Animation : The New Perspective: May 2016

Going Live Final Animation

TOY SCANDAL - 'Hunny Bunny Stole My Money'.
Going Live group project with Axis Animation, Glasgow. 16 May 2016

This is the final animation from our Going Live group project that we already presented to Axis Animation last Monday. I was satisfied with the final output and very proud to have a very talented and good teammate in this project.

5/20/2016 07:03:00 pm
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Going Live : Road to the Final

Going Live

We finally walk to the end together for our assignment in Going Live Project. We finish everything left to be compose and edit a little bit in the morning and in the afternoon we sit together in edit suite. Even I just sit and watch others to do the editing, it was fun to learn and working with our group member. Everyone try to help each other and we reflect fast to the response that we got from Axis and calmly finish everything as a group. Every hard work finally had been paid back by rendering out the final animation. I personally satisfied with the overall outcome and every feedback from Axis will be our guideline to be better in future. I'm proud to be one of this awesome team. Thanks to every support we got from all the staff and everyone who help us to finish this project.

5/14/2016 04:29:00 pm
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Credit Roll

Going Live

4/5/2016
After meeting on Wednesday with Phillip Vaughan and our team member, I update with the latest credit roll for Going Live project. After a discussion with our team member, they agreed to stick with the scrolling panel for the end credit. They also like it have some clue about what kind of show we are referring to. So, I create something similar with the background. I add flashing light to put the end title before the name scroll from below. Elena is working right now on everyone caricature face so I will update the end credit with the latest image.

9/5/2016

Elena finally done to draw all of our faces and I compose again in after effect for the end credit. Here is what I already compose and now the editing team will combine with other shot in premier.

5/09/2016 08:23:00 pm
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Nuke Composition for Going Live

Going Live

We start on Monday to compose the files that already come out from the render farm. We try to achieve all the aspect that Matt Cameron had teach us on Friday. But for the moving image we need to change a little bit of the node and try again another node to match with the animation. We use at least 5 to 6 image sequences such as, diffuse, master beauty, indirect, ambient occlusion, specular, reflection and depth. We then arrange and merge them to another like a chain and add another node to highlight the character.

As we explore and try different node, we use the same node with another person in the composition team to synchronize the environment. The several node that we use such as, grade to highlight the light and tone, blur and grain to make the animation less cg, zdefocus to make a tilt shift effect so the character will be more realistic and also some other node.

Below, several shot that I already done on compositing but maybe just need to be check again by other member to see the quality and consistency of each shot. I enjoy doing the compositing and a little bit surprise to learn it fast.

Shot 02

The volume ray that I had in the node help to highlight the guess who board and make it look like this scene was in the afternoon. This shot has a camera movement from the troll face and pan to the He-man walking and talking to the audiences.

Shot 06

The grain node help to make this animation look more photo realistic rather than cg. The zdefocus also help to build the tilt shift effect to make this character look tiny in this big room.

Shot 07

This three character was in the center of lens focus and adding blur image background can help them look tiny.

Shot 18

The volume ray from outside the window give an idea of the sun direction and highlight the He-man character.

Shot 28

Adding a several grade node also can help to change the mood and tone of this shot.

5/05/2016 05:00:00 pm
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Going Live End Credit II

Going Live

Update on Going Live project, this is the end credit so far that I have done today. I try to refer from the end credit for the Jeremy Kyle show and create a border that look similar to it. I also change on how the name of our group member appear from scrolling above into move in and out from the right screen. We also agreed to change the character into our own caricature face. We will put the end credit into the TV screen and play it along with the same end song from that show.

Everyone work very hard to achieve the target in this group project and I really thankful to have such a great team. I will help them finish all the compositing in Nuke and tried to amend any changes in this end credit.

5/01/2016 05:30:00 pm
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