Where I haven't gone before

This week has had a little more time consumption due to reviews and long meetings and an important event I had to attend. Nevertheless I got some things done, even things I haven't ventured before.

Rigging

    We've started with a small group so some of us shared duties. I have a little experience with rigging so as soon as my director asked, I rigged a small prop for her; the Band-Aid. The joints on the left side were mirrored but I didn't think to orient them so rotating them in this video wasn't so convenient ata first.

    Eventually I came around to fixing this up, along with the director's request of removing some joint controls to simplify.

Animation

    For this department I had a big discussion with my director on how I was to animate my shots. These were pretty big changes to make as well so I made my first swing at it.


    I'm still making adjustments but I feel like we're getting closer to finishing this. I've mentioned I started other shots as well and I'll show them as soon as I finish blocking.

    Other than that, I also started arranging shot cameras for the Anim files for our volunteer animators to get started on. Mainly I exported the cameras from the Layout files and reconstructed the setting with the up-to-date models and rigs.



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