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Animation: Final

Posted by Rikki, 11 December 2005 -

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So here it is: the final animation of this term, and the final update of this 6 week piece

This week has mostly been some touching up of a few areas, although I did add a part at the end to help get across the emotion he's feeling at that point.

Other changes are:

* Added the mouth movements to the beginning part
* Slightly changed the way the box...

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I hate Windows and prefer my Mac. Simple.

Posted by Rikki, 07 December 2005 -

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Let's start with the positive, shall we?

I ordered a cinema display this week. I got the 20" one - I'd have loved the 23" but it was just too expensive It's actually my christmas present but I'm paying some towards it too. One word: fantastic. Whether it's better than other monitors of a similar spec I don't know, but as...

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Dumb and Dumber update

Posted by Rikki, 04 December 2005 -

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Here's an update on my current animation The changes this week are:

* Smoothed out the beginning action (though I'm not 100% happy with it)
* Made some changes when he jumps on the counter (arms are out-stretched now)
* Made some changes to the action just before jumping. He now puts his hand on his head instead of grabbing his hair. I just...

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Nexus interface

Posted by Rikki, 28 November 2005 -

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IPS today gave an update on Nexus including showing the new interface to the public for the first time...

Phew, it went OK (so far)! I always get nervous before releasing details about something I'm working on. I'm never quite sure how it'll go down.

I've been working on the new interface bit by bit with Josh over the past 4 or 5...

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Dumb & Dumber Update

Posted by Rikki, 20 November 2005 -

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Here's an update on my current animation piece using dialogue from Dumb and Dumber. I didn't post last week because it was still in blocking and apart from the last bit, there wasn't much difference.

This week I smoothed out most of the shot and added most of the lip-sync. Still got to do the first part of the shot, and tweak plenty of other...

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A new assignment

Posted by Rikki, 06 November 2005 -

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As I mentioned last week, we started a new assignment this week. Same as before - choose 3 lines of dialogue, then our mentor would suggest the one he thought was best, then we animate it. My 3 lines were one from Blackadder II (UK comedy), one from Dodgeball (when the coach guy is chucking wrenches at them) and one from Dumb and Dumber. I thought the Dumb...

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Going downhill

Posted by Rikki, 03 November 2005 -

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It started off so well. Excluding my first, poor blocking attempt, my first stage of the dialogue animation got an A. I've now got a C two weeks in a row, this week being the 'final' week for it.

I don't know what's going wrong. I'm making sure I spend longer than I've done in the past on my animation each week. I'm trying...

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Dialogue animation update

Posted by Rikki, 21 October 2005 -

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Here's the latest version of my animation. I'm not extremely happy with it and I feel like I'm working against the software constantly.

If I had more time I'd prefer to do stop-motion animation or even 2D animation (though being able to draw tends to help with that...) but with both of those, fixing errors when you're being critiqued as...

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Dialogue animation at last!

Posted by Rikki, 11 October 2005 -

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2 weeks ago, I started term 3 of my animation course. This term covers acting - the fun stuff

Acting is perhaps the most difficult aspect of animation; not necessarily technically, but in terms of getting into the character and including the things we take for granted as humans. Not to take anything away from actors, but when a human acts for a film, a...

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My plans for Vectura

Posted by Rikki, 21 September 2005 -

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As you are probably aware, IPS today announced the existance of Vectura, our new webmail product that I've been working on for a while behind the scenes. It's the first time something I've been doing has been announced to such a big audience, so to say I'm nervous about the whole ordeal is an understatement Be nice to me :">

So,...

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