Category Archives: 3D Animation Fundamentals

Submission – 3D Animation Fundamentals

Show Reel Weekly Challenges and Diary of work Links: Week 2: An overview of the 12 Principles of Animation. Week 2: Good and Bad animation according to my understanding. Week 2: Bouncing Ball with Travel & Obstacle Course. Week 2: … Continue reading

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Week 10: Diary of work.

Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’. This week I polished the performance of previous facial animation with the body movement. Readjusted lots of frames according to the audio clips. I found out it really need a lot of … Continue reading

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Week 10: Performance animation and previs

Challenge 10 (Part 3 & 4): Performance & Pre-Viz In this stage, I began animating stepped and flat animation in order to shape good key poses. I chose IK handle on arms so I focus on the arc of the … Continue reading

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Week 9: Diary of work.

Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’. I picked my reference audio on 11 second club and filmed myself as the reference footage. I found it is really hard to follow the rhythm of the original audio clip. I … Continue reading

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Week 9: Phonemes and performance

Challenge 10 (Part 1): Phonemes & Performance (Lip Syncing & Facial Animation) I found my reference audio on 11 Second Club. And here is the clip. Then I typed audio into text so that I could lip-sync it. Here is … 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 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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