Week 7 - uffie, peaches and coffee

more grey colors

testing the color schemes for the dead world, the grey scales are to depressing. Need to make the dead world a nice place.
Most of it will be 2D so we discussed it today and there is no reason to do it in 3D - waste of time, we should animate all the characters separate - everyone gat the size scales today via mail - and then we put the animation in in After Effects and add clouds, mist, fire flies, ray of light etc.

I am trying my best to stay motivated but lately I have been very down, will try and change it around. Have been talking to Aminata about the Eiffel towers, clouds, backgrounds and textures that I have done for her and have told her that I can make more and make changes if she wants ( i think its fun ) but she said that its alright at the moment and that she only has a problem choosing clouds and that she will merge and mix textures in Photoshop.

Giles will help us and rig the girl so I have posted the last changes to Aminata as I still think the girls ears are to small and round. As soon as they are done Giles will get the file and can get cracking.

Painted the lip texture for the mother and passed to wan we have been in contact daily on skype as he is working on the blendshapes for the mother. her face is so narrow that it makes it really hard for her to look happy and show a big smile, wan has been working really hard on it for days now so I told him that we should leave it and move now, its not possible i think to get the look I want with her face so - just move on and get her finished.

I have done my won personal timetable and I have asked my group to do the same as we need one for the easter break but it might also help planning our time better. No words from Raphael yet. A bit pissed off, can't be that hard to send an sms or an e-mail?



Sketched on more different flowers, these ones are more simple then the other ones and suit the new color scheme better.


Talked to Aminata on skype and she said that she needs some more textures so I am quickly trying to paint more tonite as I want to work with my dissertation. Or..actually i don't want to but... guess I have to.. :)


test with my textures on Aminatas buildings, I like it a lot!

I thought that Wan's eyelids with the box in the end wouldn't work but both him n Mike said it was good at the last meeting so I was thinking well, what do I know? But they didn't work so now poor Wan has to change all the eyelids. I asked him if he ever checked how the other modelers done their eyelashes and we did a quick test with alpha channels but it didn't work so I said that we have to leave it and move on, she will be alright without eyelashes- we just need to finish her now - I want Wan to get time to work on his dissertation as well cos he has been struggling with the mothers hair texture, blendshapes etc and has done A LOT of work. We have been talking a lot on skype this week, sending files back n forth and trying to get the mothers happy face and smile to work but she has such a narrow thin face that it is hard to make her laugh and make it look good. Anyway - I AM doing work, producing and directing takes some time eventhough you might not think so, looking through everyones work and trying not to miss out on something essential, making changes, plan this n trying to hold it together, make decisions etc. This is how Wan and Aminata and I have worked, sending files with feedback and comments back n fort to each-other via skype, really handy with skype!



E-mailed Caspar about the train, need to make sure if he will texture it or not. I want it in cream white with gold details, looked for textures earlier this week and sent some to Caspar:





Josie and I will finish the Block out on Monday so that feels really good! Then I can pass it to our sound guy.
I hope that Mike.H is back this week as well cos then I can give him a digital recorder so that he can record the voice for us.

Promised to animate a scene in Jessica's film during the easter break, that will be fun! So I will add that to my Easter schedule when I know more about it. Will make a schedule for the rest of this production as well.



Size referance of sophie that i made with wan and e-mailed all the modelers as she was to big for the train and the nenvironments couldnt get nice depth with her that massive.

Peace n Luv,
asa