Project on hold...

Believe I am going to put this project on the back burner till November and pull out a flash animation that I would like to work on. Reasoning...
1. work space is not conducive to productivity, am going to resolve this issue in mid-October.
2. mind too frazzled for finishing conceptual work on this.
3. My "Gregory" project is a flash animation that I started working on in Timing class and since the animatic is almost complete.. (needs another scene) and I can move my work time and space to lab, better chance of getting some progress made during this transition time...

... continue with testing

After working a bit more with my rig, learning timing, etc... I'm thinking about making a more complicated model to work with. One that will hold it's form better, find a way to get the feet to stick better to the ground plane.

Testing...

So major lessons are learned in the process of testing a set up. Biggest discovery for me is the need to refine my rigs so that I don't lose track of joints. Good thing I tested before completing the model, which I had originally planned. Also see the need for many more models and cannot really determine lighting until the model is complete as the lighting set up I had in mind was too bright for the wire rigs.

Here is my "Studio" set up:


And the first test of working with my rig...

Inspirations & Research

Checking out wire animations 1. To see what is out there so I don't copy. 2. To see what works and what does not work.

Rigs and lighting test

Started making a couple of rigs... looks like I will be doing this stop motion. Time to build. Forgot how much I enjoy working with materials, in actual space and just building stuff. I'm thinking of making skins in the paper doll type, leaving them as is or could use fabric. Just need to keep working at it and it should come through.
Just a couple of lighting tests no actual animation yet... but I'm starting to see it.

blog update

have been lost in the land of reality lately, finding no time to work. So with lots of quick ideas in mind, I will animate... something... by Thursday.