Locomotive Opening

When we started we became very excited over an idea of a vector style opening like 'Catch me if you can'. This idea never really got much further until the last moments befor hand-in when me and Ben sat down and planned the whole sequence out. Between us we rendered all the images we needed and I edited it together to some nice music. Afterwards I also edited this together with the scenes we had rendered to make our final film showreel.

The result for the opening looked much better than I imagined so we're happy to use it for the final film.

LocoShowOpening from James D on Vimeo.

ANI13043 - Client Orientated Practise & Team Production

It was hard to find time away from our film to work on other peoples, but in the end I animated a few pieces for Matts 'Psychadelic Panda Launch'. Here the clips,

PandaBotScene1 from James D on Vimeo.

This scene was difficult because where I thought independant legs for the design would make the job easier, it proved to be far more difficult than I had imagined. Luckily the PandaBot in the final render will be behind the buildings shown, making the legs pretty much entirely obscured.

PandaBotDown from James D on Vimeo.

This clip was much easier than the first. I had to model a low poly rocket to fly at the panda and then a seperate one for after the explosion (which will be done in post). Because this scene was not really planned for the film, I did the layout for this scene aswell.

PandatroopHeadshot from James D on Vimeo.

This panda was much easier to use, with added blood effects for the entry and exit wound have made this clip look really good.

Animation

The animation started a little later than we had planned in the gant chart, but still was going well. There was, however, not enough time to do it in. I found that I had to stick to scheduels and not work on each scene for too long or we would never had a finished film, which meant not spending as long as I would have liked on each scene, particularly the long ones such as scene two.

Long before I started animating any final shots I did alot of research into characters whos acting styles I thought would be neccesary to our main character. The main point of reference I chose were Rowan Atkinsons 'Mr Bean' and Mr Collins from the 2005 version of 'Pride and Prejudice'. The awkwardness of these characters really helped to shape how the Gent moves. The following is a few sketches I took from watchings Mr Collins,



Here are some playblasts and plans of finished animations ready for rendering with some plans.

Shot 2

Shot2_intro from James D on Vimeo.

Shot 10

Scene10_rememberingflowers from James D on Vimeo.

Shot 13-14

Scene1314 from James D on Vimeo.

Shot 22

Scene22_wakingUp from James D on Vimeo.

Shot 37

Scene37_sadGent from James D on Vimeo.