I Heart Thesis

Youtubed

2010-05-19T10:19:00.004-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpcfPapnwHw

for those who missed it.

plan to re-cut the ending and fix a few animation errors. but not now. so not now.

Burning Bright_ MeiYu thesis pre-view

2010-05-15T23:10:00.002-04:00

I'm still not sure could I screening or not.
the computer keeps crash so that I was unable to render out everything before they closed the server>"<
I mailed to skip and hope he can let me screen on time..
If they let me screening, my schedule will be on Tuseday 7:20

Mei Yu

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by the way... I'm very unhappy with this one. I'm definily will go back to fix it and complete it.

2010-05-14T12:31:00.001-04:00

Done. Suck it, thesis.

30 days

2010-04-14T18:35:00.000-04:00

30 days count down for spring screening!!!

OMG...>"<

2010-04-10T11:51:00.001-04:00

I do not heart thesis.

lighting+ render+ compositing

2010-03-26T23:55:00.002-04:00

There are two shots I did in last week
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texture only:

photoshop lighting test:

3D render+ AE compositing

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texture only:

photoshop lighting test:

3D render+ AE compositing

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Actually, the two compositing images are the "possible" result....
Because I'm suffering severe problem on subsurface scatter blinking on those images, I have to figure what's wrong with it and re-rendering these shots AGAIN...>"<

character textures

2010-03-26T23:50:00.004-04:00

-------------------------Boy-----------------------------
color concept

3D texture

---------------------------------monster------------------------------------
(not smooth yet)

without eye

with eye

rar

2010-02-22T11:44:00.003-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crc8DtrAs80 animatic as i am showing it to the committee today. Behind schedule, but not horribly so.

more blocking

2010-02-18T10:22:00.002-05:00

fish peel off test from Melissa Tierney on Vimeo.

here's some more initial animation. this shot immediately follows my last post in the film.

Jellyfish Animation Test

2010-02-16T19:58:00.001-05:00

cell/jellyfish test from Melissa Tierney on Vimeo.

The animation and textures are not final, but it's a pretty good idea of the motion I'm going for on this shot.

Animating done~(?)

2010-02-10T21:53:00.002-05:00

HaHaHaHa~~I had my animating done!(did I?)

ok...acturally, It's 90% done..There are many movements still need to be fix.
However, I'm going to stop animating by now and start to working on FX, texture and lighting.
If I have time, I'll go back to adjust animating. If not, I'll just leave it like that.

Zed in action

2010-01-24T21:01:00.003-05:00

trying to get a feel for how my character should move and came up with a few seconds of animation. I'll eventually get around to finishing it, but I like the way it's turning out so far.

tired...

2010-01-22T12:48:00.001-05:00

Animating takes forever..............

Animatic. Yay. (Can you feel the excitement?)

2010-01-22T11:36:00.006-05:00

Animatic (Which is really just poorly timed storyboards.) A good chunk of it doesn't make sense, as I have many of the subtle movements in my head. I apologize for the laziness of this animatic. I am just putting this up to put it up.

migraines

2010-01-19T08:33:00.002-05:00

rigging is HARD

some animating

2010-01-11T18:16:00.002-05:00

I start to animating it.
Here are some animating shots i did for past month.

It seems to have long way to go....

some 3d animatic

2009-12-07T19:28:00.005-05:00

I did some 3d animatic during the break.
It's not the final timing. There are some black area I'm still working on.
However, most of the camera moving and the timing of each shot are final.
tell me if anyone feels any un-fluid between shot and shot; or any camera angel is not works for you; or any suggestion to make composition better; or any idea of character movements?

Since lots of people doesn't get the story from my 2d animtic, I added more shots base on it......so my film is getting longer>"<

Mei Yu

thesis distractions

2009-11-17T14:35:00.004-05:00

I am currently at work in the 3DL. I can no longer get work done. The haircut below just walked into the lab. Except instead of being the coif of a man from the 1980s, this appears on a woman in 2009. It's so bad I can't stop staring at it. MUST...LOOK..AWAY...

SKIRR ANIMATIC!

2009-11-10T16:49:00.004-05:00

holy cow! i am making a post with work! let the gods rejoice! so here is a most recent version of my animatic. i know my film isn't a character driven narrative so it might be a bit hard to follow, but I do appreciate any feedback or questions on what isn't clear.

Animatic from Melissa Tierney on Vimeo.

animatic

2009-10-26T16:26:00.003-04:00

my animatic again...
I drawn more character movements and animating some lighting to figure out the real timing.
Beside, I think it also help me on creating character rigging.

animatic

2009-10-22T13:31:00.002-04:00

color script?

2009-09-28T10:08:00.003-04:00

attempts with watercolors...

My storyboard

2009-09-24T16:07:00.002-04:00

Because I got stuck on my character design, I start to storyboarding my story. Haha... and my story became an action animation.(no gradfather anymore~)
Here are the timing of everything.
please, give me some commons~~
I don't like the storyboards from 1:47 to 1:53.(That's the sequence the boy cut down the last tree to cage the monster), I feel there should be one shot to show where is the boy, or what does he do exactly, or...I don't know

Mei Yu

something for character design

2009-09-23T19:14:00.002-04:00

I found this blog
http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/
there are lots of interviews with some top artist in animations, movies, games..about how they did their character design

Ma-quette... get it?

2009-09-17T23:09:00.002-04:00

character design for my mother character?
sorry for the super bad joke I spend way too much time by myself.

Where is my thesis chair?

2009-09-12T22:48:00.002-04:00

I don't know who else I can ask for being my thesis chair......

I have Skip and Tom in my committee, but neither Charles, Mark, Brain can be my chair...
Can I just do it(my thesis) and forget about having a chair thing?

Mei Yu

Let the games begin!

2009-08-27T17:52:00.002-04:00

Well, I tried to work on my thesis this summer...I really did...

Then I realized that every bit of visual planning, and research I did was useless because I have no clue what my relatives are going to say. In short I have no story [insert the sound of a lone pebble falling down a dark, deep well and an echoing PLOP as it plunges into the muddy water therein].

However I now have an audio recorder that would make the most techno-phobic hermit in the world jump up and down with electronic induced joy, and my Uncle Geoff is coming up from NYC to visit tomorrow (hopefully his car does not explode like it did the last time he tried to come visit).

So, all systems are go! I'm going to tear this sh!t up!

character design?

2009-08-12T01:03:00.003-04:00

I have no idea for how should my character look like.
In order to do some brain storm, I bought some clay and sculpted some shape randanly.
then, it came out some thing like this...XD

haha....I haven't gotten the right idea for for my character, but I have fun on it.

Mei Yu

Characters

2009-08-11T17:42:00.006-04:00

Yeah, I've just been messing around with the look of the characters but the original design is basically there. Plus, I guess someone has to post something to look at, right?

Thumbnails.

2009-08-11T09:53:00.000-04:00

I drew three thumbnails yesterday.

Three.

No progress

2009-08-10T20:01:00.000-04:00

I have no work to show because I have been enjoying the summer, but this was an idea we came up with in the spring to help get feedback on work no matter where you may hide to get your thesis done.