Thursday, October 21, 2010

Fight Scene 3 In da can!!



Hey guys,

been a few weeks on the fight scenes....and I actually havn't been as productive as I should have been....I had an entire week that I didn't shoot a single frame of animation...Torture!!

but I'm back!!

The off time wasn't totally my own doing.....I had a few road blocks that sort of buttered up the situation a bit.

1. Garage Computer finally died- Got a new one....set it up.

2.All my {Action Puppets} Puppets built for lots of Range of movement - Were Dead
and in need of major REPAIR.

Took a trip out to see grandma - very cool!!

Crunch Time at work - shooting for a 3 week important deadline ....this one is eating into my animation energy for sure.

and I just couldnt get my beans up to go in the garage with my Focus so split in
many directions....WEAK....

It was actually an Excersize in Letting go .....I got lots of sleep for a week.....but man...It was a lota bit of torture knowing I wasnt making my animation Quotas.

so....This last weekend I started the 3rd animation Sequence and I am proud to say after 3 FAILED Starts -{the most ON THE WHOLE PROJECT} with 2 new choreography's

...The sequence is finished as of Monday at 3 in da mornin.

So....this animation was INSANELY ....MAJOR huGEMONGOUS pain IN da Arse!!





nothing went right guys......My flea puppet was a nightmare to work with....the armature was incredibly weak....the wire was too thin in the legs...

so just holding and pose with one leg off the ground SUCKED....his ribcage wire also was unable to seperate from the hips....due to thick latex and weak wire...

so limiting....but heres a cool tip....I began wrapping my characters hands with wire anytime they made contact with another puppet or ground plain to minimize all that crazy shakiness that happens when trying to maintain hand positions in relation to all else in an animated shot...cool beans!!

but I had countless finger breaks - an arm break and a Head- neck break on the old flea puppet.....Hes been through alot but man....it was a Ruthless experience.

so...here is the Video without the wire removal....lots of Rigging. I totally get how features have Rigging departments guys...My ghetto tactics work just fine but I can imagine how much nicer it would be to work with a good rig.




Luckily I have an amazing partner shel who was able to repair most of the finger breaks...and an Incredible neck skull fix that I would have thought Impossible.

but just to let you guys know....I swapped out fleas puppet in this animation 3 times.....see if you can spot them.....Dober also did over half this animation with 2 hands and NO working fingers....YIKES!!

....here is the original thumbnails....{usually done lunchtime at work}



so enough about the animations....

In awesome Film News....

a few weeks back but our Online buddy Mike Flemming Jr. sent us our MINI Dober space ship KIT back to us......it was quite an exciting package to recieve and we thank him soo much for reaching out to us and offering to mold-cast it for us.

Here are some cool pics.

these little Toys will be fling in the Spaceship chase sequences through cool Asteroids filed in the intro.

Speaking of Asteroids....our Lovely Art Assistant Bridget made us our first fancy Asteroid for the space scenes...

Pretty freakin cool Hugh!

For the Tricks of the week....I got injured and had to take a few weeks of riding....so its been house stunts with the kids for a bit.

here is Aedon's POWERFULL Flip over a 7 foot pad!!



Shamus -James Bond- Parkour move-
And My Wall Flip-



In the next few weeks Ill be doing the 4th and Final Fight Master shot. This will be the Biiiiitch of the film Im sure. The longest Largest shot Ill be on the entire ride.

It right now is going to be a back and forth battle between an exhausted flea and Dober....untill it end in a truce...

Ill post the choreography before I start this one....but Im sure its going to be a good 3 weeks of HARD work to get it done.....especially since its in a more Tired state of movemnt. 600 frames is my guess.

wish me luck!!

untill next Post.

jriggity