This week the feedback from last week has been adjusted, the walking loop has been added, the prop effects have been adjusted and the animation has been made more coherent.
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Week 4 Project2
This week I finished painting all the characters.
And because CHEN was worried about the progress of the work, I also finished the male models this week. As our story is not coloured at the beginning, my team can start working on camera adjustments and screen control at the same time, even though I haven’t finished the mapping.
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Week 1 About the FMP design
Regarding the FMP, I have 2 ideas at the moment. A Chinese martial arts style short film about a little girl (originally a boy) who seeks revenge on her adoptive father. This is a short film I’ve wanted to make for a long time, and I have an early version of the story.
Here’s some of the combat footage I made later
I have some early storyboards as well as some character designs that I’ve been working on lately. I drew the simple lines myself.
And I used Stable difffusion to simulate some of the effects of the colouring. For this short film I wanted to use more Chinese colours and shapes, as well as 2D mapping. This was a huge amount of work for me.
My second idea is a short film that combines elements of viruses, monsters and doctors. It’s about a doctor who has to take part in an experimental programme in order to cure his daughter and eventually escapes from the lab in order to see her.
In this story, the doctor has to turn into a monster in order to escape from the lab.
I also have some early setups and concepts for this story.
During the week, George gave me a few references and suggestions on movement for this blocking, and I tweaked the character’s movement in terms of walking and unwrapping the ice-cream. I also added some frames.
This week I’m working on the first version of the character design and I’m referencing a lot of 3D artists’ sensibilities in my style. At the same time I have added some of my own interpretations. In my opinion in this story the girl should be a very outgoing and infectious character, while the boy is a bit low.
I shared it with my group at the first opportunity and they loved the design. The proportions of the characters are close to life-size, so it was not easy to create glowing materials. After discussing and testing the design, we decided to abandon our initial intention to create a glowing material.So I finished the colouring of the girl first
This week George gave me some feedback on my reference and sketches and he suggested that I adjust the position of the camera in the animation. In the meantime, I have completed a basic blocking on this animation.
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Week 14 About FMP thesis
Title: “Exploring the Role of a Happy Ending as a Determining Factor for Audience Satisfaction in Contemporary Film and Television”
With a definite title in mind, I will begin my With a definite title, I will start to explore the direction of my research. Although I would like to use this thesis to clear up some of the confusion in my mind. But at all times the evaluation of a film is a very subjective matter. I would like to create a statistical survey to collect the opinions of some groups on this matter. I would like to divide the age group between millennials and Generation Z. I wanted to collect their views on this issue.
In the first week of the term George will be teaching us how to produce a realistic but more exaggerated and animated camera performance.
I referenced a clip on the blibli website of a man eating an ice-cream and dropping it on the floor, thinking no one would notice, but it was recorded on camera. As it was overly long, I used part of it as a reference for my actions.
- Reference
- Sketch part
Since my main job in this collaboration is still in the role, I looked up some relevant material for reference. We had a few meetings and I was able to get a more precise idea of what the characters wanted – a team of young people with a love interest. The first thing I thought of was a cartoonish style.
- Referemce
This week we discussed the story of project2. After some discussion we decided to do a short story about a beautiful encounter. A boy without colour meets a girl and his world turns into colour. We wanted to design the character to look like a crazy elemental city with glowing materials.