody

HA, GET IT? COZ UNCHAINED MELODY WAS PLAYING IN THE MOVIE GHOST! AND I'M GONNA SHOW YOU THE INSPECTOR AS A GHOST!

Shut up, Fairclough.

Enjoy.

Eye Eye, Captain!

Hello
I handed in my extra cheeses today.  I mean extra jesus.  I mean exit pieces.

EXEGESIS!  Thats better.

I'm gonna get things printed on Friday for my press kit, but thats essentially all done now!

I'm hoping to have all my animation done this week, so next week I can spend my time getting the sound done (which shouldnt take too long) and rendering the image sequences, which will take up most of my time!

I have an eye infection, hence the eye eye captain.

BYE

I hate Bounnong

HA NOT REALLY
I think he's pretty.

I spent yesterday doing the rollercoaster scene with the minions.  And by me, I mean Jack.

It looks good.  There's a small problem because we never set a camera in Maya, so we had to match up the new camera to the photoshop file I made.  It worked, but there's a small part where it doesnt match up right, and the minions disappear for a brief moment.  It's okay though, it still looks good.

I'm gonna do more press kit now.  Here's the poster.  I based it off the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie poster.

Rollercoaster

Oh, hi.  I didn't see you there.

I did the rollercoaster.  It was painstakingly traced from a 3D model that Jack did.
It took 3 hours or so to trace.  My hand hurts from it.

Now I gotta rotoscrope the cars on it, which is gonna suck to do.  Gulp.
Love Jarrod

Calmer

Hello
Yesterday I wrote big angry note about my laptop being shitty.
I got all mad and said the F word a lot.

Basically my laptop keeps crashing because the graphics card can't handle it.  Which is annoying, because I bought it because the graphics card was top of the line.

Pretty annoying.  It crashes mainly in After Effects.  Worse comes to worse, I'll have to install After Effects on my other laptop, but I'd really rather leave them seperate.

Shadows

Hi friends.

It's 11:46am on Sunday, and I'm not still in bed.  That's a miracle!

Here's a screencap of the shadows I mentioned.  The res is 100%.

Enjoy.  Also, there's only shadow on one leg at the moment, clearly.  I've rectified that.

Today, I Worked Like A Bitch

Hello.
Today, I worked like a bitch.

I was able to get the foot stomp complete, and I sorted out the problems I had with the Hell background.  That will need to be re-rendered out, and the old footage replaced with that one in After effects.

I also played with shadows.  I found shadows that go on the ground and look amazing, so I'm pretty happy with those.  There's still a bit to go with the shadows on the characters, though.  I found one, Bevel-Shadow I believe it's called.  It looks okay, not great.  And it doesn't seem to show up at all on Lucifer.  But now I think about it, I could have been putting the effect on a different layer!  I'm gonna go double check after this.
EDIT: I must have put it on the wrong layer.  I put it on the right layer and it looks great.

I've almost finished my 2000 word exegesis, and I still have a bit more to talk about.  I need to refer to 3 different academic things, only 1 can be online.  Thats fine though, I have 2 animation books at home I can use.  I just need to decide where to put them in.

Next Tuesday Jack and I are gonna work on the roller coaster shot.  I'm (re: jack) am making a quick mock up in Maya, then I can draw over that, and rotoscrope the car on it, so that I get the angle-ing right.  I think that's gonna be my biggest task, but it doesn't seem impossible.

I'm feeling really confident, but we'll see how I'm feeling in a few weeks.

BYE

Extra Jesus

Hello.  At the current moment, I've written 690 words of my 2000 exegesis.  693 if you count my name and the heading.

I rendered my Hell background from After effects, but it didn't work.  I'll try again tomorrow.  It takes 20 minutes to render a 20 second shot, but that's because its giant and detailed.

Speaking of Extra Jesus, my brother in law got baptised yesterday.  Silly boy, doesn't he know religion is silly?

BYE!

Tim Burton

I got bored.

Imaginary Sam

Hello

I havn't done a lot these holidays.  I've worked, but just not done a lot.

I just did the sniff.  Well, the animation for it, I have to re record the sniff.

I need to render out the background with fire.  I have it saved, but my computer went all gay balls on me and was like 'NO RENDERING FOR YOU!'  So I'll do it at uni.  Technically I'm at uni right now, but this computer doesn't like my hard drive because the USB ports on this computer are broken.  GAAAAAY!

I'm really dreading the roller coaster bit.  I just can't see it looking any good.

Josie keeps singing 'I'm Madeline'.  I believe murder is on the cards.

Love you.