Apologies

Sorry for the lack of updates recently but weve all been so busy rendering that we havent had te processor power to do ANYTHING ELSE on our Computers.

Now the project is completed and we can all finally rest i guess.

It didnt really turn out the way that we wanted it to but it was sufficient enough to complete the project brief.
If we had more time and had spent more time at the beginning problem solving and thinking ahead of time then we could have completed the project with a much more entertaining and unique animation.

The main problems that we ran into were not because of time constraints (well.. slightly).. but they were mainly due to poor organisation and low grade team work.
The biggest problem was deffinatly a lack of communication between group members, manly james.. Me and Rui share the same house so we keep an eye on eachother, but james (who didnt have a laptop for the entire Project brief (o=_=)--o managed to somehow stay off our radar, impossible to contact via email as he doesnt have internet and impossible to contact via mobile Phone as he never answers it.

not to mention his random creation of additional features within the animation itself.. I mean yeah sure being energetic and thinking on the spot is interesting and always leads to some intreuging outcomes.. but come on!There is a time and place for it.. you cant throw things in MID project and expect people to take them onboard.

Despite my Bitching about james he did some nice character designs and some great concept work... unfortunatly for me he just doesnt work on the basis of how hard things are to model at my end.

Dan Tsukasa out.

COMPUTER FIXED

Rui (FacelessRed) Finally has his Computer up and runing again.
Fixed and with added RAM and a brand spanking new hard drive.
This should help the progress of the project greatly as now he can work for longer periods of time and from home.

(Took me ages to make that little celebration thing.. well its done now.. And its exactly the same as the Densha Otoko one too)

Dan Tsukasa out

5ive STAR cola

I got a song the other day, its called 5ive STAR, and the song is really catchy, I Drew a character similar to the animated music video to 5ive STAR, its of a funky looking cat.



thats the video from youtube, unfortunatly i can't f ind it on stage6 anymore, which would have been much better.

after consulting with Dan(as of 6 minutes ago) we decided to go for it, and ive decided to change the maskot to the doodle character i drew. the 5ive STAR cat, which ive renamed to the 5ive☆ Cat

~FacelessRed

World Progress

Ive just realised that ive been adding the Progress of the world to my own personal Blog and not to this Blog, so unless were all together at uni none of you seem to really know exactly what im doing.

Well here is the world so far at least.

Ive moddeled a few things that are not generally in the script.. but im fast at modelling so its alright i guess.

And here is the character in all its glory.

From a few different angles of course.

I need to texture it still but here is th emodel with the default lambert texture.

Dan Tsukasa out \( -_- )/

Scene Sucked!

Okay, i tried a transition between her getting out the car, and then seeing the machine and walking up to it. and the scene SUCKED. i put up some pictures of what i was doing yesterday, and i tried it and rendered it and i think its absolutely TERRIBLE. I'll put up a render of the video that i didnt like, and i think it would be quite obvious as to why i don't like it. I'm going to try a different scene, im going to move the girl (toshiko) closer to the machine and see if i can get a better transition from stepping out the car. i might use a 1st person view to fill in the gap between getting out the car. and moving up to the machine. anyway... back to work.


Here is the Scene i am NOT going to be using. its garbage.



-FacelessRed

Bloggers Fixed

Considering all the problems me and Rui had uploading our progress with the animation the other day, its taken a day or so but for some reason the problems within the blogger server appear to be fixed.

So now Rui's video i uploaded for him on Blogger seems to work, and he has now removed the Youtube links as there is no longer a need for them.
Still not suer what caused the video processing problems in blogger.. all we kept getting was the error saying "This video no longer exists", so i guess we might never know.
Were just going to have to hope that it never happens again.

Pray people m( _ _ )m m( _ _ )m m( _ _ )m.

Some progress of the Opening Scene, Blogger has been acting funny hopefully it will work. if not ill put up a youtube video later.


Some images also of some of the rig editing process to do the walk.