Category: Advanced & Experimental

This week I’ve been tweaking the whole film to make changes.

I also thought about the whole story. It is true, as my friends say, that my stories are too long and difficult to finish. After ten weeks of lessons, I realised that there were a lot of boring storylines in my original design and I think I need to adjust and improve the script. I also tried to adjust the gender of the characters in the story, as an all male story is a bit monotonous after all. I changed the original boy to a girl and redesigned his look.

This week George suggested I adjust the pacing of the end credits, and this sudden butterfly rise was a bit odd. There was no need to show too much of it. So I went for a different way of ending the film.

This week a demo video was completed on green cloth and then the finished robot arm was combined with the video via MAYA. Also adding some animations.

This week the mapping was done through Substance painter and I added some old textures to the textures

Looks a bit like the movie Pacific Rim 🙂

Finished the UVs for the arms this week. Also found a suitable style HDR mapping.

This week we continue to complete the arms and shoulders. I hadn’t thought of expressing this arm joint control through a small hydraulic lever.

I took George’s advice and changed some of the shots and movements. I have also added some endings that I have just finished.

I also drew some character styles.

After much consideration, I have changed the ending of my story. There is a final battle when the story of the protagonist’s past is known.

I took a lot of Chinese fighting style references and added weapons and bare-handed fighting sections. However, given the time and difficulty of the final production, I designed the actual fight to be relatively short, around 30 seconds. In the end I gave the main character a redemption by sacrificing himself.

In this week’s lesson we did a simple control of the palm and finger parts of the hand using a positioner. I’m not particularly good at rigging and this lesson has taught me a lot of lessons and the layering of the individual joints has helped me to further my understanding of the layers and foundations.

I also adapted the finger model while working on the finger control.