Narrative: Credits

Narrative: Environment Textures

 Now that I had a good idea of the lighting I was able to concentrate on the texturing that we wanted. 

Changed the grating floor to a smaller, diamond shaped texture and reduced reflectivity.

Added a rusted brass texture to the machinery.

To differentiate between the boxes "UP" lettering added to them. Small screws were also added to the rollers on the conveyor belt so when animated a sense of movement is given.

"Valentine's" posters added.

Lighting touched up slightly and handed over to add the characters into the scene.

Boy Character Body Rig

Body Rigging Complete

Narrative: Environment Lighting

The environment was passed onto me to do the texturing and lighting once the UVs were done.
I put some base textures down for whilst I do the lighting arrangements.

This was the first lighting arrangement that was done before the environment was given to me to work on, the main feedback for this was to take out lights from the light bulbs as it was too bright.

Firstly I took out all the directional lights before touching the light bulbs and adjusted the windows at the back.

Since the start of our animation is supposed to give an overall dull feel before the light change.

As there was no finalized design for the environment as a whole I made some adjustments to the machinery, placements of the crates and added paper littering the environment.

During the animation their is a slight colour change to the environment, so I added some pink lighting to suggest the romantic theme of with the use of an ambient light in the scene.

I took this shot into after effects to see what type of filter we could do for the "romantic" scene, it entirely depends on how over the top we'll be with it:

There are some lights above that need to be removed and designs on the posters to be laid out.

Narrative: Modelling & Testing Prop (Origami Bird)

 

Girl Character Final Texture

Narrative: Modelling & Testing Prop (Paper Plane)

  First Will made me a basic paper plane for me to base the computer plane model on, I then created and tested the paper plane prop that will be used in our animation.

Boy Character Final Render

Boy Character Body UV Mapping

Narrative: Female Character Head UV - Starting

Head and eyebrows have been done, work on the eyes and hair will continue tomorrow.

Narrative: Female Character Head Model

Narrative: Starting To Lay Out UV's For Boy's Head

I was asked to help with laying out the UV's for the characters, and started with the boy's head, I needed to learn more about UV mapping anyway so was happy to give it a go! I started by following the tutorial for UV mapping the head but came across problems when trying to unfold the model. It was modelled by Will and there was some more complicated areas, but after a lot of playing around with settings / etc, Alan managed to find the problem and delete some extra vertices hidden inside the model. It still refused to unfold so we had to cut the model up into smaller sections so it was more manageable for Maya to deal with. I think it was unfolding really slowly because the head was quite big at the back and the insides of the ears had some complicated geometry. We got there in the end!

Narrative: Starting To Fill Scene

Girl Body Model so far

Heres the body part of the model and hopefully tomorrow it will be finished and I can attach the head that Gemma has been modelling. Then the characters are finished with the odd refinement here and there.

Boy Character Body Model

Overall model for the boy character, some refinement needed in clothing and hands.

Everything UV Mapped and ready to texture

Scene Lighting

Narrative: Very Basic Pre-Viz

Boy Character Head Model