Toni Haythornwhite's Blog

Well 2 day, I can say that I am half way through completing my VFX work... it has tooks some long nights and hours but all of my rendering is complete.... I can also say that I am onto the motionbuilder stages of my motion capture as well... which hopefully if I dont start slacking i could complete this before the deadline... Also I have my presentation on 3rd May which I am not lookin foward to as I had doing presentation in front of a massive audience. I can say that this type of work takes time and comitment which is something I need to put into practise for next year... if I pass lol :P Also would like to make a point that the finale of True Blood season 4 was like totally awsome... cant wait for season 5.... Will write back soon...

With my first week back at uni, I am up to my eyeballs in uni work and I only have two weeks to complete everything.... So as you can imagined I am stressing abit.... I have managed to nearly complete my lighting project which took two days to render which was a right joke... but I have to admit the images and my scene look really well... I have also nearly completed my Motion Capture project as well... just need to imort everything into moton builder and should be completed. The one project that I can be doin with is he animation appreciation module as i find it to be boring and not helpfull in anyway so i will be glad to see the back of it lol :D Just my visual effects work to do and i will have finished my second year at university.... lets just hope I pass everything :D Will write back soon ....

Well today I have been really lazy and not done anything... Yesturday I managed to complete another model for my VFX module and have also made more progress on my lighitng project. Having looked through tutorials over the internet and books, I feel like I might restart my scene because I feel like its not working out and will start with the basics again. I have just remembered that I have also to complete both reports for both my lighting and motion capture module... also need to start the report for my VFX... At the end of the day I have quite a lot to do but I have been distracted with the tv at the moment... what with True Blood and the shocking finalie of ANTM Allstars last night was fab... really pleased that Lisa won and I wish here all the best for her modeling carrer :) For the past half hour I have been experimenting with my lighting scene in maya and I am getting really frustrated. I am happy with the lighting in my scene as it looks dark and creepy and this being ...

Hiya... Today I decided to crack on with my uni work so that I could enjoy the rest of my easter holidays, so I decided to do the one think that I dreaded the most... Tracking (Matchmoving). From my previous experience it was a living hell to complete and following the tutorial I have to say it was going extremely well.... until the dreaded software decided to tell me that I could not complete the task due to my software licence. Because I am a student I can get software from certain companies but it failed to tell me that not all of the features will work.... so you can take it from me I am fumming...... This means that on thursday I was going in to uni to catch up on two subjects now it gone to three... was hoping for a quick days work and now it looks like Im gonna be there for a while...... But luckly I can be cracking on with my texturing. The project I am working on is to texture and track some items into some footage and make it look realsitic. So far I have completed o...

Well I have finally finished uni for 2 weeks... and I am so thrilled lol :) This gives me the oppertunity to gets so me time and also complete so of my work before I go back... My plan of action is to start tomorow on my VFX work as I feel this is the main priority as I have quite a lot to complete. Also the final of ANTM Allstar finishes tomorow so I want to complete some work before hand as I believe this is one not to be missed. I am going back into uni on thursday with sophie so we can complete our motion capture cleanup on vicon blade so then I can work on appling the movement onto my character. Also we are meeting to put together our presentation for animation appreciation. To be truthfull I am not looking foward to the presentation as my presention skills are pants and I am really nervous about speaking infont of an audience. Also I plan on finishing my lighting project and completing the report to follow. Hopefully I will keep to my word and complete these task before I retu...