Week 8

We all arranged a group meeting four days before the deadline to finish the Artefact. We all were working on different software’s. Software’s we used for artefact are Maya, Photoshop, Flash and After Effects.

Our Movie will be based on idea number 9. A tiger that bumps into glass while wondering round in the city.

I help my group by using the Photoshop and Flash. After Effects was new to me and I didn’t know Maya good enough to work on. Legs movements of the tiger were done in Flash are below are the pictures of the tiger’s move:-










All these four pictures were put together to make the tiger walk.





A picture of our Maya environment made for the movie.

For the background we used an image from internet


http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/houston-city-guide-ga-1a.jpg



We mixed the Maya environment with a picture in After Effects to make it look as if the tiger is walking in a city.

Workshop 7

Working into the 7th week of the modules and a week before the deadline, we haven’t started the artefact on computer. We have all the drawings and storyboard ready to start the film. I did the leg and body movement of the tiger on paper so it’s easy for the animators. During the workshop our group just discussed the idea of the tiger jumping into water thinking it’s another tiger. We came to know that it will be hard to start off with Maya then flash and then back to Maya. The modelling of tiger seemed impossible within the time we are left with. During this session we all came up with different stories and various problems with every story. Some of the ideas are as follow:
1.Show the tiger sleeping take camera into the eyes of tiger, tiger walking and jump into water.
2.Tiger on mountain, jump into water
3.Cartoon tiger with abstract environment
4.Tiger walking in abstract environment hits into glass reflection
5.Tiger in a city hits into Mac shop entrance as Mac shop only have glass front
6.Everything in jpegs. Rotate the pictures to turn into movie.
7.Tiger that walks into different median of glass, the reflection of the tiger will be shown like deformed shadow. Every after a few seconds of tiger’s walk the median of glass will change so will the deformed shadow.
8.Tiger in a circle of glass. Every segment of glass will show different types of distortion of shadow.
9.A tiger that just bumps into glass while wondering round in the city.

The idea of abstract came from darwinia. http://www.introversion.co.uk/darwinia/


To create an abstract environment will take less time and effort. Our final idea is between no.7 and 9.
Because we haven’t got enough time left so all of my group members will be meeting on the start of next week to finish the assignment.

Marking Criteria for Assignment 2- Lecture 6

The marking criteria for assignment 2 are based on other group’s judgement and comments. Some things which will be taken in account are:
- Evidence of research in creative process
- Innovative response to chosen word/s
- Demonstration of group participation
- Evidence of experimental practice
- Conceptual studies/ drawings
- Demonstration of development
- Complete bibliography

Sketches - Workshop 5

The pictures of tiger were not what my group members were looking for so I got hold of some more tiger pictures from internet.

http://www.greenwichworkshopgallery.com/Originals/images/combes/BengalTigerSketch.jpg

http://www.thesnozberries.com/h.s.%20tiger%20drawing.%20smalljpg.jpg

The sketches were better to start the modelling of our tiger than the pictures. Our story will be based on some 2D and some 3D work. Photoshop, Flash, Maya, After Effects are the programmes we will be using for this assignment. Plan is to model the tiger and the environment in Maya, tiger’s jump into water in Flash and reflection is After Effects.

Marking Criteria- Lecture 5

Our marking criteria for the essay:
-Ability to communicate
- Style of writing
- Research with reference
-Spelling with grammar
- Clear direction throughout the essay
- Interesting and engaged
- Good source and variety of reference

Research- Workshop 4

I, not being a animation student don’t know much about animation and 3D, decided to get hold of basic things to start the project. To animate we needed a sketch of tiger/lion and how the film will take place. We all divided the work between us. Everyone in the group will be doing what they are best at. I got the following pictures from internet so we can start to model our tiger by looking at some examples.

Pictures from http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/274122

Picture of the Tate Modern-Lecture 4

Trip to Tate Modern with my group. We went to the exhibition of Duchamp Man ray Picabia. I bought some post cards to add to the blog.