Drivers?

I'm wondering who I can go to about installing a driver for my tablet onto the computers, there are wacom tablet drivers on the computer but they aren't the correct ones, so I'm not able to use the full capabilities of either one of my tablets. I just tried to install one but I need an administrative user's password and login info. Things just keep halting my progress...

One good thing

Well I found another helper, for my film, he has taken pity on my plight and decided to help me with my film he's a 3d major, and he's really good, so I'm going to have him help me do some more back ground animation.

More troubles

Got my computer and "back up" from geek squad yesterday... the folders were completely empty so they did it wrong, I wasn't able to check until today (my hard drives only work on mac formats.) I only have pc's at home save for my broken laptop. Everything just seems to be going wrong, its like I make one step forward and then I get pushed back 4 more steps.

Update...

Monday as I was about to back up the new scenes I was working on, my computer decided to quit working in it's entirety. I thought I'd lost the files but I took it into geek squad and hopefully they will be able to retrieve the files for me. Unfortunately my computer's motherboard my have been fried and that might be really expensive to repair (my computer is out of warranty) Life sucks right now... I'm hoping that I didn't loose what I had been working on Monday morning.

Schedule For the rest of the year

Work schedule

Mon Feb 20^th

Work Reel Presentations

Wed Feb 22^nd

In class studio time (traditional animation)

Sat Feb 25^th

Personal Studio time 10am-12am (digital animation)

Sun Feb 26^th

Personal Studio time 10am-12am (digital animation)

Mon Feb 27^th

In class studio time (traditional animation)

Wed Feb 29^th

In class studio time (traditional animation)

Fri Mar 2^nd (spring beginning)

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Sat March 3^rd

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Sun March 4^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Mon March 5^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Tues March 6^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Wed March 7^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Thurs March 8^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Fri March 9^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Sat March 10^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Sun March 11^th (Spring Break ends)

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Mon March 12^th

In class studio time (traditional animation)

Wed March 14^th

In class studio time (traditional animation)

Sat March 17^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

Sun March 18^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (digital animation)

(ALL ANIMATION SHOULD BE DONE AT THIS POINT)

Mon March 19^th

In class studio time (clean up & coloring)

Wed March 21^st

In class studio time 9am-2am (clean up & coloring)

Sat March 24^th

Personal studio time 9am-2am (clean up & coloring)

Sun March 25^th

Personal studio time 9am-2am (clean up & coloring)

Monday March 26^th

In class studio time (clean up and coloring)

(All CLEAN UP AND COLORING SHOULD BE NEAR COMPLETION OR COMPLETE

Wed March 28^th

In class studio time (Compositing & editing)

Sat March 31^st

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (Compositing & editing finish up any undone clean up)

Sun Apr 1^st

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (Compositing & editing finish up any undone clean up)

Mon Apr 2^nd

In class studio time (Compositing & editing)

Wed Apr 4^th

In class studio time (compositing & editing)

Sat Apr 7^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (compositing & editing)

Sun Apr 8^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (compositing & editing)

(ALL COMPOSITING & EDITING SHOULD BE NEAR COMPLETION)

Mon Apr 9^th

In class studio time (Sound editing)

Wed Apr 11^th

In class studio time (Sound editing)

Fri Apr 13^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (Sound editing)

Sat Apr 14^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (Sound editing)

Sun Apr 15^th

Personal Studio time 9am-2am (Sound editing)

(SOUND EDITING SHOULD BE DONE AT THIS POINT)

Mon Apr 16^th

In class studio time (tying up loose ends)

Weds Apr 18^th (tying up loose ends)

Fri Apr 20^th (tying up loose ends)

Sat Apr 21^st (tying up loose ends)

Sun Apr 22^nd (tying up loose ends)

Mon Apr 23^rd (Final Render)

Wed Apr 25^th

Final Presentation

Almost done....

So I'm almost done with this, still need to cleanup the line, and color correctly, and then try to work out the snap of the mouth, because right now that's not looking right to me...

Roughs & Keys

Here are some roughs and keyed out scenes from my film the colors look terrible uploaded on here :/

Ugh client work

Sunday (yesterday) I had to work, now usually after work I go home and work on animation for this project. But unfortunately I was asked to film  a actor's reel and I ended up having to stay at work from 11am-1-am that's 14 hours and about 7 hours of work was lost. So I'm going to try to get as much work done today as I can. After going over my schedule I really realized how pressed for time I am, and I don't think I'm putting in enough time during the weekends. What I'm going to do is make sure I'm done with all my homework from other classes BEFORE Friday so I can spend all of Friday and Saturday working on this. (I usually work on other homework before hand). I'm also debating on whether this job is conducive to my film. Is it really worth losing all those hours for a check I won't see till almost two months later?

Animation Making headway

So I have About 11 shots roughed out right now. They just need minor tweaking (things such as uploading assets and making sure timing is right.) I'm hoping that I can take the time this weekend to get them to a point where they are about 90% done. The scene above is one of the meteor shots that I'm working on cleaning up and getting roughed in right now. It stills needs a correct background. I'm also having issues uploading videos on both blogger and youtube. Hopefully that gets corrected in the near future :/

Layouts Part 2

These are improved layouts :) I feel a lot happier about these layouts then the ones I did in Illustrator. Still am not completely happy about them but what can I do if i don't have the skill right now then I don't have the skill, all I can do I strive to improve.

Layouts:Part one

So these are layouts from two of the scenes I'm working on. They are still in the rough phase. I figure I want the characters to stick out a bit more so i excluded line work from the backgrounds.

As you can see they are still "lacking" (lol that's an understatement) , needs shadows and other little details. Quite Honestly I'm not good at backgrounds at all! hopefully I'll get better

WIP:Turnarounds

I honestly didn't like the turnarounds I had done, and since I set about changing the color palettes I thought I might as well change the turnarounds to reflect my changes to the color. Here are some works in progress for my turnarounds. I really adore the design of the bambiraptor for some reason.

Color Palettes

Baby T-rex

Backgrounds

Bambi Raptor

Mother T-rex

During one of the critiques in class a fellow classmate made a comment about the way in which my stuff was colored, I have no idea how to pick a color palette (I honestly just choose whatever colors I like and run with it). So following their suggestions I spent about 2 weeks deciding on my color palettes, and at the suggestion of another friend (he mentioned I tend to over saturate things.) I turned down the saturation and tried to use more muted colors that would work better together. So the images above are the new color palettes for my film.

Tie-downs

Last week I felt like I really made no progress with my film, I had some issues with my other tablet had to get it taken care of and I'm currently trying to break myself through an art block.  This week though I feel like I am making progress. I have begun tie downs of a scene in flash and I'm hoping I can get that done soon. And I'm also trying to make sure I have the anatomy of the dinosaurs that I'm animating down so that there won't be errors in my animation.

I'm hoping that I can have this scene done by the end of this week. I'm also doing another poster I'm not satisfied with the one I did earlier so I'm going to do one that I'm satisfied with.

Wide Screen format?

So I had some issues with my rendered storyboards, they are in wide screen format, but my actual animation that i have right now is in a regular format. I like the way the wide screen format looks...dilemma dilemma. There a possibility that I might change it see if I can work around that little factor.

A little room for improvement

So Wednesday we had a critique quite honestly I was scared out of my wits. I'm really intimidated by my classmates their work is so good, and mine is so mediocre, I was afraid to show them my work. I know I need a lot of work. But it didn't go as badly as I thought it would. I got some really helpful constructive criticism from my classmates and I will take them seriously and try to improve my work based on their suggestions (but still maintaining my idea). I guess from here on out I'll try to seek guidance from my classmates. Today I'm going to work on making those improvements for Monday.

Animatic Version 2 (working animatic)

This is an animatic I put together using the rendered storyboards and some of the rough animation I have to date.

Storyboards version

Animatic version 1 & Proof of concept

My first version of the animatic

 

The rough proof of concept

First set of storyboards

These are the first set of Storyboards I did for Theropodia they are really rough