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2 Minute Final Film

Here is my final 2 minute film overall I’m quite pleased with how this turned out considering this was my first attempt at doing a full project in 3D while I do think there is a lot of room for improvement such as: 

Animation could have been more smoothed out, however due to deadlines and decided the best approach to make sure this is done on time was to prioritise areas of the animation over other and for this I decided the best time to focus on more was the Lake scene as this takes up most of the film.

Models and Rigging improvements while the models I think are good with a few tweaks that are needed the rigging is something I feel like I could have spent more time planning as I soon found myself restricted mainly with the fingers only being able to curl each finger and unable to move them side-to-side.

If I had the time I would have liked to have added some depth of field within I had tried to achieve this within Maya however, I only decided to try this once all the cameras where set up and unfortunately the maya cameras depth of field doesn't work.

On the effects side I am pleased with how the fire turned out which is done in maya as I thought this was the easiest way for me to in the fire accurately but I did the snow in after effect  

Sound on the other hand I think works with some sound effects that could have done with a better sample I also decided to not have any background music as I thought the sound of the wind was good enough for what was happening on screen and its also because I had no idea what to type of music I could have used.

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Road Runner and Coyote shorts

Each episode of these comedic duos are about a minute long. Mark has suggested to us to watch animated shorts of cartoons so it can help us think about how to shorten our stories to get them exactly 2 minutes long.

When I look at this animation from between 1968-1978, I think Warner Bros have used real life sketches to do the motions and possibly added oil based colour.

It has me thinking about my 2 minute film character Dasher. Roadrunner is a super speeding bird who out runs the coyote, and it has shown me was how I could do that same speed effect for Dasher when he runs around in the city. This is the only comparison that I could think of, besides the humour that they generate for the audience. The humour I will generate will not be slapstick like on this video, but it will be just as funny.

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This clip shows all the different sound files and "organised" pacing of the voice lines and effects in the DRG animatic.

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On the HBU colab project with china, both classes were sorted into teams, each with a theme. My teams theme was "Dark", so there was a lot of leeway to play with ideas. I Liked the idea of an eldritch entity, plus it looked easier to animate, though I would need to edit the amount of eyes they had to draw.

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The Character design was done by the student I was working with on this project. The class got sorted into teams of 5 students from UCLAN, and 5 students from HBU in china. we each came up with a design and paired up with one another, swapping our characters and animating them.

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I made a decision on the final character and made a character sheet with height and width dimensions to give to my partner. I lowered the amount of eyes they had to draw, and the shape of the body was simple. I was excited to see what they drawn when they had finished.

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This is my finished segment of the first part in the final animation, It will be clipped together with the other students segments to make a full movie. The voice actor did a very good job and finding the sound effects I looked to https://freesound.org/

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due to poor time management the final segment of the loop was submitted unfinished. The ambitious vortex segment took a bit longer to do while I was behind on another project. The Bauhaus art style I researched was implemented into this animation, as the minimalistic and abstract nature of the void filled with doors seemed fitting.