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Design For Animation

Preparation for Research Essay

Because of the fact that i wanted this to be the subject of what i would focus on int he new term i wanted to pick a subject i was passionate about. i initially wanted to focus on the software “unreal engine” as this was a subject that i particularly want to focus on in the upcoming term. although i have also been very interested in the development of Artificial Intelligence.

I decided that it was the subject i wanted to focus on due to there being a substantial amount of research done on it. I also felt that AI technology is something i wanted to look deeper into in order to get a better understanding of it.

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Design For Animation

“DRIVE” 2011 film analysis

Equilibrium 

A gets way diver who is conducting his illegal work in NYC, picking up cars and helping criminals in getaways

His skill is clear in his ability to get always and choice of cars from police. 

 He takes risk for a living 

Trigger

He meets a blonde woman who is his neighbour , she has a son and his father is in jail. There is clear romantic tensions.

Shannon his coworker wants to take out a loan to make him a professional car driver 

Journey

He is falling in love with his neighbour, Shannon and him have also managed to take out a loan of 300k. 

Tensions rise towards the driver to do well in his first race due to the money involved 

Plot twist 

The neighbour who the main character has fallen in love with reveals that her sons father is coming back from jail in a week 

The father has come home 

Climax 

The robbery that is planned goes terribly

Reversal 

The driver must now try and save the family from mafia gánsters trying to harm them 

Resolution 

Everyone is saved 

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Nuke

Week 9

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Nuke

Poster Layering

Here i have created a sequence tracking and overlaying a background onto a movie poster, this needed to have a swivel and be tracked properly in order to give it the 3D screen look, as apposed to a more basic poster look.

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Nuke

Week 5 & 6

For these weeks I have worked on my rotoscoping skills, as well as colour grading and correction. Using tracking I have placed a castle on the hill just to add an extra dynamic to the clip. The keyframes moving the balloon have been “Beziered” in order to smoothen out the movement of the balloon to make it more realistic. 

Above i have referenced the ability to use other screens as a background, or paste certain layer into other moving shots.

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Maya

Week 7

  • Adding skin to the facial model was done by selecting the surface of the model that had been created, and selecting the option to add a texture and finding the skin file that is shown below.  
  • Texturing and doing eyes was slightly less complicated because the surface of the eyeballs is a much more simplistic shape, allowing for them to be centred more easily. 

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Maya

Week 6

this week we dove into the process of using the shape editor to allow us to create keyframes that would give our animation the ability to move, and therefore give it a function. I also began to smooth out the angles of my animation in order to make it stronger and more life like.
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Maya

Week 5

This week we began the process of creating a surface around a digital face that we created. the reason for doing this is it allows us to understand further into how to measure and use sticky surfaces and will late allow us to move the face in order to animate it.

i was challenged by this as it was of course new to me. although i feel that this process benefitted me in my ability to understand shapes within maya. I also was told to completely avoid making triangles this made the process more difficult as some shapes would naturally benefit from a triangel shape although for the purpose of this excersize it would ruin the model.

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Maya

WEEK 4

This week we further developed our hot air balloon and worked on the gas chambers and details within the hot air ballon, we looked into texturing and worked on linking a texture that we would find online and attaching it to the model. 

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Nuke

Week 3 & 4

  • Starting nuke
  • Introduction to nodes
  • Understanding digital colours 
  • Rotoscope

Beginning

We began to learn how objects are rendered and used within nuke.

This process was interesting as it required us to begin using keyframes that would make the balloon spin there for giving us more creative control once the objets were properly exported into nuke.

Unfortunately i missed the lesson on nuke in person although was able to catch up via the recording and some notes that were sent to me by a classmate. We looked into rotoscoping within nuke.

Personally i found this quite difficult as i am very comfortable rotoscoping with AE as it is something that i do regularly within my personal projects, therefore i found doing it within nuke a little bit out of my comfort zone. although i understand that this process is giving me more knowledge and i was able to see some of the benefits of doing it within nuke regardless of my own personal preference.

The homework was to rotoscope and render a man running from the background.