In this week’s robot arm course, we were taught to make simple bindings, something I hadn’t learnt in my previous undergraduate years, to control the maximum and minimum values of the floating robot arm, a very useful function, and also learnt how to make hydraulic rods, bindings with locater and constraints to enrich the robot arm, which I will be using on my own designed robot arm.
This week I continued to refine the pacing of my film, adding some shots, changing the speed of some shots, character movements, pauses in appearances and finding some references to use in creating mood boards.
This week I continued working on the small arm part of the robot arm, learning some new tools in order to be able to create more details, such as the command to make the face round. After the class I made a simple material for the arm and added some wires to the connections to improve its finish, for the material I used a self-luminous material, for the lighting I used surface lighting and added hdr mapping.
This week’s robotic arm started by creating a quick selection for all the fingers, which makes it easier to animate the character in the future, and added the palm of the hand, using a basic modelling approach to make it work.
This week I made the video below of the story I most wanted to do about love, got the camera moving, gave the characters some simple character animation and added some shots, the story is about 50 seconds long in total and now I want to work out some effects about the story.
This week I continued to enrich the story with more footage based on the last idea,,, especially for the new ideas, I made a lot of footage to describe the story, and also found some difficulties in the process, such as how to make special effects, etc. The two ideas that I want me to continue making now, one about love and one about space, are both topics I really want to make, and of course the difficulties are both Special effects, the first story was inspired by a quote, please let the meteor, the nuclear bomb come a little later, because I met the person I love, I enriched this quote and finally came up with this story.
In this lesson we learnt to make robotic arms, bindings and simple animations. I tried to make the details realistic as if they were realistic and I learnt a new lesson about how to duplicate animations and models together, which was very useful.
Using the camera this week, I posed for some shots in maya, which will feature ideas as well as shots I want to use on my final graduation design.
The first story is about romance and will use some medium shots.
The second story is about rockets and space, and the interesting thing is that I replaced the astronaut with a dog, and I used some interesting film footage.
The third story is about fighting, and I used Transformers and Blackbeard from One piece, a contrast between a large and a small character that I liked, and I used a lot of over-the-shoulder shots, as well as big perspective shots.