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.

Renders finished!

yes my animation is now completed. I am very happy with it, and i must say its my best work so far on this whole course. up on level with the mansion project i did in the first term. today i rented out the sound fx harddrive to some sounds ready for next week. I got some good ones done so im happy. next week monday and tuesday is sound recording and film editing so that i can hand in my animation for roa on wensdsay the 26th wish me luck

new floor and jelly studios logo done!

all is nearly complete now. just need to do last shot and render that out. all renders are now at 1024 by 576 now. i really like the look of it. Its fresh clean and simple colours i think that people will like to look at. ty again alec for showing me how to get the logo in the background on an alpha in maya =)

shot 4 completed!

shot 4 is complete. just need to add the glow inside the blue jelly. Also the background colour changes, but this can easily be fixed. going to start the last shot now =). also next week i will render out the whole thing properly. with a new background floor i hope.

shot 4 so far.

lol the last big jelly. he dosnt like the green one lol

project update

now some of the things on this project i didnt have do, such as animatic as i didnt really need one becuase i had some storyboard to guide me through my animation story. also the rigging part wasnt to long as all i had to do was make a squash and strech deformer and that was it. main thing is im on schedule so thats good. I think i can easily make it for the 29th quality control deadline.

part 3 complete

looking good now. just 2 more shots to go and ill be done. might change floor texture to a checkers table cloth. Also i might add a blured out kitchen to the background but i will see. the last big jelly will have a bend deformer also. so he will be able to wiggle about hopefully and give some nice flow change to my animation

hard day. what video u think better. 1st or second

just look at the green part when he takes of in the air. which one is better the 1st video or second. i think the 2nd one is better as it has a better take off? WHAT do you lot think?

schedule so far

i dont think i will be making an animatic for this project, as i dont think i will be needing it. but so far so good just hope i can make the 29th may deadline for rave on air

just for fun

just testing in photopshop a simple font on top of a renderd image of my animation. This is not final just a test

Shot one complete! - No light vs lighting

looks really good now. im really happy with it alec did a really good job on the lighting in this.

test render

this is a test render done today of the first shot. i renderd it in maya software with 3d motion blur. it looks nice. this is just a test. tho i want to keep the back ground simple and floor simple with nice clean textures. i will also render of in layers aswell hope you like this.

shot 1. progress - nearly comeplete

todays work on maya has been good. id say nearly a breakthrough is animation for me. this is proberly the best bit of good animation i have done. its certinly alot better then my old ball squash and stretch scene. im really happy with it i just need to make it more longer on the plate so he looks around and more and hops once or twice. and dan really helped me alot making this look better so big thanks to him. i just hope the rest of my shots look as well animated as this and i should be fine

storyboards complete

jelly bounce test

just getting to grips with a simple bounce test for my jelly. I was also using the graph editor alot more in this to make it better. i must do storyboards soon so i can start my animation

jelly model

useful links to me

animation basics
http://www.expertrating.com/courseware/MAYACourse/MAYA-Animation-Basics-1.asp

spline help

http://www.navone.org/HTML/Tutorial_Splines1.htm

shader types

http://www.expertrating.com/courseware/MayaCourse/MAYA-Texturing-Shading-1.asp

jelly drop

having some slight problems

well today i tried a test animaton, using the plastic jelly mold, just to get a sense if i could actually pull this style off. i did a simple jellyjump and imported i into premier and then exported it into tiffs for photoshop so that i could remove he white background and my hands lol.

Bad news is removeing my hand was a big pain. it was covering the jelly i was moving and when i try to mask around the jelly i loose some of its shape becuase the hand is in the way lol. But now im molding the jelly now with clear string in the middle, so hopefully i can keep my hands out of camra while maintaining the jellys forms. will re start again in an hour once jellyhas set.

i will also need to plan out in detail what happens in everyshot so i dont waste time filming things i do not need.

research into styles and eye's for my jelly character

I've decided to go for a simple set of eyes for my jelly character. Black round oval eyes i think will work well with my red jelly. I want it look simple yet still show some basic emotion.

how to do greenscreen in after effects

inital idea

ok this is going to be really quick as this is just a quick idea that i had but i like it.

a baby jelly man jumps along the surface onto this plate. out of no where mr big jelly falls down and splats him on the plate. big jelly looks around looking happy. Then another baby jelly jumps into screen over to the big jelly. they both look at each other. baby jelly tuanting the big one. baby jelly runs of and big jelly chases after him of screen. this endbit might change.

anyway my idea is based on 3d retoscopeing of a jelly. a 3d background eviorment for the jellys to be in made in maya. i will need to use greenscreen most likely.

yay Blog made * new project*

all i know so far is. im on my own i think... im doing brief number 3. and the animation has to be 30 seconds maximum. ive downloaded adobe premier aswell on my pc which is latest version so that should help me on the editing side which will be important for this one. the proper brief will be posted on here soon.