Category Archives: MA 3D Computer Animation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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