123th day

122nd day

this is the animation i have been working on so far
what i have done today
i have tryed afew things 2 peace 2 parts of animation together
i tryed making the marine have an exaggerated trip but didnt feel it was believable
so i tryed making the marine pull out his gun as he balances himself
the part that sucked about this was that it was way to fast so i removed those keys and tryed to make it so the marine takes a step back from his trip afterwards but this also was unsuccessful
so i have decided to concentrate on the trip and keep it as that

121st day

today i lost half of my work but restarted what i had done and have mostly compete and will be able to play blast what iv done tomorow. what i am doing is editing the walk and drag of the marines trying to add weight to the 2 carrying and the singular marine being dragged

120th day

today i scraped my walk and restarted it to give it better life and flow i am half way through the 2nd characters walk i just have to attach it to the rest of the animation and animate the 3rd charecters being grabbed by the tentacle

118th and 119th day

yesterday and today i animated. the video was to large to upload here but ill send a facebook link to it here
https://www.facebook.com/jimichrist/videos/10206604222480193/?l=7285563467288199539

i have had to work with some small methods to make 3 charecters fit well together like v snapping wrists to locators parented to models and more also i have speeded up the walk part of the animation to make more room for the rest of the shots in the scene

117th day

i think ive missed afew days on my blog because im my last day i saw the docter and was distracted

this is what i have done today i have also done quick renders for my story board and my animatic just because they take seconds to do and i like to imagine how the finishing product will look

issues i had were
the graph editer would not open i would get this in script editor
GraphEditor;
// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2015/scripts/others/filterUI.mel line 2032: itemFilter: Object is not the correct type:  objectFilter49 //

also as you can tell in the renders the bearded charecter was unable to raise his eye lid

116th day

today i injurer my wrist from acting out reference material but before hand i begun setting up a stepped animatic

115th day

after preparing for a scene and being crusified before lunch i have started setting out layout and getiing pictures for story board and animatic

using "leftovers" from other projects i have a fully modeled lit and textured back ground and props which i have put on my marines i have also got a basically rigged tentacle with out any controls 

besides that and the chest plate on the marines not being skinned i am fully ready to animate

114th day

today i worked on making a tentacle using a texture from my part of my xenomorph egg which i made in my own time
below you will find a picture of the tentacle i made and the alien egg i made the texture is from

113th day

today i played with some morphie rigs and had alittle trouble saving as a MA and had to save as MB any way these are the outfits iv set up for my 3 characters