This week, I kept on creating my model. I managed to create the smallest and most important pieces for the project: the mechanism’s music wheel and the metal comb. Both had very small and precise pieces to work with, and it took a while, but I’m very happy with hoe they came out. Having a …
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3D Elective: Week 2
After grasping some further concepts with Maya, I made a sketch and blockout of my design: While not perfect, I believe it serves its purpose, and I’m sure I’ll be able to add details to it moving forward. I had some difficulties, and some problems that I’m still not sure on how to solve, but …
3D Elective: Week 1
This week, we started the first of our electives. I happened to be in the first group of the 3D elective, so for the next 5 weeks, I’ll be focusing on its project, which centers on taking a modern invention and recreating it in the aesthetic and functionality from an an older time period. We …
VFX: Week 3
I re-watched the videos a few times, and once I finally understood how to use Nuke efficiently, I got to work on making the cinemagraphs. In the end, I turned 5 out of my 6 videos into cinemagraphs: the fifth video was too shaky, and wouldn’t have come out well, so I just used a …
VFX: Week 2
This second week, we started learning how to utilize Nuke, as well as visualizing how we’d interpret our chosen aspect of ourselves, and incorporate it into 6-8 shots. I developed some of last week’s sketches into thumbnails, as well as creating some new ones. They’re not very detailed, but they show what I wish to …
VFX: Week 1
This first week of VFX was fairly basic: we got introduced to the main project we’ll have to complete, we were given some general knowledge on a camera’s components, and then allowed to research what we wanted to do. I did a bit of brainstorming and mind-mapping on paper, and got a few ideas, but …
3D Production: Final Result
I was able to lower the polygon count for the chains, which helped the freezing (though it still happened every once in a while after that, but I guess it can’t be helped). I also found a good way to animate the clouds: I made 3 layers (each at about 40% transparency, to show the …
“You Are Here” Book: Development 2
This morning, we presented our books for the first time in front of Jane, Stuart and our classes. By then, I’d managed to complete the paper-drawn book, stick all the pages together, and record them. I essentially shot it like a stop-motion video, one shot at a time: this way, I have specific frames I …
3D Production: Week 3
During the break, I mostly focused on creating the animatic and “You Are Here” book projects. Therefore, while I did work on my 3D design, it wasn’t my main focus. Still, I managed to create basically all the setpieces, and colored most of them. This is what I managed to make by Monday’s lesson: There …
“You Are Here” Book: Development 1
While the past few weeks have been mainly focused on making the animatic, I’ve still been working on the book when I had time. After deciding the shape and context of the book, I began brainstorming ideas to include within the two sections of ‘How did I get here?’ and ‘Where Am I Now?’. I …