Product animation

Above are some of the close-ups of Sony Boy's hands, for the close-ups of the products. They are in photoshop on layers, so I can just slip a picture of the desired product in. Also above, is a Sony Boy cone. Jared suggested creating a cone and coloured in the same colours as Sony Boy. A bend handle was put in. The cone was rotated, moved and bent and rendered out using a 3D motion blur software.

Below is a movie of some product animations I did today. They need to be textured by Al. I looked at each drawing of my 2D animations and I tried to match the pose with the product in Maya. I have done two scenes and have got three left to do. Back off to work I go.

Images from the Animation

Here are some images from the animations. As you can see we went for a 101 Dalmatians, Rhubarb and Custard feel. I think it works quite well. Don't you. The sketchy style gives a nice hand drawn contrast to the computer animation that should follow. I believe it could stand up as a professional advertisement.

Coloured Tests

Just an update. Al has been very busy and says he has nearly finished the Sony Boy model. I hope that I can see it soon. After scanning the pictures into photoshop, I applied a threshold and altered the Brightness and Contrast to darkened the outlines and get rid of the lighter lines. Some construction lines re-main and it gives it a sketchy 101 Dalmatians look. After that I exported the scenes out as filmstrips via aftereffects, took them back into photoshop and coloured each frame in individually. That was so tiring and frustrating. I have done three scenes already and have only two scenes to go. The coloured filmstrips were then taken back into aftereffects, turned in tiff sequences, and then taken into premiere and exported out as avi files. I am hopefully gonna get all the scenes done by Friday so I can help Al with the computer animating of Sony Boy and the models.

Progress

Hi,

I have just finished the animation entirely. I have spent the entire day yesterday scanning all the animations into photoshop. I am now worried because they all have to be cleaned-up and edited. No real computer work has been done yet and the music tracks haven't been decided. Oh, and the deadline has been moved up.

Reflection on project so far

I feel the project has gone quite well actually. We developed a good idea at the start and we are seeing it through. Pencil animation is being produced at a rate quicker to what we thought. Al has a lot of other commitments but he insures me he is working hard on it. We still have a lot of work left to do. Sony Boy needs to be finished, rigged and textured and then needs to be animated. The products need to be textured and animated too. The pencil animation needs to be cleaned up and re shot. That will take some time. I kinda of panicking now, there is only three weeks left.

I was worried about the animation itself, but I was surprised by it. It looks much better than what I thought it would look. Sure their are some minor tweaks here and there, but overall both Al and I are pleased in how it turned out. If we get this finished, I believe it could stand up as a professional advertisement.

Back to work now.

New Sony Boy Pencil Animations

Well, here are the next three scenes of rough Sony Boy animation. I hope you enjoy them. They need to be cleaned up and then have the objects superimposed in. They need to be finished to. Too much work.










I decided to put the unfinished television scene up. I like it, but I think it needs to be slowed down.

Live-Action Reference Drawings

Here are the live-action reference sketches I drew to help me figure out the animation. They helped a lot.
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Television





Walkman



Playstation



New Product