Short Film:
'A Hero Book In The Making'

| A Hero Book In The Making | 3D intro segment | the full animatic |
| Planning | Props | Environments | Characters | Rigging |
| Facial Rigging | Animation | FX | Lighting and Rendering | Comp |

Completed in-house by Stanley Watt. All original work, except where indicated otherwise.

'A Hero Book In The Making'

An animated short

This story interweaves instructions on how to make a Hero Book with a tale about a young man named Tiger.

I completed the full 15-minute-long animatic in 2007, which has been put to use by REPSSI together with their Hero Book training materials.

'A Hero Book In The Making'

3D intro segment

in 2010, I completed a 3-minute-long introductory segment of the story using Softimage, which completed the project for the time being. It wasn't possible to complete the entire film due to limited funding. The completed animatic was used as the functional training product.

The full animatic	The full animatic for the movie (in two parts).

Part 1	Part 2

Preproduction

Making the movie...

Planning

Storyboard, audio, and animatic.

Production

	Props
>	A few rigged props.

	Environments

	Characters
	I look forward to spending more time at character design, development, and rigging in future.

To move.	Rigging
Rigging was built using the Softimage Character Development Kit as a starting point. There was an integrated rig for tool manipulation, and an animation-mixer-driven rig for finger posing. The faces were also all fully rigged.

To speak and to emote.	Facial Rigging
	Facial rigging was built using a system of about 65 blended shape-poses. About 15 of these are specifically for speech. Emotive expressions and speech can be adjusted seperately.

Posing and animation setups	Animation
	Bringing the characters to life. I did this work before attending Animation Mentor; I've come a long way since then. It is now my intention to specialize specifically in character animation. I do also have film ideas I'd like to eventually see realized.