21st of April to the 25th of April

Dave definitely now has George, i checked with him and i'm now just waiting on the rig. In the mean time i have begun to ink the linearts of the journeys tht i have completed and started to texture Lani. I and my sister chose her colour palette the other day from this selection.

Dave and i also went through my film and cut all the scenes up and made parts of it a lot shorter.
We've also written a shot list with all the things to do on it and Andrew and i have divided it up between us. Theres a lot to do but hopefully we'll be animating soon.
Here are the Scenes

Scene1 composed of 7 shots
Scene2 composed of 19 shots
Scene3 the journey with 5 different stamps within it
Scene4 composed of 20 shots.


I had a horrible Migraine from last Sunday to this weeks start Monday which knocked me out for quite a while but still managed to show for our degree show fund raiser which was really good.

14th of April to the 18th of April

Lani Blend Shapes send Dave George model but thwarted by attachments. Migraines attack this week on Monday and Tuesday. Monday is very bad but Tuesday’s disappeared after a while although I had to wear my sunglasses throughout the PPD lecture and had to apologise to the lecturer afterwards and explain that I wasn’t asleep just had migraine.
Most of this week has been spent trying to avoid Migraines but i've managed to work some more on China just to keep away from the screen as it just seems to be making me worse right now.
Here is a picture of how i would like China to look like. I've put in the Coy carp but everyone thinks it would be better if it was a dragon or butterfly.
I've also done a little more to the PPD and thought carefully about what i want to do.
I'm starting to think that if these migraines persist then i'm going to have to find something else that isn't sitting in front of the computer all day.

I organised a meeting with the sound design students Mark and Alex this week and i've finally given them the rough 2D animatic so they can do some research and get to grips with the basic story.

7th of April to the 11th of April

I've been UV mapping Lani all week so that i can start on her Blendshapes then send her to Dave to get rigged. I've made a bit of an error with the files for Dave so i've been correcting that too but am so busy trying to get Lani all mapped. I always forget how long and tedious this process is. The worst bits are always the hands and Lani has feet with no shoes so that makes it even more awkward. Below is a picture of my progress stage. You can see where i have mapped her as the black and white squares are evenly spread. I started with her head and worked my way down to her toes.
i got an awful migraine on Sunday and took a migraine tablet but couldn't leave work as my friend Steph fainted and had to be taken to Hospital so we were short of staff. The migraine went and I spent a long time working on the laptop when I get home from work which is exactly what i'm not meant to be doing. Here is a picture of Lani completely textured with neat squares to show this.

This is yet again a new term and although we didn't stick to last term's timetable very well i have yet again scheduled enough time to complete everything. There's a lot to do and i'm already behind because of Keiron but things can't be helped. Lets hope we stick to it this time. if not just hope we get everything done!

31st of March to the 4th of April

George's Blendshapes have finally been completed and i've sent the model to Dave so that he can rig it. George has an awful lot of Blendshapes and a very fiddly facial structure and i have had particular problems with his moustache as i have noted before. However, now he is done and i'm hoping that it won't take Dave too long to rig him. Once that is done i can start animating. I've begun Lani's blendshapes and am hoping to get her UV mapping done quickly.