Hayle Project Production

Now onto the production of our project. The first thing we did was create the character models which me and Jenny were incharge of and the props which were created by Harriet and Leki. The models i made were the mother in law and winnnie when she was younger.







We made the models simple in maya as we were going to draw over them anyways and what the most important thing was that the models moved correctly. When making these models it was the first time that i had tried to model human faces which i found a challenge. However it didn't really matter what they looked like in these models as they are only a guide to show where everything is. The other issue with these models was getting the weighting right and making sure they move properly when they walk. This was hard with the mother in law as she is very chunky and round and has little legs so in the end when we animated her she looked more like she is waddling but i think this adds to her character and makes her movement slightly comicla which i think works. Winnie was also hard as her dress didn't move with her legs so had to make that work and she has the opposite problem compared to the mother in law as she is very tall and skinny and as we used simple skeletons for the models her walk looked a bit stiff but i think it will look better when the animation has been drawn over.






These are the models that Jenny created. She only modeled the front of the old winnie character as that is all that you see in the animation. She only needed to add joints to the arms and the head of the model as they are the only parts that needed to move. The husband was very basically modeled also but their movements work correctly.

Im incharge of animating the walking into woolworths, inside the cafe and the cash register. Jenny is incharge of animating Winnie in her living room, the butter buns and the hugging scene. The walking into woolworths is going to be the hardest to animate and i don't think it will look right because it is such a short space of time for them to walk in and it may look rushed so im going to animate them walking towards it instead of entering. For the inside of the cafe we wanted the mother in law to struggle to get up on the stool to make it a bit funny, which will be a challenge to animate as she is very chunky as a model but i think it will work.

After this its on to drawing over the 3d frames!!!!!!!

I drew over the walking to woolworths scene which was a challenge and i soon discovered that it was going to take longer than i expected but got it finished =). I did like the look of it when i was done though it was a very tedious technique, however their movement to woolworths is very quick which i should have changed in the 3d animation. I also worked on the cash register scene getting the buttons to move with the 3d images and adding the numbers which i did on after effects. And i helped with the final touches where backgrounds needed adding and where things went wrong. We were going to have the background moving as well like the rest of the animation however after i put the background on the walking to woolworths scene we decided against it as it looked too busy and i think it looks better being still with the animation moving.