Major: Lost Boy - Shot 17 Frame Renders

Shot 17 Frame 2164

Shot 17 Frame 2419

 Shot 17 Frame 2364

Major - Lost Boy - Frame Renders

I have been rendering frames for each shot for Lost Boy as I go

 Shot 1: Frame

Shot 2: Frame 511

 Shot 3: Frame 510

 Shot 4: Frame 529

 Shot 5: Frame 596

 Shot 6: Frame 629

 Shot 6: Frame 709

 Shot 6: Frame 716

Shot 7: Frame 863

Major - Lost Boy - Animation Progress #5

Lost Boy PostViz - Animation Progress 4 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Boarding Pass Painted Texture

 Conveyer Belt Painted Texture

Tobacco Painted Texture

Major - Lost Boy - Animation Progress #4 - Shot 11

I was originally going to cut this shot for the hand in as it was a big chunk to lip sync but I wanted to do it as it really describes the Present Graeme's character and after hearing the sound that my composer Brian Freeland made I couldn't cut it. Shot 12 is near completion I have just been modelling the assets for that shot, including the clappaboard, conveyer belt and Present Graeme's knick knacks that are inside the airport tray for shot 13.

Lost Boy - Post Viz Shot 11 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Shot 12 Clappaboard, Microphone Assets

Clappaboard Painted Texture

 Shot 12 Clappa Board, Conveyer Belt Assets

Shot 13 Assets WIP

Major: Lost Boy - Score - First Draft

The composer for Lost Boy - Brian Freeland has been busy bringing the film to life, Brians website details his skills and previous work and I choose Brian because I liked how he does classical elements but can also do more technical experimental pieces which I want to mesh together for Lost Boy.  I am really enjoying seeing these updates flourish - I love the leitmotif for Present Graeme, it's clumsy, comical with a dash of trouble. I really love the screechy sounds for the climax of the airport scene and the part where Young Graeme is introduced hit me right in the feels as it shows innocence, nostalgia and a dreamy vibe which correlates to him having his head in the clouds and always dreaming big. As this is just a first draft more elements will be added along with notes that I will make, so far hearing the sound bring the previz to life really gives me more incentive to keep on trucking and get this film made! I cannot wait to replace Moom with my polished sets and characters and see them manifest along with the score :)

Lost Boy Score Progress from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

@ALan Major: Lost Boy - Post-Viz - Animation Progress #3 Version 2

I have added in movement to present Graeme's spine and cog control and a breathe in and out for the exhale of his cigarette - I think he looks much more vivacious and alive now, I do think there is room for improvement, I still need to animate the eyebrows too.

Lost Boy - Shot_10_V2 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy - Post-Viz - Animation Progress #3

Todays Animation Progress - I enjoyed this one, I decided to have Present Graeme version 2 face the audience when rolling along his ball of tobacco - I think its more comical that way :)

Shot_10 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy Post-Viz - Animation Progress #2

I am really enjoying animating and I am getting quicker at it particularly with the lip sync as Alan advised me I didn't really have a mouth open - wide and narrow blend shape as the rest of the wide and narrow blendshapes were connected to a phoneme it slowed the previous lip sync on shot one down but now that I have created and connected the wide and narrow shapes I am finding myself not needing the majority of the phoneme blend shapes as most of it is done with the jaw, wide and narrow. I do think the running shot could be better I want to return to this also the shot where Present Graeme smacks his head with the nervous ball of energy flourishing from his eyeball I want to lip sync this part but did have the wide and narrow blend shapes done for that shot - I will return to it and reconnect in the blend shapes.
Animation Progress 2_720 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

 Wide Mouth Closed Blend Shape

 Wide Mouth Open Blend Shape

Narrow Mouth Open Blend Shape

Major: Lost Boy - Present Graeme - New Toon Lines

I have been playing around with my scenes to try and make them look like the final renders which previously contained the new AI Toon for Arnold but as these only show up in the renders and not playblasts it wasn't feasible as I need my post-viz for hand in to look as much like the final film as possible. In the rendering tab there is a toon section that I applied an outline to Present Graeme from which shows in the viewport and when I playblast, I Simply converted the toon lines to polygons in the same section to see if they would show up in a render and they do! I think it looks so much nicer and sketchier which correlates nicely to my concept art and I like that is slightly offset and imperfect. I will be using this instead of the AI toon as I don't like how perfect the AI toon looks and it's also annoying that the lines get thicker when the camera is further away - I will be applying this method to all characters and certain objects throughout the film especially in the Art Room instead of having to make alpha channels around boxes - I'll keep the ones that are done but will be adding more with this method. Because the toon lines are polygons there is a lot of options to manipulate with which I think can add some nice impact to anxious elements.

New Toon Line

New Toon Line with Line Extend Cranked Up

Previous AI Toon

Major: Lost Boy Post-Viz - Animation Progress #1 Scene 1 - Shot 1

Now the fun starts! I am throughly enjoying animating :D Some refinements can be made, I should start to get into the flow more with animating and get quicker, I followed the attached tutorial below to help with the lip sync as I find it kind of difficult to do it definitely can be improved but the video thought me a valuable lesson that I never thought of before - sound is delayed so the face shapes start before the actual sound happens. 

Lost Boy Scene 1 Shot 1 from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy - Present Graeme Rig Demo

Present Graeme Rig Demo from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.
Present Graeme Expressions from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Major: Lost Boy - Present Graeme - Rigged

Present Graeme is now fully rigged and ready to make shapes! I am going to do a full rig demo tomorrow.