Major Animation Project Stage Six: Week Seven

This week I spent time finishing my dvd cover and dvd label, and director's bio for Sheersha and Matthew's class. At this stage they are merely mockups of what my final cover and label will look like, as i have only a limited amount of rendered pics to work with. Im quite happy with what i came up with but when it comes to finalising my cover, im think i will go for a much more minimalistic look,with a lot more negative space and less colour bursting out at every square inch.

Major Animation Project Stage Six: Week Six

This week im still sorting out the cameras (movement, focal length etc) for all my shots, and reassigning some new shaders to the guitar. Originally all the metallic components of the guitar and the microphone and stand, were going to just be a generic silver coloured reflective materal, but i've now upgraded to a much more realistic looking chrome shader (20% gold 80% chrome silver). Seeing as there will be quite a few fairly close shots of the wood on the body of the guitar, ive also updated the wood to a much higher resolution. Parallel to my own project i've also been helping Yen with texturing again. I mapped and textured three different versions of a weathered metal duck, just to give the ducks a little variation and character, insuring also that none of them look generic in any way.

Major Animation Project Stage Six: Week Five

This week i completed a milestone overview, discussing my success' and falures, in terms of the things i had planned to have done by week five. Overall I was not very successful in completing my goals, but i feel i made up for it in audio and AfterEffects work. At this stage i can safely say i am around 30 to 40 percent complete. I am currently blocking out my cameras and running a few test environment renders with hdri, tweaking the colour grade in maya before commiting to any solid rendering.