My Symphony

Yesh! We've finally finish our short animation. Please do give us comments and critics to help us improve in the future! XD Most important, hope you all enjoy it! =) cheers!!!

Animatics o.O

New Schedule

This will be the new workflow schedule so people bear in mind XD
We will be having a one week break from April 27th till May 3rd 2009

List of things undone
1. Animation Touch Up
2. Digital Layouts - Environment Lighting
3. Lighting - Character
4. Final Playblast (May 20th)
5. Rendering + Special Effects (May 25th ~ June 13th)
6. Composition (June 27th)
7. Full Final (June 30th)

Animation Breakdown Workflow
April 22nd - 1st playblast gathering
May 3rd - Finalise Refinement Check Up
May 4th - Work Distrubition - Playblast
May 11th - Refined Playblast
May 18th - Final Playblast ... ample time for last minute refinement before May 20th

I hope you all will come back with freshly charged batteries for animation on May 4th... meanwhile teh o will be checking on the animation progress and i will try to complete the environments as soon as possible...

As for the deadline... i really hope we can make it for June 30th's deadline... i don't want to drag this project too long as we will be moving forward soon... July 11th is our convocation... so let's not drag it any further... so lets ganbateh! Work Hard Cottage Pictures!!! \(^o^)/

cheers

Composition Test~!

blur + natural light

sharp + natural light

Blur + physical sun

Sharper + physical sun


been testing on the composition and the rendering as well as lighting test ...
just didn't render alice out ... but rendered her shadow only ... XDXDXD
have yet to light her.. so that will have to wait...

My Symphony Poster

Click on the image for full resolution~! This is how our poster will be like. It is fully painted with sweat, tears, blood, heart, mind and soul~ lol So exagerating =P Anyways, it was mostly painted in college and the colors looks different in my computer. Looks darker to me but seems fine with other people's pc. Maybe cause I'm using a CRT monitor...

Comments and critics are really really welcome. Still need to adjust/touch up somemore... GANBATTE COTTAGE PICTURES!!! DDDDD8

Project Management

Something i found today and i think i'd like to share with all of you ... XDXDXD
http://en.9jcg.com/comm_pages/blog_content-art-45.htm

Something on project management with maya and other project files... as well as how to rename and make your own project tree... XDXDXDXD i had problems with it but at the moment its still controllable XDXDXD i hope o.O

Family Portrait

Ah finally all the characters are textured and shaded... but work is still in progress.... this is a preview of all the characters we have... though i must say we have to minus two due to some circumstances... but this is the final number of the family... XDXDXDXD

We are currently doing the animatics and animation...XDXDXD at long last XDXDXD so far progress has been slow ... but steadily progressing....> <>

Alice Test Shaders

Alice texturing done. Just needed some touch up ;) Well here's some render test out.

Here's some close ups:

Original render:

With Occlusion:Color Edit for fun:Ok... Maybe a bit too vibrant and striking for the colors... XD And here it is some random poses~

Kyaaa~ iya~~~~

I am your mama~! XD this model is not the latest one hence the pants abit mess up O.o

YATTAAA~! Almost there but not quite for the shaders! ganbatte na!! XD

Environment renders

Yea this took us some time...in fact it did take some time...=..=lll
here are some renders we did... didn't really have time to update this blog...> <

all the rendering nelly did... XD well although its not there yet...
well done...
might be showing some character renders later...
see yea next time...

Artbook

Hey there, we are cottage pictures and we are currently producing our own animation short film entitled My Symphony. Here are some of our concept art and a few pages of our artbook we are sorry for not putting up the whole art book. If you are interested we might upload it in the next update XD. Till then enjoy and critic and comments are welcome XD