After receiving some feedback on the colors and composition I went ahead and changed up the lighting and textures until I was happy with the fix.
Below is a test render to see how it would look.
For the sky in my scene I decided to add it later so I rendered all my scenes with a transparent background. I added the background in after effects and just moved around the sky texture to suit the animation of the scenes.
I decided to change the tree I made in Maya to a more suitable and better looking oak tree model that I found online. The new tree was made using "Paint Effects" and these paint effects would not render in Mental ray so I decided to convert all of them to polygons. They now could be rendered ok in Mental ray but the only downside is that the rendering times increased a lot due to the higher count of polygons in the scene.
With the squirrel being replaced with a little rabbit I decided to rework the camera shots and tried out some new storyboards. The new shots worked a lot better I think .
After importing the squirrel render I found that the rig was broken and was causing a lot of the frames to become corrupt.
After some research into the problem I found that many other animators that used the rig were also getting the same issue. I spent the next few days looking for and trying out other versions of the rig and seeing if I could fix the problem myself. After much frustration I decided to scrap the squirrel and use another rabbit but this time make it smaller and decided to change his color to red.
To change the rabbits color I brought the body texture from the rig into Photoshop and changed the color of it from grey to red and then renamed it "BODYRED texture" To apply the texture in Maya I just remapped the texture to the new one in the attributes editor.
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When it came to animating I also had a look at other clips of characters falling onto the ground.
Picking up the carrot scene I studied clips of people and carton characters to see how other animators might animate it and then I incorporated a lot of it into my own scene.
I had to animate him jumping to the carrot so I had a look for some good reference to help me animate a nice jump.
When the rabbit finds the carrot he becomes shocked and happy to find it and I had a look around for some poses to help me achieve the shocked look on his face.
I began to animate the scenes and started off with the rabbit walking up towards the tree.
In this scene I had to research walk cycles and gathered lots of reference to help me. Here are some references that I found useful.
Animatic
Logo for my Animation done
Some scenes I painted and placed rigs in for my animatic.
( In no particular order)
Tree Trunk Model
Here I imported the Tree Base mesh into Maya and started to sculpt it. I might keep this tree for my animation though in my animation I might need a bigger tree.
Next I started to add some branches and twigs.
I started to model the tree that the Squirrel will be in. Its just the trunk for now. I will model the leafs later.
While trying to give the characters a personality, these characters came to mind.
My squirrel is a cheeky character always getting into trouble so I thought of these characters to help base his personality
The rabbit is a bit lazy and laid back but can turn very crazy when angry.
These characters helped me build a better picture of his personality for me.
Images with themes and color pallets I liked
I like the nice cool color themes in these images.
These images have heavily influenced my design choices. I especially liked the scene with the tree at the end of a slope. Something like that will really fit my animation when the rabbit walks up to the tree.
Some textures and referances that I might use in my design.
These textures are great. I especially like the grass ones. I might paint similar textures and make them seamless for my environment. Painting the flat 2D textures will really help my rendering times. So its probably the route I will take.
Storyboards.
Summary.
Rabbit is walking along looking for food.
Rabbit walks towards a tree and notices a carrot sticking out of the ground beside it.
Every now and then the movie will cut to a first person view from inside the tree where something is moving around on the branches looking at the rabbit.
The rabbit walks over and pulls it out of the ground.
The rabbit looks up into the sky and notices the stars.
Film will cut to a shot of the sky showing all the stars and maybe the moon too.
Its getting late so the rabbit being a bit tired sits down beside the tree to relax in the nice view and eat his carrot.
He hears some noises up in the branches and turns around to see what is was but cannot see anything. one or two leaves fall from the tree after he hears the noise.
He begins to eat the carrot but just before he puts it in his mouth a squirrel flys down out of the tree and gabs it off him.
The squirrel laughs at the rabbit and quickly climbs back up into the tree.
Furious the rabbit starts shouts at the squirrel. He asks for it back but the squirrel refuses.
The rabbit in a huge rage starts throwing stones up into the tree until he hits the squirrel knocking the carrot out of his hands and him out of the tree.
The rabbit picks up the carrot and laughs at the squirrel. He then walks off with his carrot into the moonlit fields.
3D Animation Idea.
A conflict between a rabbit and a squirrel
Character rigs.
Rabbit
Rabbit
Squirrel
First Animation Idea Below:
This is a painting of a possible location of arch crystal I done in Photoshop that is deep in the jungle
Characters with some Color added
Character Design Rough Sketches.
Some character pose practice.
Research of some styles, textures and color themes I liked.
Idea 2.
Bobu gets in trouble for being too happy and is brought before a judge. In court is is sentenced to exile from the planet. He is grabbed by guards, dragged to a spaceship and sent on his way. There is a scene of him being launched off the planet and into space. Bobu coughs up a crystal and starts to wonder how it got there.
A memory will start to play showing him strolling along and unknowingly entering a restricted area. He trips over causing the magic crystal to fall from its podium, into his mouth and swallows it by accident. He then gets up and walks off on his happy way.
Remembering what he did he starts to laughs the ship powers up and sets off in warp speed through space. The movie cuts to soldiers realizing that the crystal was taken and watch the cctv footage to see who took it. Realising Bobu took it the have a meeting where they send Rabber Kiki and Riko to go and retrieve it. A scene of them getting onto their ship and setting off on their trip comes next.
A new scene of Bobu’s ship popping out of warp speed comes next and into view is planet earth where his ships moves closer towards the planet.
He lands on earth and jumps out of his ship looking around wondering where he is.
Rabber and Kiki are using their tracking device to track Bobus ship. And an image of Earth pops up on their screens. The laugh in an evil way and set off toward earth and the movie end with them laughing.
A memory will start to play showing him strolling along and unknowingly entering a restricted area. He trips over causing the magic crystal to fall from its podium, into his mouth and swallows it by accident. He then gets up and walks off on his happy way.
Remembering what he did he starts to laughs the ship powers up and sets off in warp speed through space. The movie cuts to soldiers realizing that the crystal was taken and watch the cctv footage to see who took it. Realising Bobu took it the have a meeting where they send Rabber Kiki and Riko to go and retrieve it. A scene of them getting onto their ship and setting off on their trip comes next.
A new scene of Bobu’s ship popping out of warp speed comes next and into view is planet earth where his ships moves closer towards the planet.
He lands on earth and jumps out of his ship looking around wondering where he is.
Rabber and Kiki are using their tracking device to track Bobus ship. And an image of Earth pops up on their screens. The laugh in an evil way and set off toward earth and the movie end with them laughing.
Idea 1.
Story opens in a short animatic with some background information explaining who the main character is and why he is in trouble.
First scene is of Bubo being dragged to the launch pad and is is kicking and trying to break free.The spaceship is launched into space and when it is out of the planets orbit it then enters warp speed.
Bobu starts to cough and he coughs up the magic arch crystal and he starts laughing.It then cuts to an earlier memory of when bubo was wondering the woods and came across a fence with restricted area signs on it. There is a broken hole in the fence
Curious he clmbs in and comes across a crystal. Intrigued he picks up the crystal. Off in the distance he hears guards shouting so he swallows the crystal quickly and turns around.The guards grab him and drag him off.
Cuts back to the spaceship and it then it exits warp speed. Planet earth pops into view.His ship lands on earth and the movie cuts to his planet where people realize the crystal is gone. The evil characters suspect bobu of taking the crystal and look at their tracking device to see where the ship travelled to.
A team of aliens board a ship.They punch in the location of earth and their rocket sets off. The movie ends with the evil characters exiting warp speed and planet earth comes into view.
BOBU THE DODU - Plot Summary
Rabber Kiki and Bobu are aliens from the Moron Galaxy.
They are three aliens called Dodu and are 99% of the time, angry, selfish and moody creatures that get their strength and intelligence from their magic Arch Crystal. The Dodu owe their existence to it and without it, they will start becoming weaker and more stupid as they evolve.
Bobu was different from all the other Dodu. He was always cheerful and wanted to play all the time Bobu was found guilty of being to happy and was banished from the planet.
They are three aliens called Dodu and are 99% of the time, angry, selfish and moody creatures that get their strength and intelligence from their magic Arch Crystal. The Dodu owe their existence to it and without it, they will start becoming weaker and more stupid as they evolve.
Bobu was different from all the other Dodu. He was always cheerful and wanted to play all the time Bobu was found guilty of being to happy and was banished from the planet.
Before he was banished he hid the Arch Crystal among his belongings and took it with him on his travels. Nobody knew where he went with it and the Dodu put together a search team to go and find the Crystal and return it. Kiki, Rabber and their child Riko were given the mission to go and find it. They set off into the universe looking for it.
They traced the crystal all the way to the milkyway galaxy and think Bobu is hiding it on the planet earth. They think the crystal might be the cause for humans developing intelligence all though are still not as advanced as the Dodu in terms of technology and science . Rabber, Kiki and Riko now spend their time trying to catch Bobu and retrieve the Arch Crystal. Bobu always gets away from them and ruins all their plans to catch him.
They traced the crystal all the way to the milkyway galaxy and think Bobu is hiding it on the planet earth. They think the crystal might be the cause for humans developing intelligence all though are still not as advanced as the Dodu in terms of technology and science . Rabber, Kiki and Riko now spend their time trying to catch Bobu and retrieve the Arch Crystal. Bobu always gets away from them and ruins all their plans to catch him.
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