Sitting at work with a crap load of, well, crap to do, and I just can’t get motivated to finish out the day. So I figured I would update my blog real quick and see where that takes me. But first I have to plug the coolest guy in the industry (Aside from Jason Busby that is). I have spent the last couple of days stalking him through the pages of CG Talk and finally caught up to him on his blog. So I had laid out a plan to capture him and take on his identity, but then it occurred to me that it would take PDI/Dreamworks about three minutes to see that I had no idea what I was doing, so instead I decided to link to his blog.
Really Jason Schleifer is a really amazing guy. He worked on LOTR and Madagascar and the whole time he answered question to anyone and everyone over at CG Talk. And I mean everyone, like explaining his theory of creating a MEL script to procedurally automate the creation of a character rig to a complete newbie, and not in a few sentences either. No I’m talking a long winded thorough and complete explanation, like one I might give if I were talking about something I knew; like belly button lint. Don’t get me started.
Anyway go check out his pages, and his interview over at CG Talk, it is well worth your time:
Blog – http://jonhandhisdog.com/shh-life-er/
Web page – http://jonhandhisdog.com/myIBPortal/
Interview - http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=247336
So onto my update. I pretty much finished the Animatics this weekend and let me tell you that following instructions is one thing, I was able to whip right through those sections of the project, but in laying out the first complete scene all on my own, it took me all day Saturday to get it all blocked out to where I was happy with camera setups and movements and the such, then Sunday was spent getting timing down so that’s two days just for layout of my first scene. But it was a holiday and I took even more time away from the project to just be with my family, I missed them so, always sitting in the next room, little pouting faces waiting for this class to end. They are great about all of this and it makes me feel great to have such a supportive family.
But I got it all into Vegas Video last night and started to get all the sounds tracks timed out and decided to go to bed early, so that’s what I will be working on full bore again tonight. I am actually thinking of getting into the next project before finishing the animation on this one as the lack of good character controls are a real hindrance, so I think by setting up the mech I will be able to come back and make this project what I want it to be. I will decide that later tonight after I finish putting all the animatics together.
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