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Rationale

For my animation I chose to animate a lamp in a way that portrayed a saucy, sexy and flirty personality. To do this I made her pink with a shiny base and satin shade. I also gave her curvaceous features and curly girly legs. She interacts and flirts with the stick thinking it’s her true love and after flirting and playing with it she accidentally drops/knocks it over. In fright she thinks she has killed him and runs away. The lighting is standard 3 pt lighting with an extra glow effects coming from her bulb. Music is ‘Aurea Carmina’ by Kevin Macleod for a faster paced disco feel that caries right through the animation. Throughout the process I had to make a few changes such as resolution to HD720 instead or 1080, materials, and some of the actions to fit into the rime for both the animation and the rendering. I also had to change the running style slightly because of the limitations of the rig and mesh tubes the legs went out of kilter if I extended them too far. Therefore I changed the running style to front and back legs together rather than the two side ones when she walked. I think this proved to be more effective in the end anyway.

Turntable of final character

Changes to the animation

Over the course of animating, I had to make some changes to what I originally had planned. Because of the rendering time estimated to be over 3 days, I had to make several changes:

- The textures needed to be less difficult for maya to render and therefore they weren't quite as cool as the ones I test rendered with. (e.g.. from anistropic to lambert)

- I deleted some of the exterior and made the stick a simple shade to speed it up and uncomplicated it.

- Resolution had to go down to HD 720 instead or HD 1080 to significantly decrease render time.

- Once rendered I will chuck everything into after effects along with the credits and music to put it all together. The render is currently on 9 computers and still will take 12 hours... :/

Fingers crossed.

Tests for rendering in mental ray along points of timeline- added in an extra light for al round lighting and change spread of backlight.

play blast three- need to remove time from middle and sort legs in running while also know over and run away at end. Then put into after effects and adding music, lighting, and studio. Also last few camera angles.

Second play blast

First play blast- Walking in.

TIMELINE WITH MUSIC AND ANIMATION

0.00 Credits come up with title and name

0.08 Character walks into frame all hippy and swishing lamp like hair.

0. Sees stick and does little jump, flirts and waves with shade, light turns pinky.

0.25 Starts running to stick

0.28 Gets to stick and picks up

0.29 picks up stick

0.37 Knocks over then runs away

0.41 End credits

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MUSIC- EDITED

Cut, etdited and mixed track to fit the story I am going for and create some emphasis points. left space from beginning and end credits and for a sound animation fitting to the music the animated section will be approx. 41 secs long.

Taken from royalty free track 'Aurea Camina- Full Mix' by Kevin MacLeod.

LIGHTING

The lighting set up with be a 3 point lighting system to give body to all areas of the character. I need the lighting around my lamp to possibly be darker if I am to make her glow from the inside. The colour will be a warm light to give the happy and saucy feel to the atmosphere.

To do this I will set up a box to contain my animation which has white walls, and animate within this to get a nice refraction off the walls onto the character.

I will then set up the cameras and animate. Once I have each animation sequence, I will use views from different cameras to create an interesting perspective of it.

TESTING IN LIGHTING 3 PT STUDIO

BEGINNING TO ANIMATE

Still a little bit of weight painting to do, or could avoid this by restricting and changing the way I do some movements. need to make shade bit more transparent. lights, cameras also need to be set up.

Rough animatic of newest form of plot, without music and not to time. Blank space is for more flirty body positions.

props: interacting with stick, lifting it up and trifling it around, knocking it over.

movement: Walking in saucily and stopping when sees stick.

velocity: runs to stick and stops suddenly in front of stick.

Gravity: jumps up when surprised and up and dan when running.

Attempting to set up a spline- the previous rig set up was not ideal for the tubing legs. will delete existing legs and replace with duplicated splines for smoother movement.

Change in plot.

Flirty with stick, leans in to kiss or something then knock it over and thinks its dead, looks around and runs away.

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