Demo Reel...

Now Presenting: 'Proportion'...

The final animation:

The character turnaround:

Proportion: The 'Art of' and Technical Document:

Final Animation..?

I've tweaked a few more scenes, mostly just tidying up transitions with the pulling scene and changing his final position in the window scene:

I'm really happy with how the animation's been developing. Again, this might be the final piece, but we'll see if I spot more things to change later :)

Almost the Final Animation...

I believe that below is the final version of my animation:

If it is, then I'm really proud of what I've achieved. If it isn't, then I'm still proud, there are just a few changes to make :P

Final Animation: Draft 8...

I've added a few more close ups and tweaked a few scenes, mostly the cloth scene and the pulling scene:

I like how the pace feels at the moment, I'm going to add a few more shots from different angles in the penultimate scene from behind, but other than that I think it's almost there :)

Final Animation: Draft 7...

I added a couple of close ups here. One in the climbing scene and one as he pushes the pie chart:

Current DVD Art...

Here's how they look at the moment:





I think I should remove my name from the front cover and move it to the back, along with some contact details. However, I do like the matching renders :)

The Art of: Keeping Things in Proportion...

How it looks so far:

Art of 'Keeping Things in Proportion'

I'll be tweaking and adding more bits as I go :)

Final Animation: Sixth Draft...

Here I've added a few close up shots and tweaked the penultimate and final scene to make them work a little nicer:

Final Animation: Fifth Draft...

Here I've adjusted the spiral scene to add a little more movement and tweaked the pie chart scene to seem as though he's pushing it rather than chasing it:

Final Animation: Fourth Draft...

Here I've added and tweaked a few intercuts. One in the spiral scene and the rest are in the window scene:

Final Animation: Draft 3.5...

Here I've re-added the first intercut and then re-arranged the other two in the spiral scene:

Final Animation: Third Draft...

Here I've adjusted an intercut in the spiral scene and the character now reacts to the pillars falling into darkness:

Final Animation: Draft 2.5...

Here I've added an extra shot into the spiral sequence and tweaked the chasm scene so that the pillars fall at different times:

Final Animation: Second Draft...

I've added the new spiral scene and him falling into the horizontal stripe scene from the previous chasm one:

Spiral Scene Adjustment...

Trying to make the scene feel a little more like a 3D space:

Final Animation: First Draft...

Here's what I've been up to:

It's working pretty nicely so far! There's still a lot of tweaking to be done but it's nice to see it as a rough whole animation now.

I've had a few suggestions and there are a few additions I'd like to make to certain scenes so:

• The scene in which the floor disappears beneath his feet and he falls into the chasm below will have the pillars sink quickly in to the black instead.
• This scene will be linked to the next by the character falling and into the next scene from the previous one.
• The windows may need to slide in instead of having the instant 'light off' animation they have at the moment, allowing the character being squished to feel a little more like it's part of the scene.
• The two sequences before he sits on the cube feel a little off still. This may be an issue with the editing or the camera and I'll find out soon.

I'm still new to animating and although some of it isn't that great I'm quite happy with how jerky it can be, and he's been a pretty cute character to work with so far so that's great. Any more suggestions and feedback is much appreciated and I'm looking forward to getting this animations polished and lovely :D

Progress Update...

I'm currently working on animating the bulk of the scenes in Maya. It's going okay, some of the scenes aren't particularly smooth yet but it's a good starting place, and it allows me time to refine it later. Once I've got them all done I'll post up a new pre-viz to see how it all fits together. For now though, here are a few renders of the scenes I've got at the moment:

Run Cycle Update...

I've adjusted his cog joint to give him more time in the air:

It's definitely better, although I did struggle to make it look like he was going up and down from this view. You can see it from the front but I think it just about works now. :)

Reaction Test: Surprise...

He gets a few nasty surprises in my animation so I thought I'd get a bit of practice going, using some of the reactions in the Animators Survival Kit as a basis:

I had a good go and I think it works quite nicely.  It's not amazing of course, but I think for a quick test it works pretty nicely, and I now have a few more poses for my PoseLibrary! :D