Synoptic Project pre production

Our Current status of the synoptic project preproduction is mostly finished we just need to get the Rec done with requires use to go to all the filming locations and take photos of where we are going. All of our other PreProduction has been completed and signed off on so we can start our main production soon.



We have also Made some graphics for a Warning Alert to show on the TV news report. Other Pre visual work has been done to get an more concrete idea of what we want the style to be for the final product. The Trello has also being redesigned and organised to make it clearer and to include more. This is for the news segment to make it feel more like a real news show. To make this we got the logos for the British government, home office and ministry of defense and we added the Text in Big block capitals to make it more important looking.

We also made a graphic for the news segment to go before it before the camera goes on to produce this we got the image and used Photoshop to separate the parts and then made the circles on the image spin to make it feel like it being more active. To finish it off we added some noise to it to make it seem like it was more "TV like" as the fuzziness adds to the effect

Imagin worlds Art essay

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FzUGzhDQvNMWNUZTNFoReL4-H5_QCyiEpbINTOIUE0/edit?usp=sharing

Word Document link

Bullet Jet motion graphic

https://vimeo.com/256306529

This is my second attempt at creating motion graphics in after effects. For this idea I wanted to do something that transforms into a jet by wings popping out for this I chose a bullet. To start the animation I needed to fire the bullet I decided it would be easier if I green screened myself and coloured me to match the rest of the art. And overall I could get better quality out of it, compared to if I drew and animated a full silhouette.

All of the art was created by me in Photoshop for the buildings however I used reference images to trace over to help build a better silhouette for them. The animation starts off with the bullet flying across building and then growing wings and becoming a jet. The animation ends with the jet flying towards the camera.

Most of the animation was done within just using key frames and movement points and adjusting them when needed. The only part which I went in knowing nothing about was 3D layers which is what made the jet move towards the camera as if it was flying above it.

This project was mostly done as practice for future graphic projects I might be working on so I could gain some more experience with it.

Before the after synoptic project preplanning

My group has completed all the preplanning for the synoptic that we can do at the moment we have got the jobs assigned which are able to be moved around freely however, should we require it. All the other parts are ready and organized we also have a trello to keep useful information and keep other updated on our current progress in the project. I am confident that we have as much prepared as we need. The group work is all fine and everyone is working together to get the preplanning done we are hoeping to start recording within the first few weeks after half term which is around Feb 19th

Motion graphic bullet planning and assets

I am planning on creating a short motion graphic with a bullet being shot across the screen i have already produced some of the art for this quickly in Photoshop

I'm also planning on using myself green screened and colored black to match the art style this will mean i don't have to draw a person and animate it saving me some work

I'm going to have the bullet shot across the sky passing building quickly

Attempting Motion Graphics in after effects

I have wanted to try and learn motion graphics in after effects for a while now and with the numbers project involving the Romanian school i decided to give it a shot. As this is only a test i just used images i found on the internet with modification i made to them for animation purposes for example i removed the slice from the pizza manually in Photoshop to allow it to be separated. I made 3 numbers all with cartoon images representing them. I am going to experiment more with this as this is my first attempt.

https://vimeo.com/253588292

Synoptic project Before the after Getting started

I moved Groups to join with a VFX team to work on their VFX project before the after which is a pre-apocalyptic short film where a meteor is going to strike earth signaling the end of the world. I have met with my new group and we have discussed the project and began putting together the preplanning such as the assert list and production schedule.

Our frist priority is too finish the script and storyboard as we need them to be able to finalize the planning so we can put the rest of preplanning together. This will give us a concreat idea of what we need to do.

Final Preparation for Synoptic project pitch

I have been finishishing up the prepration for the sysnptic project as well as getting the powerpoint ready i have been getting the playboard made as well as doing a few tests for some of the effects i might use in the project to demostraight what i will do with it.

I have also being putting together a compleate show reel of all work word to use as a portfolio for both my university application and i can use it for the end of year portfolio showcase as well.

Synoptic project pitch

My synoptic project pitch is for a news satire spoof video with i want to include segments commonly seen across the news including Technology, Politics and the weather report. The general theme is that it will start off quite serious and slow get more ridiculous as it progress.

Some of the potential ideas include The weather report, which ends up reporting the current events of a Apocalypse in action a hologram call with an astronaut , a brief political segment. Extras would be to add a sports news part. Meanwhile it would all be linked by the central studio.

I would need a team of a 2 VFX artists and 2 3D Modlers 

Hologram

This is a hologram effect i have created using adobe after effects i have used a large number of effects and tools to create it. First thing i setup and keyed out the greenscreen.

The color was made with color curves to get a purple/blue as that the color you see in most sci-fi films for projected images. i reduced the opacity and set the size to match the phone. To finish up the hologram i added a glow to make seem like it had real lighting to it.

I also added the light glowing off the the phone to fill the blank space between the phone and hologram.

Creative and Techncal Submission

This is the final submission of my creative and technical model I have been working on this for a while and I have gone through multiple versions of it and I have the final product. As what I am creating isn't something that exists in real life which means I have some creative freedom over the design of the model.

The first Lowpoly I made was a lot rougher and harder edges which the low poly you see now is a more smoothed version compare to the original. The high poly is smoother as well as the edges are a lot rounder than the low poly as well. Once i had made the high poly the next step was to design and prepare the extra details which included the spirals. I drew them in photoshop and sculpted them onto the model in Mudbox, it took a few different attempts but I ended up with a design I was happy with.

The final step was the bake and the texture, the bake I had a few issues with the biggest being that the low and high poly models were too different in shape I ended up remaking the high poly model to solve this. Once that was solved I just had to paint the model. The Main colour is a metallic red with gold trims on all of the edges.


Sketchfab

https://sketchfab.com/models/5017c870b2f044e3a153ef7aba971c57

Powerpoint

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16D2-kmLL8WwOTDHvoazETKgjZufWbTt5/view?usp=sharing

MVP Review

We have received the feedback on the MVP of the imagine worlds project and main part of the feedback was to have a proper render available. The main feedback was about our camera set up being dodgy as they were moving rapidly with little coordination this is something we are fixing by reanimating the cameras and we will be adding some translations in after effects when we are done as this will help hide the things we don't want seen and it will also make the camera more fluid together.

Other group members are also adding extras to the scene like more models and adding some texturing to certain parts. Which can be improved upon.

Santa sleigh Texturing done

This is Santa sleigh which is almost finished in the 2 images i have 2 different versions one with the gold on the outside of the spirals and one within based on other peoples feedback will help me decided upon which i choose. all of the Texturing has been done in substance painter. I still have some polishing to do to make some of the edges straighter and cleaner as well as making sure all of the lines are the same size.

Overall i am happy with the progress of the sleigh while they are improvements to make which i intend on doing i believe its a good standard and once the polishing is done i'll be ready to submit it before the deadline.