VIZAVS: Pet Park Review 3

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A small, playful dog spends a sunny afternoon at the park with some unusual pet friends.

Anthony Eason

Since the last presentation, the two main things that I’ve made progress on was cleaning up the animation of the first three shots and beginning the early stages of lighting the scene.

Animation

For the animation of the man walking up the hill, I had a lot of issues with getting the perspective correct. I started from his first position and worked forward till the end, and because I was zoomed in so far in the window, he shrunk like Ant-Man towards the end. To fix this, I drew the first and last frames to get a sense of his perspective throughout the shot.

Lighting

I began making lighting tests to see how the environment could potentially look in the final film. The quicker we’re able to get an accurate sense of lighting, we can move on to coloring in the highlights of the characters. The whole idea for the environment is to make the viewer believe the characters could actually live in that world, even though they are 2D in a 3D environment. So the trees, grass, and pond models are very stylized, and the lighting (fill, directional for sun) give a realistic shadow scenario, yet a cartoony –feel atmosphere.

Zach Smith

For the gorilla animation, I finished the gorilla's body and polished the dog's movement. I also started drawing the final keyframes for the dog. Once I finish the final key frames for the dog, I will start working on coloring and lighting before finally filling in the missing frames. I am working on the matte paintings seen below. I am working on the buildings for the background.

Danyah Alriffi

The Biggest challenge was understanding how an animal's body rolls in mid air. While there are plenty of cat refrances, dogs, especially dotsons are harder to find. I used images and cats, other dogs, as well as watching some videos and relying on my own imagination to get the positions right.Drawing them was a challenge in itself. They are poses I don’t normally draw in my own work.

For the scene of our puppy jumping off the gator’s nose, that was slightly easier but still required plenty of references. I used images of dogs both running and jumping, one of them being the jump cycle from 101 Dalmations which was our original inspiration for this project .

I also blocked in some color to begin tying the scene together. The color will need adjusting as we start working with the lighting.

Bekha Wells

The first scene of the ostrich is updated to where the dog appears from behind the ostrich. The second scene of the ostrich running with the dog upon its back. The circle represents the dog. This small scene can be turned into a loop for as long as needed. The run sequence will end with the ostrich coming to a sudden spot and the dog jumping off. The running positions were influenced by images of certain stages of a run cycle and a YouTube video of an ostrich racing a runner.