Animation Idea

After i have created the models and rigged them i have to create a short piece of animation with them. For this i decided to make them interact together and make the little girl copy everything the gorilla does and then the gorilla gets confused.

The girl is behind glass in the zoo watching from outside the cage, and the gorilla is in its environment going about its buisness.

Models of clay

I made these models out of clay to understand some of the texturing to add to my final models to get them like clay to go with the brief.

It also help me to get a better understanding 3 dimensionally of the models to make it easier when using maya.

Gorilla Design ideas

Final idea,color ideas, The brown looks too bear- like.

Initial Sketches of Gorilla

Here are some drawings of gorillas i have done from life and photos.

Project Objectives

Within the brief i was set a number of points to cover within the project.

1: To concentrate on Two characters. I have Decided on Cornelius the gorilla and Pocahontas the small girl for the two characters. I have done some character designs and research to begin this.

2: Use one of the three major packages of Maya, Lightwave or Max. I have decided to go with maya as it is the one i know best but i still have much to learn within this software package.

3: The model must be of less than 100,000 polygons and be textured decently. For this i will create a simple model with a low polygon count, then i can take it into z-brush and make it more detailed. I need to look more into texturing models.

4: Support work for character designs, development drawings and character sheets with orthographic drawings of each character. For this i have done many sketches of the characters and have begun to do orthographic drawings of the characters in all positions to get a better picture of the final outcome.

5:Expressive animation sequences. I have done some research into how gorillas move including watching them at the zoo first hand, and watching videos on u tube. This i hope to incorperate into my animating, and get realistic movement.

Time Schedule

The Orange represents where i should be at in that week.

Unfortunately my plan didn't go as planned, as some things took me longer then anticipated, the rigging took me more than two weeks as the book i was using was wrong, with errors so i had to find out the problems and re-start certain parts. This meant that i only had a couple of days to be able to animate so the animation is not as good as it could have been.

Research into Small Girls for character designs

My main inspiration for the character design for the little girl Pocahontas Billiams was that of DIsney/Pixar's Monsters INC. : Boo. Her personality is that which i would like to get for the little girl i am designing. She will be bouncy and fun.