There were a lot of problems in December that prevented me from doing my best on that entry. First of all, I didn't like the dialog. As soon as I heard it, I knew it would be hard to animate. Nothing really came to me, but I was able to come up with an idea that wasn't too bad. Fortunately for my Dominance War V submission, the deadline was extended to December 15th. This was not beneficial to my 11 Second Club work. Then I got a PS3 for Christmas. And will all of my extended family hanging around playing that from the 24th to the 31st, I didn't really get much work done to finish up.
I also had problems with my rig. I went through the Character Rigging for Production tutorial from Digital Tutors to complete it, which covered a lot of techniques I wasn't fully comfortable with. I thought I got a good understanding of what I was doing, but I didn't always understand why I was doing it. As a result of some error along the way, the female's finger ended up not responding to my keys toward the end. And the blend shapes didn't deform properly when I tried to use them with the characters in different positions, so I had to try and hide my lip syncing as much as possible, because it didn't look good. The arm IK(inverse kinematics) didn't work either, so I had to do it all with FK(forward kinematics). Which meant the hand was wiggling around all the time.
To sum up, my problems were:
-Not giving my full attention until Dec 15th
-Not giving my full attention after Dec 24th
-Bad blend shapes
-Bad arm IK
-Glitches in the fingers
With all those excuses out of the way, I shouldn't have any excuse for failure this month. Hopefully I'll be able to break into the top 50. It's all part of the process...
Here's a video of my entry, if your interested:
December Competition Entry from Shaun Martin on Vimeo.
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