Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Final Thoughts
Its the Last week And the Gaelic Project is finally over and done with. This Capstone was a good learning experience for me and I definitely know more now about flash then I did before. Through doing this project I have found that symbol animation is hard and in my eyes unrewarding; I would definitely not want to do a project like this again unless I had people who had some higher experience with symbol animation then I did. When we explain to the first years this project to them next year; it will be that when picking your capstone try and do something you are fairly good at from this cores and try and apply it to the capstone so when problems come about they will know what to do and be able to fix it without much grief. All and all as much as this project gave me and my partners in it trouble we all had fun working on it together.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Gaelic Capstone
May.28
-Had to go back over Donald walk in scene 5 and make it work better. This has been completed and now the scene is completed as well.
-Sparkles from the Kings wand in scene 14 and 6 are still lagging the animation so I have to go back and fix it so it will work better.
-Sparkles have been fixed and now all scenes have been exported and put on the Mac Common/
-After exporting the scenes I went over everything one last time to see if I have missed anything important.
May.27/10
-Today we were able to put color on the models and put backgrounds on to the scenes, scene 14 has all of its color except for the heads because if the gray model is replaced with the color model the animation disappears; so I'm going to finish the animation on all scenes today and get color to the faces tomorrow before the day is over.
-Finished all of the other scenes color replacement and they are all running correctly.
-Had to finish the walk for the Fool in scene 13 and get him to walk to the king, this is all complete now.
-Today was very good for completing work, The scenes all look so much better with color added to them, this makes me think that everything will be completed in time.
May.26/10
-Scene 5 Kings seems to be complete and running well as I had hoped.
-Finished the King and now the fool is walking to the King.
-Today was a slow day with long work on individual characters and the fools walk is challenging to do because he is walking away in a 3/4 angle and I find that hard to make look real. Will be working to make it look better tomorrow and finished this scene and scene 6.
May.25/10
-Much more simple to do scene 6 do to the fact of re-using scene 14 king movments of getting out of the chair and wand movements.
-The sparkle to the wand is giving me some trouble, it wont play through the animation with out cousin it to lag and make the sound to the animation not match what is playing.
- Started the movements of the Kings arme for scene 13 and so far they look good so they should hopefully be done soon.
-Started the moments of the king in scene 5 as well today, I wanted to dable in each scene to get a start on them so I would have something to work with for tomorrow.
-Today was a very good day and I got a lot of things started and completed today and I feel very good about tomorrow.
May.24/10
-Scene 5 Kings seems to be complete and running well as I had hoped.
-Finished the King and now the fool is walking to the King.
-Today was a slow day with long work on individual characters and the fools walk is challenging to do because he is walking away in a 3/4 angle and I find that hard to make look real. Will be working to make it look better tomorrow and finished this scene and scene 6.
May.25/10
-Much more simple to do scene 6 do to the fact of re-using scene 14 king movments of getting out of the chair and wand movements.
-The sparkle to the wand is giving me some trouble, it wont play through the animation with out cousin it to lag and make the sound to the animation not match what is playing.
- Started the movements of the Kings arme for scene 13 and so far they look good so they should hopefully be done soon.
-Started the moments of the king in scene 5 as well today, I wanted to dable in each scene to get a start on them so I would have something to work with for tomorrow.
-Today was a very good day and I got a lot of things started and completed today and I feel very good about tomorrow.
May.24/10
-Went over some revisions and had to tweak scene 14 so it could work a little smoother buy fixing the sparkles from the kings wand so it doesn't lag the scene down.
May.21/10
- The scene has been completed with animation, the fool has been hit in the head with the wand and it shows him getting the extra hump on his back
-I thank Jessie for making the sparkles for the kings wand so it looks more magic like and I can have a flash of white as the fool gets his second hump.
-Was another Friday had to cut the day short do to real life work, at least the scene is done up to my standards and even though there is no color on it yet.
May.20/10
-Finished getting the Kings arm up to hit the fool with his wand, had problems with the arm shrinking and growing at some parts and also the hand and wand moving away from the body
-Corrected the problems with the hand and wand but now the fool is to close to the king and it looks like he is being poked in the eye with the wand, this should be an easy fix so there is no worries that it cant be corrected.
-Again the day was slow and could only work on scene 14, also I didn't get the hand coming down to hit the fool in the head like I had planed to. This scene must be finished buy tomorrow in my eyes because it is taking away from the other three so I hope to god no problems come up that will delay its completion.
May.19/10
-Was a long day today, only got to work on one scene of the project. The King is moving out of the chair quit nice and looks very fluent and The arm is going for the wand in his robs now.
-Fool is walking to the King now, I find this a bit of a challenge because his legs are not in the scene so I don't know if I should animate them or not.
-Again today was slow but it was also productive in that this scene should be done in time. Hoping to get the Kings arm up to hit the fool with his wand and to come down buy tomorrow, but we shale see.
May.18/10
-Did a Little more on my walk cycle but didn't get to do it for long, Donald had some rigging problems so The team all had to take a part of him to fix.
-Over all today was productive and not at the same time. I wish I could have done more of my walk cycle but as long as all the models are done the Day is not a total lose.
-Added hands to all the characters I have been working on and they all seem to look fine.
May.17/10
-More discussion on what was still not correct and who was going to fix the problems.
-King, and both fools heads were incorrect in there symbol placement so I corrected them and they are all OK now.
-All the scenes I'm working on are completely exported as FLV's and Wav's so they can now be put into Flash with no problems.
-I had forgotten the props to create (watering can and wand) so I did them today and they turned out good and are now ready for animation.
-Started one of the scenes I'm working on by doing a walk cycle.
-Today was a very productive day for me and I feel really good about what I accomplished.
May.14/10
-Was an even less productive day today, was only able to do corrections that I missed the day before and was not a lot of time to do so because I had to go to work.
-Hoping that Monday turns out better and I buckle down to start animation and that the hand movements are completed to put on the characters.
May.13/10
-Was a very unproductive day. Did not get very much done.
-The only thing finished today was Symbolising everything out in the characters that had not been completed.
May.12/10
-Learned more about how to key through my animation and get the movements I needed. Was a good experience. -Finished The two humped version of the Fool And everything turned out fin.
-Looked over Fool and so that the Hump was in different areas on his back, I went in and changed them so now it looks OK.
May.11/10
-Long day today, revisions for king had been completed adding a furrow brow and lip sync had been confirmed as being OK and all shapes have been blocked in with color so when the actual color is put on the king it will just have to be replaced insted of filled.Made the Fools model with extra hump, did not get far with that one but hope to get more done buy tomorrow. Revisions took up a good part of the day and I hope they are up to standard and do not have to be redone again.
May.10/10
-Had a meeting about what was going on with project and went over what scenes people will be going over and what still needs to be done.Finished Lip sync for King of the Fairy's FINALLY! It was not Fun to do at all in my opinion but looks nice when done. Had revisions with Client and now the Look of the King is more clear and prosiest so it had been finished. Today was more for information then anything, but was nice to know what is going on with other team members portion of the project/
May.7/10
Problems arose and I had to change the Fools symbols around to now they work and there should hopefully be no problems.
-Spent a goo portion of the end of the day trying to find references to make essay and nice looking backgrounds for the characters
-Me and Jessie had many good references and we put them together to0 show to the other members of the group to discus what we all liked best.
-We had lots of opinions on the background design but we all agreed on one and let Cody go underway with recreating it in that style for the backgrounds to the fable.
May.6/10
-Finished Expressions on Fool and that was not fun in the least but the final result was very good.
-Making all body Parts into symbols on the Fool was OK didn't mind it.
-This was a long day just doing models of characters and making symbols out there shapes, definitely a ling proses when complete.
May.5/10
-Cody looked over what I had started for background, changes were mad and now it is being made in flash insted of photoshop; both of use and others went over colors on the backgrounds and also the color of the characters to see what we thought looked best on them.
-Emma has to much on her plate so Ive been ordered to take over the Fools rotation and also the ears to make a generic one for all the characters.
-Half done Fool have to change parts into symbols, will get around to that in the morning.
-Should only take about an hour to covert everything into a symbol.
May.4/10
-Checked e-mail and wand was received but watering can was not so will have to resend and also it was wood but have to change it to metal.
-had to cut today short do to dentice but was OK because king was still not revised so I'm still waiting on that so I can fix and start lip sync.
-also choice of wand has been confirmed and has been mentioned to others in team.
-started a background colored rough in photoshop to see what can be done.
May.3/10
-Lewis revised the king so i have to hold off on lip sink, also have to finish the wands and the water can
-Having trouble with king revisions, not having enough info on what to change, so sent e-mail to holly to ask what specifically to change.
-Wand and watering can have been sent off for revisions.
April.30/10
-Finished all eye, feet lower body, and eye brow shape tween for the expression wanted for the King Fairy.
- Emma has finished her lip sync so I will look of that for reference for the King on Monday or sometime Saturday if I get a chance.
-Work went a lot more smoothly today then it did yesterday and I expect that it will get easier for the king model from now on.
-Started Modeling the props of the Fairy Kings Wand and fools watering can. Looks good so far as drawings.
April.29/10
-Finished making the king into tweens for each body part.
-Had to re-do the face tweens there expressions.
-Trying to make a mask layer for the eyes with little success
-Mask layer worked, yay!!
-re-did eye braw
-hope to start lip sync tomorrow
April.28/10
-Finished the Fairy Kings rotation body tweening (front, side, 3/4 front) them all to be separate. Was almost an hour or more to tween all the rotations.
-Started lip sink movements and should be done by tomorrow.
-This part of the project was very time consuming.
May.10/10
-Had a meeting about what was going on with project and went over what scenes people will be going over and what still needs to be done.Finished Lip sync for King of the Fairy's FINALLY! It was not Fun to do at all in my opinion but looks nice when done. Had revisions with Client and now the Look of the King is more clear and prosiest so it had been finished. Today was more for information then anything, but was nice to know what is going on with other team members portion of the project/
May.7/10
Problems arose and I had to change the Fools symbols around to now they work and there should hopefully be no problems.
-Spent a goo portion of the end of the day trying to find references to make essay and nice looking backgrounds for the characters
-Me and Jessie had many good references and we put them together to0 show to the other members of the group to discus what we all liked best.
-We had lots of opinions on the background design but we all agreed on one and let Cody go underway with recreating it in that style for the backgrounds to the fable.
May.6/10
-Finished Expressions on Fool and that was not fun in the least but the final result was very good.
-Making all body Parts into symbols on the Fool was OK didn't mind it.
-This was a long day just doing models of characters and making symbols out there shapes, definitely a ling proses when complete.
May.5/10
-Cody looked over what I had started for background, changes were mad and now it is being made in flash insted of photoshop; both of use and others went over colors on the backgrounds and also the color of the characters to see what we thought looked best on them.
-Emma has to much on her plate so Ive been ordered to take over the Fools rotation and also the ears to make a generic one for all the characters.
-Half done Fool have to change parts into symbols, will get around to that in the morning.
-Should only take about an hour to covert everything into a symbol.
May.4/10
-Checked e-mail and wand was received but watering can was not so will have to resend and also it was wood but have to change it to metal.
-had to cut today short do to dentice but was OK because king was still not revised so I'm still waiting on that so I can fix and start lip sync.
-also choice of wand has been confirmed and has been mentioned to others in team.
-started a background colored rough in photoshop to see what can be done.
May.3/10
-Lewis revised the king so i have to hold off on lip sink, also have to finish the wands and the water can
-Having trouble with king revisions, not having enough info on what to change, so sent e-mail to holly to ask what specifically to change.
-Wand and watering can have been sent off for revisions.
April.30/10
-Finished all eye, feet lower body, and eye brow shape tween for the expression wanted for the King Fairy.
- Emma has finished her lip sync so I will look of that for reference for the King on Monday or sometime Saturday if I get a chance.
-Work went a lot more smoothly today then it did yesterday and I expect that it will get easier for the king model from now on.
-Started Modeling the props of the Fairy Kings Wand and fools watering can. Looks good so far as drawings.
April.29/10
-Finished making the king into tweens for each body part.
-Had to re-do the face tweens there expressions.
-Trying to make a mask layer for the eyes with little success
-Mask layer worked, yay!!
-re-did eye braw
-hope to start lip sync tomorrow
April.28/10
-Finished the Fairy Kings rotation body tweening (front, side, 3/4 front) them all to be separate. Was almost an hour or more to tween all the rotations.
-Started lip sink movements and should be done by tomorrow.
-This part of the project was very time consuming.
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