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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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