Thanks everyone!

Once again another semester has come and gone. It was really hectic but enjoyable as well and it was really good to see everyone's animations and renders and being inspired by it. Hope to see everyone again in ACM 320 next semester! And to leave off on a good note, I found the official international trailer for the Dragon Ball live action movie. Ignore the Japanese subtitles. :X It will be released in US theaters on April 8th. More information about the theme song here.

Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Can't wait to see everyone's 3D movies on Monday... I am still rendering.

Edit:
Okay, I am not sure if I left it on a "good" note since some people have different opinions on the live action Dragon Ball. Lol, I guess good as in good laughing material? I don't know. Nevermind.

Finally the final final is final!

All right, it's done! I'm so embarrassed because the animation for the fish is so bad. I ran out of paper at the last minute and had to improvise, sacrificing what I really need and don't need to get this done. u_u It's called "Strive". And it's 16MB so it may take a while to load if you click the picture to stream online below. If you want to just download and view it, I have it on UH's File Drop here as well. The link expires 12/8/08.




The background music is called "Think Tenderly of Piano" which I got from SENTIVE. It's a Japanese free music place. I spent my time while scanning translating and trying to comprehend their strict terms of usage, lol.

It's 1 minute and 5 seconds. I swear it's all because of all the title cards and ending credits! My animation itself is like 45 seconds. :X I swear.

Short Film Second Pass (with invisible fish!)

It's not fully complete but almost. I did some minor changes to the turn-around and decided not to concentrate on that. I also changed the scenes around a little by adding the donating scene before the bonding with the fish scene.

I will need to add a big sigh for him after the second person walks past. He gets frustrated because no one would pay him any attention so he goes to the alley and plays with his fish. But he eventually becomes very hungry and hesitates about eating the fish. I need to rework the timing here with the hesitation. As for the last scene of him eating the fish, I'm not finished with it, that's why it's still animatics. Again, must rework the timing to suit the hesitation. I also cut out the scene where the fish willingly be grabbed since it felt disconnected.




Meanwhile, my particles is rendering so incredibly slowly. Took all day just to render the water blast for the first two seconds of my film! And I haven't even started on the fire yet. I think I'll just turn in 1 picture for Kaveh... >_>"

Short Film First Pass (of scene 1)

This is what I could finish so far. I wish I could clone myself so that I could work on both assignments at the same time. Right now, I'm only half way finished with both assignments due tomorrow.

Dog Run Cycle

I don't know why but after making his back/neck area more humped, he does this snapping thing that wasn't there last night. But either way, I'm still pretty proud of this! We should do this kind of animation plus demo in class more often.

Short Film Animatic/Key Poses

Beware, the fish vanishes and the fish bowl duplicates itself! I focused everything on cutting down the story and animating the boy that I ended up forgetting about the fish! And a note about that one scene in the middle where he fades into different poses, I wanted to do just that as it is to demonstrate that time is passing and he's living in that trash heap. To make it fit 30 seconds, I already cut out several poses there but I think I should add them back. It shouldn't be that long. I also need to drag out some scenes such as when he's hesitating to eat the fish. I hope that's okay...? I'm sure it will be no more than 50 seconds max...




I'm running out of space on the UH server. I was using 93% of the space. After I deleted ACM 216's work, I'm still using 80%. So stupid. I think after this semester ends, I should create an online portfolio somewhere else with all of these assignments to make room at the UH server.

Character Turn-around

Here is my character turn-around and expressions. I'm still working on the key poses and layout so I'll post that later tonight. I'm still drawing the middle of my short film and already there are over 30 frames!

By the way, do you any of you use FTP to upload your things to your UH web space? I do that but I'm using Secure Shell to upload. I was wondering if anybody can get it to work using WS_FTP? I've tried it before with the same settings but it won't connect for some reason. Just wondering, it would make things more convenient for me. Thanks!