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Revising Demo Reel Pieces

For this assignment I will be going back through my animations I did last semester and decide on which ones I would like to include in my demo reel, so I found two pieces that I wanted to take apart and revise.

PIECE #1

This is a 2D Animated piece of a boy hitting a baseball. I thought this was short and simple to throw on my reel as well shows practice with timing.

OLD

REVISED PIECE

CHANGES

The changes I made for this new piece were the following:

- changing the background

- re-drawing the frames

- changing the pace and timing

- adding colour hues and shading to the character

- re-sizing the sand mound

CONCLUSION

Overall I am very pleased with the outcome of my piece. I feel it looks professional and a lot more put together like my original piece was. I think the semi-realistic background and less detailed character adds interesting contrast and allows you to separate the two.

PIECE #2

My second animation I chose to revise was a girl laughing and then taking a seat. This is a short cute piece I’d like to have on my reel that shows character emotion change.

OLD

REVISED PIECE

CHANGES

- added a background

- changed the timing on the animation

- added colour hues to make it fit

- changed the outline colour from black to a soft brown

- changed the screen resolution from a square to a rectangle widescreen

- added shading and depth to the character

- increased the frame count

CONCLUSION

I am pleased with the outcome of the piece and feel like it is definitely stronger than the previous version. The background shows more about the character and makes it look a little more interesting and with the shading and atmosphere I feel it looks like a professional piece that I would like to have included in my demo reel and that I am proud of.

#animation #2D #progress #demoreel #WIP #cute #toonboom #baseball

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UV Ship Pre-Production

For my scene I am going to have two ships racing each other and the blue ship bumps the red ship causing it to crash into the ground and explode.

ROUGH RENDERING:

Here is the ship I will be using

CAMERA PLANNING:

The example of the camera work I will have in my scene as a playblast. Also roughs for the background, the red ship and the blue ship which will be added in the final piece this is just to give an idea of what I want to have.

PROPS AND BACKGROUNDS:

* The two main characters are the red and blue ship

* The Scene will be a city scape

* The effects I will use is an explosion for when the red ship crashes to the ground

COLOUR PALETTE:

Here is the colour palette I plan on using for my scene. I used these colours to make the scene seem eerie as well as making the ships look futuristic in an almost out of date background. I will be giving the ships lots of colour and keeping the background simple and in grayscale.

The top left: These are the colours I plan on using for the red ship. I want it to be a shiny metal to reflect the red that is the most pastel and the main colour to be the darkest red. I will be using a lot of dark colours in my scene so I will be using the main two colours on the right as the ship and the lightest tone for the reflections.

The top right: These are the colours I will be using for the blue ship. I will again be using the same method as the previous ship having the lightest colour be the reflection and the other two tones being the main colouring.

The bottom left: These are the colours I am going to use for the city. I am going to have the city be dark and pretty much in black and white to make the saturation pop from the ships. I am going to be making it dark and make the ships seem like they have a glow to them to add to the futuristic theme and to give the background more depth.

The bottom right: These are the hues I will be including in my scene. I will be adding them not only to the background but adding them a bit into the ships. I will also be including these tones in the explosion effect.

UV’S

The Uv’s layout for the ship base

Uv’s for the top part of the ship

I Kept these separate so that they would be easier to texture. Even though I will texturing the ships in around one colour each I wanted to UV the ship separately so it would be easier to work with as well make it easier to add logos or vents on the ship.

LIGHTING STYLE EXAMPLES:

I found this very helpful to look through lighting examples because it gave me the idea to have the scene not as dark and to add a hue in to add more depth and interest into the scene.

TEXTURE EXAMPLES:

I want to keep the ships relatively clean but I will be adding some rust and some scratches in the metal. The red ship will be more rusted and the blue ship will be more scratched and have some paint scratched off.

FINAL RENDERS:

FINAL VIDEO:

REFLECTION ON MY PIECE:

Overall I think my piece turned out well I had a lot of fun learning how to use Substance Painter and learning how to texture objects better. The things that I had trouble with were exporting the textures from Substance into Maya but with trial and error I figured it out.

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Final UV ships

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Wake up animation WIP

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Colour Keys

The opening scene in the bedroom having him stretching in front of the window and having the yellows/ orange tones warm up the scene

The scene darkens as he realizes he is late for a very important meeting at work. Saturation levels are decreased and a blue mask is added overtop of the yellow/orange sun.

The scene begins to get sightly darker as he is totally unaware of what is going on.

The man opens the door to the explosion. The saturation levels are lowered while the door remains slightly more saturated to show importance. The red is coming in and bouncing off his face to show the explosion and that he is in a dangerous situation.

After seeing that it is the end of the world he sees no point in going to work so with a sigh he returns back to bed. The explosion is seen creeping in and looks as if it is almost burning its way into his room and creeps up his legs.

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Background Design

These are the layouts of the 3 different locations the character will be running through in the short.

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MONDAY: Animatic

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Storyboards: MONDAY

Here are the rough storyboards for my short monday in progress

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Production of my Animated Short Begins

MONDAY Synopsis:

A man is seen snoring in bed when the camera pans over to his alarm clock. After it sounds he keeps hitting the snooze button unaware of the fact he is now late for a very important business meeting at work. He wakes up rested and stretches big welcoming the morning when he glances at the clock and notices he is late! He rushes to get dressed and grabs his toothbrush and gets his shoes on. Trying to desperately get there on time he falls putting on his shoes. He gets frustrated with himself and hears a strange noise at the door. He is curious but somewhat reluctant when he opens the door. He opens the door to a massive explosion due to the end of the world. He believes he is still dreaming so he opens and closes the door a couple of times to confirm what he is seeing is actually happening. He closes the door, lets out a frustrated sigh and returns to bed as if nothing had ever happened.

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination

John Lennon

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