kittys was meant to holding a balloon in the island room, but had to be cut out. So here she is holding a balloon.

Here I was doing more animation of kitty in her cart. I wanted to animate the cart, trying to get the weight right and also have the animation of kitty inside.

Am please with the videos above with the time that I have with this animation. Theres room for improvement but time is of the essences.

kittys room composited togther. The website on the left hand side www.videocopilot.net
is a really really good website for compositing footage and lots of effects. Anyway back to the DOF, in After Efects i set up a simple ramp as you can see. The black part of the ramp make things go out of focus and hte White part is in focus.

This is a proper DOF map, rendered out in maya that is used in our cave sequence. As you can see like the ramp the further away from the camera is darker which is out of focus and the nearer the camera which is lighter is in focus

Ive started doing little animating test in Kitty's cart and her inside the cart.this was quite a challenge as I haven't really done much this this before. I started off just animating the cart getting the speed and the weight right then I added kitty.

Today Ive been finalising my pictures for the catalogue and D&AD. This has been quite a long process, as I wasn't to sure which one to use, but now Ive picked the ones I like and Ive been composting the layers together.

I had slight problems with the depth map as I didn't know how this essentially effects the other layers in After Effects, but in the end I got it to work.

This what Ive done.

p.s hundredth post ! :D

For the animation folder I stared to do some walk and run cycles of my character kitty. Here's whats Ive got ! :D

walk cycle

Slow walk cycle

Run cycle

This weeks tasks are:

• Do some character animation.


• Knock up some renders for the catalogue and D&AD


• Some composite test renders.