Cornfiscated

Well, 2 semesters later it's finished! Thanks to all the members of our team for working so hard on this!

(Check it out on Vimeo to see it in HD glory)
Also big thanks to all the Industry Professionals who came out to a screening last night, and gave us great critique and feedback!

More Screen Shots

Home Stretch

We're almost done! We will be having a screening tomorrow, and then we will upload the final film for all to see on Tuesday! In the meantime we will be uploading some screenshots from the film here and on our Google Plus and Facebook pages!

Google+

Facebook

Props

Popcorn Bag 2/28/2012

 

Rake 2/27/2012

3D Progress

3D Animatic 1st Pass & Character Turntables

Here is the final assignment for this semester's class:

The 1st pass of the 3D Animatic

Leeroy Turntable:

Ollie Turntable:

Jumping into a pile of....

Reference videos for our Farmer falling into a pile of corn.

Concept Art & Color Script

Her are some pieces from our most recent milestone:

2 Concept Pieces

and an extended color script

Lighting/Compositing Demo

Hey Everyone! This is a lighting/compositing Demo in Maya by Giroldi Francesco who did the animation "The Monk and the Monkey". Suzanne directed us to it. I haven't looked through it yet because it takes a while to load with my internet connection, but I figured it would be a good thing for everyone to see! Enjoy :)

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~fgiroldi/Tutorials/Movies/LightingCompositingDemo.mov

Our First Look and Feel test for textures!

So the basic plan at the moment: 

-solid color and gradients in Zbrush via polypaint

-export texture map to photoshop

-blend layer with paper texture over top of texture map

-simple line details (clothing seams, patterns etc) painted on yet another layer

Some of the work from Milestone #6 (Which coincides with out 1000th pageview!)

Expression Sheets to prep for facial rigging,

Some Environment sketches for the inside of the spaceship,

and some animation tests.

Now that we have base rigs we can start animating! Check out the new "Animations & Dailies" section of the Production Bible (Conveniently located to the left of this post)

Finished Modelsheets - turnaround

Color Script -1st pass

More Aliens

Trying to build upon sketches from class.

Illustration of "spider" body

Variation of Spider Body in Zspheres

Second Variation of Spider Body in Zspheres

I did some more sketches of the Alien. There was something people kept responding to while we've been concepting and that was the alien from our rough storyboard with the tentacles, and the designs with insect attributes. Julian is working on the animatic right now and has given the alien spider-like behavior when you first see his silhouette and the creepy factor is definitely working. So I'm trying to develop a design that works this all in. Let me know what you guys think so far!

"Beauty Shot"

Dude's freaked out...

Farmer Face Studies

Some exploration of the farmer's face shapes and his range of expressions. :)

Style

Experimenting with style and texture. I thought about using a style of "carved wood" (just thought that a farmer is related to nature) defining big shapes and planes of the character. I also used rake tool (similar thing we would get from sculpting) to define shapes and give texture.

Farmer Modelsheets - Rough

Alien Modelsheets - Rough

Some Variations