Blend Shapes Finished

YAY finally my blend shape are working, thanks to Sean Mundy.

2d or not 2d that is the question??

So far my 3d animating skills are super poor real hard, which would of been alright, if i had the time to learn it, but with only 2 more weeks too the deadline, i am seriously thinking of changing my animation into a 2d animation, since i have more experience in it. So my rigs are not working too well, and my character facial expression are really bad, and it takes me a whole day just to do one shot, that looks really bad, because of the way it deforms. Then if i ever get my animating done on maya, i sill have to fix my models, and then render them out, which will take a while. I dont think i can make it in time, and i still have to add sound.

If i chose to do it in 2d, i would lose all the time and effect of creating the models and textures, and detail, but i will be about to have a finished animation with decent results, i even did most of the rough animation in flash and i would be a lot less stress, and the reason why i chose to do it in 3d was for the learning experience, and i did learn to use zbrush to sculpt my characters which was an enjoyable experience, but also learn t that my models dont deform well, with the rigs we made for them, and now we dont have time to fix it. 

so yeah i really dont know what to do, it might even take  just as long to do it in 2d, but at least i know what im doing and would be a lot less stressed.

Running Comp

Shot01 Matte Painting

Here is my matte painting for shot 1, so far, im happy with it, but im but sure if it makes senses, because of the perspective.

Test

here is test of the setting, for the final scene.

Rock Island, bamboo and leaf done!!

for my last scene I've decided to change the setting, from a deserted island to a rocky floating island, because, for me i thought it would be easier to model the rocky island and i didnt want to animate water. Below is the rocky island modeled and textured.

Below is my bamboo textured, so far i quite happy with it, i just need to figure out on how to do the branches and leaves in zbrush.(or i might just do it in maya)

Here is a leaf, which i can use for various plants, so far im quite happy with it, but for some reason the pixels looks really bad, but i assume it would look better on smaller scale.

I know this doesnt look much for my 2 week holidays, but i had some computer and internet problems, also im still a beginner at zbrush and was still learning that, and i was also  setting up my running comp, which took alot longer for some reason.

2d backgrounds

Here are a few backgrounds i did for my animation.

 Below is one of my matte painting that will be used on a majority of my animation. So far i am quite happy with the final result, the only promblems i have with it are the green hill, it doesnt looks like it fits in with the mountains.

Below are my sky background for the shots that require the sky, so far im quite happy with it, except for the leaf, it just looks too rough