My 3DVA final Project 1 & 2

Here are my 3DVA project1 and project2

Reflection:

This assignment contains two parts.One is the walk cycle and other one is the part of jump cycle. For project 1, I continued to do my class work and tried to adjust the angle of the arms and also need to change the body of the model. Therefore, my model looked like more like a real person. At same times, I know that the graphic tool is quite important to help me to adjust the moving curve.

For project 2, I tried to make the step first, then I continued to finish the jump part. In fact, the first part was quite easy for me. When the model tried to step on the upstire, the foot would cross the box. Therefore, I adjusted the height of the foot to avoid the box. For the second part, I thought it was more different than walk cycle. The jump cycle is different. I setted five poses (I will show it later)to finish the project. Each pose was important to help me to finish the jump part. 

Here is what I am following：

week 6 Project1 Walk Cycle

Reflection:

This week I learnt how to make the model to walk which was called walk cycle. Walk cycle was a system to make the model to walk. When the model start to animate, I need to calculate the unit of the steps both legs and body. 

Week5 Big dog animation

Reflection：

Big dog is another animation exercise. This animation need make a few of poses and adjust the bigdog get a balance position. In face, this exercise is more difficult than before parts. We need to do four legs' moving and make sure the whole body get a natural position. During the process, I kept move both two legs moving together which was easy to adjust the angles. At the same times, I kept watch the video to find the key poses.

Week4 Spider Man Animation

This week learn how to animate the spider man to move:

Reflection:

This exercise is about how to make the spider man move his legs and hip more naturally like a normal person. During the processing, I was carefully to adjust the angle of the hip and tried to make it more naturally. Beside the hip, when the spider man moved, the back and shoulder also need to adjust. Finally, I found that every details and every poses are very important to make the model's animation.

Week4 Normal people moving

Here is a short video about moving  ~\(^o^)/~

Week3 Rigging

This week I learn the rigging:

    The normal position with the control lines

    Pose 1

    Pose 2

    Pose 3

Reflection:

From this week, I follow the online video to make the rigging for my model. In fact, the rigging process is made by two parts. One is making the bone for the model and the other part is make control line to control each part of the model.

For the first part, that was quite easy to me to finish. During this process, I learn how to use mirror tool to create other part of the leg and arm.

The second part was a huge task for me. First of all, I followed the video to made the controller of the legs. The centre point was very important for the controller. If I miss the step, both the controller would be move to another place. After that, I made a sphere to control the angles of knees. Using joint and pole  vector to connect both knees and sphere. Basic on the legs experience, it is more east to create the arm's controls. Add IK handle and also made the shoulder controllers to control the arms.

Last but not least, the model needed to turn the back and head. Therefore, I created the curve lines to control the back.

Character super T-bag

Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell

Design and basic drawing:

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    front and side of the T-bag head.

    Different motions of the T-bag.

    Front body of the T-bag.

    Side of T-bag body.

1. Basic details:

•  Name:  Theodore Bagwell (T-bag)
• Tagline:  “get on the train” (when the prison uncontrolled, he is always want to out of the prison. Therefore, he always likes to say that sentence.
•  More introductions: In the prison break, T-bag is a very bad person. He makes lots of serious crimes, such as battery, assault, attempted murder, murder, rape, and kidnapping. It is also insinuated that he is a pedophile.

2. Purpose the story

In the future, T-bag still wants to escape from the Fox River prison and also want to find his treasure which is worth five thousand million dollars. Therefore, T-bag who is the new leader in the Fox River prison are trying to find the different materials and different ways to help he escape the hell.

One day, T-bag heard that the scientists found a new way which can change a normal person become a superman like spider man. At same times, T-bag finds that those scientists are using the prisoners who are in the Fox River prison to make their experiment. As a leader in the prison, T-bag intimidate those scientists if they do not help he escape from the prison, he will tell the reporter the truth.  Therefore, those scientists have to help T-bag become a superman.

After half a year, T-bag became a half auto-superman which means that he change the iron legs and all blood are all change to the superpower iron blood.

Now T-bag trying to PRISON BREAK again…….

3. A key of the character

T-bag wants to prison break and get freedom again which is just like the last time follow Michael Scofield. He is selfish and use different ways to achieve his goal no mater kill the people. However, he also has another side of the life when he faced his son.  Therefore, his is motivated to see his son and want to stay with son forever.

4.  Three appearance-based trailts and three behavior trailts.

Appearance:

T-bag sometimes will have a smile face as the prison is like a hell. In fact, the people who are in the Fox River prison are all know that when T-bag smile which means that there is someone will be dead.

Another feature is his hands. As we all know that T-bag just has one hand can use. Therefore, he really hit someone looking at his other man-made- hand.

A key feature is the eyes. When he trying to make a new bad idea, his eyes are always come out a shape light to shoot the guy and let other person feels scared.

              

Behavior:

T-bag is a selfish and ruthless person. He can kill his best friend and destroyed other family in one second.

He feels he is the king in the Fox River prison sometimes. He controls all the drugs and the news. All these can become the money and power in the prison.

 At the same time, he is more kind to face the doctor as he though doctors are the nice people in the world. It is because when he was young, a young doctor save T-bag and give him one new life.

5. Dialogue sequence between character and scientist.

T-bag: hey new guy, ohoh, sorry our friends, scientist and what is your name?

Scientist: Er, frank.

T-bag: frank, that’s a great name.  Welcome and be carefully. Well, lets start to talk our business, ok?

Scientist: what business?

T-bag: I think you are a smart person, you should know what I want. (Look at the scientist and smile).

Scientist: I don’t know what you are talking about.

T-bag: if all the world people know that your superpower comes from the bad people especially from murder person like me. How dose their feels?  Should the government continue to support your group? If I am the president, I will not. (Laughing)

Scientist: ………

Week3 Rig exercise

This is reverse foot locker

Reflection:

This week I learn how to add the IK handle to move the body. The video shows to me the details to create the bones and how to link each parts. However, I still lost some parts and the leg still cannot move and I will ask my friends to solve this problem.

The second thing is how to make a reverse foot locker. Most of the times, the bones are quite difficult to control. Therefore, we create the reverse foot locker to make the adjust more easily. The step should be heel(1) --- Ball(2) --- Toe(3) --- Ankle(4).

Week2 Spider Man Different Poses

Reflection：

This week I learnt how to make the spiderman poses. 

Firstly, I feel it quite easy  to do it. However, when I started the work, it feels more difficult.

The arms and the legs are all belongs IK handles, which means when I move the hand, the arms are all automatically followed. Therefore, I must be carefully to make moving and care about the angles. 

Sometimes, IK handles could not change the body to be a suitable position, therefore I also can change to FK handles to adjust the body.

Remember one things : Make the body more natural like a real person.

Spidyman

First exercise about a cow

Cowhead is a quite difficult task for me. I must use cube to create the head of the cow by using the extrude tools to make the head. when I first tried to extrude the head,  the face boxes are always changed and the whole head shape like a alien. After school, I redo my work by step and step and I finished my cowhead. 

This is the cow's body. The most difficult part is to smooth the body centre. I use pull and push to change the shape of the body and use smooth tool to make the body more natural.

The last part is the hands. This part is quite easy to me. Using extrude to make the fingers.

This is the final cow, but I think this is a small orangutan. ^-^

Reflection:

During this process, I learn lots of new technologies like mirror geometry and sculpt geometry.
Mirror geometry can make a same  symmetric model .
Sculpt geometry provide few tool to make the details like pull, push, smooth and relax the model.

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3D project2 final video and Self-Critique

Self-Critique

Sir, First thing is that my final video is the above video. My maya software cannot render the video, therefore, I use my friend computer do it. The disc video is not the final one and other files are same expect the colors. (a01492@tp.edu.sg)I sent my final animation maya file to your email.

In fact this project is quite different for us, it does not like term, we can follow the video and the notes. Animation is a new things for us.

There are 12 principles about how to create a successful animation(I mention these in my last blog). All these principles are teach us what is a animation needed.

From my final animation project, the most important part is constrain the box and the machine are. I need constrain all the boxes and make sure that they are in the right positions. then, follow my storyboard to set the key frames. when I set my key frames, I make lots of mistakes. I reset many times. Finally, I finished my work.

When I render the video, I meet a big problem which is my software cannot render the video. They always say cannot find the objectView, means the render view cannot see. today morong, I use my friend computer render my work, it success. However, it feels not like a final one, then I render a few of times and add the light and the camera in to my work, it got the final work(above video).

3D project2 animation

first, the arm pick the box

take the box move to another place

then, the arm go back the original position, and it feels very tired.

then, the arm move and stretch, it make it feels good

the box started to exercse

go up and down

turn to another side and redo again

shake the head

shake the head

go front

and turn to back

take the second box and do very fast

move the box very fast

take the final red box and fast remove it

move to the center

it drop on the floor

the lamp confuse the things

shake the head

project2 webblog post

Scenario 2

The same as for scenario 1, the robot is busy stacking boxes.

However, the robot seems tired of its work, as if unfulfilled in life.

The robot wants to rebel and break free!

Animate how the robot attempts to rebel – or at least to break the monotony and grind of its work for a short time. For example, does it go crazy and throw boxes around, or do a robot dance, or stack the boxes in some unusual way, or what?

1.    Character

My robot is a nice cute robot. He has a very nice name ruhua. Ruhua is a very hardworking.

She works every day by every day. After year by year, she feels very tired and want to have a

long break.

One day, she feels tired again during the work. This time, she break out, wawawa. Ruhua start

to relax her life and make more interesting things. Therefore, she start  to dance in the work

place. It just like others who can dance on the television.

2.storyboard

3. Self-Critique

In my animation, I decide to separate three parts.

Firstly, the animation is about robot continue her work normally before the robot become crazy.

During this part, the robot is just like other robot,  taking the box and transmit to other side. In

this part, it contain two principles which is staging(presenting an idea so that it is

unmistakably clear) and squash and stretch the box.

Secondly, it is the most important part – the robot become crazy. The robot want to relax

during the hard work, however, relax time become a crazy time. The robot cannot stop dancing

on the working place. In this part, I contain a few of principles which are exaggeration and

secondary action(shake 2 time) and overlapping action(connect before and after animation)

and timing and motion(1-2-3 steps).

Lastly, she feels better. Then, she start to take the box. However, the box dropped. The robot

suddenly shocked. In this part, the principles are straight ahead and pose to pose and

appeal(creating a design that the audience enjoys watching) and slow in and out(The

spacing of the in-between frames to sudtlety of thing and movement).