Well here it is! my bouncing beach ball! 😀 I have some other animations I would like to load up but I’m having some trouble with freemake and my own converter.. I’ll post them up as GIF images soon. Have a look!
Squash & Stretch
These are the timings in the video where I think one of the 12 principles of animation is utilized. Solid drawing and appeal is really a no brainier here 😡 no pun intended but yeah. 3D is soilid! And isn’t Po and the furious five appealing! XD
0.14- Staging
//The pots are placed there for Po to use to hide himself when he is in stealth mode. He fails completely though.. anyways, Staging is seen here.
0.18- Arcs
// His body bounces in an arc after he falls down. Maybe follow through and overlapping action is seen here as well where his body completes the fall and not just stops halfway with the result in Po rolling over. The overlapping action are his legs opening as he falls over.
0.24- Secondary Action
// Its pretty obvious here. His tummy! hahaha! it wobbles as his head hits the pot.
0.25- Staging, Anticipation and Timing.
// The set the noodles away from Po and its sitting on the stall that we all saw earlier on. Po is placed at an angle that fits our mental image when we see him move towards the stall from the previous scene.
//Anticipation happens when he goes gaga over the noodles for a short time. We anticipate that he will try to eat the noodles. The process of him trying to eat could also be considered anticipation because the audience would want to see if their hero gets to have a snack.
//Timing. I’m not really sure about this one. But.. the timing of the whole scene where Po is taking a bite is perfectly timed to give a sense of Po ignoring the danger around him to have a meal and it may have consequences.
0.33- Secondary Action
//While the goat was held up by the wolf her tail was also moving.
0.47-Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose
//I’m gonna just say that I’m not sure if the guys at Dreamworks did this. But! It seems logical to do it. Hahaha! SO!
//Key pose> 0.47 Eating the wolf
//Various key poses> 0.48-0.53 “Digestion”
//Key Pose> 0.54 “Shit”
0.48- 0.53- A lot of stretch and squash here!
//the dragon stretches and squashes as the wolf is passed through its digestive system. The movement is also greatly exaggerated to have a comical effect and the illusion of it being a real dragon consuming the wolf and then finally discharging it from its behind.
I know.. I agree with the rabbit. Haha! Anndddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Meow!~ thats all folks!
Fin- Timothy
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Right you may notice I use the word skadoush recently in a few posts. Hahaha! Wondering whats that about? Well. Its pretty obvious if you have watched this movie. Kung Fu Panda 2.
Its full of epicness, awesomeness and attractiveness. Sadly there is a price for these things. I spent more than $20 to watch it twice. It was worth the money though! Really worth it.
Heres a short clip that is posted by DreamsWorks Animation studio on youtube. May you be enlightened with the power of the word. SKADOUSH!
*It has a really cool ending! You gotta see it!*
Therefore, it is given, its own, page! With drop down menu for easier browsing! =D
Just a list out of the pages(Note, they are not links)
– SSDRS
Story
Shape
Design
Research
Self Critique
– Photoshoot( Its rather self-explanatory here hahaha~ Moving on)
-Review
This is where I post a reflection for this project. I like doing reflections now, it gives me time to, well.. reflect. On what has happened during the project duration, recap what I’ve learnt to do, what I haven’t learnt to do and many other stuff that comes up.
Not that I didn’t like doing reflections before! >< hahaha! Skadooushhh~
http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/using_projection_mapping_in_maya <<< from AREA community website. Go take a look guys!
Recently I watched a new 3D animated film by Dreamworks. Its called Kung Fu Panda 2. And it was,
Yes it was
It really inspired me to become a professional 3D artist of that caliber. Studying 3D, I could really see and feel the amount of effort that the whole team put in to create this wondrous master piece. It is truly a very masterful work of art. The story, the characters, the landscape, the music, the detail of the models, the texturing, the colors and other stuff that I haven’t yet learnt. It is really amazing when these small components come together.
Hopefully next time, I could create something just like this and inspire people.
Does multi-tasking give you a real or false sense of having accomplished something?
No, obviously it doesn’t give one a real sense of accomplishment. I quote from the article from http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Turn-Their-Attention/63746/.
Last summer Nass and two colleagues published a study that found that self-described multitaskers performed much worse on cognitive and memory tasks that involved distraction than did people who said they preferred to focus on single tasks.
This proves really that multitasking is just a false claim by those who do it. Studies and tests were all carried out to prove the researcher’s, scholar’s or professor’s point that, multitasking is a process that greatly disrupts a person’s ability to take in information and process that information into something useful. Even a small amount of distraction can cause a great impact on a person’s understanding of a certain concept or subject.
In the article there was this section which states that a professor,Karin Foerde, carried out an experiment to test their theory that distraction during learning will affect a person’s intake though it will not show in his immediate performance on the given task.
Foerde and her colleagues asked their subjects to “predict the weather” based on cues that they slowly learned over many computer trials. But when they were asked afterward to describe the general probabilistic rules for that trial (for example, a triangle meant sunshine 80 percent of the time), they did much worse then they did after the undistracted trials.
I don’t really need to say more about whether multitasking is good or bad. The facts, studies and published articles says it all. Additionally, I for one try to avoid multitasking because it can become really hard for me to focus on any task that I am currently working on. I consider myself fortunate that I am not able to multi-task that well, so therefore I avoid doing so most of the time.
Is learning 3D and design different from learning programming, or is all learning the same?Why?
If you ask me, I’d say that learning is all the same but then again learning is not, simply put, all the same as well. Why?
This is an example from the article…
When people are undistracted, they encoded information through what is known as the declarative-memory system. That distinction is an important one for educators, Foerde says, because information that is encoded in declarative memory is more flexible—that is, people are more likely to be able to draw analogies and extrapolate from it.
3D Design and programming are worlds apart in terms of their content. Educators would use different methods to teach these subjects. Learning is all the same where by the way that one learns is by listening attentively to the teacher and practicing, applying the knowledge to become better and better. Learning is different when you consider that the subject of programming requires a more logical and mathematical thought process as compared to 3D and design where one needs to be creative and artistic.
Basically, yes and no that learning is all the same. Its about perspective really. To me, learning is similar but not entirely the same. Its similar because the way you process the information will be the same all the time. Its just a little different because of the different ways you have to approach a subject matter when you want to know more about it.
The article states that “Learning is actually a very complex operation for an individual”. Do you agree with this? Do you feel that you approach your learning in the best way – if yes, how, and if no, how can you change your work style?
Yes I agree that learning, is a very complex operation for an individual. As I have said above, learning well is something that consists of many factors. I think that I am aware of how I go about learning new things. For example, I know that I am a visual learner and partially a aural learner as well. So I tend to place myself somewhere at the front of the class whenever I can. In regards to the article, I am very easily distracted at times. But when I am “in the zone” I wouldn’t be so easily distracted anymore. Most of the time I try to avoid going to Facebook and Twitter. Even logging in to msn can be a little distracting for me at times. But I require these little distractions because if I get too focused on my work I would get carried away.
So my work style is basically to focus and do my work while taking breaks once in a while to keep myself fresh and entertained. Talking to one of my close friends on Msn is one way I like to De-stress or just relax sometimes.
What are your thoughts about the last paragraph in the extract?
The students for today’s industry have to have talent and the personality to fit in with the team. As a professional artist, communication is important and the ability to communicate well with other team members is an ongoing struggle. It is well noted that a businesses success rides completely on communication and this area is no different. The ability to effectively write an email, give and take constructive criticism, articulate a solution to a problem, and in some situations talk with a client are foundational skills necessary for success.
I think that communication is important as well. Being able to communicate your ideas, solutions and discussions effectively and clearly is a key skill that is needed by every business. To me I find personality more important than talent. I mean, of course you would have to have some sort of talent in your field but if you were super duper talented. And your character, put frankly, sucks. You would become more of a liability that of an asset to the company who hires you.
In the case of the 3D industry, communication skills and personality come hand in hand. Seen the films by the great guys at Pixar or DreamWorks? Notice how their characters are love-able and approachable and they seem to be alive. They give of a sort of human like feeling though they are actually just pixels on a screen. These traits of the characters, in my opinion are reflected by the personalities and traits of the animators and directors that create them. But its all because the environment and culture at their workplace is great.
Environment and culture?
Lets break it down into a 3 section pyramid. At the top you have successful ideas and stories turned into animated feature films that produces a lot of income for the company. This equals success agree? Right, now we move down 1 section and there you will find the people. The brains of the story, this is where the talent is, where the characters are modeled and animated. Where some people become part of their machines 😡 hahahaha. And then at the bottom, the foundation of the whole thing. Communication and Personality. Just like the paragraph says:
a businesses success rides completely on communication and this area is no different.
This pyramid is really vague but for the purposes of this reflection it will do just fine.
With the presence of the factors mentioned above, the workplace becomes more connected. Communication, the foundation of a successful business-an animation studio for example- is really what makes all of this
The Pixar animated film, UP
Happen. 🙂
Should your lecturers also focus on your work attitude, or just leave you to sink or swim on your own? Why?
I think lecturers should focus on our working attitudes where they can. Because coming to polytechnic for some means the end of their education journey- studying wise I mean- ,they would go out to find jobs with their diplomas. So it is really crucial for the lecturers, who are experts in their craft to teach the students not only the core skills of their diploma. But also how to be a person, or to put in a straightforward and cheesy fashion, a good worker. I think lecturers are role models for us students. Personally I am learning from some of my lecturers too =)
And with that I end my post. Thank you for reading.
Timothy 🙂
Well this was a short tutorial. I took about 15 minutes or less to finish this one. It was really easy because whatever was taught here, we’ve done it before. Outlining the image on a plane. And then this time we had to extrude it instead of using the revolve tool. After that the track was pretty much done. All that was left was to create a flap for attaching it to other tracks. This was done simply by extruding the front two faces on the bottom of the track and then selecting the face that was created and extruding it forward. Apply a bevel to create the half honeycomb shaped flap and its done!
The next part of the tutorial was also very interesting. First I started by duplicating the previous track, and then apply a deformer, this time its a bend instead of a wave. This tool is very powerful and useful because by simply adding the deformer, I could easily manipulate the object making bend and curve in any direction that I want.
Based on my current understanding of Maya, I think this tool can be used to create roads or 3D type faces. I would like to explore more in depth for this tool. Maybe I’ll create a race track and model a car. Hahaha!
These are the track that I’ve created.
Timothy 🙂
There it was, unmoving, unwavering and stiff.
*woosh~
The wind simply blew around it and even the strongest gush of wind that rushed at it, merely lifted its bulbous handle slightly. It was the most terrifying, most dark and evilest thing-if there was such a word as evilest- in the world of 3D..
It was cursed, they all said.. They? Why students of course! Whoever tried their best to model this devious contraption would meet with abundant errors and lovely crashes. Their spirit would be dampened and their very self become depressed and down.
BUT TO THOSE WHO PERSEVERED, TO THOSE WHO FOUGHT ON DESPITE THE ODDS…
*myself included*
WE DID IT! Down down down you go bucket! You have been served!
Because the bucket was, to me, a very very difficult tutorial. I have decided to give the bucket it’s very own page!
Link: Click the navigation tabs on the top left! or you could click here!
Yes. I am still in the process of completing the bucket.. lol.. the track is done though. I’ll post everything at one go.
TimothyOrangeShow IN3D 