Oooooh, Major Problems!

I've had Adobe CS3 for a few years now and I don't know what I did wrong or the installer was corrupt but AE keeps shutting down my PC. I doubt its lack of power as I have an Intel 9 processor with 12GB of Ram with a 2BG graphics card in my custom build, so just acquiring a newer version of the software and fingers crossed I get this sorted soon and get back on track!

Outside and Sunny.

Well the fight scene has now moved from an inside environment to and outside environment which is good but sure is making the comp lag a tad due to amount of objects to render e.g military buildings, trucks, mountains and many others things. This is all ok though as soon the fight will move into an empty mountainous environment for its ‘momentous crescendo’ to this fight, Dragonball Z style...maybe?


Also, the guy in this animation has now and updated, damage, battle style Map ;)

perijames.com

Been busy lately, not animating (ahhh I need to!) but sorting out my webiste, check it out, this blog and the website both link to each other so all is well.

Sneaky Peaky

Been animatin a lot recently but it sure is taking a while and is rather tedious but it sure does look good when its does!

Been also playing a lot with post production effects, in after effects no less, as I want to achicve Dragonball Z style destruction when fighting in the desert, just things like dust, explosions etc.

Also, been playing a lot with physics and such in Max and I am liking what I see..

POW!

Environments

As I wanted my characters to fight both in the dojo and on the desest floor that meant I had to create rather a bit of scenery, but none the less, here they be!

Just a note, I know the environments aren't the best but I wanted to focus more on the animation and making that look fluid rather having beautifully rendered images of crap animation?

The dojo, plain and simple:

Random army base:

Design/artwork

These are what I want my characters to look like

Not a bad resemblance I'd say

Design Practice 3, POW!

What I am doing:

Right, time to update this blog, in this and last project of the year I have chosen to interpret the matrix script, the script being a 3 minute (or so) fight sequence from the first matrix (neo: I know kung fu, Morpheus: show me..). In my interpretation the scene takes place in a miscellaneous desert (perhaps area 51? Doesn’t matter) to have that military kind of vibe. Morpheus is now the alien trainer (yoda?) and neo is now Stan (from American dad, kind of, not trying to breach copy writes or anything). The first part of the fight is going to be almost shot for shot the same as the original fight scene in the matrix dojo scene but then after the initial first sparring session I was thing to get serious and for this I shall use not only The Matrix for inspiration but Dragonball Z as well. So after the first minute or so of fighting in a standard dojo, they shall smash through the ceiling and fight in the desert Dragonball Z style.