Animation Maya final

FMP Animation/ Evaluation

 

(Click here for my Animation)

To start off I’d like to state that I tried my absolute best with my animation, however, given the fact that my animation skills are very poor and I didn’t understand it completely, the animation kinda failed for me. The animation was originally going to be an informative and educational animation about the “brief facts” about Eadweard Muybridge.

However, during the process, my ideas changed as the character’s movements were relatively restricted as well as the movements would move strangely and gave a feeling of poor quality or something not to be taken seriously. so I decided to work on that and actually make it intentionally “bad” in the sense of the movements. however, I tried to make it somewhat interesting, with special effects (implemented by after effects), and music (implemented by garage band as well as logic pro).

The animation had to consist of 30s (30s maximum and 27 secs minimum). to create the environments I took images of Kingston as well as images that I have taken in the past and applied a posterised/ cut-out effect onto them. all the images I used were a primary source (taken by me) however a few of the sound effects like the birds chirping were from “soundbible”. to create the rain effect, however, I got rice and literally poured dry rice onto my phone whilst the recording was playing. meaning the phone was able to record the impact properly as well as being able to hear the impact the rice/ rain would have if it was actual rain.

I originally created my environments using illustrator and photoshop using the paintbrush tool as well as various tints and tones of colours. however, I realised that the environments ended up looking amateur and mediocre, so I decided that environments which are sourced from real life areas would look more effective.

I originally wanted to create this animation frame by frame but I later realised how tedious and time consuming that would’ve been as it took extremely long to create this animation using digital means. The character featured in this animation is a variation of Eadweard Muybridge. the reason why he has no eyes or mouth is merely the art style I chose to use. I thought an abstract approach to the animation would give it a more surreal feel.

the requirements were to make it 1080p HD, H.264.

the feedback i got was mixed but was very helpful.

it has shown me that people did appreciate my efforts as well as getting some great feedback from them all, i believe it would give me a better chance in future.

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Poster for EGX/Game

Here are 3 attempts at creating the poster for EGX, however the most recent one that I a submitting as my final poster is the one that is located at the top of the page. the poster was created to promote my Game idea as well as the event known as EGX, which is like a gaming convention to showcase “indie” or corporate games. I decided to go for a more simplistic approach, with the colours only consisting of blacks and whites. I decided to add the smoke as an effect to promote the word “drift” as when a car drifts the friction often causes smoke; and to bring the word “tobacco” dock to a more literal meaning, so people would remember where the event was based on the very distinct style of the poster and the smoke (because tobacco is often smoked.)