Great Rigging Demo

Here is a fantastic rigging reel by Josh Carey who is a professional rigging supervisor and knows almost all there is about rigging hence the very impressive rigging demo shown below.

After watching this rigging demo I have been inspired to create my own advanced rig which will have a lot of squash and stretch attributes similar to those seen in the video.This will be a challenge however if I can get even slightly close to the level shown here I will be very happy.

Now that I have finished the pre-production for the 'Poseidon Rising' project the next steps will be for me to decide and design the characters I will be modelling, rigging and finally animating.

Storyboard

Scene Animatics

As we have now divided the scenes up between me and the other animator I have now made individual scene animatics to pad out the animation in each scene.

Scene 12: 

Scene 25 Alternative:

Scene 28: 

Scene 30:

Scene 31:

Scene 32:

Final Full Animatic

Here is the final full animatic that I have made so that we have the story and shots ready to start breaking up the specific scene animations up.

Updated Animatic 2

Here is an updated animatic again this time with music and the voice over that we will be using as well. I have also refined some of the movements and shots but still kept some of the scenes that worked from the previous animatic.

Updated Animatic

Here is an updated animatic for the sequence intro. The idea now features a 2D scene (hence the 2D scene title) that George will paint himself and be a flashback to Poseidons past and how he got in the position he is in today with no powers.

For the very first couple of scenes I took reference from the introduction to the movie 'The Shining' which I think has worked out well to set the scene and location of the animation. The final couple of shots where Poseidon steps into the temple is when he starts to get his powers back which is what the blue wisps signifies.

Initial Animatic

First vary basic animatic to get an idea of some shots we could do for the introduction of the sequence.

The intro starts off with the main character Poseidon riding in on his motor bike with some nice close ups of the bike so that we don't reveal his identity. The camera finally pans up as Poseidon takes off his helmet to reveal himself to the audience. He smiles as he looks into the distance at the temple. The final shot being the establishing shot telling the audience that we're at the temple of Poseidon.