Category: Term 2

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

Introduction

Spline 1

Spline 2

Spline 3 (with feedback)

Introduction

This week I worked on the lighting an figured out how to achieve monochromatic lighting setup with glow.

Lighting

I wanted to do monochromatic lighting in my animation short with the theme of blue and black. For that, I used a combination of directional, sky dome and point lights.

Atmospheric Fog

When I added the lights in the scene I felt that the scene looks very flat. I researched some ways to add volume in my scene so that the scene looks fuller and visually pleasing.

After some RnD, I finally found a way to add depth in your lighting and it was done by Atmospheric Fog. Atmospheric fog adds volume and depth in the scene by decreasing the air density.

After putting some lights and atmospheric fog that is how the scene looked.

After adjusting the atmospheric fog settings from the render settings I finally got my desired render results.

Stylized Look and Feel

With the monochromatic lighting and low poly environment models, I was able to carried out stylized look and feel for my scene.

Introduction

After finalizing the blocking last week, this week our aim was to do blocking plus of our shot.

Blocking Plus

Introduction

This week I worked on research for the maya lighting techniques and how to make the scene visually pleasing.

Renderer

I am planning to use Arnold Renderer to render the scene.

Lighting References

Introduction

This week we worked on creating blocking of our Acting shot. Our main focus was to create blocking for the body first.

Blocking

This was my first blocking pass and I made some mistakes. Upon receiving feedback I got to know that I should add key-poses first and key all the controls. Right now the body parts are keyed separately.

Blocking Revision

After the last feedback, I fixed the blocking. Here is the new blocking pass of the animation

Introduction

This week my focus was to make the 2d VFX of explosion for my animation sequence. For that I watched several reference videos and then created some sketches to get a rough idea. Later on, I painted the explosion frame by frame in photoshop.

Idea Work

Ever since I have watched arcane I always wanted to create a 3D Animation with 2D VFX in it. So, now that I have got a chance I tried to give it a shot. I have watched a lot of reference Youtube videos to help me make the explosion animation.

Reference Videos

Sketches and Animation

I wanted to make a huge explosion which starts as small but then covers all the screen in the end. For that I made rough sketches first and then I made 2d sketch animation for the explosion.

Here is how the animatics look.

After making the 2d sketch animation I put it in my 3d scene to see if it matches the camera and perspective. It looks fine at this moment. Once I will light my 3d scene and color my 2d explosion it will make more sense.

Final Look

After the sketches I added colors in the explosion and that is how it looks now. I will do color changes and compositing later on as well when I will integrate it with the 3d animation scene.

Introduction

This week we started working on our first acting shot. We had to choose an audio and we were required to make reference videos suitable to the audio.

Script & Idea

I downloaded the audio of this script from a tiktok video. The audio and the words of the scripts indicates that the woman is saying these lines is self indulge and gives a hint of being a narcissist.

So, by keeping this in my mind my idea shows that the girl who is saying the lines is a social media fanatic and she is on a date. Her focus is on taking picture rather than her date.

Video References

Thumbnails

Introduction

This week my focus was on creating animation references and making animations.

Reference video

Falling Animation 1

Falling Animation Final

Sneaky Walk Reference