Me and my paintbrush . . . .

Now it is time to start painting dear Angela. This is so all of her movement works right and flows. The different colours show the degree in which the bones control the mesh. (I think thats right, I get a little confused) Red is good, and as you fade from one bone to another the colours should start to change into a nice yellow/orange.

This is Angelas' upper right arm.



Next we have one of her spine bones. I can't remember which one, but you can see all the colours. Even blue!!



I had to paint most of the verts to get her to move right. Especially her underarm. That just wanted to stay moulded to her ribs, but I fixed it.

:)

Working with painkillers . . . .

Welcome to my holidays!!!

Nothing interesting happening here. Working allot of nights so I've been sleeping allot during the day, well moreso than usual. Right now I have a headache that is trying to kill me. It's not cool.

So I'm blogging about "402". The audio is done. I'm not happy with it. I don't like it. I don't want to listen to myself and edit it. It's just not something I'm comfortable with. I have a feeling that it's not going to work out at all. I don't know why, it's just a feeling I have.

Have been planning out landscapes and scenery. Shouldn't be too hard. Just need some basic shapes and some nice textures and bump maps. That should suffice. I also need to catch up on one of Ben's classes because apparently we learnt something really cool and I missed it.

Anyway I'm off to find some painkillers. Ciao!!

The script . . . .

VOICE OVER: I woke up like any other morning, accept that this was not like any other morning.

VOICE OVER: A faint nose was ringing in my ears. It sounded like . . . . it sounded like a woman screaming

VOICE OVER: I brushed it aside as ringing in my ears and headed down to “Harbours” to drink my morning coffee.

VOICE OVER: My head was killing me

Sitting in Harbours.

VOICE OVER: 2 cups later and my headache continued, so did the ringing. Only now it was clearer. Louder. So I followed it. What else was I supposed to do?

Walking down the street.

VOICE OVER: I wasn’t sure where I was going. I was just following a noise in my head. Crazy huh?

Angela’s shoe breaks

ANGELA: “Ah, damn it. Well that’s just great”

ANGELA: “Stupid shoes”

Man walks past and steals Angela’s handbag.

ANGELA: “HEY!!”

ANGELA: “HEY COME BACK HERE, THAT’S MY PURSE!!”

Angela chases the man down an alleyway.

ANGELA: “What? Where is he? I’m sure he came down here”

ANGELA: “Damn it”

ANGELA: “I hope it was worth the 35cents jerk”

Angela throws the shoes into a rubbish bin.

VOICE OVER: I loved those shoes

VOICE OVER: Then I started to doubt myself

ANGELA: “Am I really hearing this? Was it really screaming? Was it really anything at all?”

Walking in the park.

VOICE OVER: That’s when I gave up. That when I decided to go home

VOICE OVER: But the screaming, that wouldn’t give up. I could still hear it.

Dog’s point of view, running towards Angela.

ANGELA: “Nooooooooo”

Standing up and walking away.

ANGELA: “Great, as if my day could get any worse”

Walking up the front steps.

VOICE OVER: My head was still killing me

ANGELA: “Why is it so loud?! What is going on?!”

Angela is now inside her apartment building.

** Gasp **

ANGELA: Whispers “Shes here!!”

Running up the stairs.

ANGELA: “I’ll help you!! Just hold on!!”

Running towards the door.

ANGELA: “I’ll call emergency!! Just hold on!!”

Door opens.

ANGELA: “Oh god”

VOICE OVER: And that’s when I remembered . . . . .

VOICE OVER: I remembered Mike . . . . .

VOICE OVER: Mike . . . . .

VOICE OVER: And how he didn’t want the baby.

Falling over

ANGELA: “Get away from me”

ANGELA: “No Mike stop”

Crawling and getting up

ANGELA: “Please”

Standing in the corner

ANGELA: “Please Mike no”

Backing down into the corner.

ANGELA: “Please don’t do this”

Heavy breathing and blackness.

ANGELA: “Please”

Glass shattering and Angela screaming.

** Thud **

Silence.

Now entering UT . . . .

I have done it!! Angela has entered into the world of UT!!

This is just a test, the envelops and things like that haven't been done properly yet. I just wanted to make sure that she can work in UT and is the right size. And she is!!

Whoo Hoo!!






Yay for me!!

It doesn't matter if you are black or white . . . .

Here are some more images as I progress with Angela.

I'm seeing her as alive now.

Makes me kinda feel like an evil professor creating some sort of Frankenstien. *giggles*

Let me know what you think.

Chani is a moron . . . .

Yeah so I have been doing my textures for Angela in 3D.



Pretty hot right? I thought so, but it turns out that i'm a freaking moron. Why you ask? Because I saved them as jpegs. Doesn't sound so bad right? Since you need the texture to be a jpeg in 3DsMax. I haven't finished it yet and because I saved it as a jpeg and not a psd I have lost my layers. Not freaking cool man. Not freaking cool at all. So I'm going to try and salvage as much as I have because I'm not going to start again.

Catch.

Horray for YouTube . . . .

I was able to upload my animatic to youtube.com.

Hopefully this will now work.



Enjoy!!

It's showtime . . . . .

So I finished my animatic for VD2. I'm not proud of it. I could of done allot better but due to personal problems I didn't. I got a Distinction for it, but I could of gotten a High Distinction.

Due to popular trend here I am posting my animatic for the whole world to see. It probably wont make sense to allot of you but it will when I finish the machinima.

A name has also been given. My animatic is now known as "402".

Enjoy.


***** ANGRY RANT!! I JUST LOADED THE DAMN THING FOR NEARLY OVER AN HOUR AND THEN IT JUST DISAPEARED!! NOT HAPPY!! I'LL RE TRY LATER. GRRRRR *****

Everyone has their own story . . . .

Things just seem to be piling up on top of me lately, but don't worry I'll be fine. Now it's time to tackle that backstory.

Angela is pregnant, which is quite obivious if you've paid attention and looked at my images. Before she became pregnant our dear Angela was a secretary for a small building corporation. She was also dating Mike. After losing her job for falling pregnant and Mike leaving for the same reason the future didn't seem all that bright for her. Fortunately she is getting by with the help of her parents and the few friends she has. She believes her baby will bring more meaning to her life.

She is a simple girl who lives her life via small daily routines. Everyday she wakes at 8am. Everyday she walks down to Hubel's for a coffee and sandwich at 11am. She does her weekly shopping on Thursdays and walks everywhere she goes. She has no pets for she is alergic, but thinks about getting a goldfish. She would call it William.

For now I think that shall do. It's not much but hopefully it will give you a better understanding about Angela.

I've also just been hit for something else to add in right at the end which will make these facts work better with each other.

I would also just like to say Congratulations to Lisa!! :)

Nice and warm now . . . .

Here is Angela with a skirt.



And here she is with all of her clothing on.

That's the great thing about it, because the rest of her clothing is skin tight I can just texture it onto the model. Makes it so much more easier when modeling. Might make it a bit harder when I'm texturing though. That's just the one thing I'm fearing.

Enjoy!

It finally hit me . . . .

Miss X will now be refered to as Angela. I don't really know why but I think the name is fitting. Not that it really matters. No one talks to her and she doesn't say her own name, but all the same to make her more real she must have a name.

So Angela it is.

As for a title of my machinima I've been going over a few in my head. Some of these are:

"Baby, It's You"

"Coffepot"

and

"The End"

As you can see they are quite abstract names. Thats how I want it. I don't want some lame name like "Angela's Adventures" or "Scream-a-thon 2000". Those names may not make sense now but soon they will.

I'm just annoyed I have to re-do all of my storyboards for my animatic just because I made her pregnant. This might set me back a little bit there.

It's getting there.

Such a pretty picture . . . .

Okay! Well I'm at uni now and uploading pictures!!

The first one is the original body.



Then I got her pregnant!! I had to change her shoes too, from what I hear pregnant ladies don't wear high heels. Miss X's costume isn't really going to change either. It's still going to be the same dress, it just wont taper at the knees now.



So here is some images of the head and hair.





I think it turned out wickedly. Texturing it might be a bit of a problem though. I'm not sure if I can make hair properly.

Those are my images, enjoy!

Forget me not . . . .

So I have done allot of work on my 3D model for Miss X.

I was planning on posting them here but sill me forgot to put them on my usb drive so I could bring the images home.

At least now I will have something to do within my 5 hour break at uni tomorrow.

It's really working out well. The hair looks fantastic. Took me a while to do but that was only because I had to move all the vertexes by hand because the FFD 3x3x3 wouldn't work for me. :(

Also made a change to Miss X, she's now pregnant. Adds a little twist to the story which I think makes it a little better.

Thats all for now.

And so it begins . . . .

Here at chanimation I, Chani am going to be making my very first machinima.

Over the course of this project I shall be blogging my progress for all to see and to keep a record of all my doings.

So far a basic outline for the story has been created (but not named) and first drawings of the main character (also not named) have come to life. When i get around to cleaning it up a little bit I shall post them.

The overall feel of my machinima will be a combination of comedy, suspence and thriller/horror (depending on how much gore I get around to making) in the style of film noir. I going to try and keep sequences low key and of course all in black and white. Although I have been thinking about having certain items in vibrant colors, “Sin City” style. It will be all very 1950's, I'm yet to decide wether it will be placed in America or Australia yet.

The machinima centers around the main character, for now I'll just call her "Miss X" until I figure out something more suiting. Miss X wakes up and hears a woman screaming. The machinima will follow her until she finds the source of the screaming. Along the way many unfortunate events occur which dampen her spirits and in turn she gives up on trying to find the screaming woman. Little does she know that she will find the source of the screaming anyway.

I'm not sure if I want to outline the whole entire story just yet. I want it still to be a surprise for people when they watch it.