Week 10 - Progress on the Showreel

The progress for the contents of my showreel for PPD 2 is currently going well. The animated short film I'm creating for my dissertation is nearing to being complete with the film just needing to be rendered and compiled together with sound effects. This will be featured in either it's full state which lasts around 30 seconds or be cut up and spread across the showreel. I have shown progress of a few shots that were completed early in past blog posts. I'm not sure yet It might be the case that I try an example of both and upload them onto here and see how they play out. For other work that'll be included in the showreel My contribution from past modules Game Development by recording in game footage of me and others who worked on the project playing the game focusing on my animation work and obviously stating while the footage is playing my role to the work and who's other contribution is shown.

When planning the showreel I was going to have a obstacle course featured. I have shown in early posts examples of animation of a astronaut character running. However since then I have made no other contribution to this work. This may possibly be cut from the showreel due to time constraints. This could change, however at this moment in time it's not looking likely.

Finally the Roller coaster scene animation. This piece of animation is moved on from the block out stage, but it's still not exactly finished. For this scene I want to improve the environment more by developing the roller coaster into a more child targeted ride and this makes the scene funnier as the grown man doesn't want to go on the ride. Also from looking at feedback from PPD 1 I may need to add more of a set up to the scene by visually telling the audience first that the it is a children's ride before seeing the adult.

As far as what I've stated above this is the current state of my showreel. With week 10 me rendering the animation from my dissertation and really soon I'll be compilling footage from my contribution to Game Development, I should soon have footage to place into my showreel.
I've also been looking into using Adobe Premier Pro a lot more and I feel I'll be able to properly render out my show reel this time compared to PPD 1 where I had trouble getting the resolution to be true HD and some parts of the video where a bit jumpy. However there's still a lot to learn with the software.