Friday, 26 February 2016

Chapter Twenty - Progress

 
Reflecting back over my last targets, I managed to push through and complete them, barring the asset for one of my compositing. so my target to this week (see as the deadline next Friday 4th of March)
 
  • I have finished my first draft of my essay, Now I have to rework it for the deadline.
  • I have my last compositing short to finish - that is to draw my asset up in Photoshop and edit together in After Effects.
  • Write up the making of guides and Evaluation

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Chapter Sixteen - Research

Well I knew this would be coming....

and still need to finish the other blog post, I will be writing up about corporate animation companies within this blog to aim in getting a nice high grade at the end, I hope. But you guys are rooting for my right????

Note it not finished - I will try and update it every week until I get it finished. I have it real hard to do and half the time I wonder if i'm even writing about the right thing. I try my best to give justices to animation I write about but I feel I'm doing a really poor job at it, anyway, so sorry guys.


Pleix - Nissan-Qashqai

The style is simple 2D design and it's layout is the art/action is set in the mid-ground and back ground. The techniques in this animation I think are  compositing in software like Cinema 4D, and after effects. It fit in with the present culture the character designs with there indie style. The animation pace is steady and the action is evenly distributed through out the animation. The narrative purpose is to commercial and help show off the car the company, Nissan wants to sell.  


Sehsucht - Optifibre Amazon - Director's Cut

The style for the adverting looks to be drawn but has that 3D feel but when you look at the Director's cut and how it was created in 3D and made everything look like liquid. I love the flow and layout out and the use of wide shots and close up to portray what was happening in the scene. The techniques that have been used, I think was some 3D software to set up the scene, to create the models then for the commercial put on this drawn style and shading over the 3D models to give depth to the animation. It's narrative purpose is to advert a product. The animation pace is slow, it hits it peak about in the middle, with the female characters shooting their bows then slowly plateaus off at the end. 


Not to scale - Hula - Rightmove

The style of this adverting animated short is simple with an orange background and vector style with different shades of orange. It's layout is just one character in the foreground, a Hula model dancing with voices over top as sound that tell the narrative. The Techniques used, I think are 3D software to create the 3D model. 



Hornet Inc - Cineplex

The concept of this animated short was to advertise the to help visualize the magic of the movie. It's commercial narrative is about a girl, Lily and her snowman. The techniques used I think were 3D software like cinema 4D. The style is semi-realistic and it sort of cartoon style with it organic shapes and soft lines and colours. The composition and layout is that it has a mix of shot from wide to close up. The animation timing and pace is even and steady builds up to its peak near the end of the animation. 





Psyop - Estee Lauder 'La Mer'

This is an advertisement for Estee Lauder skin care. I really like this 2D animated short with painted style of drawing, it feels like a lot of love and care went in to this animation. I love the uses of soft colour and shading it gives a organic feel to the scenes. Also a lot of textures have been used I think this add depth to the animation. The techniques that could of been used are may be Photoshop and after effect or I fell that some kind of 3D software was used, that helped give depth to the film. I feel that this commercial plays out like a story, and the story has a narrative that puts you in. 



Punga - CHS Tree


The style is realistic and techniques I think they could of used in cinema 4D the MoSpline growing out. It's  narrative is commercial to help sell a product. The animation is evenly paced even though the grow of the tree super  fast.



Pepper Melon - Target - friends with you

Its a 3D animation that looks to have been drawn/ vector style art. The style is simple and organic. The concept is commercial, promoting a game. This fun and funny narrative makes the character stand out. The animated short is really busy load of things happening and to look at. The technique that looks to have been used, is 3D software like Maya. 


Tokyo Plastic - Year of the Machine


This is two animated trailers, the first on techniques looks 3D and the second looks like it was hand drawn. The style of the first trailer is simple design and uses strong colours and the second trailer style is 2D beautiful textures and soft colours. The concept for both is a narrative and may be experimental, trying out new skills or stories. The animated short have lovely pace and build up well with the use of peaks, trough and plateaus.



Meind Blender - Gifts for Greta


'Gifts for Greta' has used the technique of Stop motion to create this animated short. The style is simple and organic. The concept is commercial to show off a TV channel Cartoon Network. 





Animation to Music:

Andy Martin's Planet One - His website


The style is simple and organic. The animation fits in with the music awesomely. I find the concept interesting and the characters interesting to watch. The concept is may be experimental, to tell a story through music, using the music to create the animation. The technique is 2D, they could of used Adobe After Effects.



Beeple - IV.10


The technique is 3D and Cinema 4D and the style is simple, vector and organic shapes. Strong colours, bright with cel shading. The concept is experimental, using the music to create animated short. 



















Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Chapter Nineteen - Mospline - tree

I did some experimental work in cinema 4D, using the Mospline, below is an example of turtle mode with the default Mosplinetree animated within it. The live footage was taken together in a groups, the footage below was free hand filmed panning an area. 
  • How I created this by first loading my footage into Cinema 4D, - Motion tracker, solve, load in file... watch has Cinema 4D does all the hard work for you ^_^
  • create background
  • create Mospline and change mode to turtle
  • Now create a circle and a sweep numb
  • put the sweep numb the parent of circle and circle the parent of Mospline, now you can see the Mospline in render view. 
  • Then I animated the growth of the tree by Keyframing the Value - Growth 0% on 0 frame and the final frame to 100%
  • Create a new material, I did a gradient of brown to green
  • Put a plane under the tree to catch shadows and created a light to create shadows
  • Put all the Compositing tags where needed (as shown in my older blogs)






Update On weekly targets

  • I will be continuing the Essay Research into next week for I feel like I need to find out more about my chosen subject. So I keep working on it through to next week.
  • Go film my footage for my three scenes
  • Make the Assets I need for the compositing 
I tell you something I be glad when the Essay done ;_;

Friday, 5 February 2016

Chapter Eighteen - Compositing continued

Tracked footage

Now on the latest version of Cinema 4D has add a new area called 'Motion Track', up at the top where file, etc goes. This has made my life so much easier for it works all the motion for you. Then we will export the footage to after effect and mask out the tree so the object appears behind it. 


  • so how you load the footage in would be to - Motion Track
  • Full Solve - load in the file
  • and Cinema 4D will do the rest
  • All you need to do the when it finished (it even puts a camera in for you) is click on create a background so when you render the footage shows up on the screen. 










  • Next we need to render out two version of the footage one with the object in and one without.
  • Now open up After Effects
  • Set you setting to the correct things -  HDTV 1080 25 and load your footage on
  • drag the two footage in and make sure the one with the object in, is on the top
  • Now select the layer with the object in (the footage) and add mask which is in layers - New Mask
  • uses the pen tool and draw around the tree, record it and move the timeline to the end and reline the tree up again and it will automatically record that 
  • go and check the animation to make sure everything lines up and looks right
  • and pre-render and below the finished product. 








  • Next I open Photoshop put my setting film HD TV 1080
  • deleted the background, added a new layer called track and drew a loop and lower the opacity
  • then made a new l  layer and drew an arrow on it
  • then did that again with a new layer but moved it a bit along my track
  • and kept doing this until it have done the loop
  • then I went to window - timeline - set at frames
  • and set up the animation through the layers
  • checked it and added 0.1 sec to all frames and
  • rendered it out
  • Now opened a new after effects project imported the the newly render finished scene form earlier and imported the Photoshop work
  • Photoshop on the top, new mask, pen out the half tree so it looks like the arrow looping the tree. 
  • Then put a colour overlay on the arrow and keyframe one colour then went to the end of the animation and keyframed a different colour. 
  • lastly I added a shadow by darging the footage from the top box again, distroting the image and placing it where I think the shadow would fall
  • low the opacity and blur the edges by added a blur effect to it and keyframing it. 
  • Then here my little animated short below.









Still Image

Here just more practice on creating a still compositing shot. Just making sure I got the techniques down, which I feel that have. 





Targets for next week - Friday

  • Finish writing up the research for my blog
  • Choose my 3 stories and start to shot the live action
  • Start my research for my Essay (may be have that all written up or Friday to do first draft of the essay for next Friday or even Wednesday)
All the targets I set last Friday (Monday) have been completed and I'm super happy I am on track even through life seems to be trying to stop me all the time.