Long Bod Post

The time has come - final hand in week. I feel unusually ok about this, simply because of the amount of work achieved by Team Pedro during these past 2 months. At present we have enough scenes animated to compile a short incoherent film, however to achieve THE short movie we are aiming for, and that makes sense, we need this last week.

What I thought was minor bad news last week when Alec dropped his hard drive actually turned out to be slightly worse than I thought. I was hoping the files could be salvaged over the weekend or somehow repaired however this is not the case - it's f***** as Alec would say so loudly. We have a few old backups and the remaining days to get back on track it just means later nights this week than intended.

So what to do? Well first priority is to finish animating the last remaining scenes, render them and composite. I think we only have 2 and a half left now - so definately possible. Next priority is editing, getting the shots in order in premier and matching them up with the audio. After this it will be a case of making a short montage of our gorilla zoo footage leading up to our gorilla cage pan down shot. This is the most important shot as it illustrates that our little animated clay gorillas are in actual fact in London Zoo, in a bush, next to the gorilla sign, getting on with their er, day to day life I guess. This idea was inspired by the creature comforts locations, and adds a nice little pun/irony/ i don't know the word/ to the story. Similarly with the Zoo magazine joke.
Next whack in the amazing gorilla song. Tidy, touch up etc. THEN, we could just slap it on a disc as a quicktime file - but thats just LAZY. So we have decided to produce a well preseneted DVD, with a nice menu etc. to display our concept work and extras. We will produce 3 identical discs, one for each of us to hand in, and clearly label on our own copiues the 2 specialist areas we have focused on. That is the plan. It will not fail.

Today saw me animate the rest of the escape scene, which I am fairly pleased with actually. I managed to conquer the backwards hunched over gorilla hop I had so eagerly wanted to achieve. Alec kindly offered to lip sync this scene for me as I was sick of this task, plus he needs the practice :o Ohhhh no I didn't! So yeah we swapped and I worked on William which was a refreshing change. We lost the updated William rig due to the hard drive accident so I had to work on the one which needed "SORTING OUT!". So I sorted out his dirty finger rig which was messing up, and the lack of eyebrow within the scene. I also textured the chest plate, and animated the wave deformer and textures. I left mine to render for tomz.

Tommorow I think I will have to resort to finishing a scene I hate involving Cornelius spouting off about beautiful young ladies. It's gotta be done. Everythings coming together now though and I reckon we will be editing and doing all the fun stuff by thursday! I'm off now to watch the Usual Suspects......

"SORT IT OUTTTTTTTTTTTT!" Alec Smith 2009

" So crack a bottle let your body wobble!" - Class of 09