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Week 9: Performance animation and previs
Through this lesson I learned： Blocking & Breakdown Poses: Bias (Easing) Setting Maya to Python 2 (Rolling back a version in Maya 2022) Installing Tween Machine Methods for creating pose transitions using ‘biasing’ (easing/slow in and out) Creation of different … Continue reading
Week 10: Assignment information and support
Preliminary conception： Title: The freshness of the script Viewpoint: The story should present freshness to the audience. Only freshness can keep the audience’s attention and make them feel that their attention, their time and their money are worth it. Explanation: … Continue reading
Week 9:Determine research direction
From last week, I decided I needed to narrow my research, and I focused my research on the Academy Award for Best Animated short film. After watching these award-winning animated shorts, I found two areas of interest for me: 1.Animation … Continue reading
Week 6: 3DEqualizer & Intro to Body Mechanics Part 2
mechanics part2: goals Adding breakdowns(on 4’s) Stability/drifting check Splining:converting to spline tangents .Polishing1:cleaning up splines/curves Polishing2:key-retiming(if required) Polishing3:elbow& knee popping Polishing4:final polish Global(destructive)retiming(if required) Playblasting/rendering& after effects motion blur Arnold rendering & destructive motion blur Through this week’s study, I … Continue reading
Week 6: Matchmoving
Through this week’s study, I have learned how some science fiction props in special effects movies are added to the characters. First, we need to set up two different project teams, one to calculate the motion of the camera by … Continue reading
Week 6: Character types and development
Take 2 films you enjoy and break down the character development and story development throughout the film:Analyse how the main characters evolveAnalyse how the characters drive the storyIf there are similarities between your films point this out and why you … Continue reading
Week 5: Story arcs, Breakdown the characters and Character timeline.
Spirited away(2001) spirited away Breakdown the story arc(the 8 stages) You When chihiro’s family moves due to his father’s work, chihiro has to leave the previous school and go to a new and unfamiliar environment, but they get lost on … Continue reading
Week 4: Diary of work(Harvest & Reflect）
First of all, through this week’s study, I understand the animation language: scene scheduling. It refers to all the visual information in front of the camera, which is composed of various elements designed to convey to the audience the important … Continue reading
Week4: The Language of Animation: Mise-en-Scene
Research Activity 1: Can you describe how the elements of Mise-en-Scène in the following scenes? Settings & Props The first scene: the sign on the door reads: Co-ed, all species, basic chemistry, etc., which allows the audience to understand, at … Continue reading
Week4: Reference footage and rigs & The Practice of Body Mechanics Part 1
Through this lesson, I learned how to diagnose video frame rates ,how to add time codes in AE and export image sequences, and how to export and import reference videos in Maya, etc.The most important is :every 8th frame for … Continue reading