3D animatic new version

youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qYUIqvp-w0&feature=youtu.be

another update version of 3D animatic.
Solved the stagging problem.
and added few scene..

The music I still havent edit it yet..

UV mapping n 3D animatic Update

A little update what I have done for these few days

Was spending days to open UV of the object.
Put on the checker box and map on the object to make sure all of the 3D model have a proper square shapes on it.

the next thing Im going to do is set on the camera and also start to put on the texture.

and this is another update of the 3D animatic. I didn't edit the sound..

just changed the camera angle and set up the camera..

timing still hv to edit too

Ambient Occlusion render Update

3D modeling 99% finish !

Hooray !! I have finish my modeling.
My interior!! Cool !!!

this is the update of the images

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I still left 2 objects to go.

A thing the boy protect with.

a unique thing that the boy holding with.

I was thinking to create a key, A key that important to his family

another object to model is lamp. Im still wondering what kind of lamp is suitable put on the floor.

a lamp on the floor. what kind of lamp ?hmm

will keep going.. next stage going to open the 3D model object's UV .

then set up camera.

Modeling update

I have finish 90 % of my interior modeling@
mostly.

Still left the important charmss and myth thingss.
And also the angel statue  and a floor lamp

heres the images screen shot

Update

A little bit update for my progress..
a lot to model !1

still modeling..
Hopefully can get it done soon\

Tested some shader..

texture painted style..

still in progress

here is the updated music version of 3D animatic..

Input, reseach

After I have finished my 3D animatic,

I have started to model. At the same time,  I read some books and search for some magical stuff.
online searching for myth, witchy stuff, hunting ghost, keep bad spirits away,magical stuff.
Morever, I also asked people suggestions, what's their culture and religions.

I found that there are so many things can be in the kid room..
here are the reference that I've got.

The environment setting and design is so important for me.

Everything has to be a reason for there.

Mise en scene is basically what you put in the scene, from what angle what lighting, mood, colours , costume ...everything


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_sc%C3%A8ne

Tell the back story of the character.

the kids is into myth... he should be reading myths or playing with things related to myths
from the animatic. from the 1st scene we can see photos and book.. from there people will know hows is the boy come from.. His family is doing ghost hunting..
He can be a hunter's son.
The shadow. want something from him.
From the animatic.. when he is playing n he realizes shadow, He's scared, and move back . but he realize something important , he grab it back.. and hug himself..


In addition. I have got some books from library.
Its about colours and art books !

 The Art Of Pixar by Amid Amidi







The Art of Brave by Jenny Lerew








HERE IS ANOTHER UPDATE VERSION OF 3D ANIMATIC

Animatic

I am keep editing my 3D animatic at the moment.

Went to different websites,
trying to get a nice music to comp with my 3D animatic.

The timing of my animatic. is still in progressing.
camera movement still can be polish.

I have spent more than 6 hours and keep listening different kind of music.
Until I feel confused n numb about which music is more suitable in which scenes @_@

But finally. I able to comp it out..
Its still 3D animatic..
Im trying to get the mood and make people more into the story.
I will keep improving

This is the 3D animatic

Besides, the character I modify so far..

this is the result

technical issue

I hv started to do my 3D animatic at the moment..
camera angle becoming solid..
There are some technical issue i facing when i trying to create a 360 degree camera turn but also aim for the character..

Luckily, I found a tutorial helps me.. Its so useful.

Thanks for it!!

However, camera setting fixed.. but there a problem pop out again..
the rig of the character,,
I want to change the haistyle of my character.. but there is always come up an error when i skin it on my character..
I try to explore and search online for the solution..
Finally.. I able to fix it..
Attribute in maya. is important to understand the concept..
Only that can solve the problem

Storyboard and some colour

I have spent a long time on my storyboard . I was thinking what angle should this scene be? Every angle I set for my scene it must be a reason.

I have to introduce how the interior look like, how is the decoration in the room.

The personalities of my character - Jamie, he will reflect how his room should be.

Universe's poster, dragon sculpture, mythology books, angel statue and etc.

for my storyboard, I have roughly sketch for it.. It is quite hard to understand at first. Lecturer advise me to film it out. 

I built out a little room by using papers and I used the putty eraser for my character. I also get some references for my short clip. Edited it and put it into a sequence. Finally. everything is clear. I know how is the camera should go and stay.

This is my rough storyboard. I'm going to make a 3D animatic to let people know hows the camera movement. 

After I know how my story scenes going to be, I have made some colour testing. few scenes of colour script.

I have do some research.

https://kuler.adobe.com/explore/newest/

http://www.colourlovers.com/

I can know what colour key, what colour palate show be in my short clip from start to the end.

    

This is the colour palate for my short clip.

the combination of colour will help to emphasis the mood and the feeling of how audience will feel.

this is my color script.

From a dark brown and blue scenes for a scared child.

Until a light comes in ,everything brighter and switch on the light and become warmer.

Story

A little update for my story.

The title of my story - Peace Light.
I spend some time on my story , try to keep developing it.

the story tittle I will change it to - Pace Light

Pace is translated from italian


Pace is peace ,
In Italy, 74% of citizens believe in God.
In theology, devine light is an ability of God or angels  to express themselves communicatively through spiritual.



For my story :
I have refined a little bit.

Pace Light

A short animated film about a boy get rid from a shadow.

At night, a boy is enjoying and playing alone in his room. While he is playing, a shadow appear on the wall. It seems like the shadow is waiting a chance to catch him. The boy feels scared and helpless

He hug himself , lean on the wall, trying to avoid the area shadow pass by. When he getting behind , he hits something and falls. HE notice he can pull down the cloth and let the light comes in. A light come from the window and form a pentacle shape on the floor. There are so many stars on the sky. He turns on a small lamp. The room become brighter . An angel statue stood on there. A room full of power to protect himself, a place to stop any evil spirits come to get him. The boy feels safe and he having a peace night.

Character Research

These few days I have been searching about character.
The character should be unique, He is the main character in my short clip..
My story is about a kid.
I named it Jamie Deyes  , 9 years old
He is a curious boy. He is fascinated by the mysterious world.He is the kid has a passion for all magical things.
He loves mythological story.
 I have been search for different characters in different film.
Such as :
 Andy Davis                            ( Toy Story 1 )         6 years old
 Bonnie Anderson                   ( Toy Story 3 )         4 years old
 Jamie Bennett                        ( Rise of Guardian )  8 years old
 Bambino                               ( La Luna )
 Harris, Hubert and Hamish    ( Brave )

I have been drawing what shape should my character be. I decided to have a round chubby face !!( finally)

Before that I keep trying to explore and testing and modifying the face shape of my character.

The character I am using a pre rig character - Morpheus Rig 

More info http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheusDocs.asp

         

Above picture was my drawing for the head shape and the 3D is the character..  It was decided to use.. but I want to change it..

People love curves !  curves , round , are beautiful !

Im keep modifying the character head shape to more rounder.

And now Im still keep testing ..

So far this is the result..

 =)

Explore

Today when i thinking about my storyboard. I look some tutorial about my cloth and duvet..
I will think to use ncloth before,. but seems like facing some problem..
but this tutorial get me understand how it works !!

interior layout

this is my interior is going to look like

just some layout of it. hows the bed position will be, where is the statues standing, how the bedroom look like.
the next step im going to do is come out the storyboard.

Secondly.
I just finish a animation short film.. I just realise i hv seen this before!!!
ITs so good ! its the things i hope to achieve too

Proposal

Title

Peace light

Story Overview

A short animated film about a boy get rid from a shadow.A thunderstorm and raining night, a boy is enjoying and playing alone in his room. While he is playing, a shadow appear on the wall. It seems like the shadow is waiting a chance to catch him. The boy feels  scared and helpless,no one can help him but himself. Therefore, he decided to take action .

He runs to corner and pull down the cloth. A light come from the window and form a pentacle shape on the floor. There are so many stars on the sky. He turns on a small lamp. The room become brighter . An angel statue stood on there. A room full of power to protect himself, a place to stop any evil spirits come to get him. The boy feels safe and he having a peace night.

Research Questions
My focus is on creating an animated film with effecive lighting and the atmosphere.The problem I will face is how to set up the light and bring out the mood and atmosphere I want to achieve.For the technical section, I will have to explore the N cloth,blendshape and particle effect. I will have to think what to use in my duvet, cloth, and the area particle, I will make some test on it and make sure its works well only to put inside my project.

Genre

Fairytale, Mystery,Mythology

Motivation/ Rational for project choice

I hope to achieve a atmospheric scene , a warm light coming out from a cold environment. A scene look comfortable and peaceful. Bring out the mood and atmosphere in the special room.Setting out a beautiful lighting and comfortable scene. I havent sure yet what position I want to be in. At this moment, I know that I want to create a impressive scene and let people memories it. Therefore, I will be so happy if I can bring a an beautiful scene and people like it. I like to play with colour and lights.

Area for investigation

The area I have to investigate is more on lighting, mood and atmosphere.I also have to make some test in the N cloth and particle.I have tested the N cloth, it has to take some time to explore and test again.I have tried to render out the result, but not that good enough.However, I will continue to get some tutorial online and kep investigate it. For the particle effect in maya, I found some useful tutorial.At this moment I also making some test, the result will going to be what I have expected.

Background Research

When I plan to create this short clip animation. I have watched a lot of animation clips. For example, ‘Brave’ from Pixar. The lighting of the sunset is amazing, The interior kitchen lighting and design is the thing I want to achieve. Moreover, my story is relate about child and also some toys, from the ‘Toy Story’ animation, the Andy’s room is imprinted in my mind how it look like.I get some room inspiration how it be going to look like. There are others animation like ‘La Luna’ and ‘Rise of Guardian’, the moon light and star from ‘La luna’ is really beautiful, the compositing  of the scene it is still inside my mind. In addition, from the ‘Rise of Guardian’, it’s just perfect.The particle is something that I try to achieve. The light from those magic glowing particle, make the world magical and fairy tale. All these movie are really nice reference for me, I hope that I can make my project become as good as possible.

Literature Review

 I have borrowed some books from library. Those are :

Hayao Miyazaki.(2002)The art of Miyazaki“Spirited Away”

Viz Media, Subs. Of Shogakukan Inc

Charles Solomon.(2010)The art of Toy Story 3

Chronicle Books

Ramin Z.,William, J. and Alec, B.(2012)The Art of Rise of the Guardian

Insight Editions

Amid Amidi(2009)The art of Pixar Short Films

Chronicle Books

From the book of Rise of Guardian, the colour inside the film is amazing. Every character represent different color and their personalities.I were reading this book because of the particle that “sandman” ability.Those glowing and beautiful particle is the thing I hope to achieve.In addition, there are so many kids room appear in the movie.It inspires me hwo the room design can be. Moreover, the “ art of toy story” inspire me alot. The room of andy also inspire me a lot . There are so many toys inside the room. As for my project, I m going to create some toys too.

Methodology/Teachnical Overview

I will have to make some research to set up a peaceful lighting and render . Morever, I’m going to explore some partical, to make the room full of magic. The software I will use to do my final project is Autodesk Maya.So I’m going to explore about the Maya particle, N cloth and it might be blendshape too. The character in my story I will use a pre-rig character.So I can focus on the modeling, texture, lighting and the animation.

Project Plan

Week  3~4 (Oct)	Proposal done, Storyboarding	Sketches for Room design and props design
Week  5~ 6(Oct – Nov)	Storyboarding	Sketches for room and props.Started modeling
Week 7~8(Nov )	Storyboarding, 3D animatic,	Modeling, texture,
Week  9~10(Nov – Dec)	Modeling,texture,animation	Texturing,animation,lighting
Week  11~12(Dec)	Animation,testing particle, ncloth	Animation, particle, ncloth,blendshape,lighting
Week 13~14(Dec – Jan)	Set up lighting, testing particle, ncloth	Animation refine, lighting,particle.
Week 15~16(Jan)	Animation refine, lighting.Start rendering	Lighting,Rendering,
Week 17~18(Jan – Feb)	Rendering,Compositing	Compositing,sound editing
Week 19~20(Feb)	Compositing,sound editing	compositing

Project Deliverables

This is going to be an animation short clip.I will render out as a digital file. Format will me quicktime, H.264 or mov.

References

I have watched a lot of videos before I start my idea and confirm this story.The films and video I watched and inspired with my final project are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccSxfeKvXM

‘La Luna’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_p9O0MWRE

‘The Last Train’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU

‘The Sandman’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXVY0cCnF_c

‘Dreamgiver’

Story development

Yeah,.! my story fixed.
The storyline have confirmed

Right now I have to start to design the Room, the character, and research about how the particle and n cloth working.
Im not sure about is it particle will put inside the scene . but I watched some youtube tutorial.
here's the link


Particle 1
Particle 2

I have tested this particle before, but it was long time ago.
now go to basic. and test it again.. hope to get nice result.

The particle effect i want to apply on the scene which is when the boy pull down the cloth. there is some dust particle falling down..

I also watched  A YOUTUBE ANIMATION SHORT CLIP.
iTS NICE.

this is the link

   

   

The orange particle.. wow! amazing! nice..
Now its just on the progress.. will keep update what the design will be. how the room look like.
and make the story more solid . come out some storyboard

and this is the reference lecturer give me.
classic Sandman

Feedback and develop

I got my feedback from lecturer

It's about the 'safe room' I mentioned. Should it be inside the same room as the kid playing his toy?
I'm thinking about this, and i find out its a good idea.
First, the animation short clip will be shorter, I can more focus the thing I want to achieve.Moreover, its to create a nice and good short clip. It's about quality, not quantity .

So If I make the whole story inside a kid room. I have to design a room that kids to sleep and also there's a safe room there.

What I think is .
A rectangle room from top view. (landscape)

Story will change to :

A thunderstorm and raining night, a boy is enjoying and playing alone in his room. While he is playing, a shadow appear on the wall. It seems like the shadow is waiting a chance to catch him. The boy feels  scared and helpless,no one can help him but himself. Therefore, he decided to take action .

He runs to a corner of the room and pull down the cloth. A light come from the window and form a pentacle shape on the floor.There are so many stars on the sky. He turns on a small lamp.The room become brighter. An angel statues stood on the wall. A room full of power to protect himself, a place to stop any evil spirits come inside the room. The boy feels safe and he can have a peace night.

the mood board of the room , low saturation,dark
( from toy story art book, tangled ,rise of guardian, monster inc)

mood board after he turns on the lamp and pull down the cloth let the light comes in, brighter,yellowish, and also little bit to purple

(from digital painting of Pascal Campion , La Luna, Wall E, rise of guardian, Toy story 3)

"safe room"

Inside my story, I mentioned about there is a room the boy get inside, the room full of magical power that can protect him. I did find something useful.Those charms and things that can make bad spirits away.

this image I have found it online.

From image above I can see that there are quite many stuff can make bad spirits away. So roughly I have some idea how to put those stuff inside the safe room.

The boy playing alone in the room A, after he realize the shadow.. He run toward to the Room B

The room window pattern is pentacle,the light outside will get through this window and form the shape on the floor and there is an angel statues in the room .

My project.

I'm planning to create a short story for my final.
At first I were thinking about what story its should be.
I love animation so much ! I really hope to list down all the animation film i have watched.
No matter is the animation film from Goblins, Animation HUB, Animation Mentor , etc.
The favourite of my animation film is Toy Story. YA. It's my favourite, and it's still my favourite now.
A story about toys and their owner. Especially the toy story 3. The ending..make me cried.

there are so many Pixar animation and Dreamworks animation I have watched. Before I got my story, I try to get some inspiration from all these film.
Such as Monster Inc, The Croods, Rise of The Guardian, Tangled, Brave, Epic, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, How To Train Your Dragon, etc. There are some short film from Pixar also impress me a lot. Especially the La Luna.

What I love from these film is those impressive scene, the impress scene from La Luna, when the boy knock the big star by hammer, a big flash and all small pieces of stars falling off. The lanterns from tangled, when the sky full of the lanterns, the view of the castle and the sea, it's so beautiful. The Croods, when the guy put out the fire, the starry sky appear. ITs just impressive.

I have got some books from library.
and these are the books that inspire me a lot. "the art of Miyazaki- Spirited Away", "the art of toy story 3", "Rise of the guardian". there are also some books like " the art of pixar short films " , "the art of the Incredible"

So I have decided I want to create a scene that can impress people. A scenes that focus on the mood and atmosphere. Because of that, I have come out a story. But its still developing.

 Its a story about a boy get rid of bad spirit.

A thunderstorm and raining night, a boy is enjoying and playing alone in his room. While he is playing, a shadow appear on the wall. It seems like the shadow is waiting a chance to catch him. The boy feels  scared and helpless,no one can help him but himself.Therefore, he decided to run .

He is running out from the room, the shadow keep and follow where he is running.Finally, the boy get in a room. A room full of power to protect himself, a room to stop any evil spirits come inside.the room for of protective charms and a beautiful night sky. The boy feels safe and he can have a peace night.

Intro

 Hello. Hello there. I’m ChiWoon, from Malaysia                                                                          Graduated from college. 2012  Studied Diploma in Animation                                                            Worked as 3D artist ,and Joined Codemasters Studio for CAP training                              

  Like matte paintings.digital paintings and play with colour                                                                          I’m interested in story development, and set lighting, bring out the mood and atmosphere                              I have learnt 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animating and also compositing.

I'm studying Computer Character Animation in Teesside University. I'm working on a group project and an individual project. I created this blog for the individual project, will keep updating what I have done.

Welcome any comment and critique. I will to keep improving and learning =)

Using 3D software Autodesk Maya, 3Ds Max ; Adobe AE, Psd, AI and Premiere Pro

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