Saturday, March 12, 2011

OK ORGANIZE

Since things aren't ideal and the oxberry's taken for a month and a half. here's the plan for the TWO DAYS i have left on the oxberry. what? no. i am not bitter, why do you ask? .......

Tomorrow's shoot - WILL SET UP BY 1:30PM AND KEEP ANIMATING TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN

1) stairs scene -
#1: BG
#2: animating flakes (x3)
#3: transition
EST TIME: 2.5 hours

2) desert scene -
#1: monster growing
#2: lizard opens mouth
#3: spikey traveling thing
EST TIME: 2.5 hours

3) box walk -
#1: box head
#2: hands (x3)
#3: leg one
#4: leg two
#5: leg three
#6: box (x3 versions if time allows)
#7: complete transition (actually, might start with this.)
EST TIME: 3 hours

4) tiki man hands -
#1: transition from hands to tiki hands
#2: head number one
#3: head number two
#4: transition to outro scene
EST TIME: 3 hours


MONDAY'S SHOOT - set up by 2pm TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN

5) outro scene -
#1: Background
EST TIME: 45 minutes

6) rooster final -
#1: rooster squawking
#2: monster one
#3: monster two
#4: monster three
#5: monster four
#6: monster five
#7: gullet
#8: craaaazy bg
#9: craaaazy bg #2
EST TIME: 5 hours

TOTAL EST TIME: 16 hours and 45 minutes.... round up to 18 hours.

then i'll do my leftovers/pickups on the 19th.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Compositing Frenzy

So I'm well into my 4th scene to composite... still haven't started roto-ing but here's my estimate on time:

SHOOTING
2-3 hours per shot
6 shots left
12-18 hours left under the oxberry.

COMPOSITING
2 hours per shot
12 hours left COMPOSITING

ROTO
3 hours per shot
10 shots left
30 hours left to ROTO

EYES
3 scenes
1 hour each
3 hours to COMPOSITE EYES

ANIMATING CHARACTERS
10 scenes
3 hours each
30 hours for this

TOTAL HOURS LEFT: 93... but i'll round it up to 100 HOURS!!!!

BYE SLEEP. BYE LIFE.

so lets see... i have 20 days til picture lock. that's 5 hours a day at least. i will bump that up to 8 hours a day during spring break.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Craaaaazy color



Some stuff I've been compositing! Shooting more tomorrow. I have all of spring break to work as well.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Music + paint

I've been shooting more paint... I also resized my entire stop motion to fit the 1280 x 720 size. While doing this I color corrected and finalized the first section... taking out rigs etc. I made an X sheet for the music and I'm timing my compositions to it... it's been very helpful so far. Painting is going well... I need to pick up speed to finish on time. I realize how much roto I need to get done and actually start on.

I'll post something before next week!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

AGH! Completely spaced... like an alien.

I've been shooting and compositing and I will try to finish another 2 scenes by next week. Thankfully I've figured out how to roto which I will tackle this weekend. I'm going to also get my friend's eyes for stop-mo this coming Wednesday.
I have sized all my scenes wrong so I have to deal with that before continuing anything else.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Groovin'


Here's the poster I made for the screening. Woo!


Anyway, thesis is coming... I've been shooting a lot of things under the oxberry. I've composited a first pass which I still have to roto. But I think it's looking okay. I think the roto will make it less chaotic. I will have to take care of that transparency problem. The pink dude is going to turn into the 2D boy when he fades. I'm contemplating flash more and more. I have more assets I have yet to composite... like the running scene in the clouds. We'll see if I can get it up before tomorrow's presentation.



I also fixed the light pops here and composited a background on the green screen.



I work best with blasting music cause then I don't think about my distractions and can just paint forever. So yeah! I'm stoked to keep going.

PS I hate these blogger columns that don't show anything fully.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Stop-Mo For You

Here's all the stop-mo approximately timed in After Effects!
Still working on oxberry things. This week I've had trouble getting to work because I've been trying to take care of job stuff and the application to stay in the US post-graduation. Also, I've been running a mile and a half every other day with my roommate as a pact. It's a lot of time and energy... I don't know if I can continue cause thesis is already such a huge commitment.

Anyway enjoy these goodies: