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Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:39:06 +0000

WEEK 01: Script & Storyboard

WEEK 02: Character & rigging

WEEK 03: Scene 01

WEEK 04: Scene 02

WEEK 05: Animation & Rendering 01

Week6: Animation & Rendering 02

Week7: Compositing

Week8: Editing

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Sun, 27 Nov 2022 01:30:00 +0000

This week I started working on a couple of other scenes.

In this scene I added some smoke and flame effects

The scene looks good after adding the effects

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Sat, 26 Nov 2022 04:15:00 +0000

I need to finish half of the animation this week.

In addition to this an attempt has been made to adjust the lighting

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Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:07:00 +0000

I did the effects and connections in PR first and then went into AE for the soundtrack.

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Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:36:00 +0000

As I was briefly editing the video together, I found that some of the videos were too “normal” in the “Asphyxiation” section, so I thought it would be a good idea to use different lights to show a […]

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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:28:00 +0000

For the second scene, I found a reference. I really like this effect, and I think it is very representative of what happens when there is a “lack of oxygen.”

But I didn’t find a tutorial for it, although I […]

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Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:46:00 +0000

Not only did I deal with a lot of bugs this week, but I also built the scenes. At first, I wanted to design the outdoor scenes first, but halfway through, I realized that the outdoor scenes seen through the […]

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Sun, 23 Oct 2022 19:03:00 +0000

I looked up some references, and I wanted my astronaut character to wear thinner clothes and not carry a lot of equipment on his back so that I could design the movements better in the post.

And I designed […]

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Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:23:00 +0000

Script：

Astronaut wake up in a small spaceship that crashed in a unknown planet. After checking the equipment and remaining supplies, he found the situation was awful. The ship was badly damaged, and the d […]

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:19:00 +0000

Links:

Week1: Research

Week2: Storyboard & ResearchⅠ

Week3:Storyboard & ResearchⅡ

Week4: Scene 1 & UE4

Week5:Scene 2

Week6: Niagara Effects

Week7: Scene 3

Week8: Character Ani […]

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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:51:00 +0000

Links:

Week1: Project2 Brief (Premise Project)

Week2: Reference

Week3:Disco Diffusion

Week4: Assets

Week5: Basic scenes

Week6: Alien plants

Week7: Particle effects

Week8: Character […]

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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:45:26 +0000

The influence of colour on Animation narrative

Introduction

In film studies, colour and story are usually divided into separate sections, the use of colour is usually relegated to a design. Therefore it is […]

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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:12:00 +0000

As this is just a test, I don’t have a lot of Shots.

I found a song that fits better and used it directly as background music

Then I used Premiere to create my credits, and that was the end of all the […]

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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:17:00 +0000

I finally got to the editing part, which meant that the project would soon be finished.

I sent it to my friends after I made the beginning and they thought that the effects and sounds I had added were […]

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Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:45:00 +0000

This week I started looking for some assets I needed, some of which came from QUIXEL and some from the internet.

I then started building scenarios using my assets according to this tutorial

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Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:50:00 +0000

This week I started to think about my entire story structure. I felt that if I just put some scenes, my animation would look very monotonous, so I chose to change the plot and add some character animations.

I […]

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Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:11:00 +0000

This week I’ve been working mainly on character animations. At first, I was trying to replace the action character in ue.

But I found that my character could only pan and his joints didn’t move

So I can […]

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Tue, 31 May 2022 18:43:00 +0000

When I started building larger scenes, I thought it didn’t seem as hard as I thought it would be at first, so I didn’t spend a particularly long time on this as soon as I found the right […]

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Tue, 31 May 2022 07:10:00 +0000

Then I wanted to add some little dots of light flying in the air, maybe spores or fireflies.

The final product I produced

Then I put it in the scene

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Tue, 24 May 2022 15:12:35 +0000

I wanted to learn how to add some leaves and dots to the scene, so I looked at some tutorials on the Niagara particle system.I decided to learn the effect of falling leaves first.

Next, use the blueprint […]

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Tue, 24 May 2022 09:36:00 +0000

I’ve got my set roughly built, this week it’s all about adding some alien plants to it.

As my asset is mainly about mushrooms, I have consulted some information to study how they are distributed and how to […]

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Tue, 17 May 2022 11:22:00 +0000

After the first scene was done, I started working on a second scene about the forest. Then I looked back and remembered that I saw a picture some time ago. It was a Buddha statue in the middle of the forest. This […]

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Tue, 17 May 2022 08:24:00 +0000

Above are some of the tutorials I read during the process of making them, the tutorials helped me a lot

Regarding the lighting, at the beginning I added HDRI, but the colour and detail I was looking for in the […]

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Tue, 10 May 2022 00:02:00 +0000

Since I have never used an Unreal Rngine before, so I’m going to start by learning how to create a new project.

The following are some of my study notes:

First I adjusted the position of all the assets […]

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Tue, 03 May 2022 22:40:00 +0000

Next I decided I wanted to use the unreal engine to make an animation about a forest.

Outline：Corner of the forest

4 scenesShowing a few corners of the forestRepresenting the mood of the forestUsing c […]

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Tue, 03 May 2022 06:00:00 +0000

I saw a webpage about AI painting, I thought it was amazing, and it came out very well, although I don’t really need such a storyboard this time, but I think FMP may need it, so I want to study it first.

After […]

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Sun, 01 May 2022 11:23:00 +0000

Then I started looking for some reference pictures, I don’t know why I’ve been particularly obsessed with good-looking mushrooms lately, my first project also had elements of mushrooms. In short, I wanted to […]

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Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:29:00 +0000

I spent the first few days of the week discussing the rules and level settings with my group, I also found some references to the little robots and started designing the main characters.

This […]

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Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:33:27 +0000

After playing It Takes Two, I really liked this game, so when planning Project One, I thought researching and making a simple game would be a good direction.

Then I decided to work with my friends from other […]

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Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:56:00 +0000

For my project2, I decided to do something related to my FMP that would save me a lot of time in testing.

But as I wasn’t particularly sure about the story of FMP, I decided to work from my initial ideas […]

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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:08:11 +0000

Animation film:

My role in the team:

Story: Draft Story(fall into disuse). the final story is made by all the team members.

Storyboard:

Character design:

Texturing and shading: Scene […]

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Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:01:00 +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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Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:58:00 +0000

Motion Graphic Animation

As there is a clip in our animation where the TV is showing the news. After some discussion, we decided to use AE to make this animation.

This model was bought with a skeleton […]

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Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:57:00 +0000

Lighting

This week our team start lighting the scene and keep refining our textures. I’m not very good at this part, so I’m learning more from the group members and helping out when they need […]

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:40:44 +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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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:38:04 +0000

This week I’ve been working on the layout of the scenes and the more detailed character designs (to go over the overall colour scheme and details of the characters).

Character design

My teammates gave […]

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:32:38 +0000

This week I am mainly responsible for painting the textures of the characters and start to test rendering.

I used Substance Painter to draw the mapping. And because we needed a very flat image, I only used […]

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Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:03:00 +0000

Storyboard

This week I’m mainly in charge of storyboards, I first drew a version of my idea (just a very random draft), which is convenient for me and my team members to discuss.

This is just a […]

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Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:32:00 +0000

Team members:

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

Story draft:

In the near future, robots are widely used in people’s daily life. A computer virus explosion leads to a chaotic, wh […]

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Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:32:00 +0000

The main task this week was to identify the project theme and find teammates.

Team members

Recently our team is formed by 4 teammates: Zhengzhong Liang, Ziyin Wang, Guanze Wu and me. Unfortunately, we still […]

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Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:16:00 +0000

Show Reel

Weekly Challenges and Diary of work Links:

Challenge1&2 : Week1: Bouncing ball

Challenge 3 : Week1: 12 Principles of Animation & Good & Bad Animation

Challenge 4&5 : Week2: Tail Animation & […]

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Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:44:00 +0000

Topic:The influence of postmodernism on animation

The-influence-of-postmodernism-on-animation pptDownload

Weekly Tasks and Notes Links:

Week2: The history of film, animation and VFX & Note

Week3: […]

Wanxuan Liu and Chenghao Su are now friends

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:56:40 +0000

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Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:51:05 +0000

Spider-man into the spider-verse

The Witness

Topic

3D Animation and Comic Visual ArtsAnimation and Postmodernist art

3D Animation and Comic Visual Arts

Frame extraction […]

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Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:08:00 +0000

I chose a jump and fall sequence，The action is very complete and interesting, the only downside is that the picture is a little shaky

To prevent slippage I put in some locators

If there were m […]

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Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:37:56 +0000

The Midnight Thinker ho

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Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:23:00 +0000

I chose a film I really like: a sound clip from Little Women, because it has a lot of emotional ups and downs and is perfect for facial animation

Then I tried to perform it myself and it was really hard to […]

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Sat, 13 Nov 2021 14:11:00 +0000

The Truman Show

The film tells the story of Truman, the protagonist of a popular soap opera, where everything around him is fake and his family and friends are all actors, but he himself knows nothing about it. […]

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Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:47:00 +0000

I chose the body mechanics reference given by my teacher because I think weightlifting is a very good exercise for spinal stresses.

The spine takes on an upward circular shape when the person is bent over but […]

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Wed, 03 Nov 2021 08:01:04 +0000

What is a narrative arc?

Narrative arc is a term that describes a story’s full progression. It visually evokes the idea that every story has a relatively calm beginning, a middle where tension, character […]