Week 6

This week i have been told we have to create a group website for our final year film. I have created my groups website using weebly which is easy to use and gives great results for creating your own website. I have chosen to use their free domain which is your website name .weebly.com. This is the link to my groups website smokingelephant.weebly.com

Here are a few screen shots of the website, its still work in progress as we still have a lot more work to do for the final year film.

Week 5

This week i had formative with Mike where he checked my work and how im getting on with my final year film. He also told me what we have to have done by the 16th of March and i feel that im on the right tracks. Me and Russell have both done some animation this term more Russell than me but i have been set certain scenes by Russell to animate. My main purpose is to get the renders looking right and modelling the scene. I have done the majority of the modelling but Russell has also helped along the way. My main goal now is to find away to animate the grass in the scene to give it more realsim. I was going to use dynamics but the was taking far too long to process on my laptop and the renders why taking a very long time to. So i found a way to animate the grass paint effect from a tutorial online. Under the grass paint effects settings there are loads of different parameters you can play about with that animate the grass for you. This save so much time on the processing done by the computer and its done in realtime as well. The render times dont seem to be that bad either.

Week 4

This week we have been shown how to use the render-farm by our tutors. I personally dont think we will be using the render farm as our scenes dont contain anything that takes a long time to render out. Most of our animation is all stop-motion the only CG we have in our film is the environment the characters are set in.

Week Three

This week we have been looking at render layers and how to create them inside Maya. Once they have been rendered out you bring them all together to make the final image inside a composting program such as Nuke or After effects. I have been working on a scene inside maya which involves me integrating CG with live action.