Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012

More Springboard stuff

Week 3 was all about shading and rendering our scene. I didn´t like my old one anymore, so I decided to go for something new - something more simple - 
something I can finally start animating with! 
Well, my new characters would be one red ball with a cute green stripe, two black pipes, and something like a nail. The scene consists of the orange ground, the blue background and a very basic 3-point lighting system.
On week 4 we started to get down to the basics of animation, so I just continued my shot to come to this, eeeerrrm... final version, or my very first animation assignment!   

Week 5:
This is what I´ve been fighting last week. They gave us a forward-kinematic crane rig and I started my shot with this...

...added that...

...and died when one of my caring classmates reminded me, that there was a syllabus which advises us to not exceed 100 frames. From now on I´ll keep an eye on that thing!
This is the squashed version: