Sessions with George
Shelter
Advanced Body Mechanics
When animating, ignore the face and focus on the limbs, then focus on the eyes and eyebrows when the limbs are fine, then the mouth, and finally the muscles of the face that change according to the mouth.
This week
What I have done
This week the first version of the blocking was completed based on the reference video.
I wanted to show that I was angry at first and then proud to conceited.
I wanted the character to start off by saying “I’m art.” with excitement or with anger. But since I had already done the laughing aspect in the first animation, I wanted to make the second animation a bit different and I chose to be angry.
So I was very angry at the beginning of my performance.
Linkļ¼https://syncsketch.com/sketch/ZDk0NmQ4Y2I1/?offlineMode=1#/18003766/18677257/f_0
Next week
Will do
While modifying the blocking, add the character’s face animation, ignoring the mouth animation for now, and finish animating the eyebrows and eyes.
Shelter
This week we completed last week’s assignment and worked together to complete the reference video shoot and consolidate the completed resources.
This week
What I have done
This week I finished painting the remaining parts of the weights and tested the characters to tie the bones without error, demonstrating the use of the controller.
Booked a green screen classroom for filming and took on the role of a robot to portray it.
- Painting weight
Problems: When painting the outermost armour it sometimes moves one side and the other side of the suit follows. Some times it was a problem with the position of the shoulder, other times it was the stomach piece.
I ended up looking for the problem layer by layer and mirror copying the weights to make sure it was error free.
- Test controllers
Testing the controllers to check model bindings and skinning effects. A video of the use of the controllers was recorded and made available to the group to show them which controllers to use to adjust the movement and expression of the characters.
Problem: When I finished tying the eye I found that when I adjusted the eye, the eye would come out of the socket because it was too large and had multiple layers of crystals.
The solution I gave was:
Control the eye muscles at the same time and move them together and the result is ok. And don’t rotate the eye too much.
- Book a classroom
Book a green screen classroom for filming in a larger venue to facilitate the interpretation.
- Filming
I played the role of the robot. I needed to stop the little boy from going out into the rundown world, and when I couldn’t stop the boy from going out and getting slapped away, I chose to go into the ship with him anyway still trying to stop it.
I would be on the sidelines angry at him for not listening to me when he was shocked to see the truth.
Eventually accompanying the boy on his journey to a new planet to explore.
*Members
Tang: 1. moon glow 2. tree 3. shooting video clips
Yuhan: Making a manipulative board
Completing the storyboard filming reference together
Tang
Yuhan
Next week
Will do
Conference feedback
Integration document at the end of this week.
Contents of the document:
- 5.28 On Sunday, the documents were consolidated. Tang’ll send you the link on Monday morning. (integration file)
- two characters: wilson, jerry-M314, (Jiaruo)
- airship, indoor scene. Put the airship in the room and then give it to me. The pipes (with a door) are placed outside the room and connected. (Yuhan) Play the group well. (The pipe has a door and the pipe is connected outside the room.)
- Tree, outside (Tang)
Timetable: 5.27 (today)
- Plan: 2 weeks left to do animation. We are 18 days away from 6.14 (18 days), rendering + compositing + sound effects (four days) Render farm, three people together in class Render: jiaruo, sound effects: tang linsey. Compositing, (jiaruoand tang), each person to copy to the school computer after the animation is finished. Plan to finish rendering on the 12th.
- K animation camera parameters: set 1920 1080 size. 6.09th (must finish k!!!) Meet on Friday. 10 days as a unit, after k, preview sent to the group, modify the comments and then change a version (minor changes), aim to finish k in 14 days.
- Next meeting: 6.04 (next week, Sunday), k finish a version, meeting.