wk 6: Elroy wanna a cracker

After viewing the beginning of my animation in Premier Pro I found that Drew randomly falling off a cliff wasn't coherent enough and needed a distraction, thus I invented Elroy (thats for you Lisa!). The idea being that He flies in and distracts Drew in a distractingly distracting way ergo leading to Drew's tumble. It is only a side bit to my original storyboard so it won't appear on it when I post it because I've already scanned it!

Below is my fully meshed and modelled Elroy. I tried to keep his styling in line with Drews which I think worked. I didn't really want to mess about with boning another character as bipeds keep giving me gyp, but being an idiot I thought I'd do it anyway! Elroy not being 100% human needed some modification to his bones hence the twisted nature of the biped below but I assure you it fits quite well!



Due to the radically altered biped the envelopes on the Physique were really playing up, but me already having similar problems with Drew meant I overcame them pretty quickly and below are all of the envelopes.



After consulting top designers and specialists in the field of 3D bird modelling (my Dad and Mum) it turns out red works better and I agree as he stands out more against the sky, so Elroy is more of a Macaw now, even though Macaw's can be blue as well!



Because General lighting has radically changed my scenes, turning it off produced quite a nice shot I thought almost a Photoshop Cutout filter there!



One last decision before we make flight that is the mouth. I say mouth snd not beak because Elroy has many human features which I think link him to Drew but also provide a humourous factor to him. When Elroy tweets I wanted it to look like a whistle So I think the best two mouths are the top left and bottom right. (The yellow mouth represents the bottom part of the beak) I quite liked both but as far as looking like he is whistle the bottom right won in the end!