Narrative Crit Presentation: 13/12/12

The Making of- The War Plane

The Making of 'The War Plane'

The Making of- The War Plane

Caharcter: SS police man textures

SS policeman rig

The War Plane Animation

Here is our at long last fully completed animation! We hope you enjoy it :)



Character turnarounds

Soundtrack: Chopin Nocturne No. 20

We have been looking for a suitable soundtrack that would reflect the mood of our animation. After the research we really wanted to use Chopin's Nocturne No. 20, but unfortunately even though the music is not copyrighted, every version played was. Luckily enough  when I was searching YouTube for different versions of the soundtrack I found it being played by this very talented artist- Kevin Wu. After messaging Kevin on Facebook and asking if we can use his music, he was more then happy for us to do so! (:

This is the video of Kevin playing Chopin Nocturne in C Sharp Minor No. 20 

CD & Case Artwork

In preparation for our crit I've been working on our CD and case artwork. I tried to keep it simple and symbolic just like how our animation is itself while keeping it professional and linked to our animation and art direction at the same time.

CD Design

 

Case Design



Newspaper Model and Texture

@ Alan

Hi Alan, on Thursday you asked all the groups for their animation names but we forgot to tell you ours sorry!
The name of our animation is 'The War Plane' :)

SS policeman: rigged, skinned and textured

Little Boy Fully Rigged and Ready to Animate!

This little boy has caused us a couple of problems which has delayed him getting finished especially over the last couple of days but we've finally got there and it was definitely worth battling through! :)

Here are a few images showing the final character with his range of costume changes.

As his typical 1940s self. However, the outfit will be textured differently so that we can also use it for the 1950s outfit.

 

These are the extra outfit components that we have skinned after fully rigging and connected through visibility attributes on the main character control. The 1940s boy's pyjamas and the 1950s hair.

 

Finally a shot of the base character minus the components that change. Also showing the skinned skeleton more clearly.



Jewish Shops: Improved

Jewish Shops: Textured

Little Boy Costume Swap

Our group has recently been discussing the change of character that happens during our animation as well as the change in outfit that our main character undergoes just before the big climax. We had a few options when it came to this one of them being to rig a whole new character but this would have used up unneccessary time. We spoke to Alan about other options hoping that there was a way we could get the pyjamas that he changes into onto the existing rigged character.

The solution was to put them on a separate layer, hide the existing clothes and just skin the pyjamas on top of the full rig. Then add attributes to the main character control which allowed the visibility of the clothes to be turned on and off as needed.

I have added a few attributes that control the visibility. 'Clothes' is the usual outfit. We will then later turn this off and turn on 'pyjamas'.

 

Normal clothes and 1940s hair

 

Pyjamas.

 

In regards to our other character who represents the start of the 1950s this would have been a completely different character but he is very similar except the texture of his clothes, his face shape and his hair. So we are going to use the same clothes but a different texture map, blend shape his face so he just slims down a bit and like the change into pyjamas for the first character I have added a visibility control for the different hair styles.

 

1950s Hair.

 

Now all I have to do is re-skin these elements :)



Character modeling: stipped pyjamas model and fixed UV

Updated Scene One

After Phil's feedback, we have changed the photographs haged on the wall form the realistic to handdrawn. (:

UV maping: Reichstag

UV Maping: Concentration Camp

Little Boy Rigging Process

Thought I would just upload the point I am at with rigging to show the process I am taking our character through. Just moving onto rigging the head now :)



UV Maping: Jewish shops

Scene One Textured

We finally finished texturing the first scene! :D

Little Boy Fully Skinned

Our little boy character is now fully skinned and ready to next be rigged. Here are two videos of animation of the skinning, one plain and one with the UV mapping and eyes visible.

 



Modeling: concentration camp

Modeling: concentration camps fence

Modeling: Jewish shops

Texture Experimentation

After applying the texture and the toon outline shader to one of the buildings, this is what it came out as. 

Prop: Final Texture

This is the final texturing for our animation. We applied a toon outline shader to separate the edges of the object from the background. We are satisfied with what it came out as, and cant wait to apply it to the rest of the models. (:

Modeling: Reichstag (final)

Little Boy Joints Laid Out

The joints are now laid out for our little boy, I'll save this as a back up file just incase anything goes wrong but now the skinning can begin!

Little Boy Main Character Fully UV Mapped

I have fully UV mapped our little boy which Ernesta modelled so now he's ready to be textured by Alice and ready for me to skin and rig him!

Hair UV Map

Head, throat and eyebrow UV maps

Arms/shirt UV Maps

Shoes UV Maps

Legs/Trousers UV Maps

Modeling: Reichstag part1

Character modeling: SS policeman (after changes)

Character modeling: SS policeman

Prop: Plane Textured

I have created the very first texture on the plane, this is what it came out as! As its first time doing it, I was a bit unsure of few things, but I am pleased with what it looks like. I know that as soon as I get a grip of it it will be much easier for me to create them.