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Sun, 27 Nov 2022 04:52:07 +0000

This week I did all the compositings work and finally editing and also dubbing and adding some transitions.

Compositing

I put all the layers sequences into After Effects and then I tweaked them separately […]

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Sun, 27 Nov 2022 04:40:48 +0000

This week I optimised all the animations including add breakdown and edit animation curves, and I got some nice animation clip. And then I also set the rendering for the whole files.

Optimised […]

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Sun, 27 Nov 2022 04:28:48 +0000

This week I mainly anime the keyframe for all the cut according to my storyboard, furthermore I also playblast them and put them into Pr to edit. And I get a basicly first version of the whole video without […]

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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 02:01:21 +0000

This week I mainly focus on the shader and lighting and scene rendering.

Because last week I have finished building the model of the two main scenes, so I just need the first step to play the light […]

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Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:36:42 +0000

This week my main job was to build the entire scene (including a bedroom workshop and a town) and to look develop all the assets to make sure they would be referenced in the scene without errors.

For this […]

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Sat, 22 Oct 2022 23:37:01 +0000

This week I will mainly create the main character which including the design and modeling and finally finish the rigging part.

Design

According to my setting, this protagonist should be a more […]

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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:41:13 +0000

For the first week I mainly set up the whole script and storyboard. And thanks to Alan’s suggestion I watched so much artwork from Edward Hopper andGregory Crewdson which suits my idea well.

Edward […]

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Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:21:05 +0000

The Deep Mist (A Cthulhu Style CG Trailer)

Project1 Showreel

My role in the team:

Story

I provided the very first idea, wanting to do a Cthulhu-style film, in which there could be a monster of huge […]

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Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:48:56 +0000

This week I already collect all the footages and compositted them, so I just to need to put them together and edit them. Then I will try to add more sound effects.

Thanks to my previous project files in […]

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 21:40:23 +0000

Analysis of the characters building in animated films.(In case of the Joker and Two-Face Harvey Dent in Batman）

Introduction

Character building is a very important technical method in film and t […]

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Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:44:45 +0000

I’ve already done the character’s modeling work, and also make the texture and shader for them in Maya Arnold. So this week my collaborators will give me the footage that I could continuely do the compositting […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 22:48:15 +0000

Last week I animated the footage of some scenes I had made, I just had to edit them together.

Project2:https://youtu.be/QgMX58XmjSk

I chose Nirvana’s famos song ‘Something in the way’ as the background music. […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 21:27:50 +0000

I was going to start animating the camera directly this week, but when I had the camera at some specific angles, I didn’t put any models inside the store by the station, which looked very abrupt, so I had to make […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:08:25 +0000

This week I will foucus on the lighting, and add more details on the scene.

Unreal Engine is different from Maya in that it has a pre-defined physical sky sphere that completely simulates reality and can […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 16:29:40 +0000

This week I will import the USD file into Unreal Engine, and if the process goes well I can even try to make some shots.

In UE5 if you wanna import USD file make sure turn on the USD importer and USD […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:48:14 +0000

I’ve done layout work last week, so this week I need to reference asstes I’ve done the look development before into the scene and continuely add more details in it. Finally I will export the whole scene as a USD […]

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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 01:38:21 +0000

I already have all the models I need, so this week I will build the layout and create a basic light set for this scene.

Layout

Basic Light

Firstly I drag a normal basic human model which from the Maya […]

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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 01:41:25 +0000

For the character I’d like to create it in DAZ cause it’s efficient and I could have a basic joint group so that I can have a character with skeletal binding information in a short time.

First of all I decide […]

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Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:32:48 +0000

This week I’ll mainly collect several assets for example the buildings behind the station, the lanterns in the station etc. Of course I will model the train cause it’s a very important prop in my […]

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Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:57:49 +0000

Follow by the story brief this week I mainly find some references on Artstation, these images would lead the whole visual effect and art design.

The very first thing for searching these references is that […]

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Mon, 13 Jun 2022 23:32:37 +0000

Inspiration

Last christmas me and friends hang out when we pass through the Waterloo station, I noticed some people take a travel bag and smoke outside. I quickly thought about this kind of person they are […]

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Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:41:09 +0000

This week I would make the shader for the 2 characters and set rendering, after that I would also use AE make title video and subtitle videos for the trailer.

As I seted before […]

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Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:10:52 +0000

After modeling and unfolding UV this week I could do the shading and texuring work.

First I need to figure out which part’s texture and material is same so that I could give them one shader and name it. This […]

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Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:36:21 +0000

In our script there are two roles present a male investigator and a female investigator. Now that I have a basic investigator’s clothing, I still just need to get the heads of the two characters done to match the […]

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Tue, 07 Jun 2022 22:10:07 +0000

After last week’s scuplting work I export the model to MAYA into FBX file but I don’t know why all the faces change into triangular face. And I tried OBJ file as well, the same happened. So I quited and decided […]

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Tue, 07 Jun 2022 20:42:07 +0000

As our script we need 2 SCP foundation investigators, so I searched several references which is closely to the investigators.

Firstly I just thought the area which our story happens would full of toxic gases […]

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Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:05:31 +0000

After last week’s work it’s important to make a layout which could make our group members clearly understand the time of each shot and the overall rhythm of the film. So I need to use some images from our […]

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Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:00:42 +0000

As last term’s presentation me and Guanze Wu and Ziyin Wang and Yaozhang Zhong decided to make a Cthulhu style project. So in the first week we had a online meeting to derive the whole script. In this meeting we […]

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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 23:53:09 +0000

Animation film:

My role in the team:

Project Management：

In this collaborative project, I started by setting a strict schedule for everyone. This is essential as it is very challenging to complete such a […]

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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:19:36 +0000

This week we rendered the last few sequences of our animation and finished the editing and compositing.

The final result of our animation will be put in the next post. Here I just make a summary for our […]

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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:01:20 +0000

This week I still keep focusing on rendering and compositing for the rest cuts.

I followed the method I used in cut 01, and set the same settings for other cuts, and then put the scene and characters into […]

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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:43:33 +0000

This week our team focus on rendering and compositing. Ziyin will finish other animations, while Guanze and wanxuan focus on rendering. I am responsible for setting render layers to them and […]

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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:46:45 +0000

Seminar

In class, we formed by 5 discussing the topic ‘Take 1 element from each other of the members of your group’s work, is it possible to form a new project?’

We have two plan. The first is a 3D horiz […]

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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:30:54 +0000

Maya Toon Shader

Since finishing the texture work from last week, this week I need to create Toon shader for our character in Maya. Cause this is my first time to make a cel shading project so I don’t have […]

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Sun, 13 Mar 2022 01:35:25 +0000

This week I focus on the textures of the robot and create a whole character light for it.

Thanks for Wanxuan’s fine art concept design that could lead my texture work. With her drawing I also found some other […]

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Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:27:33 +0000

Modeling

This week I finished another character model the main human in our script.

I firstly tried to directly make a basic human body in Makehuman because I can quickly get a basic model which has a […]

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Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:48:09 +0000

Modeling

This week I mainly focused on the robot which is one of our main character in the script modeling.

I firstly quickly set a basic geometry to show the silhouette of this character. According to […]

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Fri, 04 Feb 2022 01:24:28 +0000

Team members:

Zhengzhong Liang, Wanxuan Liu, Ziyin Wang, Guanze Wu, Yuehui Chen.

Project: Shut Down (Tentative)

The project is to make a cel shading near-future sci-fi animation short film.

Cel […]

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Fri, 04 Feb 2022 01:06:02 +0000

Here is the camera sequencer practice I did. Layout is pretty useful for project because it could provide solutions which will lead the whole process carry on and not affect progress. And in which way the story […]

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Thu, 03 Feb 2022 23:39:23 +0000

Make a Team

First of all, Wanxuan Liu asked me to make a cel-shading project like . I’m also a huge fan of it, so we quickly decide to from a team of makeing a cel-shading video. Because cel-shading is a […]

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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 07:03:43 +0000

Topic: How Shin’ichiro Watanabe makes animation with multiculturalism ———The Case of and

Audio-visual presentation:

Available at: https://youtu.be/-akyBW-eig8

Presentation Powerpoint

PresentationDownload

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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:47:33 +0000

Research topics:

How Japanese animation has been impacted by foreign cultures (analysis of Watanabe Shin’ichirō’s trilogy as an example) (mainly Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop )An analysis of why the Jo […]

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Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:22:57 +0000

BIG THANKS!!!

Thanks for everyone who helped me on Term1！！！！

Available at :https://vimeo.com/665288445

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Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:03:34 +0000

I choose a video of an assisted long jump as my reference footage. And I drop that into AE to add frame code.

Then output this video with frame code by quicktime format and import it directly on Maya […]

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Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:57:27 +0000

I like pretty much, so I chose one line from Jimmy who is the main character of . I really appreciated his performance in this play, as he took the character of Saul from a hesitant start to a disillusioned […]

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Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:14:50 +0000

Gimbal Lock & Rigging a Camera Rig

I followed the recordings in the class and set a camera.

The Perspective View of Camera

The Camera View( with curves)

At the first time I was doubt why we need to […]

Zhenzhong Liang and Chenghao Su are now friends

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:56:42 +0000

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Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:06:07 +0000

Disney Animation

The artistic style of Disney’s animated films includes: mainly drama, storyline twists, distinctive characters, vivid and exaggerated action, beautiful music and suitable for the aesthetic […]

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Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:48:48 +0000

Take 2 films you enjoy and break down the character development and story development throughout the film:Analyses how the main characters evolveAnalyses how the characters drive the storyIf there are […]

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:26:57 +0000

Film analysis———

a film directed by Zhangke Jia, 2018

Story Arc Breakdown

You——-a character is in a zone of comfort

Qiaoqiao is the lover of Bingbing (the head of the local […]