Starting animation!! -Shot 5 Animation

EDIT 5/20: It's been a while! Here is a 'final cut' of the film and it's timing. Still more tweaks ot be done on animation, but that will have to me after this whole thing is over! Rendering is about 25% underway- stay updated!

Untitled from Natalia Mercado on Vimeo.

EDIT 3/20: Deleted some updates for space and quality sake. Blocking 2 for shot 5!







Animation has started! Blocking 1 or shot 5.

Applying Paint effect lines?

I've been a little annoyed with the transition between hard polygonal objects against the background or even against other polygonal objects. I'm trying to see if we can remedy this and make it look even more painterly by adding a blur paint effect to toon lines.at the top there you can see a little explosion attempt but we're getting there...







The main issue here is that we need to render in mental ray to prevent nickeling as you can see in the model...we have been rendering and smooth preview as mental ray can handle that... what it can't handle is two months so will have to do some composite tests.

Traveller Shader Tests

UPDATED: 10/31

With lights....


Without lights...
Ramp shaders a peculiar animals....

He's also proving a little more difficult than the dino... came up with some ideas on my back and forth trips to the computer lab- for now we might have to put it to rest and come back to it later.

Also, the time traveller rig is done! Three cheers for David!

Facial Rig

Almost there with the facial rig. Need some corrective blendshapes for the beard.



Cretaceous!? Damn!

I made a fence!

Updated 10/13/1o: traveler flat tex is finished. Dinosaur tex completed- still messing with shaders.

Some in process screenshots of dinosaur added, WIP traveler image replaced with final.






Random pictures of texturing- not final at all.

I made a bump map for a fence in zbrush! Stylish!


Here's the paintover I did for comparison- the hair and face still needs a lot of work.

Silly

I made a silly diorama. Mostly just for size comparisons (the dino may grow or shrink a bit.)

Maybe I'll pose them in zBrush or something.

Time Traveller Model 1

Character sheets and Size Comparisons

Contest for whoever can think of a better name for our time traveler!

Time Traveller Concepts 4

I got overwhelmed with the color choices for the dinosaur, so I moved on to our leading man... and got even more so...

I'll sleep on it before I start narrowing it down.

Time Traveller Concepts 3

More time traveler. Nearing the final turnarounds!

Fashion Reference

Fashion reference and ideas.

Time Traveller Concepts 2

Getting pretty close to what I want. Any suggestions?

The body i have there is a bit too crazy though. I need to tie the shape and clothes down.

Pretty happy with the face though. He just needs to be drawn a little more to be more consistent, but this is pretty much it!

Time traveller Concepts 1

He needs a name; I'll take a look around some baby name sites and find something really pretentious.
Here is some old stuff for the previous concept. Same-ish characters, so a good start.

Then Cassandra came up with this awesome drawing.

This is an awesome start. He's a little doe-eyed for the character though.

Notes for Cassandra:
I really liked the idea of the collar being part of the coat. I played with that a bit. What do you think?
Also, playing with the squarish face you have. I am starting to lean towards something like the man in the corner, in blue. Although I kind of like the man in red too.

Also, mustaches were fun to play with, but I keep getting back to he muttonstache.