Sessions with George
Who is your protagonist/antagonist. What drives them/ motivates them to do what they do and how will that affect your animation/story.
Combined with the plot, I chose the second scene to continue in-depth.
Since the scene is a Japanese-style building, I chose a Japanese monk as the main character.
There are many kinds of Japanese-style monk’s clothing, and finally combined with the protagonist’s peaceful life after converting to Buddhism, he chose the Zen monk’s clothing.
Moodboard：
The past and present are distinguished by color and season. What happened in the past was an autumn dominated by chartreuse tones. What’s happening now is a winter dominated by white and red tones.
The sunny day is reality, and what happen at night is the memory of the past.
I searched for suitable characters online, and finally found two free models on the animation buffet.
Since there are no suitable free resources for Zen monks on the Internet, I chose a monk model with Chinese culture.
And changed the world view, combining Japanese architecture with Chinese architecture to create a virtual parallel world.
In this way, the enemy’s choice is not limited to the time and place. So, I chose ninjas as the protagonist’s enemies.
According to the feedback from last week, some close-ups of characters’ faces and movements have been added. And modified the angle and direction of the lens.
Feedback：
Adjust the sequence of shots in the past time to increase details. And try to add to the end of the story.
Session with Nick
- Shading and texturing
- preparation for rigging
In this lesson, we learned the details of the robotic arm and the yo-yo. Use nodes and bend to make the movement of yo-yo; circularize to make the quadrilateral round, etc.
1. Use bend in nonlinear
A yo-yo string can be quickly made and animated.
2. Adjust the center, use the node editor and connection editor
3. Add remapValue, connect input and output
Copy Tab to adjust the values in the input and output to get the yo-yo effect.
- Input min value is the value of yo-yo to the top
- Input max value is the value at the end of the yo-yo
- Output max value is the value of the yo-yo rotation, positive or negative determines the direction of rotation
4. Rotate the x-axis, multi-line appears
The yo-yo is finished
5. Create a pipe to make the wrist part, shift+middle mouse button drag the line selected before all selection to adjust
6. Drag the small square to zoom in, so that the line is only zoomed in on the surface
7. Adjust shape with x-ray
8. Open the handle in the display to observe the center
9. Before using circularize, restore its default. Extrude.
10. Mirroring: Reset settings. Mirror successfully by adjusting direction: +, -.
11. Select the innermost side change for bridging
12. Material
13. Add details