Week 14 - Video Presentation

In this final blog post is the final video presentation for PPD 2.

                                        

Video. 1. Professional Portfolio Development 2 Video Presentation

Week 14 - Final ShowReel

This I finally completed the showreel for professional portfolio development 2. I'm happy with the end result of the showreel even though it's drastically changed since the block out phase in PPD 1. In the final cut of the showreel some aspects of the original block out are still in some way in the final version. At the start we have a short sketch animation piece and what follows next is the first part of my independent studies animation short. After the cinematic of my environment based on the concept art from 'Flushed Away' plays next. I did edit down the cinematic for my showreel as in it's original run the cinematic plays at just over 1 minute. The second part of the independent studies short follows leading into the final piece being some game footage of my animations from Game Development.

I would liked to of included a lot more of the little comedy sketch pieces into the final showreel and have them all placed out in various places. This I can obviously do to continue to improve my showreel in the future. Here is the final showreel.

Video. 1. Final ShowReel

Week 13 - Other segments in my Showreel

The footage in my showreel was mainly going to be animation related however I did plan to add an extra segment that wouldn't be related with animation if I felt it was up to scratch. This was the 3D environment based on a piece of concept art for Advanced 3D. The cinematic that I'll be developing for the environment will be added to my showreel at the midway point. Below is a screen shot of the environment in it's current state.

Figure. 1. Screen Shot of environment from Advanced 3D

Figure Reference

Figure. 1. Screen Shot of environment from Advanced 3D

Week 12 - Industry news

The animation website cartoon brew released an article announcing the there will be a new animation studio being set up in the UK. This new studio is called Locksmith Animation. The animation industry in the UK has given us a variety of films like 'Valiant' and 'Chicken Run'. The studio set up by Sarah Smith (former Creative Director at Aardman) says it will be the first high end CGI animation studio in the UK.

This is amazing news for the industry as new studios being opened will bring a lot more job opportunities to artists. It'll be also interesting to see how Locksmith animation progresses and the films they will make.


Website Reference

Cartoon Brew Available at: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/british-studios-locksmith-and-double-negative-plan-to-make-cg-features-98410.html (Accessed 13th April 2014)

Week 11 - New Animation

This week I've started working on extra bits of animation pieces to be added into the showreel. Watching back to the roller coaster animation scene, I felt the animation wasn't working right and a lot more work would be needed to help vastly improve the scene. I began looking back into the website MovieWav in search for some new audio effects to animate to. The audio piece found in the animation below is from the film Austin Powers and the line is "Gentlemen you have my demands, peace out". I'll have the character be placed in front of a chalk board written with a list of outrages demands. 

Video. 1. Animation Block Out