Buddy's Roomy Stage 1>

Start making my little Buddy's room,I bet he can't wait for the final result, and me for a holiday.

Still thinking about materials of the walls, i wonder what color Buddy would like it? plus the lightening...

Sometimes i just feel tired of 3d max, need a change...

Have to learn after effects too, as want to do smoking letter effect for my trailer, and yet i found a good tutorial but it's only for After effects cs3, and plus can't find a suitable smoke video...and the time is ticking ticking...I wonder if i can finish this year, just sometimes feeling like given up :(

>>30 sec animation

Fallowing the breath I had to to 30 sec animation of my character expressing mood,I tried to do it on 3d max, but I lost my patient, as i was doing something wrong and couldn't work out the time line on 3d max, so i thought to myself before i get any help, i just try to make some screen shots and make kind of a story board of possible animation. The idea was, that Peepo is exercising, abit bored, than suddenly he sees something that scares/angry him.

>> Peepo Evolution 07- 08

Instead of writing it all down the process of creating Peepo in 3dmax, (as it's 2 boring) I thought i'll make even more boring movie, of the creation, changes and mistakes I've made.
I've realized it's very important to fallow the original drawing, or you can loose the track very quickly, that's how my 1st result of Peepo was rather scary. Anyway if you watch you shall see it all yourself.

>> Meeting Peepo <<

PEEPO is the live test toy, which in the future should be used for kids as a learning device for foreign languages.

He use his headphones to record all the sounds he hears (including languages, that has been recorder in lab ) and the big head is used as massive memory to storage all the records. Also he can record other peoples voice and play it back by pressing his belly button.

He is a cute looking creature, who appears in the story falling from the sky in the glass ball package. He is very clumpy, cause of his big feet and addictive to sugar.

Stage 1 - CHARACTER STUDY <<

•Thinking about: Mood

•To do: Plan and produce a 30 second animation of one character expressing one of the following states: Anger, Excitement, Desperation or Satisfaction

•Presentation: To evidence your work you will be expected to show:

1. A Story Board: In your journal
2. A written character study: In your journal
3. A 30 second animation [On a CD 720x576 DVAVI 25f/s]

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If you have a chance read this book: Bancroft, Tony.: Creating characters with personality : for film, TV, animation, video games, and graphic novels

It's useful of getting understanding about how to start creating original characters for visual media and what is the main principles of process ( like script, story, scene, etc.,). Also it's not boring has got loads of illustrations, so even if you don't like books I'm sure you will enjoy reading this one.

Though it's much harder to create original character than it looks like, espeacially if you never done it before and skills for the software ( 3d max ) are just as a beginner's.

I had to think about who are my audience ( in my case most probably - kids, maybe some soft adults lol ), about my characters functionality and a what part he plays in the story. Talking about the story. i've tried to write a script, but got only the very beginning and kinda stopped, just lost the inspiration and i'm short of time, hope i can finish it some time...

HELLO >>

I found this animation on atomfilms.com, and felt in love with a beautiful elegant story about the guy with old tape deck instead on his head. He trys to chat with a "CD-player" girl, but because of his old technology he find it quite dificult...but he doesn't give up...
I loved the technique of how it was made as well, it seams so lively and really suits the mood of the animation. Great lightening and music.
The director is Australian Jonathan Nix, Animater, Painter - Great Artist. Here is his website with more work. I found out that this animation won ATOM awards and AFI for the best sound.
The paragraph from interview with J.N.:

"You started with the character, didn’t you?

I did. The character came from a cassette player I have at home. I’d been thinking, “This looks like a little person, and it looks a bit sad”. It was a bit old and it didn’t really work very well. I pitched a completely different story to the class, which no one responded to, and then I just had this little drawing of the cassette head on this little body and I’d written: “This person is lost. This person has trouble communicating”. And that was it.

The class went, “Oh, that’s good. Someone who uses tapes to communicate”. So I swung it round and went with that."

http://www.sleepybrain.net/jonathan-nix/ ( found at 26-05-07)

3D MAX

My first 3d animation, really enjoyed making my name jump, i believe without the notes it would have taken me much longer , because most of the tools aren't familiar to the most programs I've used and it so many of them:( it's sad, cause the quality of uploaded video is poor and half of effect is missing, it looks much better on the windows media player, but still i'm so POM = Proud Of Myself , lol.

Motiono by chocopillow

wow - this one took even longer-drived me mad in some moments, but i fight till the end.lol I love octopus, but somehow this one looks like his bum is burning as he swims so fast, but i like it i gave him a name , "hysterical up"


Motiono by chocopillow