Here's my final video for the two-week project we had. The prompt was "Wait, what was that?!" My original idea was to have a guy who was about to toast some bread, but the bread got scared and jumped out of the toaster, so the guy turns around and is perplexed by his lack of toast. I was pretty happy with my original storyboard (which I have to upload), and I thought it was a manageable amount of work for two weeks. Although I think my models could've used more detail, I'm happy overall that I actually managed to model some discernible objects. I definitely think I could've spent some more time on the textures, and definitely had added more bump maps and detailed textures. My lighting was acceptable, but I definitely think the shadows are too strong. Some of the objects shouldn't really have shadows (like the toast's face), and I kind of forgot that it was possible to turn off shadows on certain objects. Of course, I realized this after I had already rendered the frames, but my models are still visible enough. My actual animation is okay, and I think I used the camera angles to my advantage to mask any bad things. My character model for the guy doesn't even have legs, but I only had the camera show him from the waist up. I definitely think I could've done more to make the animation smoother, but overall I was happy with that. My animation was looking just fine until I composited it, and I realized that the timing was heinously off on most of the clips. I had to extend the majority of the clips so that the whole animation wouldn't happen in only five seconds, so I had a really low overall frame rate. The animation is still super choppy, and each change in camera angle is really sudden. I don't like that at all, but I was kind of low on time so I couldn't really do anything about it. I also had some trouble with the sound effects. It was really difficult to time the sound accordingly, and I couldn't find the exact sounds that I wanted, so I had to compromise. I think if I had made a better composite and used sound more effectively, that would've done my acceptable animation justice. Unfortunately, I'm a little incredibly rusty in basically all aspects on animation. Luckily, I have the whole year to get better. Also, it's basically impossible that I could produce anything worse than this.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Final Project
Here's my final video for the two-week project we had. The prompt was "Wait, what was that?!" My original idea was to have a guy who was about to toast some bread, but the bread got scared and jumped out of the toaster, so the guy turns around and is perplexed by his lack of toast. I was pretty happy with my original storyboard (which I have to upload), and I thought it was a manageable amount of work for two weeks. Although I think my models could've used more detail, I'm happy overall that I actually managed to model some discernible objects. I definitely think I could've spent some more time on the textures, and definitely had added more bump maps and detailed textures. My lighting was acceptable, but I definitely think the shadows are too strong. Some of the objects shouldn't really have shadows (like the toast's face), and I kind of forgot that it was possible to turn off shadows on certain objects. Of course, I realized this after I had already rendered the frames, but my models are still visible enough. My actual animation is okay, and I think I used the camera angles to my advantage to mask any bad things. My character model for the guy doesn't even have legs, but I only had the camera show him from the waist up. I definitely think I could've done more to make the animation smoother, but overall I was happy with that. My animation was looking just fine until I composited it, and I realized that the timing was heinously off on most of the clips. I had to extend the majority of the clips so that the whole animation wouldn't happen in only five seconds, so I had a really low overall frame rate. The animation is still super choppy, and each change in camera angle is really sudden. I don't like that at all, but I was kind of low on time so I couldn't really do anything about it. I also had some trouble with the sound effects. It was really difficult to time the sound accordingly, and I couldn't find the exact sounds that I wanted, so I had to compromise. I think if I had made a better composite and used sound more effectively, that would've done my acceptable animation justice. Unfortunately, I'm a little incredibly rusty in basically all aspects on animation. Luckily, I have the whole year to get better. Also, it's basically impossible that I could produce anything worse than this.
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The toast's face is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI loved the overall style of the animation as well as the relatively simple story. The textures also fit the model extremely well (even the counter tops, which had a little texture to them, did). The sound effects were also well placed and helped convey the intensity of the situation (from the toast's point of view).
However, I felt that some of the zooming scenes were a little bit choppy and gave the animation a more rigid feeling. I would also suggest adding a few containers to the inside of the fridge so that it seems like he isn't just eating bread and nothing else, maybe a stick of butter and some jelly or milk to the fridge door? Also, I loved the characters, however I would suggest adding a mouth to the human character, I feel that a frown would help to prove his confusion to the audience.
You did a wonderful job on this C: keep up the good work!