Aston and the Michelin Man do Hamlet

Sorry, no sound, but since when was Shakespeare famous for his dialogue anyway?

This was a test for driving the characters with mocap.

Chopping day

Today, my rough cut goes from 4:30 minutes to 3:00 minutes. That's I'll I plan to do all day, over around 12-13 hours. It's going to be a long process, but I want to be down to my final edit before I take the time to handle the character animation.

Character Development, Part 4

Ah, the new shoes and the finished models.

After this they were rigged to use in MotionBuilder, which is where the characters meets the Mo-Cap.

Finally, we are at texturing. I wanted something old school, but wants to make sure the colors aren't too dark or light...

Character Development, Part 3-D

Anthony's next round of revisions were (was?) the first modeled...More notes, am I ever satisfied...
Some notes aren't represented visually. We had the discussion of 4 or 5 fingers on the hands, whether to use clothes or not, and finally on the shoes via e-mail. I found the above shoes too blah, so we opted for sneakers...and no clothes, Donald never needed pants.

Character Development, Part 2

Then we trade a few notes and revisions ...Begets this from Antony...And more notes...

Character Development, Part 1

In an effort to post as much of the various documents I have accumulated in the process of making this short, I'll start with character development. My characters were designed and modeled by Anthony Aguilar.

First I provided simple sketches...


And a lot of influences, some of which were posted here...
http://chesterthesis.blogspot.com/2009/04/character-influences.html

From this, Anthony sent me back his first preliminary designs...

Hmm, digital files are huge.

I've been working without a backup for a solid week, so now I'm taking time to do it. 246 minutes to back everything up, approx. 265GB.

For a while I was going back and forth between my home machine and my school computer, but now the sure size of the project makes it easier to just work on campus all the time.

Edit: Opps. Backup halted about 30GB short. Have to finish it up.