16 June 2011

ipod and space E4 and Editing

Thankfully, I had a ipod model I made earlier like 2 years ago when I first started modeling. Ipod will be used after the city scene. Also as the last scene, I came up an idea like futuristic, star wars kind of E4 logo at the end.





The background of the space was simply made in photoshop applying space pattern and E4 logo is the only 3d model. However it looks quiet nice and im happy with it. For the ipod scene, I didn't have enough time to model whole speaker in detail so I just modeled rough key figures and covered rest of it with texture. Also it will be seen less than 2 second so we think it was quiet clever move.



For the editing, Loanne made a purple cloudy effect on photoshop and gave it to me. I overlayed the picture on the top of the 2d sequences to give a sense of unity and consistency. I didn't put the layer on 3d sequences because it would ruin the shininess and futuristic feeling of 3d.

Plain drawing

purple cloud layer overlayed


Editing in After Effect


It was the first time I've ever actually edit the whole film since the first year. First year work was only putting all the work together and didn't do much of effect but this time I did some experiences on my own to make them look good. I found editing is really difficult for me but it definitely has worth to learn so I will play around with it and learn it more in this summer.


In terms of music, we looped our film with the tunes E4 itself provided for the competition, and picked one called Jazz2. It matched with our film strangely well, fortunately.


As working only together for the first time, we had very good communication with each other and shared almost same schedule throughout the term. It helped a lot to finish the work quiet quickly compare to the precious works. I think we succeeded to manage our time efficiently this time.

04 June 2011

Planning for showreel

To gather previous works for my showreel, I sat down and watched over old works. To be honest, I didn't really like the pieces I worked on past years, because I just found what I really want to do in last term, which is more technical stuff like MEL scripting and dynamics rather than modeling or animating. I could just put old pieces in the showreel but I want it to show more about what I am into and what I am going to do for the future.
So I decided to put only 2 films I worked, which are Flip Flap from the first term in this year and E4 project me and loanne is working on right now. Also I will put other examples I worked on my own on particle systems and dynamics.

Below is the simple storyboard for the showreel. I can use some of the scenes from what I already made before and it will be required just bit of editing.