Animation, progress 27.03.12:

We are in a bit of a crunch period at the moment and I have not had the time to update as regularly as I want. Anyway here is some of the animation we have done so far.

Previs and camera testing:

I have been testing the scene inside the Gnome's house to see how the camera will work. Here is as far as I have gotten.

Texturing update:

Here is an update on our texturing. Textures and unwrapping by Hayley Davis.

Rigging:

Here is a test we ran for the grandsons rig with bendy limbs. We kept some of it, but some we're removed due to difficulty skinning.

Skinning:

I am nearly done with the skinning of the grandson character, here are some work in progress pictures. Modelling and skinninng Hakon Sorensen. Rigging Tore A. Thoresen.

Character modeling, part 2:

Here are some renders of the main character Neil as a 3D-model. Concept Hayley Davis, 3D-modelling Amir Porcic.

WIP (Work In Progress):

Some pictures of the group working, courtesy of our camera man Tore A. Thoresen.

Rigging:

Tore A. Thoresen has been doing some rigging for the grandson character and it is starting to look good. Here is a test I ran on it.

Rigg: Tore A. Thoresen.

Test Animation: Hakon Sorensen.

Character Modeling Progression:

Here is a video I made with the grandson character from lowpoly version to textured.

3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

Texturing: Hayley Davis.

Reference Time:

The animation stage is getting closer every day and this week we took some reference videos in the green screen room.

Actor: Hakon Sorensen.

Scale test:

Did a test to see if the 3D-modelles were the correct size.

More modelling:

Some more modelling.

3D-model: Hakon Sorensen. 

3D-model: Hakon Sorensen. 

Some artwork:

Some artwork by Hayley Davis.

Unwraping and texturing:

We have managed to get some of our models textured and they are looking good. Here are some progress images.

Unwrapping: Hayley Davis.

Texture: Hayley Davis. 

3D-model: Tore A. Thoresen.

Texturing: Hayley Davis.

Unwrapping: Hayley Davis.

 Texture: Hayley Davis. 

3D-model: Tore A. Thoresen.

Texturing: Hayley Davis.

 3D-model: Tore A. Thoresen.

Texturing: Hayley Davis.

3D-model: Tore A. Thoresen.

Texturing: Hayley Davis.

Grandson Character, Turntable:

A turntable showing the grandson character.

3D-modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

Character modeling:

Here is an update on the modeling of the grandson character.

 3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen. 

3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen. 

 3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

3D-Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

2D-Effects Test:

Hayley Davis has been working on 2D-Effects this week and here are some the effects test produced.

Character Modelling:

I have been woking on creating the character of the grandson in 3D. Here are some renders I made.

3D- Modelling:

 Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

Modelling: Hakon Sorensen.

Producing:

I am currently working on organizing our groupwork. I have set up a basecamp account (http://basecamphq.com/) so that I can have more control on deadlines and what the other group members are doing and what they have done. I have also set up a pipeline and I am working on finalising the project plan so that we have a viable time frame.

 Production phase pipeline:

Hakon Sorensen.

AGP2:

We are now two weeks into AGP2 and we finally managed to have a full team meeting. We are currently working on creating all our 3D characters, assets and scenes. We will start rigging and texturing now that some of the 3D-models are finished and hopefully we can start going into light and camera tesiting next week.