Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Midterm
Danielle Cassidy
Midterm – Animation I
Professor Sanders
March 23, 2010
The Story of “Love [Ro] bot” Boy & Girl
Main Idea: A short 15-25 second clip of two characters interacting with only facial expressions and small movement. My inspiration came from Tim Burton and also the idea that so much can be conveyed without verbal speech.
Proposal: To create a project that would make all viewers smile at a simple short movie portraying acts of kindness and friendship. The story revolves around two characters, LoveBotBoy and LoveBotGirl. LoveBotBoy is sad and unable to find his heart, which he wants to share with LoveBotGirl. LoveBotBoy then stomps around, shakes his hands, and looks into his hat – still unable to find his heart. LoveBotGirl points to her heart and LoveBotBoy thinks. Then he smiles and remembers where his heart is. He gives LoveBotGirl his heart; they smile and skip off.
Story Board: Attached Paper, 16 frames – 60 frames per second. For my midterm there is only a flyby camera that will be roughly 10 seconds long.
While Creating: To create LoveBotBoy and LoveBotGirl I used “Create > NURBS > PRIMITIVES>…” I used Spheres (for eyes, body) Cube (for the environment/blue sky) Plane (for the environment/ground) Cylinder (for arms) Cone (for the hat) Torus (for LoveBotBoy body). To create the colors and textures I went to “Window>Rendering Editors>Hyper shade…” I’m hoping to add much more detail to my characters for my final. I parented and grouped all the parts and started working on how to rig my characters, however I did not include that in my midterm because I didn’t finish. For my environment I decided to create an open field for my two characters to interact. I also added a simple blue background.
Issues: I ran into a few issues on the way. One in partial was when I was trying to key the fly by camera. One of my characters, LoveBotBoy, was falling apart, pieces were flying all over the screen, and eyes were rolling in his head. While LoveBotGirl stayed perfectly fine. This happened every time I would try to make the fly by camera move. After much annoyance, I figured out how to fix it (for now) by keying LoveBotBoy into his spot on the screen so that he doesn’t move. However I’ll have to have a better plan for the final.
Self Evaluation: I believe that I did a good job on this project but I still have a lot more to learn and complete for my final project. I used a lot of reference materials including our “Learning Maya” book to help me step by step in creating things. Both my characters are made out of NURBS shapes that I parented and grouped together. In the future I will need to rig those body parts together so that it moves. The easiest part for me was the design of my characters and the storyboarding. Also I enjoyed figuring out how to key frame the flyby camera, it reminded me a great deal of my favorite part of IMM, creating movies and documentaries. After rendering though I realized that my flyby camera might be moving a bit too fast. However I’m happy with it for now and like how it ends on the heart, the most important part of my future short animation film. I’m hoping to get back to working on this project as soon as possible to fix things and advance it to be exactly how I envisioned my final project.
Production Log Timeline:
3/16-3/23 Complete models 1 & 2, camera flyby, environment
3/23-3/30 Rig my characters , texture/shade
3/30-4/6 Animate frame of story board 1 – 8
4/6 – 4/13 Animate frame of story board 8 – 16
4/13 – 4/20 – Fine tuning, re edit
4/20 – 4/27 - Present
Next step: ANIMATION!!!
Midterm – Animation I
Professor Sanders
March 23, 2010
The Story of “Love [Ro] bot” Boy & Girl
Main Idea: A short 15-25 second clip of two characters interacting with only facial expressions and small movement. My inspiration came from Tim Burton and also the idea that so much can be conveyed without verbal speech.
Proposal: To create a project that would make all viewers smile at a simple short movie portraying acts of kindness and friendship. The story revolves around two characters, LoveBotBoy and LoveBotGirl. LoveBotBoy is sad and unable to find his heart, which he wants to share with LoveBotGirl. LoveBotBoy then stomps around, shakes his hands, and looks into his hat – still unable to find his heart. LoveBotGirl points to her heart and LoveBotBoy thinks. Then he smiles and remembers where his heart is. He gives LoveBotGirl his heart; they smile and skip off.
Story Board: Attached Paper, 16 frames – 60 frames per second. For my midterm there is only a flyby camera that will be roughly 10 seconds long.
While Creating: To create LoveBotBoy and LoveBotGirl I used “Create > NURBS > PRIMITIVES>…” I used Spheres (for eyes, body) Cube (for the environment/blue sky) Plane (for the environment/ground) Cylinder (for arms) Cone (for the hat) Torus (for LoveBotBoy body). To create the colors and textures I went to “Window>Rendering Editors>Hyper shade…” I’m hoping to add much more detail to my characters for my final. I parented and grouped all the parts and started working on how to rig my characters, however I did not include that in my midterm because I didn’t finish. For my environment I decided to create an open field for my two characters to interact. I also added a simple blue background.
Issues: I ran into a few issues on the way. One in partial was when I was trying to key the fly by camera. One of my characters, LoveBotBoy, was falling apart, pieces were flying all over the screen, and eyes were rolling in his head. While LoveBotGirl stayed perfectly fine. This happened every time I would try to make the fly by camera move. After much annoyance, I figured out how to fix it (for now) by keying LoveBotBoy into his spot on the screen so that he doesn’t move. However I’ll have to have a better plan for the final.
Self Evaluation: I believe that I did a good job on this project but I still have a lot more to learn and complete for my final project. I used a lot of reference materials including our “Learning Maya” book to help me step by step in creating things. Both my characters are made out of NURBS shapes that I parented and grouped together. In the future I will need to rig those body parts together so that it moves. The easiest part for me was the design of my characters and the storyboarding. Also I enjoyed figuring out how to key frame the flyby camera, it reminded me a great deal of my favorite part of IMM, creating movies and documentaries. After rendering though I realized that my flyby camera might be moving a bit too fast. However I’m happy with it for now and like how it ends on the heart, the most important part of my future short animation film. I’m hoping to get back to working on this project as soon as possible to fix things and advance it to be exactly how I envisioned my final project.
Production Log Timeline:
3/16-3/23 Complete models 1 & 2, camera flyby, environment
3/23-3/30 Rig my characters , texture/shade
3/30-4/6 Animate frame of story board 1 – 8
4/6 – 4/13 Animate frame of story board 8 – 16
4/13 – 4/20 – Fine tuning, re edit
4/20 – 4/27 - Present
Next step: ANIMATION!!!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
About me
My name is Danielle Cassidy. I am a freshmen at TCNJ and an IMM major. I spend my time doing community service in Trenton as a Bonner Scholar and I am also the Freshmen Class President. Art is a huge passion of mine and IMM seems to finally be the way in which I can express myself.
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