Batty Breaths

Playing with blend shapes and simple rotation animation. As you can see, my bat breathes, blinks, and has dilating pupils. We seem to have caught him in the middle of an acid trip.

Batty Breaths from Lady Subrosa on Vimeo.

Preproduction for Sleeping Beatuy (final project)

Pitch : I will be doing the character art for Bruce Li's parody of Sleeping Beauty. We shall composite his backgrounds with my characters using After Effects, primarily the puppet tool and making these layers as 3D billboards. Hooray!

Assets: Here is a list of the characters I am in the process of creating, using Adobe Illustrator.


-Aurora
-Nobleman
-Wife
-King
-Queen
-Fairy 1
-Fairy 2
-Fairy 3
-Evil Fairy
-Extra 1
-Extra 2
-Extra 3
-Archer
-Spindle peasant
-Spindle peasant son
-Soldier
-Nobleman horse
-Aurora baby
-Nobleman's kid #1
-Nobleman kid #2
Bruce has made a very helpful storyboard that I am following for my character modeling (as far as the kinds of poses I will have to make them prepared for). I am not quite sure if he's posted them,


Reference images/videos/audio


We've got a bit of influences, primarily the original Sleeping Beauty film from Disney and this short film that Bruce was inspired by




This has also been a helpful image!

The look we're really going for, however, is a kind of storybookish look that will also be easy to animate. This is why I'm using illustrator to keep the characters from looking messy.

Schedule
Right about now, we are in the process of creating our assets. Here's a sneak peak at some of the stuff I've gotten done so far.




And as it goes, we will continue working over the next few weeks with the assets. We're moving into a rough composite next week so that we have something to show our voice actor (the narrator), and then use the last week of class to fine tune everything for the composition. Wish us luck!

Motion Tracking and Match Moving

Here's a little something that I might go back and fix. A couple of seconds, but you see that we have some visitors in a purple ship hanging out around the nooks and cranny's of UT

Motion track Test from Lady Subrosa on Vimeo.

Particles! I used the prefab of the clouds and played around with some of the parameters till I got something interesting going on. The bat is kind of in creepy eye-only mode right now, but there he is. I brought down the quality of the resolution for the sake of my computer's power. This is super short. I exported 48 frames (which took FOREVER) and then set it to play at 12 fps instead of 24. So, here is four seconds of clouds. Enjoy!

Bat Clouds from Lady Subrosa on Vimeo.

Green Screen

Here is my very first attempt at playing with green screen! Keying was kind of fun, and I'd like to play around with this more. The annoying part was masking out my hand when it gets off of the screen. For a second you can notice this mistake, but a little more time for clean up (if I have a chance to, which I didn't forsee, which is why I'm turning this in so early) is all that'd take (you know. hand rotoscoping). The actual keying part wasn't too bad at all, though. And I had fun throwing effects all over this. Silhouetting is a quick way to make something simple into something really interesting.

Green Screen Dreams from Lady Subrosa on Vimeo.

no assignment just kind of awesome

Saw and fell in love with this video, and made me think of the stuff we've been learning with masks. It's a very simple concept, but it looks amazing as a final product. Enjoy