Honours Project Animation Artifact

Progress Report

3D Animatic

So  as state earlier in my progress presentation review of Crit week, I state about having made A 3D version of my animatic. The advantage of this was it block out the very key position and action the character were making. It also help  with the Timing of my animation along with how well it communicates what is happening. As I not updated the blog for a while I will be posting a few videos showing the progress of the Honours project. Below is the 3D Animatic.

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Mary's Jump on the bed and fall

The following week, I began focusing on filling in the poses of the Animatic using a Blocking method. for this week the goal was to block out Marys, jumping onto the bed and attempting to gain Lilly attention. during this time I was aiming to take advantage of the use of weight in Marys movements, This was later shown during my supervisor meetings and we discussed the adjusting the positioning of the legs. The video below Is the Updated version,

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The  Next again I focused on Marys movements when she turns herself around on the bed however the action is allot more complicated than the animation iv done before. So I asked my sister if she would mind me  getting reference footage of her conducting this action. I originally attempt to just act out the scene myself and remember the actions I took. This was a disaster as I was focusing on the action to much and was putting my body in position people would not actually do in that situation. For example, As I turned I managed to have the weight on my shoulders and face. (Imagine a Break dancer as they spin on their head. Below is a few play blasts of the animation which I showed for my meeting for that week.

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We decided that the camera angles weren't the  best for this action because they were not serving and justice toward what she was doing. Another not was  from the first video her body began floating because we could not see her legs or how here weight was being adjusted. This lead into an awkward stutter in the action because I was attempting to show her weight shift forward. We also pointing out that in the reference footage the adjustment my sister made in order to get comfortable was crucial to include in the revised animation. Below is the revised animation in which I focus her weight on one side of her body as she adjusted her legs to show where her weight was. I then looked back toward the reference for the adjustment of the body.

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Lilly's reaction

Between the 8th and 15, I focus went into my dissertation. However, I wanted to make sure I at least got some animation done. I decide to work on  One of Lilly's movements as it was mostly her reacting to the actions Mary as previously done. I attempted to focus on using Eye accessing cues which display with the eyes what part of the brain the character is accessing as it was a method found during my research for showing internal thought. However, there were parts I was suggested on adding and removing to make the action more believable.

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Lilly going through her bag

As last week focused mainly on the dissertation and I got little animation done this week leading up to day focused on  animation again. However, I also made time to address my case studies. So below, I have focused on a little more of Marys actions but this was to lead into Lilly's action. Sadly this animation is still to be reviewed while with my supervisor, So there may be adjustments later, This animation also  is using make shift props so I could focus on the movements and then later ill make the props and bind them correctly as I refine the animation out of the blocking stage.

 

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during this week the focus is to get Mary and Lilly interacting together, For this i have to had the console to Mary and then have Lilly climb onto the bed, After this has been done I can then go back and refine the animation as only small actions are left to be animated.

Other Incoming updates,  Other than this  area I have started focusing on the image I wish to  apply to my business cards.  There is also the matter of my case studies which require some refinement however are developed and complete enough for me able to talk about what I have learned from them and their merit.