I've changed the theme of my artefacts. For the rest of them I'm going to choose characters from Alice in Wonderland and redesign them while keeping the feel of the characters the same. I think I'm going to make them in a more modern setting, but when designing their face and body shapes I'm going to use a simple version of their original design.
So here are my designs for Alice so far, along with the shapes used.
I'm going to pick the designs that work and develop the other aspects of their design such as hair, clothes and body language, then colour comes afterwards. By the end of it, I should be able to draw conclusions about which shapes, colour and other such character aspects work best for each character.
I'm going to post comparison pics between other renditions of Alice soon so I can further my ideas.
This is about the time where I start posting everything I've been doing. I dunno why, I just find it easier that way ^^; Probably 'cause I'm getting myself back in gear for uni again or something Anyway, to kick things off, here's some stopmotion tests I've been doing. It's not much, but considering I've only got a webcam, a simplistic camera and very few objects to tinker around with, I think I did pretty well ^^
I wanted to make the lamp grab a piece of paper off me last time I was messing around with animation, so I tried it out this time.
It was actually totally by accident, but the lamp's kinda like the Pixar ident, where it moves around, acting like the lightbulb's one big eye. I always found it cute and amusing that they could put so much personality into an inanimate object, yet most people can't put personality into an actual human character XD
I was gonna post a video of it, but I can't find one anywhere, so here's a picture ;P
I can't remember where the superhero transformation like I used with the teddy appeared. Can anyone remember? I know I've seen it in a few places, but I'm at a loss where right now ^^;
Coming over the next couple of days are progress of my identity navigation (I forgot what it's called) and looking at examples of interactive websites and different forms of presentation/anything that looks interesting ;P
In seminar, we were given a tutorial for creating a very dubious, but with huge cute potential, squid to swim around and stuff.
Here's my squiddy in all his purply-green glory :3
We then made him suck in water ready to move. He went down as he did this, for added effect ;P
He then shot into the air (literally shot, it happened in two frames O.o)
...And he flew off the screen. I guess that shows movement for ya ^^;
I got a copy of 3DS Max 9 today. Sure, it's not 10, but it'll give me some well needed practise on a 3D program. That, and when I get 10, I wanna add googly eyes to my squiddy X3
Last week we had our first seminar with 3D Studio Max, where we animated 3D versions of our names, making them bounce. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any pics of that, but just now I tried the program out again and animated a bouncing...hose? Or maybe an accordion? I dunno, really XD
Anyway, I finally found the squash tool, so I'm happy :3 Hopefully I'll be able to use this software better than LightWave, 'cause that one was a pain the figure out.
I've only just realised that you can directly upload video to blogger, so here's my lamp pixilation from earlier that I only posted a link to :3
You can submit this with the rest of your work to improve your marks, right?
I'll post my analysis on an object once I've decided what to look at. I figured either a PlayStation controller or DreamCast controller (doubt anyone else'll choose that XD)
I decided on my day off that I'd try some more stopmotion/pixilation stuff, so I thought I'd use the daylight lamp that's somehow wound up in my room (I think it was when I was late-night reading and my main light wasn't bright enough). Anyway, I got everything set up, and found out that my laptop doesn't have a firewire port (dunno how they skipped that), so I used my webcam instead. Then an electrition came for a couple of hours, checking all the lights and plugs, so most of the momentum I gained suring that morning sort of fizzled away into the abyss.
But at least I got something done, so that's a good thing.
