Author: Jixuan Chen

This week we have continued to work on the character animations, refining the details, adjusting the sit down at the beginning so that the character looks around before sitting down, and secondly, modifying the speed of the movement after a scare, and modifying the movement of the box and the spring.

This week some of the rendered shots were put into pr for post compositing. I added snowflakes all over the paper scene part of the film to make the story more bleak, to have a deeper contrast with the later episodes, and to highlight the loneliness of the male protagonist.

This week I finished blocking plus, modified some key actions based on the changes given by the teacher last week, and secondly added some key frames, added a horror box to make the plot more logical and complete, so that the characters are frightened and thus make actions.

This week working on the character animation part, such as walking etc, and some shot animation, I created a Hitchcock zoom in the final shot.
For some of the finished character animation shots I started lighting and rendering, all at the same time.

This week’s character animation was modified from blocking to spline to round out the overall animation. I mainly changed the speed of the character sitting down, changed some key movements, added some interesting shifts, cancellations etc.

Some of the shots in the film have a strong impact on the plot, so I wanted to use some special shots, such as the Hitchcock zoom, which is very classic and often used for thrills and shocks, and I used it to convey the shock of the hero when he sees the heroine in the film.

This week I finished making the character animation blocking. The teacher’s suggestion was to change the pose of some movements to make them more exaggerated, and on top of that, continue adding keyframes.

The number of uv’s is very large and I have scattered the various uv’s in different cells; the material maps for cars, trees and buildings all need to be made in two versions, paper and coloured.

UV

Substance painter

This week kicked off the first week of a new project for the new term. First I started by thinking in my head what action to do, I wanted to do an action that was interactive and weighty, like being scared by an explosion, so I recorded my own video and then used to draw out the key frames of it.

Work began this week on Project 2, an animated short film that follows the main character as he walks alone in a world made of paper until he meets a girl who paints his is world in colour.
We have forgone rendering in 3d into 2d for better results and this week I have started building models of scenes, buildings, cars, trees etc.

Building model

Car, tree model