I will be working on the Digital Voices animation group project for my summative.

This week I worked on rigging the first out of three contestants. The rig is all set up with pegs for the upper and lower legs and arms, the hands and the ankles, as well as for the entire legs and arms. There is also pegs for the head, including the neck, and the shoulders. These are all connected to a master peg.

This is the first complete rig I set up. I am going to get the information on how this character moves later on, but right now the rigs are all set up and working pretty well.

This is the node veiw for the rig I set up for this character.

This week I worked on the second and third contestant rigs. This time, right before I started colouring the character for the second one, I saved a copy of the rig so that I have a head start on the third contestant. Other than that, making these characters was an identical process to the first one.

Here is the second complete rig I set up. It's pretty similar to the first one, the only exception being that I left out the joined shoulders and just made two separate shoulders for each arm. This made it easier to colour the character.

This is the third character I worked on. This character has to be the most complicated, because he moves the most. I started this character with a copy of a previous character, so I didn't have to start the nodes from scratch again.

Over the weekend I brought a laptop and tablet home, so I finished working on all character's facial expressions and positions. This week all I had to do was add keyframes, then I'll move on to colouring diffrent scenes.

This week, I just fixed the facial expressions for this rig, and I made a copy of the scene, so that I have one version with keyframes, and one without.

I did the same thing for this rig, I just fixed the facial expression and made a copy with keyframes and kept one without.

This is me starting to colour a scene. I was given a colour palate which I copied onto my swatches, then I started working on the colour layer.

This is the colouring I have done so far without the colour layer showing. 

This is the complete character colouring.

This is the complete character colouring with the colour layer showing. The colour layer really started to lag some time after colouring the hair, because of the amount of anchor points. I had to colour everything on the same layer though, so the colour would go behind the lines.

Its the final countdown. We present on Tuesday of this week and Im working on some final colouring and spreadsheet organization.