Bridge Completed

Texturing this bridge took a lot longer than it should have. 

Here is a few renders of the finished model, textured and mapped.

Getting the Textures Just Right

I've nearly got the textures right, I do however think that the smaller ropes and the planks need to have darker browns. At the moment they are too bright and don't quite look right.

Rope Textures

This week has consisted mainly with the texturing of ropes. I have never created anything like this rope bridge before so I have encountered a fare few problems with the model, UV map, Texturing and various other things. I wanted to spend no more than a week working on this bridge, it's been two weeks and I still haven completed it. But here are some quick renders of the texture that I have created for some of the rope.

Bridge Texturing

Texturing this bridge is taking longer than it should be, I've ran into so many problems with the models and with the UV maps. It's just been a bit of a nightmare so far.

Less Snow

Fixed the snow on the textures, it's nowhere near as heavy/settled.

Bridge planks fully textured

I've finished texturing the planks for the bridge and have put them all in place in the model. 

Adding snow to the texture

I've been working on adding snow to the wood texture, admittedly it almost completely covers the wood texture, the bump map is doing all the work to keep the feeling of wood still there.

Here are some renders as progressed the texture.

I am happy with the overall look of the texture, it still needs some work but I think I'm on the right track.


Also here are some renders of the next two.

Version 3.5

The new animatic:

Sequence 8 changes:

Texturing Test

Just a quick texture test I pulled together in a few hours today.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how this came out, I'm not the greatest at Photoshop painting but I gave it my best shot.

Bridge Planks

First Modelling Test

I spent a couple of hours modelling the rope bridge. It's not completed yet, the planks are not unique.

Forgotten Research

It seems I forgot to post some of my research for this project, so here it is.

Sound and final animatic edits.

Our tutors set up a meeting with the sound production course so that we could get one of them on board to create the sound effects and the score for our film. We managed to find someone who had created a certain score that was nearly what we were looking for.

http://soundcloud.com/nathanjameslewis

Transition Test

Animatic Version 3.4

Once more

More edits and an extra shot added in to aid story transition.

Version 3

So after a very long week the current version is finally finished and hopefully I wont have to re-make it again. It was a lot of work to get done in just a few days.

Re-working the animatic.....again

This past couple of weeks have been very hectic and stressful, so much work had to be done in such a small amount of time, last week we managed to pull out a second animatic in less than a week and this week I was supposed to re-work it with the suggestions given by my tutors. Sadly I wont make this weeks Friday deadline but that's not due to lack of trying, but instead due to the the time constraints coupled with the amount of lectures I've had this week taking time away from making these changes. I have however done the majority of the new changes. Changing camera angles, parts of animation & the environment layout.

Here is a few screenshots of what I've been doing this past week.

A brand new animatic

So in the end I did 7 out of the 14 sequences for this animated and I still struggle with animating in maya, i just cant get the hang of it.

Making a new animatic

Mock-up number 2

A look at the mock-up of the new environment that I modelled. It's not smoothed, or set up to be smoothed as it's just a mock-up and nothing final.

New Storyboards

I have chosen to split the storyboard work between all 3 of us due to time constraints, this will also be the same for the animatic.

1-1

 2-1

 3-1

 4-1

 5

 6-1

 6-2

 7

 8-1

 8-2

 9

10

11-1

 11-2

12

13

14-1

 14-2

Very basic storyboards but it should be enough to make the animatic.