#unitba1b

I managed to get an extension on my submission deadline and so felt a lot less pressured and also manged to reach out for help.

I had already managed to finish the motion when my peer stepped in to help and initially we couldn’t get any of the lighting to work for some reason but we managed to get the directional light to finally work. Luckily this scene only took about 2 hours to render and then I managed to composite the video on my own at home using Adobe media encoder. Overall this is definitely a case of ‘finished not perfect and at this point I was just more focused on getting this animation finished and ready for submission. 

I decided to look into studio Laika a bit for some personal research and I found that I really like what the company stands for. They’re been a key force in revitalizing the stop motion industry and I feel like that is a major feat considering the reputation that stop motion animation had pre-Laika.

I forgot to post these earlier but these are the stories for the walking with expression change and the picking up the box animation we did. 

Both these animations were definitely changed but the introduction of a partner into the project and I’m not complaining. It’s pretty cool that your ideas can develop in new directions so quickly once you have a partner involved in working on a project. 

So this project ran into quite a few problems. For this animation I was paired with Ella and we ran into issues setting up our camera as well as maintaining our lighting. I feel like overall we also struggled to communicate our intended movements and something about the overall animation just kind of doesn’t work. 

I actually really enjoyed working with the Plasticine for this animation and I was paired up with Ruth. Overall I’d say we did a pretty good job even though the Plasticine was pretty tough. 

The only major issue that we kept running into was catching our hands in the shots while we were working. I feel like that’s just something that comes as a result of working with someone you’re not entirely familiar with though and overtime happens less when you get used to your working partners. It definitely made me question how effective of a communicator I am in a group setting though.

Second attempt  at making my maquette. 

Honestly, I’m not impressed with the way this turned out. I know that I could have done a lot better, especially with regards to the legs. I don’t know if I like the overall design all that much and going forward I’ll definitely be considering editing the design a bit.

I started out the design process by examining the forms found in chickens, cats and the peacock plant. I was also toying with the idea of possibly integrating a bat for the wings but quickly abandoned that idea.

Overall I really liked the idea of a sort of rain forest dwelling creature that was for the most part friendly and domesticated. Though I’d wanted them to be treated more like cats than chickens as I don’t think they’d make very good food!