Lots of updates! For one, the short film I’m working on has finally been named: “Now That Takes The Biscuit”. A name that reflects the story in more than one way!
Here’s just a little teaser:
The production is progressing nicely, with all that’s left to do is the animation. For that I have a few more weeks, so I’ll hopefully be finished by May 20th. Both characters are rather aged and stiff, so fortunately there won’t be a lot of bouncy, hi-speed animation work for me to do. Just two old fellows sitting on a bench waiting for their train to arrive…
The character rigs on the other hand were giving me a lot of trouble, especially in areas of fine detail such as the hands and fingers. At one point I was so fed up with Final Rig that I decided to start all over with Animan, another free character rigging system. While that one isn’t perfect either, it works pretty well now. And after all, it’s free!
Now that everything else is running, I’m still not too thrilled: It seems that any time I just want to animate something, some random part will break and I’ll have to go into the character model and fix it! Hugely annoying! And not a very creative workflow at all.
