Pirate Escapade

Title:	Pirate Escapade
Rigs:	Property of Animation Mentor
Creation date:	September 2012
Texturing:	Texturing done by me, with the exception of the rigs and the downloaded models
Lighting:	Lighting was done by me
Animation:	All animation was done by me
Props:	Galleon ship from 3dmodel.domawe.com Barrel from thefree3dmodels.com Bottle from thefree3dmodels.com Paddle boat from 3dvia.com Treasure chest, modeled by me
Sounds:	freesfx.co.uk

The Pirate Escapade is a three shot animation in which I wanted to tell a short funny story about a pirate stealing a treasure from another pirate. My aim was from the start to focus on weight and I chose to do so through rope climbing and heavy object lifting. In addition I wanted to try out a sneak walk, but didn't want to redo the classic one as it has been shown too often.

Here are the sketches (again as animated GIF), along with an old blocking version of the first shot. BTW, since I don't do rope climbing, I used a reference video from youtube...

Here's the sketch I made for the "quick sneak walk" along with the video reference and an old blocking version of the second shot


Finally the sketches, video reference and an old blocking version of the third shot

Finally the eventual version after rendering 17 minutes per frame in the scenes where the ocean simulation is visible...