Practicing in Cinema 4D

Class this morning consists of working to give the effect of the scene being a 3D 'set'.  To begin with we have the task of making the object in the  scene look realistic...

I have also learned how to make lights out of shapes - something I had seen our lecturer do last year and had never known how to do properly. We used a plane in a cloner object as the light by giving the shape a luminant material.

I think I might try something of my own in this method even just to see if I can create something nice...

Next was an animation intended to follow the idea of an ident we were shown that I am led to believe is one of Paul's personal stash of work; using depth of field and a photograph to create a realistic looking scene to drop a shape into... I quite like it as I also learned how to work the explosion tag in this program.

Anyway - more later...

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After a nice weekend getting kicked all over Ireland

So this weekend I was at a Taekwon-do instructors course in Belfast and had lots of fun bruising my toe and gaining my second degree black belt - not to mention a load of achey muscles... After my adventures it's straight back to work.

Today we have been working on animating a channel 4 ident just to try out the method in Cinema 4D.
So this is the final cut out version; we used After Effects to mask the footage together.

This is the list of things each of the group are doing for OUR ident work for E4. We're working on building the backgrounds for the animations. Below is the storyboard for the second animation in which the character falls through the Earth, in the bottom left box you can see how we plan to build the background on a layer and composite an animated tunnel to follow the footage of the live action character which are both on layers of their own.

These are the layers we all decided to have for our underground part of the idents...

Today hopefully we're going to have some more work to upload regarding the animation - even if it's just an animatic it'll be good to have something to show for ourselves...

I've been shown an advert calling for an assistant animator in LONDON... I'm going to look more into the company and the requirements and post something about it later...

However for now this is me...

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Fox...

 

I had an idea when looking at the knots in the wood of my door, the knots have always resembled some kind of animal to me so I thought I would use that to draw something out of it. I decided on a fox with glowing eyes and I made an attempt at it... I wanted it to be purple but it looked horrible with pinky purple eyes and so on so I changed it to dark blue - it's an improvement but I still wish it were better... I'm getting back into that rutt of not being able to draw well again I think :(

 

I then drew him under a tree - the Illustration Friday topic gave me the idea but I won't enter it because it's too late and it's rubbish - so it's the Fox under the Halucinogenic Tree of Delirium...

 

It may be rubbish and I may wish it were better but at least it exists so I'm happy I managed to draw SOMETHING. =D

Cheers

 

New Module

This week has brought with it the beginning of a new module, Compositing. The project requires us to create an I-dent animation in our group. So far we have been working on developing our ideas and experimenting with the techniques. However, we need to look at other I-dent animation examples, which is the purpose of this post...

Our first idea was paint splashing against the logo of the TV channel in question. This Ident is quite relevant to this =) It's by IdentsandLogos.

This is one of channel 5's Idents for 2011; it is similar to the work we have been doing today as the example we've been working on is dropping cubes into an environment. Of course I have previous experience with that whole 'bundle of laughs' but now I'm having to re-learn the lot in the new edition of Cinema 4D R14 (!) 

E4 is the ident project my group and I are doing so this is very relevant. I like the 3D in this animation, it's very smooth and I think it might have been given a touch of after effects magic after looking at the electricity effect used. I like how much it plays down the fact it is 3D by making it look regular.

So now a quick update on what our plans are... We are thinking of animating a space man falling from space and crashing through the Earth and bursting out the other side... but the centre of hte Earth contains loads of different things that we have the opportunity of making as funny as we can. We're thinking of making it in a 3 part animation as we need to produce 3 animations as a group to hand in in December.

 

Our group found this music video amusing - our original idea - one we have tried out involved a robot costume made of cardboard boxes - the idea of having a mint background in cartoon and a poorly shot live action character composited in sounds very good and I think it'll be quite effective in the final piece.

This was the first idea we had - the one we have tried out in After Effects to use as development for our actual animation...

 

 

Any way I'll post more soon,

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