Monthly Archives: November 2020
Week 5: 3DEqualizer tracking
3DEqualizer is a powerful lens motion tracking software, specially designed for 3D movement tracking. Through the highly accurate motion tracking calculation function, it can accurately output a large number of filters from any real shot film, which can be proceeded … Continue reading
Week 5: story structure
Story circle Dan Harmon created the story cycle, a distillation of the monomyth into 8 steps, which is believed to be universal for any story in any medium. The most basic form is we draw a horizontal line through the … Continue reading
Week 4: visual culture
Mise en scène Mise en scène is the stage design and arrgement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction. Set design … Continue reading
Week 3: politics affect media
Game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided posited a world of cybernetic enhancements, divided by “mechanical apartheid,” but publisher Square Enix repeatedly denied that its imagery of societal separation and prison camps had anything to do with the real world of racial divisions. Far Cry … Continue reading
Week 3: whole body walk cycle and constraints
This week, our task was to choose one character from resources to create a full body walk cycle. I chose the hottest girl model. Reference A walk cycle can be basically divide into 4 sections: contact, low point, passing, high … Continue reading
Week 2: film language, history of film, animation and VFX
Film language I. Visual language (the camera) 1. Shot length – how far the camera is from the thing that it’s shooting Shot can be generally be described as wide and tight, that is far or near. Wide shot – … Continue reading
Week 1: twelve principles of animation and Bouncing ball
Twelve principles of animation Disney’s twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. In order, they consist of: Squash and stretch Anticipation … Continue reading