Go Go Gadget Head Turnaround & Production Blog!

I'm finally relatively happy with the head model for our film. My main production role for the past couple of months has been the modelling, texturing and blendshapes of the character. We're scheduled to start the body any day now, just waiting on the final designs from our ever talented pre production artist Lynsey, who's done a stand up job of helping us out with the 2D side of things. Then I've got the blendshapes to sort out, which are essentially the character's expressions for the non-animation folks. Luckily, we've got a Masters student on board to do the rigging for us, which will be a great help... so all in all it's coming together rather smoothly. 

You can check out the 3D model below, best viewed in full HD here.

There's still some tweaking required, and we've been given some useful feedback which we'll look into if time allows, but chances are it's not going to change too drastically from here on out.  

In other news, we've finally uploaded a team production blog which we'll be updating regularly with our progress. You can find the current animatic on there too for those of you who've not had a chance to see the story yet. For those of you who have, it's changed a lot over the past 4 months so if you could check it out and give us your feedback that would be cool.

Sláinte,

Kieran.

EDIT: Here's some wireframes as requested by Mr Boyd, be gentle.

D'Ark Compositing Breakdown & Updates

Salutations!

As some of you know, I'm doing a lot of compositing on D'Ark at the moment, this was the first test composite to finalise the look that Jamie was after. I decided to make a breakdown of it tonight to share with you guys.

I went for a different approach with this breakdown from the previous Lava one, by having the passes unmask on top of each other... you can tell me whether it's successful or not :)

As for the numbers, this one was originally at 1080p with about 25 layers, but I had to reduce the size and pre compose a lot of the elements to try and reduce the render time and stop my laptop from biting my face off. 

Finally, I highly recommend watching it in full HD on youtube here, but for those of you too lazy I've embedded it below. 

In other news, WE'RE ALMOST FINISHED 3RD YEAR. Huzzah! Soon there'll be cider, BBQs and sunshine aplenty and I can't wait.

Our final hand ins are tomorrow and we're all pretty well prepared for a change. We also got out sexy production bible printed out, I'll upload a digital copy in due course.

Here's to 4th year :D