Background Test 1

I decided to put the backgrounds I've completed into my old animatic to discover if anything doesn't work or if any of the backgrounds need to be redone. Only a few tweaks are required for one or two but everything else looks fine.

Mansion Backgrounds update

A few background which I have finished consisting of the outside of the building and the hallways

Production Test

Today I started and finished a two second clip of what my final film will look like (although this clip is missing shadow effects and at this moment I've ran out of time to speak and need to get other tasks done first.

Live Action Reference for Mummy and Knight

I've put together some live action reference today as well as made a start on putting my production slides together. This week is probably going to be one most of hectic ones to come because of deadline being so close together but I'll try my best to keep this blog up to date.

Below is the video of live action reference and some of backgrounds I've done which I've been delaying for a long time to put.

Animation near completion

Ruff Test 2 (No Audio)

Final Major Project Update

I haven't updated for a while because I've had other course work to do and I've quiet ill but here's an update on my animation, I've added text for the two missing drawings and I've haven't put the spaceship animation in because I want to finish a bit more of it first.

Finishing backgrounds

I've have now completed the lining and adding the main colours to my backgrounds and the next step is to add textures and shading which shouldn't take to long (I'll mostly likely have them done by tonight) but I've already finished one which I posted below.

Each section is it's own layer for easy editing if needed and this will be the same for each ground.
Tomorrow I should be able to move onto doing key frames for the animation.

Background Progression

I've still been working on background and at this moment I've finished 7 out of 8 line works and 4 have been coloured (but not shaded or textured). I should have them all coloured by the weekend.

But I have also done a keyframe test on my first background to get an idea of How the animation will somewhat look like and I think it work when the background is fully finished and the animation has been smoothed out.

Starting my Final Project

Sorry I havn't update for a while, I've had a lot of PC trouble on my home machine (constant blue screens which lead to me buy a brand new motherboard and CPU), but it seems to be sorted out now.

Jump straight into my Final Project I've started creating the backgrounds for my flash animation and here are a few screen shots of my progress. I would of done a few more but as I mentioned before the PC troubles held me a bit.

I'm planning on animating the boulders on space background and I'm currently adding the shading to world background at this moment as well as designing the other background (8 in total). I'm going to add some textures to both but what your seeing above are still working progress and when I've finished them I'll upload them in a future post.

Slides update

A lot of what I've been doing lately is putting my slides together ready for the hand in Monday. So I thought I'd just show (for now) some of key slide like the turn around and character line up as well as some colour swipes for the alien world.
I'm planning on colouring in the turn around but at this very moment they're on the top of the list importance.

Background and character progression

 I've spent most of time trying come up with a background design for the alien and after many attempts I've finally settled on a theme looks which felt right, I've scanned in a few of the drawings which I'm going to use in my animatic below to show what I went for but I haven't coloured them in because it wouldn't be a good use of time at the current point.

I've also worked on the monstrous creature design a bit more and I feel happy with his current look (the image below) but I going to try a few more things before I settle completely. I've also been advice to do further work on my alien dog design which at I'll upload concepts of what I've change in future post.

Designing an Alien world

I still have a lot to do in designing the alien world, but this is what I have so far

I'm getting close to the design I want but I still need to do come up with a few more designs and then when I'm happy a design I can work on making it more presentable in how well it's coloured and drawn.

Finishing Illustrator background

I think I'm pretty much done here with this background, I can add the jagged line for teeth to the statues but other then that this is pretty much what I can do at my current level and experience with illustrator.

Generally I think it's okay and using the illustrator program wasn't as difficult as I used to remember it from years ago. Here's a screencap of my final image for you to see.

Background and Illustrator

I started doing to second park of my project which is using Illustrator to create a background of our own choice. Below is the background I drew of what my Illustrator background should look like, I kept it simple because this is the first time I've touched Illustrator and I don't want to get in over my head.

Following this image as a guide this is what I've done so far but I still got alot of shading to do aswell as lighting. But I think I've got the objects added although I think I could add more detail to the house (such as windows and doors).

Project update from day to night

In my background colour project I've finished adding the shadows and lighting, so from what I can see the day time version of the background is complete

I continued on to building the night time filters which I can switch on and off with a click so the background can change from day to night a second. I had a lot trouble with since for some reason I couldn't get the masks to work and after an hour of looking through my slides and channels for any mistakes and watching tutorials encase I missed something I just suddenly worked. I don't know why or how I didn't nothing different but when I tried for what seemed to be 10th time I just worked.

So here is my night time background, the only things I need to do is add mist a texture to overlap the entire thing to make it look like a painting and add the spirals to the tree's

Update on brief AA2S01 CW1

I finished the initial colouring of the background I was given and tomorrow I should be shown a tutorial to how to shadow and light my background as well being shown how to create night filter to turn my background into a night time setting.

Below is a screen shot of my progress.

I don't think it looks to bad so far and when I learn how to shade tomorrow I should be finished later on that night.

Starting Brief AA2S01 CW1

The class was given they're new brief today which included a tutorial on how to use certain features Photoshop (such using channels and organizing your layers correctly).

Our brief is to recreated the background below but keeping all the different layers separate so they can be changed as well as layers to create a night time theme.

At this moment I have gotten as far as cleaning the line work, colouring the line and half way through adding the primary colours of the image.

I'll keep update every major threshold I cross.