25 October 2018

Minor Project: Animatic - New Scene

Last week I travelled to Beihang University to attended a workshop on Emotional Intelligence in Animation led by Birgitta Hosea. It was a wonderful experience that I am very grateful for - it will also be quite helpful for making my film!


Part of the workshop included making a short animation showing emotions changing over time and I chose to work on my Minor Project for this. This video is showing what happens sometimes when I am feeling less pain than normal - I get over excited and do too much, ending up hurting just as much again.


I like the flow of this scene so far but I am not happy with the camera angles here, so I will remake this in Maya to more easily play around with directing the camera. The red parts will be more interesting and abstract and for the purposes of the animatic I will draw them in 2D over the 3D previz. I also intend to have a longer section of jumping about once I realise I am in less pain, but didn't include that here for the sake of getting it completed in the workshop.

With this scene included I would need to rethink the pacing of my film a little bit, I have an idea of how I will do this but will post about it when I have some more coherent thoughts.

24 October 2018

Toolkit 3: Rigging Techniques - 6: NHair Dynamic Rigging Part 1

This tutorial involved setting up NHair Dynamics on a horses tail.



Toolkit 3: Speed Posing 4

5 Minute Speed Pose
I needed to curve the spine a lot more to make this pose work

Reference Image (top)

10 October 2018

Minor Project: Head Model Progress 5

I've started on the nose, but when following my orthograph I found that the result was not at all what I wanted for the character. I have been changing things around and feel I have gotten a bit closer now, I will move the nostrils into a better position and then keep working on it.


Toolkit 3: Speed Posing 3

5 Minute Speed Pose

Reference

5 October 2018

Minor Project: Head Model Progress 4

I have now added more detail around the mouth and the eyes.



4 October 2018

Minor Project: Submission Inventory and Schedule

Sumbission Inventory


Weekly Schedule


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3 October 2018