#shot 5

[thechaseanimation]

August 26, 2016 

Also reworked this background a little today. More textures and shading! Still black and white; color overlays come later. 

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[violeteyedvampiremolloy]

"This game would be more fun if we were playing it with wine"

Drinking Game: Every time you send an opinion that my muse hates or disagrees with, they will have to take a shot of whiskey:

"I'm not sure necking wine is as satisfying. And you'd hit a plateau earlier. Sooooo shot to be for Molloy."

[picturemoving]

Testrender from the fifth schot with some lights and the water plane. Toonshader gets easily noisy when using applied textures instead of just flat colours. I have had to balance the shaders base colour tonemaps out a bit too to mach the environment. The animation in the playblast uses the previous cycle as a base but I have animated the movement  to turn  and glide over the camera to the next scene.

[moonkissedsiren]

Does pup have a tail?

♡ Shot #5 !

Omgeez yesss !! I does !!

It's black and red , and sups fluffy !! ♡

[ask-big-pup-dire]

When snow is grown up, how will dire react to her dating?

Dire huffed. He was swaying a bit. “I really don’t want to see her end up with some low life... I want her to be safe... Ugh time for another shot...”

[becky-made]

In this pass I imported the rig and animation from previous version of shot 6 in the the scene of shot 5. I changed between the visibility of the two rigs to work them together in to one performance. I had to change the animation from shot 6 to match the end of shot 5 and it did cos me some problems while doing it. The phone from the first half disappeared and I was having serious render issues. Every time I tried to render even a single test frame the program would crash. I din't find a particular reason for this but I think the two rigs may have been too much for the university computers as my home PC managed to render it fine.

I'm pleased with the animation so far and I think the blend between the two rigs worked really well. The  Lady's reaction to the text (that I have yet to put in) look quite genuine so far. The animation from shot 6 transferred well but I will still do a polishing pass. The positioning of her eyes needs to be tweaked as she is still slightly cross eyed in some places and the timing of their movement is a little off. I also want the end of this shot to blend well with the following shot as it will cut as she turns around. I may need to tweak it later when I have finished the next shot to be certain the match.

[becky-made]

So this is the blocked out result of my reference footage. I haven't completely sorted out the timing of the movements yet and the follow through action of the body and head don't currently match. I will work on polishing that out in the next pass but I am pleased with the action in this new pass. I think it comes across as less contrived and fake that the previous version and I also think The Lady's distress can already be more clearly seen than the last version. 

I will do another polishing pass and tweak the timing and the eyes.

[becky-made]

This shot is supposed to be The Lady looking around the room to see if there is anyone there. She knows that there is no-one there but by this point in the film her sense of isolation and distress has started to build and she is starting to act a little irrationally. I've been having some problems with the timing of this shot though. I can't seem to get The Lady's distress across as clearly as I would like. Lynn suggested I take more reference footage but of myself and focusing on the performance in the scene rather than the movement. Although I am not convinced of my acting ability I think this is the best course of action to get a good performance out for the end of the film.