First jelly deisgns

This was my first jelly design i did in my sketch book when i first got given the breif. It had eye which was what i wanted, i just didnt add them on the final jelly becuase i wasnt sure if i know how to make the eyes work with the jelly. The final jelly was more or less this shape but without the eyes and a more grooved style jelly. But i kept to my principle of wanting a 1950's 1960's jelly style

old school video- jelly rotoscopeing at my house lol

lol this is my old testing right when we got the project brief. as you can see here i was trying to film the jelly in rotoscope and then colour it in on photoshop. taking out my hands and the background. As you can see good thing i didnt go through with this as it would look aweful. The jelly mold in this is what i used for my actual final jelly in maya. it was a good mold

My Conclusion

well my project is over now, was the last project for this year. Im very pleased with how its gone. Its a big progress over my last project the London Dungeon, in terms of quality and professional look. I worked hard in the jelly project to achieve a fun clean and simple animation. I made sure that the jelly was well animated so i gave my self alot of weeks at the start to get this done to the best standard that i could.

I made sure that my jelly model was from the 1950- 1960's era, as i liked that classic shape look that you sometimes see in other cartoon's such as tom and jerry. I kept my background minimal so save on render times and to keep to my orignal breif of keeping the entire animation clean.

I also made sure that i made my animation for the ROA event at my college on the 4th of june. I think i was the only person in the end in my class to get their animation on Tv. This was the sole main foucs for this project anyway as that was what our tutor wanted us to orginaly aim for. So i am very pleased that i made it but was dissapointed that no one else got there animation broadcasted

I also feel that my animation worked well as intended for being a short advertisement promo for my fantasy company jelly studios.

Points that id like to do better on is work on the sounds more and maybe add a background sound. i kinda rushed the sounds for roa though so i guess that had to be done. I had to be careful though of copyright laws so that was tough aswell as i could only used certin sounds and effects.

Some more shots of the jelly doing things would of been nice to like looking around more and showing maybe more of expression. but my jelly rig was limited to just squash and strech. I did however use a bend deformer near the end for the blue and green jelly, otherwise there moves would have been a little to bland


The future.

ZBRUSH!!! i hope. ive got it ready and have a tablet just gunna spend the summer with tutorials learning it for when i come back for the 3rd year at rave. Be sure to check out my new zbrush blogsoon.


See you september 2009

Josh

Jelly Project final image

This is my final project image from my jelly project. Everything got complete on time for rave on air which was on the 4th of june. I made everything ahead of schedule and i am very pleased with the way i have worked this entire project.

Ive learnt alot about my self aswell and what things i am really good at and enjoy to do, such as modelling, texturing and animation. I still wanna learn more about lightning though.

Rave on air complete

took my animation to broadcasting on thursday. A boy called luke sorted out my jelly for me. So all is good now. all i need to do is sit back and wait to see if it passes quality control if it does then ill be so happy as i might be the only one in the class that manages to get on TV

progress update!

another oldish project update. i removed the animatic from the chart as i didnt do an animatic in the end as i didnt need it. Also i changed some of the days on the chart to what i actually did them in.

ROA Edit complete!

well its finished. All my hard work has paid off. What i have achieved this project is a very good quiality clear simple animation. its by far the best thing i have made this year which i am very pleased about. Every project i seem to get better in some way, and this project i think its been on my modeling and animation. Id like to thank alec for doing the lighting in this, as i didnt do it. Hopefully this will pass for rave on air, and will be shown on tv is what i hope. So far its looking as i will be the only one ready for rave on air quality control hand in?. next time i do a jelly animation though i want a better rig to the jellys rather then just squash bend and stretch. Also having simple black eyes on the jellys would be good also.