Long Time No Blog ! Progress and recap weeks 3 - 4 & 5

Adventure's so far - Progress & Improvement

Its been a long time since i last posted on my blog, so here is a little look into what i've been doing, basically since the last time i Blogged i started and am close to finishing production of my 3 minute animation, "The Adventure's Of Munblunko"

 This is my Friend Zuki, it is his likeness that is being used for my character, so technically Zuki is Munblunko, (you may notice that with the 3 identical pic's below i have used the same face, this was my emotion tester, i wanted to see which emotions i could create just by changing eye brow position and even eye and mouth shape.

This is the head of my Witch Doctor, he has a moving mouth eyes and a swirling head piece, you will have to check out my work to see that though, one of my favorite characters though.

This is a screen shot of my segmented character to be animated most likely in after effects using the puppet tool, as  tried to create it in flash professional using the bone tool, but that didn't go down so well at all, so i split all the parts onto separate layers and they are awaiting pinning.

 You may have noticed that this image is very similar to the set of 3 down below, this is because it was traced from the same picture but i simplified the design, gave it a simple colour scheme, no shadows and simply drawn facial features/ body parts, i have done a lot of this changing and simplifying during the project, and it has proven to be rather useful.

I have also started a new project for a company called Digital Cinema Media, in which i have to choose 3 emotions that are felt when you go to see a movie, Then depending on the chosen feeling create different kinds of strange 3D animated effects and composite them into The Given logo (Below) we have also been asked to have video footage which we shall edit and stabilize, although we can do the opposite and composite video into the logo, then use the animation as a background image if desired.