This week, I mainly set up the lights and rendered my loin walking cycle. I set up three point lighting, including a key light, a fill light and a back light. I tried to use render farm, but the project failed and I was unable to figure out the problem. Eventually, I used playblast.
Below is the final animation.
After finishing the collaborative project, this week, I started to do my solo project. My solo project is a lion walking cycle. Why I chose to do this was because all the animations I made before were about human. I never did an animal animation. This time, I wanted to have some breakthroughs.
In this part, I adjusted the curves to a very smooth shape in order to make the lion move more smoothly.
When animating the tail, I offset each control by one to get a nice overlap.
This week, we had a catch up meeting and talked about the division and cooperation. Layne and I are mainly responsible for the animating and Jay focuses more on special effect part such as Bonfire and sandstorm, etc. As for the animation, I’ll do the first three lines of the storyboard while Layne will do the rest.
This week, we mainly looked for an appropriate robot as our story’s protagonist. We found many robots, however None of them met our expectations. Some of them are not rigged, we wanted a ready-made rigging role to save our working time, while others are too expensive to afford.
Eventually, we chose this one as our role, not only because it was simply rigged, which can be easy to animate, but also because it was cheap!
This week, Lowe was responsible for the storyboard based on the script we made last week. However, there are some problems in it. The montage story in the third line is too simple to be detailed to every shot and every action. Secondly, panoramic shot use too much, lack of close-up shot, so later we discussed and modified some parts as well as added close-up shot.
Scene panoramic view, the vast ruins of the city came a sound of the cabinet
In close-up, the robot repeatedly bumps into the cabinet to get to the place where it normally works (trying to water the flowerless flowerpots at home), but because the cabinet fell down yesterday, the prescribed route is blocked. Then the first-person perspective shows that the route is wrong and can’t be resolved. It bumps into the cabinet several times and falls down a photo frame. The robot picks it up and wipes it twice, ready to put it back, But I found a map on the back like a treasure map drawn by a child, and the robot’s face close-up was surprised. During the middle shot, the robot rushed out of the house, looked back at the flowerpot, and turned directly to the slope outside. The robot climbed up with the flowerpot, fell and flew out. (a few short shots in the middle of the shot talked about the process of charging, refuelling and asking for directions on the road) – (reaching the target point, From the first-person perspective of the robot, the display screen shows the confirmation of the target point. In the near view, the small robot runs back and forth in the picture, enters from the edge, looks at the ground, and then comes out of the viewfinder area from the other side, enters from the same side in the distance, and finally removes the garbage from the target point). All of a sudden, there was a noise. The sand and stones on the ground were trembling. A sandstorm came, and the small robot was involved in the deep pit and the black field. After waking up, it found that it was difficult to climb up the edge, but it found withering grass and a little doll. At this time, it went to the plant to water it. At this time, it was fixed to the first person, and there was no water. The robot knocked its arm, poured out two drops of water, fell on the leaves and slid into the soil. Then the plants in the small robot’s field of vision grew and spread around, The camera follows the spread of the plants and turns to the perspective of the little robot. The little robot lies on the ground and thinks about it. His watering hand slides for a while, and then the power goes out, and the vision gradually turns black. Finally, give the robot a vision, and find that there is no plant spread, still the same as before, the end.
In the first week, not many things to do, just finding other people of our course to make a team. In the end, we formed a team consisted of Jay, Layne, Lowe and me.
We had a meeting on Thursday, Each of us discussed what we were interested in. And I am interested in the part of the script and animating.
This is the first time that I have collaborated and made an animation with other people. When I saw the composite animation, I really felt a sense of accomplishment as this animation contains part of my effort. Although there are many things that I have to improve, this is my first collaborative project, whatever, I feel extremely proud of myself.
In this project, I’m responsible of the rigging part. With the help of Sean, Yann and Luke, I solved many many problems, I am very grateful for their selfless help and I found rigging very interesting. Also, the animating part is interesting too. However, I need to watch more animation tutorials such as how to pose, how to find out key poses, how to make action more fluent.
This week, my job was to animate my part which was distributed by Yann.
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