Animated Exeter Titles

So after a hectic January we finally finished the Animated Exeter Titles. After many Final versions and some long nights, it was ready to be shown at the festival. Its been great to look back to the beginning of the project and see how far we have come. We had such a great team that were more than capable of making the idea that I had and transform it into something greater than I expected. As well as being an enjoyable project its also been an educational one, such as never trust displacement grass and also Open EXR files are more trouble than they are worth. I wanted to emulate the style and feel that Dexter's Laboratory had. It just seemed to fit the target audience and the pre-designed characters we were using (Cat and Robot)so well. At first I was worried that having a 2D cat in the 3D world would seem a little too fake and might not look quite right, but after seeing what a great job Tom did on animating the cat, I knew it would look great. Needless to say the Cathedral looked great, with sole credit going to Olly who really took the idea and ran with it. I knew he was working hard on something but nothing prepared me for the 'beast' that was the 3D cathedral. I just hope having a giant Robot coming out of it doesn't count as blasphemy.

As a side not I will never name a file "Final" ever again as it seems to curse you.

The Titles got some good feedback off my peers which was really appreciated, and was also recommended to be entered into Annecy Animation Festival by Susannah Shaw, which was a completely unexspected and awesome. Any-whoooo here it is:

WIP Final Look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98MrPMc3zQ

Chest Part

Up To Date Opening

Middle Part - AE

I need to get a better logo and maybe at some static in each section to emphasize the changing of chanel and maybe exstend the middle part of the 3 films.

Animated Exeter

Late last year our year group was proposed to pitch an idea for a opening titles to the Animated Exeter Festival. I Found out that my idea won and that In charge of making the titles, which is awesome. So i drafted in Tom, Olly and Alan to lend me a hand and now its become a pretty big and enjoyable project. I'll Up load some of the work so far. The basic idea is to use the robot design we were provided and have it emerge from the Exeter cathedrel (which is really well built by Olly) and run towards screen, its chest will fill the screen out and will show some of the films in the festival. I've been overseeing the project so far as well as modelling the computer which will be used, the lamps in the foreground of the cathedrel and the middle part of the opening which involves red line intersecting and showing off the films. Below is the newest and complete animatic to give you a better idea of what were are doing.

Second Term

Its good to be back.
To keep myself busy over the christmas break I started to model a room. I began scouring the net for a photo to copy off, then started modelling day by day. Heres some of the photos from the WIP. I tried a load of materials and textures, experimenting with lighting. I tried to use mia_glass for the windows but it wouldn't allow me to look through the glass properly so i decided to use a blinn and change the IOR and other properties until it looked right.