Update: texture redo

After Monday's class I jotted down all the notes that everyone commented on my work today.
The major thing was that my scene 1 of the animation didn't match the artstyle in comparison with the rest of the scenes.

Notes on what to change for scene 1:

sky: change black colour/ stars and galaxy to add depth

style: *Hand paint all textures/ rockets/ masks for earth and moon

earth: Add clouds?

moon: fix texture

shadows: sharper

rockets: scale them smaller as they fly back towards earth.


Also other tips I got from the lecturer's regarding final video output format:
720x576
Quick Time
Format: H.264 or MPEG-4 VIDEO



**Also I redid the World map textures. :) In this final version I got hands down and painted every detail with photoshop. After that I added some textures with some texture brushes I have and in the end added some clouds. I also had to edit the composition of both the edges so it would be streamless for animation.

Update

Haven't been updating here that often for the last 2 weeks, my bad.
Basically all I have been doing is retouching up the graphics and composing all the scenes in after affects.

Am aiming to COMPLETE everything by the end of this week. If that goes to plan I will have a week to work through the little things such as the beginning title and end credits, sound effects for certain scenes, and I am planning to make a nice CD/DVD cover to go with it.

So far where I am at.

Textures are all done.
Now it's up to my current Adobe After Effect skills with putting all my art into and animating it.

Things I will need to do in the final-touching up stages:
-Fix up the clouds in the skies.
-Fix up the layers of my earth textures. (aligning them properly and modify them to look more graphic.)

For the last few shots I am considering whether or not to cut it down to make it shorter, but workload-wise I think it wouldn't effect me as much since I have all my textures finalized.
***BUT one major problem is that the computers in the labs and the projector doesn't show my artwork properly and it appears very dark, black, and blotchy. It annoys me because I can't show people the details in my artwork.

Good morning!

I need to mention that I've learnt lots of very neat After Effects tips by Cameron Gough.
Due to the heavy usage of After Effects I will be going to be head-banging on for this 2D animation to lift off and land, he's been the bestest with guiding and running me through the questions that I keep drilling him every Monday afternoon.

Never learnt so much about a program unfamiliar to me in such a short period of time!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Messy photoshop brushes!

Been busy sorting out my brush sets, then neatly putting them all in 1 folder.

So frustrating going back to every brush to try and find that one brush that gave me that nice sky texture.

I can't find it. :( But it's ok. I need to get all my skies in check with the same style. And in after effects they will be moving about! So I will have to make long clouds so that I can move them around for animation in after effects.

Going ahead with music video!

I have found a terrific song which I can't seem to click on the stop button whenever I play it!

The song is called "Blues and the Basset Hound", by an artist by the nick of Peptotrippin. The great thing about this piece is I am able to use it as long as I don't make any money from this project(which I highly doubt I will. hmm)

Found it on the audio portal page of newgrounds.com

Have a listen here.

Cheers!

Ideas for Project 2

Well I have been having internal battles whether or not to make a GAME, or a short music video/ animation.

1. First Idea: Music video

The idea was to be based around global catastrophe and what would probably happen(in an animation) when a world of chaos, war, pollution crosses the line.

Basically the world is in another turmoil of human selfishness and greed, which gives pain suffering to earth.
On fine day~~~ It becomes extreme to the point that it shakes hell/ earth's dark side, which unleashes a wave of dark evil that sweeps over earth and engulfs all in it's path.
So in the end? All traces of humanity is wiped out. And all the plants and eco-systems come back to life...
Resulting in a happy Planet, being rid of it's long-term aching problem.

These are some rough storyboards which I drew with Microsoft Paint. (My photoshop CS3 was being a b**** to me, and still is. I am stuck with photoshop 7.0 now.)












2. Second idea: Game
My game idea is that you are a eccentric super hero, who is seen as a menace to society.
In the game you fly through the city, dodging buildings and flying Pigeons while at the same time using your laser eyes to zap evil crime doers.

I would really love to challenge myself with the game. But the caliber of my flash coding skills are not very impressive.

-Minus points when you zap the innocent.

-Minus the number of life points when you hit into buildings and Pigeons. (Pigeons are evil)

Here is some of the artwork which I have done in regard to the game :)