Winter Break

Basically all of the assets and backgrounds I didn't get done this semester I'll have to do over the break or really this weekend. I calculated that starting the day we get out of school officially that if I make four scenes a day I will get done in time for Spring semester. When I say scenes I mean literal stills according to my Animatic which there are 100 of but they repeat a lot or it is a cut back and forth action. I only have a total of 22 different backgrounds that get repeated a lot over the whole Animatic. The only real problem I perceive is having to navigate around huge files and preventing my computer from freezing which I'll have to do is have each scene in a different After Effects file.

Profile Links

http://vimeo.com/user4583080/videos
http://www.behance.net/tiffanybaker/frame
http://www.youtube.com/user/tiffanylaurenbaker?feature=mhee

Final Class PResentation Outline

I felt that my presentation last time went pretty well minus a few hiccups with some terminology or statements. I'm still going to open with demo reel and talk throughout while it plays explaining where I've been. I'll first open with a basic introduction of who I am and where I'm from. I'll briefly mention about my childhood concerning my love of animation at an early age but mention specific television shows and movies and animators I still look to for inspiration. I'll then go into about themes in my work and the type of work I enjoy such as child-like fantasy with an adult edge. Then I'll go into my current BFA work with my Animatic and stills I have of character mock ups and backgrounds. I'll also include the one fully realized scene I have. Finally I'll end with my job research and how I got my current internship with Running Pony Productions and what kind of job I'm looking forward to having in the future.

Week 13: Tuesday

My progress on my BFA. I didn't reach the goal of having everything done for today but I got the big assets out of the way and now can focus on backgrounds.

Week 13: Thursday - New Calendar and BFA progress

Calendar:

BFA Progress

Honestly its not much and I failed to reach my deadline again. I wanted to have some backgrounds, Nerine's views and some of the Fish's views done. I ended up wasting so much time on trying to do Nerine's views that I just started the Fish's views. I wasn't being smart at all I did a similar mistake to last class by making assets in a very tedious process in Photoshop and then the y didn't even come out well. Nerine's feet are obviously still messed up and I need to fix them. I still plan on having my assets, character views and backgrounds done by Thanksgiving so I can start setup in After Effects. I will actually now really start in Illustrator and export to Photoshop and add textures in there. I will work all weekend but I think the way I'm doing it now is possible whereas what I was making a mistake doing, there was no way I'd finish in time. I realize I can't afford any more mistakes from this point forward or I won't finish. I need to be smarter and faster and actually really committing to utilizing this plan will be the only way I can achieve that.

Nerine (with her currently unresolved feet)

Week 13: Tuesday - Production Inventory, Revised Calendars, BFA update

Production Inventory

Background 1 – full view of shoreline with cityscape and back view of lighthouse

-include zoomed in size of her walking up (shot 2 closest afternoon)

-include enough to the left for later view out at sea (shot 46 farthest night)

Background 2 – full front view of lighthouse assets with broken and unbroken views

-include close up of door

Background 3 – Interior shot of onside door frame

Background 4 – Full downstairs view (make assets be able to be reflected to go in for later close ups)

-include close up of family portrait (shot 14)

-include later destroyed lighthouse assets

Background 5 – ¾ view of kitchen area with sink to fridge

-include close up of her pouring tea at the oven

Background 6 – close up of pictures on the fridge

Background 7 – Overhead view looking down the staircase steps

Background 8 – View looking up the staircase to the top

Background 9 – front view of the lantern room

-include zoomed in view of lantern lens (shot 90 closest)

-include later broken and overturned assets

Background 10 – ¾ view of lantern room

-include extreme close up of the lantern

-lnclude broken and overturned assets

Background 11 (assets really) – close up of waves as the light passes over

Background 12 (assets really) – close up view of the Fish’s eye opening

Background 13 – profile view of the lighthouse

-include zoomed in the closest for the Fish hitting the side of the lighthouse (shot 63 closest)

-include it zoomed in as the lens falls in his mouth (shot 120)

-include it later falling over destroyed asset

Background 14 – view of the Fish jumping from Nerine’s perspective

Background 15 – View from Nerine’s perspective of her looking out into the ocean to see him swimming

Background 16 – View of the Fish out in the water as the light hits him

-include close up of the light hitting him and irritating his eyes (shot 87)

Background 17 – Nerine’s perspective of a straight view of the lantern lens (reverse broken assets from Background 9 of the front view of the Lantern room)

Background 18 – Nerine’s perspective of the Fish swimming down below as the Lighthouse is tipping over

Background 19 – Nerine’s view of down the bent staircase and the torn Lighthouse base to see the outside

Background 20 – Nerine’s perspective of the broken lantern from her sitting on top of the staircase

Background 21 – Nerine’s perspective of her picking up the pictures on the floor

Background 22 – Close up of the acceptance letter

Background 23 – Close up of Nerine walking from the city up towards the lighthouse (shot 3)

Background 24 – Close up of door

Nerine’s views:

1)    Front view – closest shot 77, farthest shot 7

2)    Back view – 65, 88 (profile face)

3)    ¾ view- closest shot 3, farthest shot 2

4)    back ¾ view – closest shot 6, farthest 127

5)    detailed left articulated hand – closest shot 12, farthest shot 118

6)    detailed right articulated hand – closest shot 19, farthest shot 107

The Fish’s views:

1)    front view with opening mouth – shot 67

2)    profile view – closest shot 63, farthest shot 66

3)    dark profile of eye – shot 48

4)    ¾ view – shot 84

5)    ¾ view front – shot 53

6)    ¾ overhead view – shot 81

7)    ¾ dark back shadow view – closest 55, farthest 57

8)    top view – 107

 Assets:

- Lighthouse – front (closest shot 5 of door, farthest shot 4), back (closest shot 3 of her walking up, farthest shot 46 out in the ocean), profile (closest shot 63, farthest shot 62)

Destroyed Lighthouse – front (closest shot 133), profile (closest shot 120, farthest shot 123)

Lantern – front (closest shot 90, farthest shot 28), ¾ view (shot 29), ¾ opened (closest shot 31, farthest shot 30)

Lantern cracked – front (closest shot 107, farthest shot 101), ¾ view (closest shot 98, farthest shot 120), Nerine’s view (115)

Waves – closest shot 47, farthest 46

Eviction notice – closest shot 5, farthest shot 4

Crumpled evicition notice – shot 7

Messenger bag w/ paint supplies – closest shot 3, farthest shot 7

Shoes to remove – shot 7

Family portrait – closest shot 12, farthest shot 8

Flowers (to be knocked over) –closest shot 72, farthest shot 8

Fridge (to be knocked over with food falling out)- shot 73

Pots and pans – closest shot 73, farthest shot 8

Tea kettle – closest shot 54, farthest shot 8

Tea mug – closest shot 54, farthest shot 59

Close up picture on fridge – closest shot 18

Close up of letter on fridge – shot 18

Pictures and cards to fall off fridge – closest shot 128, farthest shot 73

Paintings front– shot 28

Fallen over paintings – shot 77

Broken glass – closest shot 75, farthest shot 64

Stool – shot 28, 96

Flying debris/papers - shot 133

Calendars:

BFA:

I unfortunately did not get near as much done as I wanted to this past weekend due to a combination of bad time management and letting process overwhelm and confuse me. I believe now I have found a solution but unfortunately I wasted a lot of precious time that could have been used much better. Now I'll just have to work double this coming weekend to reach the deadline before Thanksgiving. Hopefully since I now know how not to start making these assets, it'll hopefully go much faster. By using solely Photoshop and neglecting Illustrator I made the work load on myself much harder and more time consuming for assets that may only work in one scene because they became very pixelated. As of right now I have 4 backgrounds. I'm wondering if at this point I should forget the outline on most objects because it takes so long to draw the outline of each object after I've made it and then I'll still have to worry about the lines getting in the way of animating. I think it would save me some time if I thought about leaving them out (for the most part) from now on and relying on mostly colors to give definition. Or I could possibly try to salvage the line work from my Animatic and replace the stroke.

I haven't made the wave assets yet which would help a lot in terms of looking more finished.I also decided it would be better to make assets like the family portrait and fridge separately because they move and/or have more intense close up shots that would probably be better to make separate instead of trying to rely on scaling and unscaling and possbily damaging the pixels. Also having them separate allows more more control of animation and manipulation later.

Calenda Update

Week 12: Thursday - Stills for Portfolio and BFA Development

 

 My subtly updated stills for BFA. I added another color with the lantern room since it was seen as all the same color. For the outside I moved around a lot of assets and hopefully the perspective isn't birds-eye-view to everyone still. I cuts down the grasses and added more rock to make it look higher elevated and moved back the addition part of the house so it wouldn't look like its hanging off the cliff. The entire composition has been up to put it more at ground level. The door has also been scaled down to not look as bulky and wide as before.

Stills for Delightfully Disgusting:

Stills for Of Love And Sea Monsters:

Stills for An Unwonted Display:

Stills for Trashy Princesses:

Stills for Hilton Commercial:

Stills for Tunnel Adventure: