Like an electric eel

So... I guess we saw how it went over the past few weeks. Not very many posts, I have to admit. That does not mean I have not been working at all, however. I have animated 94 frames of both characters in The Battle for Axis Mundi since my last post on the 11th. Slow progress, unfortunately. I don't have much homework this weekend, though, so I'm hoping to use it for Axis Mundi. I was able to work on it today, so the weekend is off to a good start.

Oh, and sorry if the title shocked you....

Like an electric eel.

A little bit' o progress

Last night I was able to animate some frames for Axis Mundi. Not that many really, but I need to post cause' it's March Madness. So yeah. Unfortunately I can't work on it right now, cause I've got other things I have to do. Spring break just ended for me, so we'll see how everything goes over the next few weeks.

Finished the Demo Reel

Hhhhmmm.... I think that I MIGHT be getting just a little bit tired. I stayed up all last night working on my demo reel. Still haven't gotten any rest, though, because I sent the reel in an e-mail to an marketing firm where I would like to intern this summer. Then they replied back (with positive comments about my lighting, I might add!) and so then I replied back again, and... ugh. It's been a long day. Anyways, enough chit chat! Check out my first ever demo reel:

So yeah. Cool ain't it? Yes, I broke down and used someone else's music. It just wasn't worth making my own for this. I think it is funny how both of my December renders are in the front of the reel. You are supposed to put your best work first, and I just felt like the December renders are the most eye catching. I left out animations from The Battle for Axis Mundi, because I don't want to release footage from that until I release the entire film. Hopefully I'll really make progress on that front soon.

Rendering

Today I have been rendering the 360 degree turnaround animation that I mentioned yesterday. I had to go to the dentist, and do some other stuff too, so it worked out pretty well. But it still isn't done. It looks like it will be done early tomorrow morning, like at 4:00am or so. So I'll continue working on stuff tomorrow when it's done, and my processor isn't being maxed out.

Demo Reel

So, I've been fairly productive today, but it has not been animating Axis Mundi. I've decided that I'm going to need a demo reel of the best video work I can muster. I need a demo reel for two reasons. One is because I am going to try to get a digital media job for the summer. The other reason is a similar opportunity. Technically it conflicts with the aforementioned job that I'm looking to do. It's an animation internship at a company where I might want to work someday. It could be a bit of a long-shot, but I'm still going to apply and so I'll need a demo reel for that. So that's what I've been doing today. Getting together some of my past creations and putting some extra shine on them to stick them in my demo reel. Mainly I've been working on getting a pristine 360 degree rendered animation of the Pagani Zonda model that I made... more than a year ago? Hard to believe that it has been that long. Anyways, yeah. That's what I've been doing.

The Corresponding Frames

So today I unfortunately only ended up animating the corresponding 77 frames of animation for the other character. I was hoping to do more. Tomorrow I hope that I will use my time more wisely. I decided that I was simply not going to go to bed tonight until I at least did those frames, and so I stayed up late to finish them. It's not that they took that long to do, it's just that I had not worked all day and it was already late, and so I just stayed up for a little while and made an even later night out of it so that I would not have gone the whole day without animating a single frame. This is how we roll in March Madness. We don't stop till we get the job done!

March Madness 2012

It's March again. I think this has been one of the fastest years in living memory. Of course, my memory of past years becomes more and more vague all the time, so I probably said the exact same thing last year. But anyways, since it is March again, it's time to make a bunch of posts and a bunch of progress. Today I am doing just that! I'm glad to say that I was able to work on animating The Battle for Axis Mundi today, and I got 77 frames of animation done, for one character. Still have to animate the other character during those 77 frames.

Also today I remembered how many hoops I have had to jump through to finagle this workflow to the point where it is possible. By that I mean that there are a lot of extra steps to go through in order to animate characters and render them in RCT3. It's making me look forward to being able to do a project where I use tools that were designed to do what I will use them do. So, happy March Madness, and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow!