Anim8'n !!!

Here is my fiaso of a final for Particles and Dynamics:

Scene 06 Shot 02

The lighting, rendering, and flying fur particles are problematic and will be changed.

The animation is 90% complete, and also a test composite for lining up my photographed sets and 3d characters.

The girl's hair and cat's beard are both dynamic, the rest is keyframed animation.

Costumed Gurl and Cat Fairy - Turntables

Finished characters:



Stills:

Gurl and Shaved Cat - Turntable

Finished Gurl and Shaved Cat Turntable: knit / felt textured cat, paper/cardboard textured gurl



Stills:

Fur Cat - Turntable

Finish Fur Cat! -- textured and bump mapped with scanned fabric and knit swatches.



Stills:

Cat Tunnel - Final Animagic

Cat Tunnel Animagic

Final 'animagic' - including finished title sequence and finished Scene 1 Shot 1 (establishing shot of the city)

(special thanks to Mieka, Michelle, and John for supplying scratch track voices)

Scene 1 Shot 1 [[[City of Broken Dreams]]]

First composited production shot!

City of Broken Dreams - my interpretation of the dystopic midwestern city - a city that was built overnight out of industrial desire. It has no foundation of it's own, as it was made to serve a specific purpose. Midwestern cities are lost souls now, partially abandoned places in America's middle-abyss, searching for what can define them now in a post-industrial land.

The swaying structure is piled with things I love and hate. I hate: strip malls, organized religion, fast food restaurants, and banks - the staples of the Midwestern income after the fall of the factory. I loved my 'home': the houses are cardboard representations of real places I grew up in.

Cat //// Cat Fairy Orthoganalzzzz

One cat, three outfits: furry, shaved, and fairy.

Gurl's Orthoganals!!!!

Same gurl, 3 'outfits'

Cat Tunnel/////CatLand Entrance

Cat Tunnel Concept



In progress -- Tree [[[yarn, plaster, paint, my bedsheet, and cardboard]]]



In progress - Background and foreground elements



Some Analog Programming [[[knitting pattern - wet graph paper was laid out over the plastered hill, let dry, taped together and then the pattern was drawn on then reformated into a google doc text pattern]]]



In progress layout - [[[note: the knitting pattern on the plaster hill]]]



Finished Cat Tunnel Scene

/////Sketchings//////

Girl in CatLand W/ Cat Fairy



Cat Fairies



Cat