my compositing project, final render. im pretty happy with it, but theres things i would have done better had I an extra 2 weeks ontop of the deadline.

I would have refined the animation when the robot lands on his head, because of render and video robelms it didn't match up exactly , i had to move it along in after effects.

If I had more time I would have added camera shake, blur th focus slightly, so it looks like the smoke travels outward across the camera, selling the illusion more.

just generally refining the animation so it looks more convicing and there is weight.

Original Sotryboard for Animation composition

here is the original sketches i did for my short compositing sequence, and i have stuck pretty closely to the original idea, i can see now how some ideas are realized and how some can become pretty complicated.

at least being able to identify those shots that are really going to cause you the most trouble, and asking yourself is it the money shot? or can i just leave it out and focus on better ideas?

it is going once u understand the technology and necessity of film, i can see it takes a long time but i think all of this is a pretty good example of good judgement.

Penultimate night of my first term of 2nd year..

video co pilot has been a very useful source of tips.

here i wanted some motion blur when the robots feet hit the ground, but it was abit problematic mostly because i had a border around the clip and so was hard to extend and mirror the edges so i just game up on that.
work in progress
more work in progress
here is a quick preview of the last sequence of my short compositing sequence. this one is proving pretty challenging, mostly because the clip is goofing and its hard to rotoscope without doing a play blast every few minutes. i am confident i will have this done by hand in.
is the last full day i get to work on my compositing porject. i may have friday morning also to get it done, and i think i will need that buffer considering how long it takes to render out a 0 second sequence i am doing for my animation.

the good news is i have completed the other 3d sequences, iam doing the last one, which has been giving me the most trouble because it needs to be rotoscoped in time with the actor.

i think i have found the right music whilst listening to some Charlie Chaplin movie soundtracks.

I was originally going to go with straight forward dramatic but instead i would prefer a more comedic angle, it will seem a bit more round and fun, rather than by the numbers shock.

busy with my Post production project

my crazy pair of eye balls on legs.

he was downloaded from turbosquid.com, he's a pretty good character creation, no arms makes him alot simpler to animate than moom.
work in progress for maya, doing my character hopping about in the scene.
Work in progress for my composition post production.

i am going to plan so far, there's have been a few hick ups in the animating part. Problems such as importing video in maya and a few other things i thought would be a snap proved fairly troublesome, thanks to tutors I don't think maya will give me much trouble anymore. i have completed one comp so far, three to go, one is fairly easy, just the 3d character landing on the camera, the other 2 are a little more complex since i have to match move, i will also need the 3d character to crash into the actor and make a crater, I will see what's possible from tutorials, it might be possible with a bit of photoshop.

one thing is for sure, this will never look as good as work i am going to do in AE and Maya in the future. i WILL DEFINATELY do the best i can based on what i know sofar of Maya and Ae to help me, im armed with alot of tutorials and i am already pretty keen to try and animate other things already, keen to experiment in any way i can.

The last thing i want to do on my holiday is get bored and loose interest in practicing my 3d, if i practiced at least afew hours a day i would be up to the standard i am expecting in my head.

i have learned a great many things in a short space of time. this time next year i will be so much better.

dinning room ident

an idea for an Ident i had since the begining, i think it looks pretty good. i guess i need to think how successful it was at doing the job the brief was describing.

Latest idents as of penultimate week of submission

Here is the some of the latest Idents I have worked on, based on pigeons i saw around the national Gallery.

this is a good one, is useable apart from the black which kinda looks like blood or crap, lol

So it may be better to drop the black. other than that this was a little exercise in colour keying, and matte chocking, so it has been useful in that.

I would probably try out a more

this one I mostly did because i wanted to use these pre matted cloud and smoke elements, but it is really funny how it shows how easy it is to change the tone of a show. the clouds and birds make it seem like a trailer for the exorcist or London Dungeon, these same bird sequences i used in another video, copying and using a different fill. so this one is interesting but in terms of usability its not got the right tone or feel.this was a simple ident, using the same masked birds and a few green screen birds. same birds i have been using the whole time, the birds flying passed idea was one i had from the beginning. i think i will leave the pigeon idea now, i have explored it enough for this, i want to move onto doing a dinner scene or maybe paintings looking around or the painting deteriorating, it depends how long it will take to do my 3D compositing.

latest animation idents

this is my latest ident, i decided totry n make the picture look like it is drawing itself. i think i should make a frame in maya to go around it if i have the time, since its done i may move onto another idea sooner.

decided to do an ident based on the skylights i saw in the gallery , this ended up taking longer since i added the corridor in. thought it wasnt interesting enough, but this looks better.

however the corridor is pretty badly pixalated, next time i may make a corridor from scratch in Ai, or just in after effects.

but either way im glad i used it, its a cheap technique which takes half as long.

possible time line for idents

i have roughly 5 ideas for my idents.

i think i can have them ready in the next few weeks on schedule.

-can do the skylight one with the lensflare pretty easily.

- picture of pictures looking at people could do in 2 days.

-the couple eating and drinking can be done in 2 days.

_the crowd then suddenly silenced by the slamming door may take longer, will need afew days to get it done.

=one to do with pigeons may or may not happen.

Ident Analysis

i thought i would analyze afew channel 4 idents and compare the differences.

this was a popular one from afew years ago and was part of a series of similarly themed idents for ch 4, it was very reminiscent of a ch 4 ident i remember from about 20 years earlier:

and to put them together it doesn't look like they have changed a great deal

both reflect the sensibilities of the channel pretty well, as Channel 4 have always had a teenage young adult audience demographic, also reflected in the majority of their programing.

the first one i remember seeing in the early 90's as a child, thinking it looked alot like lego bricks coming together, and being fascinated how they made these colourful bricks come together so elegantly.

the more recent one took me a little longer to relies what i liked about it. possibly the earlier one is right in your face with only the bright colours, and the newer one is more subdued and far off in the back ground.

In fact i remember not even noticing the 4 being formed until saw this 2 or 3 times.

these were a series of similar Idents, all having in common this hand held look. using the urban landscape to form the number 4. i have to admit i still think these are some of the best idents i can think of. the Tokyo one is probably the most similar to the 1982 big colourful one. even going as far as flashing one of the bright pink signs in case u didn't see it the first time.

alot of these are effects very well integrated into the live action,the techniques are more sophisticated, perhaps reflecting the new generation of audiences. its kind of a kitchen sink aproach, these all look like they were done to a very good standard, but also that they could have been done by one person in his spare time.

i like the simplicity of this one from moo studios.

has saturated pink on white as the main colour and the message is so simple. the font is fluffy, maybe suggesting its for kids. has a comedic tone, light hearted. the music has these big tombone noises, with the word mobilize in a white on a ramp light blue wall paper, makes it sound like a marching band.

latest Idents

these are some of my latest Ident ideas, i have been following tutorials on :

http://www.videocopilot.net/

and:

http://www.creativecow.net/

i have mostly been looking at the tutorials most related to what i am doing, there are many out there for different effects so for the most part i have been doing elements i want to use for each one. these two recent ones are good enough to be actual idents.

saul bass for inspiration

was having a look at soul bass's work an thought i would like to incorporate some of the style in my idents, the simple shapes and colour i like :)

weekly schedule

i am about 4 to 5 weeks into my projects and i have been slacking off here and there where i could have been doing some After Effects tutorials. so i decided id do a schedule to keep track of my progress.

up to this point i have edited my film, it needs the 3d and grading/colour correction done, but i will do that in post.

i have done 3-4 National gallery Idents so far. none are particularly useable, but are worthwhile starting points.

I need to practice more often in after effects with tutorials. next week some ex Ravensbourne graduates will come in to help me achieve the look i am after.

so..

24th_26th

will be doing some after effects tutorials. select which of the pre sketched out sequences i want to work on

27_28th

get those sequences done_could be 2 or 3 ideas i want to develop.

29_31st

going to do some composite of my short chase sequence. basic fleshing out of the sequence. maybe have a shape going around.

Ident project for national gallery

some sketches while at the gallery, paintings and the over all architecture i liked
some more sketches on the day of paintings and artists

some quick illustration for after effects ideas. how i can improve them.
some ideas i did during class for idents
sofar i have done alot of drawings for possible idents i have in mind.

i was going for a black white and red, basic colour style with this. ill upload the sketches i made at the national gallery .

after effects

been doing some work in after effects, feels difficult to come up with anythingi wanna do, but well see.

anyway, ill upload some images ive put together

Ident ideas for National Gallery

What i have done so far is take a trip to the Gallery and take notes.

i noticed various paintings i would like to use. probably the biggest thing i noticed was

whichever direction you are going in, always there is a big picture which is the main point of focus.

i was thinking to do an ident using the corridor idea.

i have seen some examples already from a few previous years who already cottoned onto the idea of using the corridors as a moving in point to the gallery logo. One ident used white red and black as the colours, which is close to what i thought about the gallery, its minimal, sophisticated, quiet, calm etc.

I wrote down alot of words that came to mind, I think i will save some images next , create a mood bored or a colour script, get some ideas.

I think After effects is the program i would like to use the most, as there are good camera moves and transitions i can do there.

i will look at some more after effects tutorials to help make several different ones. brief sais at least 5 so ill aim for that and try some more.