Monthly Archives: November 2021

Week 8: Diary of work & Note.

Character Appeal Weekly diary of work for ‘Design for Animation, narrative structure and film language’. Note Appeal in animation characters is a similar parallel with actors having charisma A character who is appealing can still be unsympathetic, a villain or monster. … Continue reading

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Week 8: Diary of work.

Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’. This week is the best week forever! I played with Arnold Renderer and get a decent result which is the picture above. I like it so much, but unfortunately my computer cannot … Continue reading

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Week 8: Advanced Body mechanics

Challenge 9: Advanced Body Mechanics The reference footage I chose was a dancing clip. I edited it in After effect to give it a time code. Also, I found out the frame per second is 25. And I brought this … Continue reading

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Week 7: Diary of work.

Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’. This week I polished the stepped animation that I animated last week. The clean up process sometimes seems boring and takes a lot of time. But the result is good. I fixed … Continue reading

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Week 7: 3DEqualizer & Body Mechanics Part 2

Challenge 8 (Part 2): Adding breakdowns, converting, and clean up, Rendering & Motion Blur / Playblasting & Motion Blur Here is my final animation after clean up and AE modification. And I’m going to break down all the steps I … Continue reading

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Week 6: Diary of work & Note.

Weekly diary of work for ‘Design for Animation, narrative structure and film language’. Note Things need to keep in mind: A good story need to be read, engage and surprise. Structure and treatment of the production needs to be the … Continue reading

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Week 6: Character & Story development breakdown.

Take 2 films you enjoy and break down the character development and story development throughout the film: Analyse how the main characters evolve Analyse how the characters drive the story If there are similarities between your films point this out … Continue reading

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Week 5: Diary of work.

Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’. For these week animation exercise, I want to share something that impressed me a lot. The playblast video which in AVI format takes me over 400mb to store but after I use … Continue reading

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Week 5: Diary of work & Note.

Weekly diary of work for ‘Design for Animation, narrative structure and film language’. This week’s research is about Story Circle and Characters Archetypes. I took the dark Knight as an example and analyzed it in detail. Also, it gives me … Continue reading

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Week 5: Film analysis – story arc & Characters breakdown & Character timeline

Film analysis – The Dark Knight Story Arc Breakdown You Bruce Wayne, the protagonist is in his zone of comfort. Fighting against ordinary criminals in Gotham city as usual. No changes need to be make so far. Need Bruce Wayne … Continue reading

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