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.

Missiles from the first scene

The image above are the missiles that i chose from my research material. I erased the background and in the beginning stages tried using filters from photoshop to give it a more graphic look.



But in the end I went back and painted the missiles using my drawing tablet. Using photoshop brushes I used my old images as my reference and drew all the 10 missiles as you can see below.

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.

Graphic updates.

I painted this map in photoshop using references from the internet.

The above map is the reference I used to paint the map.

Above are clouds that I painted to be used in one of my layers in After Effects.

I fixed up the moon texture, and made a better version of my destroyed moon after it was hit by a rocket.

Youtube video of

Here is a video of where I am currently at, I haven't finished with the animation and putting everything in yet. But care to have a look please. =)

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