Primary Objective's Production blog

Shark, a robot fighter, commit a crime accidentally. His best option is to escape from the Robot Police but his Primary Objective makes him fight to dead instead. Follow the development of my 1 minute 3D Animation short!

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WEEK 12

Accomplishment this week

Fix some of the animations

Re-render new animations

Fix some mistakes on compositing

Edit everything together and fix some of the sound

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Week 11

Accomplishment

Work on the first half of the film

Try fixing some of the animation

Render the HD_1080 images

Make the images sequences for the robot eyes

Compositing the sequences  and edit everything together.

Work on sound the sound.

Preview

Some compositing

I tried to make clean that he is leaning into the car by having the point of view from inside of the car. Not sure it is working.

The video

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Week 11

Accomplishments

Made a simple opening sequence

Work on the second half of the film

Fix some of the animation

Render HD_1080 images

Make the image sequences for the robots eyes

Tried adding motion blur

Composition sequence and edit the sequences

Preview

Opening sequence

The second half of the film

Image sequence for the eyes

Motion blur

I tried rendering the motion vector from Maya but it would keep crashing. So, I  nuke to imitate motion blur. 

Compositing

Video of the second half

For next week 

Work on the first half of the film : Fix animation, rendering, compositing

Improve the opening sequence.

Editing everything together

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WEEK 10

The accomplishment

Finish up the props

Designing the font for title and credits

Rendering test and composition for the rest of the film

Add some sound effects and an background music

Fixing some animation and lighting

PREVIEW

Finish the props

The title and credits

Render test for the film with sound

Background music : The New Beginning – Matt Key

https://the-arcadium.net/tracks/the-new-beginning

Some fixes

For next week

Make small fixes in the animation. Should I keep the jacket?

Create the image sequences for the robot eyes

Final render and composition for the film (Hopefully all of it)

Keep working on the sound.

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WEEK 9

The accomplishments

Create a new character

Look development: Give the guy a jacket

Render testing

Animating all the sequences

Preview

New character: Nurse Robot

Textured and rigged

Look development

Trying to give the jacket a leather texture

Render test

The first shot

The second shot

Animating the sequences

The animation still needs some work.

For next week

Improving and polishing animation

Finish props 

Continue with look development

Hopefully more render tests

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WEEK 7

The accomplishments

Work on background props

Eyes for the robot

Working on lighting some the scenes

Reworking the story (2 options)

Preview

Background props

Eyes for the robot

Lighting the scene and working on the look of the film

Reworking the story

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WEEK 6

This week accomplishment

Modify road to look more futuristic.

Modify truck model and add some more textures.

Lighting test.

Condense the story for the layout. 

Start animation, still in progress.

PREVIEW

Modify road

New truck and add textures

Lightning test

Animation test

First try (?) to get snappy animation

I started looking for some reference on how to improve

New layout (animation in progress)

For next week

Addressing feedback. 

Lighting all the scenes.

Improve on the animation.

Deciding and creating the background.

Some render test of the animation, hopefully.

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WEEK 5

This Week accomplishment

Make the environment.

Simple rigging for the vehicles 

Texture the new character and some of the environment.

Try more realistic materials (Render test)

Fix the timing for the layout

The environment

Simple rigging for vehicles

Textures for the new character

Render tests

New Layout (Unfinished)

For next week

Working on finishing props and environment

Finishing textures for all objects

Blocking the animation. 

See you next week.  

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WEEK  4

This week accomplishment

New character complete

Small modifications to the other models

Re doing the rigging with advance Skeleton

Model for the 2 vehicles created.

Redoing the Layout with the new models.

NEW CHARACTER JOINS

The rig

With displacement maps. The textures are not done yet.

Small modifications

Change the shape of the eyebrows to look friendly

Changes on the hand for better deformation.

Tried adding shoulder to the robot to suggest connection  of limbs. Not sure if it’s working.

Model for vehicles

I tried to make stylized vehicles. Futuristic and minimalist.

Maybe a photo realistic render could be beneficial.

Layout

Not much have changed, Tried to add more interesting poses and tested the limits of the rig. I am still thinking about the lady personality.

For next week

Finish texture for all characters and vehicles.

Begin the creation of the environment.’

Re-do the rigging (maybe). Adjust the weighting, specially the face.

Make changes on the layout according to feedback.

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WEEK 3

This week was: Failed experiments and some success.

This week accomplishment

Finish the modeling for the 2 main characters

Finish a fast texturing for Shark. Maybe going to change

Finish rigging for both characters (with help of advance skeleton)

Test animation

Change story and made a really rough layout

Modeling and Rigging

A simple rig for the robot

I tried to make my own rig for the body but realize that I didn’t have enough to learn how to do a good rig. So...

I get a Body rig with advance skeleton but did my own face rig.

The weighting  for the body and face still need work

Texture

Finish a fast textures for Shark. They give really small details for the hair and skin. May change later.

Couldn’t really test much of the rendering this week.

Test animation

Test animation of how the robot would move.

Testing how is the weighting for the body doing. It is pretty bad. I would like to re-do it completely. But not sure if I have the time to do it. 

New Story and  Rough Layout

I decide to go to a totally different direction with the story. I tried making a comedy with the characters. The first attempt didn't go well. It was getting to long and I couldn’t get to a good ending.

The second attempt is a simpler story. The timing still need some work. I can be condensed to be ever shorter.

Log-line: Shark, a rebellious motorcyclist, meet a cute police while resting on the highway. He tries to convince them to go on a date with him.

EXTRAS- Concept Art

Some ideas for the female character

Some color ideas for the setting. I like urban more but the rural one would be easier to make.

Ideas for Shark jacket. I want a combination between 80′s and ciberpunk. Need to research more about cyber punk.

For next week

Creating the new character.

Design and creating the environment.

Fixing the weighting to have better rig to work with.

Fixing layout according to feedback.

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Inspiration post

I will be posting all other works that inspired this project. But since the project is going to change the inspiration may not apply anymore

For the colors and the futuristic theme

For the 3D that looks 2D

For the robot design (Portal and Wall-E)

For the comedy 

Think some thing like Johnny Bravo / Looney Toons

I should start thinking more about the colors. and such.

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Change of plans

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Week 2

Week Accomplishments

Revision the story

Concept Art (locking on character design)

Model of main characters almost complete (90%)

Experiment with Arnold Toon Shader to obtain 2d like look

New “Animatic” (Add story elements and fix timing for the fight)

Synopsis

Shark is a Fighter Bot, his primary objective is to fight those that challenge him. During a practice fight he accidentally kill a human fighter. He leaves the crime scene but soon he is found by a Robot Police Bot. Shark tries to escape but when the Police Bot shot at him Shark enter on Combat Mode. They fight, both of them following their primary objective to dead. Shark destroy the Police Bot and leaves Combat Mode. With low energy and no where he can escape, he decide to end his life.

Concept Art

Shark

Ideas for colors for Shark

Robot arm

Robot Police Bot (Still thinking of a name)

Energy Sword

Energy Cannon

3D Models

Shark model improved. Hair is has better volume, body shape was changed a bit too to look more natural. Added the robot arm. Model is 95% finished, I still want to improve on the robot arm and the shoes. Doing the UV map and textures are also pending.

Robot Police model complete. UV map and texture done as well. Only  some extra modeling and textures for the weapons. Need to thing on a cool design.

Render Test

Arnold Aitoon

Testing how light affect shadow position on the mesh. I need to investigate about normals to get better results for the shadows

Trying to make the rim light work.

Testing the eyes positions. They are disk inside the eye socket. I am worried the pupils positions will look weird 

Struggling with displacement map for muscle definition.

Testing color for a metallic look

Render test with textures.

“Animatic”

Need to fix timing issues as well some framing in some of the shots

For Next week

Finish minor details on the models and complete the textures for both characters

Rig for both characters.

Test animation.

Revision history and animatic according to feedback 

Thanks for your time! Feedback is appreciated.

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Week 1.

A rough animatic for a robo figth animation.

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A new journey begins

Welcome everyone! New year new project!

This blog will be focused in the development of my 3rd Year Short Film “Primary Objective” A 3d Animation short about robot fighting!  Why are they fighting? I am still trying to figure that out ha ha.

Any way, every Tuesday I will be posting about the progress of the film from the story changes to small details on the model and look of the film, concept art and animation tests. Everything that I can accumulate in a week of work.

So if you are interested in following a 3 year 3d animation student trying to make a film feel free to follow!

Comment and critiques are encouraged.