Live footage 'acting'.

This is a piece of acting that I wanted my friends Michael & Grant to participate in. The idea was that they were messing about until they see a robot. They were meant to act shocked.  This was the outcome. There was also some improv from Grant. It was hilarious trying to film this.

Targets this week.

• Start designs for character for 'Future Lion's' live brief. 
• Come to a final conclusion. 
• Sketch out character and scan it into Illustrator. 
• Colour the character in Photoshop. 
• Gather logo's that are relevant to Beatport & AIAIAI global brands. 

Strengths and weaknesses.

Strengths - I really don't know what my strengths in this project have been. I suppose this shows that I really need to improve on my workflow and idea's. I think I am a good modeller. I have definitely got better at rigging. 

Weaknesses - I didn't do enough research into how this robot would actually work. The movement designs with this robot haven't worked very well. Time plans haven't really existed and I've just done work day by day with no plans. 

Compositing.

I have started to composite my robot onto live footage. I have added The footage to a background and the sky. I then created a plane under the robot. I then put the footage onto the plane. I done this so there would be a shadow and so it would look like the robot was actually in the snow. The light judges how the shadow looks, such as depth and distance. I think these are working well and I am so far rather happy with the outcomes.

Targets for the coming week.

I am going to try and create a few scenes of my animation. Since they consist of live footage it will be a new challenge and a new set of digital skills. I am also going to attempt my essay. I am doing it on '3D animation'. I also need to get one more part of live footage in Newcastle.

Robot Textured.

This is my 3D model textured. It is now finished. I am much happier with it now. This is technically my 4th attempt at making the Robot. It is all rigged and ready to go. I have added sound graphs to the speakers so they move in sync with the track.

Robot.

I am still modelling the robot. Things were not exactly going to plan. I didn't take how the robot would actually move into consideration. I treat it like an organic being when obviously it is a robot, which is not organic. I done some research on what joints and mechanisms i can use. For the arms I decided to use the 'ball and socket' technique and for the legs I used and 'Hinge' sort of thing. Anyway this is what It looks like so far.