Category: 3.2 Week 20

Introduction

This week I worked on the feedback I received the last week. It was mostly around overlap actions and eye movement.

Unit Review

This unit has been my favourite one so far. It was very well designed and had been extremely helpful. The animation assignments helped to us to build a strong foundation in animation. George made us familiar with a professional workflow to approach an animation shot. He taught us how to create good video references for animation and take key poses out from it.

I have also learnt a lot of nice techniques to implement in my workflow to make it smooth and quicker. Before this unit, my animation process was entirely different and confusing and it never brought good results as well. But, George’s sessions taught me to take one thing at a time and divide the whole animation in tasks. First we record references, then we make thumbnails and do blocking. After blocking we do blocking plus to give maya enough information about our movements before putting it on spline.

Introduction

This week I added finishing touches to the artefact project. I rendered my scenes, compiled them in after effects, put vfx and sfx.

Rendering

I rendered my scene with Arnold using Render Farm. It was quick and saved me a lot of time.

SFX

I have gathered some copyright free audio scores and then compiled all of them to make a unique beat and sound. I personally enjoyed a lot doing the sound design and I feel like it brought a lot of life in my animated scene.

Final Render

Takeaway Points

This artefact project helped me in following ways:

• Helped building project management skills.
• Better understanding of camera movement and animation
• Helped me to understand maya lighting pipeline
• Increased my command on the Maya software
• Learnt Render Farm