basically i have been adding point lights to the dark shadows on the left side of the body. the intensity of those lights should be around .250 to .325. color should be a dark blur or purple but not to saturated.

Rendering

Hey guys,

I have my Bad Cop scene rendered, but I still need to do my misery scene (still messing with the lights). I'm going to be rendering my Misery scene on Monday do to time constraints this weekend from work.

Just wanted to give a heads up on progress

problem rendering scene for bad cop

did u guys figure out how to get the skin back and to made the costume for smooth?

bad cop lighting so far

here's what i got so far, let me know if you have any ideas otherwise we can tinker with it tomorrow.

LIGHTING

I'm not clear on how the lighting is going. Any up dates? need me to do anything?

Tomorrow's Class

Hey guys just had a quick idea that maybe we can put together the misery shot tomorrow and show it to raquel to get one last crit from her. Then we can make any changes and start work on lighting and then figuring out a  rendering schedule for both misery and bad cop.

Lighting

Hey guys, Just wanted to bring up lighting for the sets. I was thinking we could throw lights into the original sets and import that into our scenes. Any suggestions on your ends?

my progress

i feel like the ending can be somewhat better. any ideas?

Changing Camera Safe Area to Black?

I have been looking on the internet but have not found a way that works. I couldn't remember who in our group was able to change it to black, but can you please post how to on here so we can have all our cameras having black for the camera safe tomorrw. Thanks

Tuesdays class

Since Bunny will be sitting in on our class, I figured we can show our "lady at the well" since also.

If you guys are down can you respond to this post and bring the scenes to class?

Thanks,

Nick

baton

so i got michael wu to model us a baton. im going to be checking it out later tonight then ill post it on the server.

Nick update

Hey guys, can you please give me some feedback on the shot. Im still in blocking a little and working out some small things here and there.

Thanks

Bad Cop Animatic

The boards and animatic are on the server.

here adam

Camera angle

These are two ideas for my shot with the girl. Let me now what you guys think. One is more straight on and the other is a 3/4 view. I tend to like the 3/4 view. This is the opening of the shot where she is going to take the baton from the cop.

Closer camera and female character

How is this working

Camera on cop

When I imported the characters the heads where out of frame so I tweaked the camera a bit. This would only effect the shot on the cop. I'm not sure who is doing the other shot of the cop (need to know to have the same attitude of character). Here's what the different angle would look like. Let me know if it works for you guys.

updated camera

i posted a new camera setup on the server called camera setup.mb that way we have consistent camera shots

Clothes work for morphie

Party Time!

here is the button that u need to use in oder to attach the clothes to morphie.

ill post this guy and woman up to the server. badcop.mb and badgirl.mb

reference for the woman

here adam some help for u

Woman

Hey here is what I did to the woman character let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions.

Brandon's shot storyboard

here is your camera view

Nick's shot storyboards

questions leave a comment here is your camera view the camera set up will be on the server.

Adams shots story boards

Hits her baton in her hand about 2 or 3 times. questions just leave a comment

have these kind of weight shift when she is being posed but dont make it too extreme. here is your camera view. you and brandon will have the view camera.

Morpheus clothing

These are the instructions I got from Terry: You can just wrap it around morpheus. To do that you: 1. open morpheus 2. import the clothes file 3. turn on mesh selectability for morpheus 4. select the clothing first then the body 5. go to animation > create deformers > wrap options 6. make sure render influence is checked and then apply the wrap Then it should follow morpheus. You might have to do that for all of the uniform pieces. Let me know if it works. -- My computer keeps freaking out when I try it. Would one of you guys be willing to try it out? If it works let me know and i'll message back Terry

Update for project 2

Hey guys, hope your easter is going well.

I emailed Terry about the cop clothes on morphy and hopefully he will get back to the email soon.

I was wanted to see if the boards are almost ready. We have the set and we can use rigs named to what we want to reference in the new rig after. But blocking is due Tuesday and I want to get on it as soon as possible.

thanks,

Nick

Right hand positioning

Polishing

Police Outfit

Hey guys think I found something that might be useful to us for this upcoming project..... I found this off a school blog whose project was to make clothes for the morphy rig. Im not sure how to attach the clothes to the rig itself yet, I have an email out to the professor of the class and I hope to hear back from him soon. It was a whole pack that came with all sorts of different outfits. Ill bring what I got for Thursday. Anyways what are your thoughts?

tuesday midterm?

are we just going to have playblasts for midterm or are we going to have rendered shots?

Nick Update

update

Story Outline

Story - Jail Scene

Famous actress Clarissa Jones has been sentenced to three months in jail for drug possession and violating parole. She is one of the most desirable famous actresses in the world and the guard ordered to keep a close eye on her cell and to make sure no other inmates attack or harass her is, Topher Carson. Topher has been a prison guard now for six months. He is hoping to soon begin law school and is very driven in everything he does. Because he is leaving his job soon he is taking advantage of the situation that Clarissa is in. Topher is hoping to get her to have feelings for him so that when she is released he could have a shot to be with her outside of the jail. In this scene Topher is visiting her cell after lights out and is asking her questions about her recent day in court.

Clarissa Jones -

She is very sure of herself and has very high self-esteem. She has been successful in her career and is an extremely intelligent woman. She enjoys teasing men that she feels are not worthy of her time and often blows off dates that men make with her. She uses her looks and fame to get whatever she wants, but now she is imprisoned she has little to no control over how she lives her life. She is an attention hog and since there are very few people to associate with while in jail she carries casual conversation with whoever will come by her cell and talk to her.

Topher Carson –

Topher is an only child and was raised with the idea that he can get anything he wants, because growing up he was given anything he wanted and never had to share. As an adult he has fallen short of his goals, but now he has become more determined to attain what he desires. Some would say his only weakness is women. Since being assigned for extra security around famous movie star Clarissa Jones jail cell he has become infatuated with her. He is very sure of himself, confidence is not an issue and he is sure he can get Clarissa to be is girlfriend is he tries hard enough.

Some Ideas for the clip

Came up with some more ideas for the clip. Its got a feel like a cat and mouse situation so I think it will be pretty easy to come up with ideas for the clooney clip.

1st Idea was having the girl be a prisoner in a jail cell of some kind with the guy being a guard and hes trying to pick her up, it could mesh pretty well with the dialogue, also the set wouldn't be that bad.

2nd Idea was having the two play chess, maybe we could even make them older characters to give the sense they have a history together. The set might be a little more in terms of location and other assets but im sure we could make it work.

3rd Idea had the two characters driving a car. So for this shot you would most likely just see from the waist up. The guy would be driving and the girl as a passenger which would tie into the the first line of the girl well. I think the cuts between all of our shots could be cool with this one.

I also uploaded the whole clip from this scene...There is some pretty good stuff in there, check it out, the part from like 40 seconds to like 55 are pretty funny. anyways any input would be great.

lighting for evil woman

so i had to delete the sphere because it was preventing the directional light from casting shadows. so just delete the sphere.

I find myself favoring this clip. I think it has a lot of energy that would provide a good framework to animate from. Does anyone have any opinions?

The Cable Guy




Delirious

— MOVIECLIPS.com

another possible vid?

what are your thoughts on this one?

Edited Sound Bits

some vids

Get Out
Bounce — MOVIECLIPS.com

The Worst Mistake I Ever Made
When Harry Met Sally... — MOVIECLIPS.com

The Cable Guy
Delirious — MOVIECLIPS.com

A Life That Other People Envy
The Family Man — MOVIECLIPS.com

Liar and a Thief
Say Anything... — MOVIECLIPS.com

I'm Embarrassing You?
Barney's Version — MOVIECLIPS.com

With Us or Against Us
Thrashin' — MOVIECLIPS.com

Kate's Confession
The Cutting Edge — MOVIECLIPS.com

I Want to Help
Proof — MOVIECLIPS.com

I Want a Divorce
The War of the Roses — MOVIECLIPS.com

Notes from 3/22 class presentation

- Get New audio file

-sounds like only 3 beats instead of four

- Less words in audio and more emotional moments

- Possible films to check out

- Duplicity, Mr and Mrs. Smith, A Fish Named Wanda, The Mexican, Bandits, Crazy Stupid Love.

- Older films for great voices.

- Possibly radio voices

Lets look up video clips and post them on the blog soon.

John Miller

Robbery Pitch

Scene:

Two career criminals are braking into the office of a corrupt insurance agent. His angry secretary has tipped off the couple. She told them that he is making a lot of money on the side by ripping his clients off. He is keeping the money and not reporting it to the bank. From past experiences the criminals have a hunch that the agent is keeping the money either at his house or in his office. The two thieves have chosen to break into his office late at night, and with the help of the secretary there is minimal threat. She has left the alarm off and has made sure that her boss will not be making any random late night visits to the office. Once in the office area the thieves go to work. They are trying to keep their minds on the job, but they have been fighting all day about their love life. The couple finds the safe where the money is possibly being kept, but there is a keypad that they don’t know the code too. While Sarah tries to pick the lock John searches on the insurance agents lap top for clues to open the lock. When Sarah becomes frustrated with the lock she once again brings up their relationship issues.

John Miller -

John is a little slower physically and mentally compared to Sarah. He is good with computers, but his everyday mind thought isn’t always there. He is a strong thinker but doesn’t connect well with people and especially women. He means well but often a time is a little dopy. He is large, but he moves quickly and is very smooth with his motions. He becomes very concentrated on individual tasks and loses himself in them. He is in his mid thirties and slightly over weight. He has been robbing places for five years.

Sarah Johnson –

Sara is slightly crazy and very needy in relationships. She is in her early thirties. She becomes very frustrated when dealing with her boyfriend John. She is a stickler for detail and needs to be in control. She is the one that orchestrates the robberies and thinks of herself as the brains of the operation. She is swift and light on her feet. Her movements are precise and she is slightly over confident about robberies because she has never been caught over the last ten years.

set

the set is posted in our server folder ASSETS and titled SET.mb

nick update

colors

Hair Color

Dress and body suit color.

set preview

the ambient light in the scene is what is making the background brighter. before it was much darker.

Alex's progress

i changed the hair style and color along with the clothes color. Tel me if you like it? if you guys do then ill give you the data for the colors. The trees and sky should be done but i didnt complete the lights yet. ill post on the server soon.

NEW PROJECT IDEA

Hey guys I had an idea for the next project. The idea is that the couple that is fighting are actually bank robbers or some sort of thief's. Maybe the two get caught or something and then they just start fighting about their relationship at the worst time, thought it could be funny. Since we trimmed the dialogue a little bit I think changing the setting to something like this might make the over all scene more comedic. If you guys have any ideas that could make this stronger that would be great. I do think the faster we get this planning complete and start blocking the better off we will be.

Alex's shot

here is my progress

Nick Update

I am posted my first and last posses to get the facial animation matched up with Alex and Adam's shots.

I have also posted my current blocking, if you guys could give me a crit before class on it that would be greatly appreciated.

Nick Frame 1 pose

Last pose

Nick here is the pose I have for the last shot. Let me know if you want me to tweek it at all to match what you have.

Shot 4 update

i still need to fix a few mouth shapes and address the accents.

Nick Progress 2-29-12

Shot1 Progress Update

Last Pose in my shot,

Alex, if you can post your first pose today we can be ready for a smooth cut on Thursdays class.

Shot1 Progress 2012-02-26

Here is a PlayBlast of my current progress. Feel free to leave any comments.

PIXAR presentation File

I created a file on the server under our group entitled, "PIXAR_presentation_file". I believe Alex wanted them all on there by 6:00pm.

Alex,

If any issues occur with the files that are uploaded to the server, just email the person so that we have all the files good to go on the server by midnight.

hand scale changes

i noticed that ivory's hands are way to big for our character. so what i did was i went the the morph mode and clicked on the hand picker. on both hands i scaled them to .8. her hands look more proportional now.

Misery Shot 1 Blocking Update

Hey, guys. Here is my blocking as of 3:00pm, 2/22/2012.

Progress

Just need to see where Brandon's shot ends and Nicks begins.

The well will be posted on the server. im adding trees into the scene right now. megan is going to add textures later and then she will be done. we still need to add a background image plane.

Progress, Nick

Some rough blocking, For my first pose I have her coming out of the well and for the last pose she is looking back in. Right now it looks like it syncs up closely with Alex's shot.

here is my progress. how is everyone else doing? Nick i was wondering what your last pose was so that my pose would sync up.

SLight changes in the set

I ai had to lower the well. translate y is -270. my character was not tall enough to bend over the well so i moved the well down.we also have to make sure that our character is in general spot. i would suggest that you create a sphere and have it set to Translate X = 60 , Translate Y = 0, and Translate Z = -175. this way the character is in a consistent area for the shots.

Sound bits on the server

The program Audacity could not pick up on the changing music in the background of the audio clip without messing up the words the women says.

I limited the music in the background so that it will blend with the final music we use. The files are on the server.

Audio We Are Using

Tree Models

I managed to find a few tree models, including what looks like a pretty good package of eight or so trees. Here are some pictures below.









However, I was not able to find any good bushes and shrubs.