Minor - Mika Head #1

Here is the first work in progress of a Mika head test. I think for the rough blocking its looking okay, though I did run into issues in the mouth area due to my design being so stylised. I have made a note of this going forward.

Toolkit 2 - Submission

Animation

1. Action Poses

2. Dramatic Poses

3. Weight Lifting

4. Charlie Chaplin Dope Sheet

5. Charlie Chaplin Extremes (Incomplete)

6. Infographic

7. Facial Animation

8. Acting

Drawing

1. Life Drawing

2. Character Design Bible

4. Character Design Weekly Tasks

3. Sculpting

Maya

1. Jet Pack Jones 

(Head: Part 11)

(Body: Part 2)

(UV: N/A)

(Skinning: N/A)

(Rigging: N/A)

(Facial Rigging 1,2,3: N/A)

(Texturing: N/A)

(Turnarounds: N/A)

2. Lighting and Rendering

3. Mudbox

Toolkit 2 - Life Drawing Submission: Term 1 and 2

Toolkit 2 - Pipeline 1: Head Modelling Part 10

 Cornea

Eyeball

Premise - Goals for the summer

My goals for the summer break are:

- Start doing 3D tests for Mika, ready for when I come back in September. I want to be ready to make a final model as soon as possible. This is my main goal.
- I want there to be a finalised song and lyrics by the end of summer so I have a finished Animatic by the end too. This is so when I make the transition into 3D I know what Mika needs to be able to do in 3D and can model accordingly.
- I want to finish the first half of my making of/art of (the entire preproduction side), So that when I come back for 3rd year I can just add on using the pre-established aesthetic.

@Alan - Premise - Orpho Arms Fix

Premise - Crit Presentation

Premise - Loose Animatic 3

Premise - Concept Art #2

Premise - Mika Final Colors

Premise - Song Second Draft

Today I received a new demo of the song. It doesn't have added vocal melodies or vocals but I really like how it sounds so far.

You can listen to the new draft here.

Screenshot of how the song looks in FL Studio so far.

Listening to this new draft has given me new ideas for my animatic and I am going to draw them out ready for the crit on Thursday.

Here is what Kowa intends to add next:

-Still, need to do mixing on some of the individual instruments before I fully render the track, this will be saved for the very end. 

-This draft is in its rough stages; the musical direction may shift and instruments can be changed later on. 

-Might pitch the melody down depending on the range of the voicebank. If the vocal range does end up being an issue, I will have to wait until the very end of the entire process to pitch the individual instruments and samples down, so hopefully, it doesn't come to that 

The lyrics are not yet done due to the vocals being generated with a vocal synth. Kowa doesn't want to make progress with them now just in case things change later and she has to re-render vocals and remake the midi base. However, in my animatic, I will include where verses, bridges and chorus' are on screen.

Premise - Mika Hair Options

The side views aren't perfect but these are some of the hair options I'm thinking of giving Mika. I like 3 as it looks messy like in the first one but still shows their face like in the second. But I might stick with 1 since I like how it makes Mika seem closed off from themselves.