Today’s Sunday, which means I’ve officially completed the first week of the 3D Production part of the 4-pathway rotation. For this rotation, we have the final goal of making a 3D location, and show it in a 6-to-12 seconds video, with at least 2 separate objects being animated.
To get an idea for an environment, we were tasked of thinking up 5 “What If…?” sentences, and choosing our favorite one to base a location off of. I ended up doing 7 sentences, as the first 5 didn’t feel quite right, but eventually landed on “What if gravity was optional?”. This led me to think of an environment above the clouds, with people being able to fly at will, and floating houses being held still by long chains attached to the ground.
Once we thought of a concept, we were supposed to make a moodboard to capture our desired feel for the concept, and then make 6 thumbnail sketches of what we’d like it to look like, to then pick one to make a larger, more detailed version of it.
For my thumbnails, I mainly tried thinking of different camera angles to view the houses from, and eventually settled on a top-side view (the top-right drawing on the right page).
Then, we were tasked to get used to our 3D creation program Blender, by creating a simple robot through basic Blender functions. I wished to make mine look like a more vintage idea of a robot, with tubes for limbs and mechanical clamps for hands. This was my first time actually creating a 3D design, and it was certainly challenging, but very fun, and I’m rather proud of its design. I hope I keep improving moving forward.
Next lesson, we’ll learn how to advance our designs onto Blender and further develop them.
I’m really excited for this rotation, as I’m very inexperienced with 3D animation, and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from this. I’ve been enjoying it so far, which is great, and I hope it keeps on being interesting.