A lot of what has happened this week can’t be seen yet.
What you can see though is the progress of the “Reach” animation - the first shot people will see in the entire thing.
So what is different?
The hand on the ground finally moves more like I wanted. Turns out that I had pivot points on the wrong ends, they shouldn’t have had a parent, and they had to rotate in z-space.
All the fingers on the other hand is there. They have some motion, but most of their action will be in the next shot - a close up of them touching the puzzle piece.
The face is a slightly different shape. Every time I step back to it I find it annoying me, but I’m hopeful that this one is the final face shape (for Main World).
About 85% of the shadows have been added in. It allows for depth, more of a 3D illusion, and more detail in shape without adding too much.
A floor plane was created and angled properly. It sits in z-space to help give the accurate look.
Finally, Pepper’s hair and skin tone where warmed up. This past week in a different class (Graduate Seminar) we started talking about the importance of color in a shot and how color help to dictate the character. Basically cool colors= bad guy. Warm colors= good guy. Pepper’s shirt and pants are still a bit cool, but I still like it the best over the other choices.
So what else is going on?
Mainly asset building, thus nothing to show you. I think that my plan for the animation in Fantasy World will be to paint a TON of different angles and moments. Then fade between each one to give a painted/flip book feel. The plan is to have most of the assets build by next week so I can start composing the shots.
We shall see, for now I'm on schedule and that is satisfactual.
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