FINAL VIDEO AND ARTIST STATEMENT

LINK TO VIDEO —> https://vimeo.com/220407461 Overcome – a 3D animation designed and created by Lola. My work explored the emotions an individual would feel whilst experiencing and overcoming a mental limitation. During this project, I experienced what it was...

Animation Problems and Solutions

On the 15th May, i was able to record the dance motion capture using the suit. This shoot was much better than the last one because I had the right music for my dancer to dance to. The motion capture suit worked much better than the motion capture suite. the suit...

New Happy Pattern

Romanowski, A. (2016). Adobe After Effects CC 2017 splash screen artwork. [Digital Artwork]. My OLD pattern I looked at the pattern I made again and realised that it look nothing now I intended it to. If I put that pattern in the environment it would make it look...

Updated Environment and Issues

When making the environment for the animation I had two major issues. Statues The happy pattern Statues Whenever I saved the modelled statues as an FBX and imported them into Maya, they would override each other. Therefore for I had to save them as OBjs The happy...

Audio Blocking and Video Making

Decided to audio block the music so that I knew how long to make either happy/sad animation and where to transition it. Also, this helped me know what clips I wanted where and what camera shots they were going to be. I made the music a little faster (it was 2:10, I...

Painting Process, Techniques and Final Images

Process and Technique For the majority of the time, I used the plastic paint knife to mix the paint. This gave me clear and precise swirls of the colours mixing in the painting. Used scrunched up paper. This technique enhanced the depth in the painting more than the...

Patterns!

I wanted to make the animated patterns myself, through the use of different coloured paints and textures. I made this experiment below, using an image of a paint texture, I got from Google. The thickness of the paint gave the depth and texture to the model’s...

Environment Layout and Beginning

Originally I wanted the model to dance in a rectangular room which was going to be dark and lonely but since seeing Lauryn dance and now knowing the movement the model is going to have, I redesigned the environment of the animation.   The environment is going to...

Final Storyboard

From multiple experiments and seeing lauryn’s dance, I was able to create a final storyboard and the environment for the...

Music, Dancer and Voiceover (Poem)

Music Asked Chris Kirke, a student at the university if he could make the music for my animation. He agreed. It was his idea to incorporate a full string ensemble into the song. The conversation is below.   I also have a backup song just in case anything happens....

Arnold Problem and Hopeful Solutions

Problems Arnold Render – I wanted to use this to render my animation from Maya, but the license I have now does not allow batch rendering. Wanted to buy a rental license but the minimum purchase amount is £300. Solutions I emailed both Matt and Jon on the 29th...

DAZ 3D model and Anrold Render Experiment

I got a model from Daz3D and applied an image of an abstract design I made to its body. Created a backdrop using planes and applied two light sources above the model to which I rendered using Arnold. This was my first time using the rendering plug-in and I...

Research and Ideas

I saw these artworks on Instagram and they gave me ideas for my project.   Instagram. (2017). Instagram post by Josefin Jonsson • Feb 4, 2017 at 3:39pm UTC. [online] Available at: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQGFQlZAHia/ [Accessed 8 Mar. 2017].   The first...

Animated Texture Experiment

For this experiment, I made the texture of the model an image sequence. This experiment was a success! Now I know how Maya is going to display the images on the body, I just have to figure out 3 things. 1. Make sure the animation is showing on the right parts of her...

More Research and How-To

I’ve looked various videos and artworks that are somewhat similar to what I want to do. MethodStudios (2016) Major Lazer – light it up (feat. Nyla & fuse ODG). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2LpOUwca94 (Accessed: 28 February 2017)....

Character Creating

Used Fuse to create my character. Made her skin oily so that when the animated texture is on her body, she will be glowing through the colours, making the curves of her body stand out in the dark environment. Also added makeup to her face for extra colour. I intend to...

Further Idea Development

In the last post, I mention that I was going to come up with 3 approaches on how I could show a creative block in a creative and abstract way. The approaches or techniques I wanted to include in my project were: Paint, Pen strokes and form of mixed media that could...

Idea Generation

We were given 5 words as a starting point for ideas on what to do for this module assignment. The words were, Encounter, Realisation, Boundary, Refuge and Charity. Initially, when I got this brief I had no idea on what I wanted to do in regards to what the final...