Week 5: Texturing the hippo and Trello updates

Using Callum's model that he had unwrapped for me I started making the texture in Photoshop, however had a fair bit of trouble with where the seams met and the textures didn't.

To try and match the textures I decided not to have any around the edges, this was my test for that and I decided if it was feathered out a little then it looked okay on the model. 

Here is the texture I created on PhotoShop

But then....
Cat showed me mudbox! And helped with colour and texture and made it look a lot better.
Now we have, normal, in the water, out of the water, and dirty as you can see below.

The hippo is textured and ready to go!

- Special thanks to Catriona Power for helping so much in this section -

I have also textured the rocks and the waterfall

Timings wise we were around a week behind on preproduction as we didn't do to much in Week 4. We went to London and drew a hippo which was good and a nice change of pace but overall I didn't organize everyone well enough that week. So week 5 was all about catching up on that. 

Assets part 1

Maya files of Assets take 1 can be found here.

https://drive.google.com/a/myport.ac.uk/folderview?id=0BwYyuYvyzuxAb2xvQV94T0JhQUU&usp=sharing

Using Lilys images and a few from google I have created some low poly assets to be used in the shots.

With the waterfall I have had the idea of using a ring that can be rotated to give the illusion of flowing water. 

Week 4: After effects, Musician brief, Second animatic

After effects 

Color change and masking

 Musician brief

The man who mistook his wife for a hat

We are telling the story of a man with mental illness who cannot function or recognise items around him without the aid of music taking inspiration from the book “The man who mistook his wife for a hat” Featuring an everyday routine that many would take for granted and showing how he comes to accept music as his way of life and copes in a fast paced, noisy world.

Your target audience will be both male and female working adults with busy schedules. Aged 20-50. Who will be viewing the video during lunch breaks/traveling to work by bus or train/afternoon.

We would like you to create a music track for a 1min 30sec animation. With a dramatic intro that captures the viewers’ attention in the first 5 seconds. Then throughout replicates the man’s state of mind as he goes through an emotional rollercoaster. Showing both chaos and stability.   With realistic sounds and effects for stable parts with an underlying instrumental that takes over during the chaotic sections. With extremes in pitch.

This is our animatic that we would like you to work to, when scenes are updated we will send you up to date versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvfl_hCyUrk&feature=youtu.be

Second animatic

Put together by Jess Hicks 

Week 3 : Organisation, events, toms planner, trello

Created two Facebook events for further visual research, have also opened it so others from the class can attend if they want. 

Marwell was canceled because of lack of funds however Lily, Callum and I went to the natural history museum. Here are some of my drawings from the hippo on display. 

Toms planner I have worked out the week to week to do lists 

Trello break downs, I have started using check lists to have better understanding over what everyone is doing and when. Asking people to update there blogs and then check it off on here. 

Overview of trello

Week 3: Hippo research

Modeled





Real Life





Around the Web

Week 3: First 3 animal drawings

 

To be updated. 7/10/14 

Week 3 : Starting to use model and visual research

Little Boy Walk

Quick play blast showing a basic walk.

Just getting used to the rig now, so I am prepared for the actual animating later on.

I've also asked all of my group to do the same. 

Visual Research - (With Lilly)

With Lilly we went over the psychology of colour with children and a little on lighting, which Lilly went further into after our meeting. 

We discussed how our target market range is aged 2-6 years old and as far as we can tell Western culture based also. The little boy has an orange and white top and blue trousers.

We compared the different still images from the storybook pages and found that every time we found a rule one of the images would break it. For example, the backgrounds are repetitively plain but not in the zebra shot. Very sharp highlights just on the edges but not in the bear shot.

• Bright eye catching colors: To be used to emphasis certain aspects, especially primary colors and green. 
• Cool colors: night time, soothing
• Warm colors: stimulating, comforting
• Green: Nature, calming, improving for reading
• Brown/Tan platform for brighter shades 
• Boy/Hippo: Vibrant with white also being very vivid 
• Waterfall: Angelic lighting, bright whites, cleanliness

We have decided once the first colour schemes are made to try and get feedback from children at local schools, to aid towards final decisions. 

Websites used:

Color Psychology 101
Toys for 2-6 year olds
Color in marketing

Children bedroom colors

Wikipedia  

Visual Research 

Color change 

Different platforms/screens may show a different colour pallet to the one we create. Whilst this will be something that we look into after the final colors are decided and edit accordingly. Ultimately just something to keep in mind later on in development stage.  

Example 1 - Photoshop tutorial

Culture

Color change for culture English written - Internet. After reading through many different websites and there colour changes I think our main colors of Pink ,Natural colors, White will not have much impact across cultures aside from mild undertones of religion. 

Example 1
Example 2

Color blindness 

Color blindness seems to affect a large part of the population with different places giving different statistics it seems to be a minimum of 1/30 affected in some way. As such we will be avoiding: Green & Red; Green & Brown; Blue & Purple; Green & Blue; Light Green & Yellow; Blue & Grey; Green & Grey; Green & Black colour schemes.  And also using other symbolism not just colour to get mood/meaning across as this will apply both to across culture and color blind people.
Also using different textures for different colors to further break certain areas apart

Color blind awareness
Designing for color blind
Understanding color blindess

Week 3: Tiger walk take 1

Tiger reference stills 

Contact points and feet lifting.  

 

Video take 1

Quick play blasts

Feedback

-You need to check the silhouette of the back legs against the ref. you may need to rotate the back legs back more to get better poses here. 
-Also look where the front paw land in relation to the position of the nose in the ref (are they further than the nose?) 
-You want to try and get a straight line between shoulder and paw on the contact frame . Do this by rotating the shoulder control forward a little until you get a pose the same as the ref.

Week 2 Lost my name : Hippo : Production time table

Lost my name : Hippo : Producer 

Facebook group for initial quick talking to one another and updates 

More for my use as a general overview of the week to week "to dos"

Each week I will move what needs to be done into the "to do list"
Everyone will get it done and uploaded for Wednesday, with a link to the work in the card

Once it is done it will be moved across. 

Week 2- Third meeting: Written storybaord third draft

After going over the storyboard we made revisions to the layout, and timings. 

Mike to make 30 sec rough animatic for Monday 6/10/14

0-1 "cut video" eye, cut out coloured letters on top 
33-38 B&W photograph as he zips up, Rotoscope green doll human make in after effects, Green scene,Red scene then Blue. Bedroom BG

1-4  "cut video" style eye + iris after effects 
4-6  Take photo of clock (random shop) cut video of hand moving down, ink in flash in sea colours
6-9  Flash sea, cut out clouds sheet music, photograph of sky then manip to fit mood, 3D bed orange (Cuddling a koala who is wearing a hat) 
9-10  Print out scene then "cut video" of the scene being scrumpled, ink dropping flash, next scene behind scrumple already
10-13  Drop falls in center, 3D bed, him "cut video", Goes to put feet in slippers that warps around nicely at same time blue at start as it wraps around it starts to turn black and white
13-15  3/4 view on left B&W video chop
15-18  video background, rotoscope face, many textures playing over the top 
18-19 Black and white kettle, just kettle changes to trippy colurs as water bubble we boil the universe 
19-23 Take picture of BG, Kettle, then distort kettle and click apart in photoshop 
23-25 Pause 
25-28 Dripping that gets longer than steam transition
28-32 Mirror mask, move mirror to left 
32-33 Eye blink - same as start


Rosie to make 30 sec rough animatic for Monday 6/10/14

33-35  (Green) One colour, Second skin pulling up, Onesie (zip face) B&W photograph as he zips up, rotoscope green doll movements, after effects
35-36  (Blue)New colour, show him brushing hair, Hair brush as passes over hair changes to a brown texture (leather)
36-38  (Red) Starts to fall behind and blur and warp
38-40  Music sheet lines dripping (actual lines and notes) 
40-44  Purple, blue,pink pastel calm, on left human shrinks, making breakfast 3 stills of him doing so with a slow turn to face camera by end frame. 
44-45  Fast zoom on face, as spoon goes into mouth show next scene in mouth already 
45-48  Chaos walls starting to merge, 3D bathroom just about to touch go to top view (1 sec) Solid bathroom floor just bathroom walls moving, bath, toilet, sink, in 3D he's on back wall. Human "cut video" 
48-52  Chaos - Abstract video colour , Hand reaching forward,  Slow motion, background super speed
52-53 Show his back (colour/black) in warped background room (bathroom)
53-54  Show his face brushing his teeth, Zooming out
54-56 Show character in bathroom, bathroom isolated in black space, music surrounding, flowing around the room almost hugging it
56-57  Splashes water on his face and stands up straight - Water masks as another layer
57-58  Character : Jacket, Layers, man shifts over onto jacket When he's in jacket have live action sewing video playing on jacket
58-59  Keys : Briefcase : Character(now in Jacket), move items onto page

 






Jess to make 30 sec rough animatic for Monday 6/10/14
59-1.00  Open door and drown in the white light and outside noises
1.00-1.06 Show his eyes blinking slowly un warp. He floats in water towards the light. Breaking water and breathing in. floating in water
1.06-1.07  Float completely up, smooth motion
1.07-1.08 Piano stepts
1.08-1.11 Faceless people walking in street clothes changing as they walk
1.11-1.13 Standing outside a door, goes to knock on lion and it roars interrupting music flow. Lions mouth stretches and you go through it into next scene
 Pan up his body to show his face, him in Black and white and people walking behind in normal clothes1.13-1.16 Video different doors, video in 1920x1080 then cut down to keep consistency. Series of doors open in real life, go through a door this is another door etc.
1.16-1.20  Him looking through an open door and seeing a hat swinging, slow zoom out to show replica hats and walls, Background is video hat and him animated
 His P.O.V show one room but lots and lots of hats (double mirror effect)
 8 snaps of the hat hidden in the video
1.20-1.23  show his brain cut out with music escaping
1.23-1.24  Him lying on a psychiatric couch, the couch changing pattern musical notes flying down screen, couch will be in 3D
1.24-1.25  Zoom in on his face as he buries it in the couch, the couch still changing
1.25-1.26  Show a dull world within him standing in the middle, music and colour inside of him, that is the released and everything becomes colourful
1.26-1.28  Him standing Black and white against colour background, soothing image, slight breeze very soft
1.28-1.30  Lying in musical ocean sun glare slowly rising across screen as sun rises and fades to white
1.30-1.32  On fade to white have a slight glitch showing the hat