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In the module of 'Storytelling for Animation', we were allocated six sessions with Frankie, our lecturer for 'Cinematography'. After consulting with our second year peers and watching some of their cinematography final pieces, my group and I came to a realisation that most of the themes were horror and we didn't really want to tap into that.

After pitching our idea of a drunk lad coming home and somehow ending up playing a tensed up game of Jenga with a teddy bear, Frankie said he liked it a lot as it seemed like we were pitching a "Say No To Drugs" campaign. Honestly, that seemed like a good way to go about the project.

This was our final piece:



We had such an amazing lead actor in this project and we were truly grateful to him as he was so cooperative with us throughout the entire filming session. The major issues of this project was trying to handle the teddy bear. We had one of our team members to move the bear but also not have their hand in the shot. The scene where the bear slams the Jenga stack out of frustration... we only had that one chance and thankfully we did 'warm up' shots before leading up to that one sole scene.

Overall, it was a good experience and also the post-production team definitely had fun editing and compiling the footage and also had fun with the effects that they could mess about with. Hopefully you feel the intensity of this cinematography project!

Have a nice day!

Just going to be upfront and admit that hearing the entire process of constraints and how it worked, really made me need a moment to breathe. But! I watched some tutorials online, which is definitely somewhat different than what Georg has taught us all. However, we're all supposed to make our own decisions when it comes to stuff like that, and to try things out before actually admitting we're absolutely deep in a rut.

AND I MANAGED TO DO IT! Well, it's not A+ worthy, but this is the proudest 3D piece that I've done, even though it took me a mere... 7 hours... to complete it. I may or may not have forgotten to blink during the process of completing this Herc rig. Nevertheless, I like it!




Added a little flair to this little rig, didn't I?

And that wraps some of the basics of 3D up for the first study block! I'll most probably go back and work on the basics as the foundations are really important.

Have a nice day!

After the attempt on Monty's jazzy walk, this week's task was to play around with a rig called Mery! I thought we had to do only one pose, but in face, we had to do 6 key poses with the Mery rig. Honestly, compared to the Monty task... this was so much easier and so much fun.


Brief through:

1) I referenced a picture of a figurine that was holding an umbrella. I'll just put out a guess and say that the figurine was probably trying to touch rain or something.

2) This pose definitely reminded me of The Exorcist. I still laugh so much at that scene, it's great.

3) Mery's attempt at tai-chi, reaching for the inner peace within herself... kidding. Just fooling around with tai-chi, as you do.




Brief through:

1) Mery portraying a posh boss of a big company. You know what I'm most happy about of this picture? Not the pose, but the squashed ball. (Yes, I'm weird.)

2) Mery trying to be an airplane, probably to some kids at the nursery.

3) "WHY?!" (basically what my friend described this pose to be.) This is Mery expressing "why don't you love me" to an imaginary floofy doggo.



I tried referring to some pictures for these 3 sitting ones, but I ended up just messing around with the rig and creating my own poses. Georg did recommend to do some sitting poses instead of all of them being standing poses.

Overall, this post has given you insight to what goes on in my mind while doing random key poses after a huge intake of caffeine and sugar. Classic animation student I am.

Hopefully Mery's poses have entertained you in some way.

Have a nice day!

ATTACK OF THE PUGGO!:
Now that I've gained your attention with a mischievous pug, a.k.a., mission accomplished! Today's post is going to be about water splashes. Ta-da!

Just imagine those bottles of shampoo/soap that the puggo went super ruff at plopping into the tub full of water. What happens? The water goes splash.

Before I actually started animating it on TVPaint, I did some sketches for it.



So, here's my attempt at making an animated splash:



To be honest, this is my proudest work out of all my 2D stuffs because:
1) look how smooth the animation looks
2) the colour scheme


I felt that the little blobs of droplets of water were the ones that made the splash seem more of a splash. Without it, it's just some weird jelly sculpture that's floating on some blue blob of stuff. I'm really, really, really, really, really happy with how this turned out!

Have a nice day!