Kumon Topomi
A free-for-all today. We spend the two lessons doing whatever we felt was necessary. For my, it was adding some greyscale values to my storyboard and then animating and exporting a quicktime file from Photoshop. I they craftily used Adobe Media Encoder to convert the file into an .flv for later web use.
I also discussed my proposal for a revised animation brief with Kraygus. He kindly agreed to all my terms and suggestions, so here is a rundown of what we students have the option of now doing:
- A 30 second ‘showcase animation of our 3D character (or characters). ( for example, we could do a simple turntable animation of our character)
- The animation could feature movement or relatively simple animation for some interesting effects, and we could do whatever we want to ‘fancy it up’.
- We are still required to produce a storyboard, animatic and script. This is good because it offers an appreciation of the production process.
- We still have to ‘bone’, colour and texture our High Poly model(s).
- The second 3D character is optional, but is necessary for gaining a higher mark for the subject.
I think that this revised plan is going to make the final 5 weeks of term go much smoother and vastly increase the likelihood of a professionally successful result at the end of the term.
