Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Friday, 26 January 2018
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Infographics Class #2
Today's challenge during the Infographics class was to design several title cards for a made up movie by artistically utilizing black and white clip art.
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Premise | Idea
Among the five ideas I came up with for the Premise project, I decided in further developing the fantasy based story of a character receiving a mysterious call telling it to reach the top of a mountain. This concept was born even before the actual project came up and will include my personal story.
While I was developing my personal blog I stumbled upon the concept of the nightsky and bright stars which I later on combined with parts of my life out of pure curiosity. To my surprise the further I thought this idea through, the more I fell in love with it and eventually came to my mind that I will someday make a project out of it. Instead of creating a full animation I will only make some sequences for the Premise project. The story will show the difficulties and hardships in one's lifes, but also hope and development by learning from failures in order to reach something greater. The animation will be placed in a cold and harsh area with blizzards resulting in shivering bones which provides a perfect set showing the troubles of life.
I will be modelling the environment and the character whereas the character will be fully rigged, however, I will be laying extra focus on character movement and facial expressions. As mentioned before only sequences will be created such as the protagonist walking up the mountain and so on. As for the camera movement it will be mostly stationary, monitoring the entire scene without moving. Some of them might be from the distance observing the character and other ones might follow the character showing either side, front or top view.
While I was developing my personal blog I stumbled upon the concept of the nightsky and bright stars which I later on combined with parts of my life out of pure curiosity. To my surprise the further I thought this idea through, the more I fell in love with it and eventually came to my mind that I will someday make a project out of it. Instead of creating a full animation I will only make some sequences for the Premise project. The story will show the difficulties and hardships in one's lifes, but also hope and development by learning from failures in order to reach something greater. The animation will be placed in a cold and harsh area with blizzards resulting in shivering bones which provides a perfect set showing the troubles of life.
I will be modelling the environment and the character whereas the character will be fully rigged, however, I will be laying extra focus on character movement and facial expressions. As mentioned before only sequences will be created such as the protagonist walking up the mountain and so on. As for the camera movement it will be mostly stationary, monitoring the entire scene without moving. Some of them might be from the distance observing the character and other ones might follow the character showing either side, front or top view.
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| Influence map |
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| Early exploration sketches |
Monday, 22 January 2018
Saturday, 20 January 2018
Infographics Class #1 | Influence Maps
My film of choice for making the infographics will be the movie "Transcendence". I will be taking influence from shattering glass, wires and binary number background style. Some of the colours were picked from the actual posters. The design I will be going for for the infographic sequence will be minimalistic and flat, as shown in the second influence map.
Friday, 19 January 2018
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Monday, 15 January 2018
Friday, 12 January 2018
Maya Tutorials | Second Year Term 1 Submission
Pipeline 1: Head Modelling:
1) Preparation
2) Rough Blocking (Part 2 -3)
3) The Mouth
(To be Continued...)
Lighting & Rendering 2:
4) Sampling & Noise Reduction
5) Ray Depth
6) Maya Lights
7) Light Filters
8) Stylised Internal Lighting
9) HDR Images
10) Sky Dome Light
11) Stylised External Lighting
12) Standard Surface Shader
13) Toon Shader
14) Geometry Override Sets
In Class Activities:
15) 5 Action Poses
16) 5 Expression Poses
17) Standard Surface
18) Weight lifting (Part 1)
19) Weight lifting (Part 2)
Collaboration:
20) Collaboration Animation
1) Preparation
2) Rough Blocking (Part 2 -3)
3) The Mouth
(To be Continued...)
Lighting & Rendering 2:
4) Sampling & Noise Reduction
5) Ray Depth
6) Maya Lights
7) Light Filters
8) Stylised Internal Lighting
9) HDR Images
10) Sky Dome Light
11) Stylised External Lighting
12) Standard Surface Shader
13) Toon Shader
14) Geometry Override Sets
In Class Activities:
15) 5 Action Poses
16) 5 Expression Poses
17) Standard Surface
18) Weight lifting (Part 1)
19) Weight lifting (Part 2)
Collaboration:
20) Collaboration Animation
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Character Design Class #9
During the last character design class we were formed into groups of 5 where we were given different TV series. Based on the TV series, we were supposed to come up and develop a character which would fit into the world in which the series plays in. Our group got "Danger Mouse" an 2015 cartoon series. We came up with the characters and each one of us picked the character that we would like to do. I took the "Von Spy-Der". As the name already says he is a spy and also a spider. In addition to that one of us had to come up with a merchandise which would fit the series and the other group members were responsible for the environment. I got the task for the merchandise and came up with the spider gadget. After finishing my sketches I refined the lines of those in Illustrator as well.
Character Traits:
Character Traits:
- Serious
- Works Alone
- Has a Robot
- Mechanic/Spy
- Has 7 Legs
- Dark Past
- Deep voice
- Sometimes helps Danger Mouse
- Small
Character Design Class #8
During the character design class we were given a task to draw a poster for a film. I have chosen Mulan film. This is the result of it:
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