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.

1st Texturing attampt

This is my first version of what the sled will look like it i have some cleaning up on the edges to do and to straiten up the gold trims i also will need to do the sled tracks. I will also change the red tracks to a more metallic one like aluminium. After that all that needs doing is to get some renders of the model made which shouldn't be too difficult to do. The hardest part of this was getting the baking done as i ran into a few different issues which i finally fixed by getting all of the names updated as Maya was having issue so they wouldn't change.

The Texturing can begin

After having various issue relating to baking i finally got it working it was a mixture of the low/high poly models change too much during smoothing and the naming being set up wrong. Now All i need to do is to start the texturing. Once the model is fully done I'll add it to the scene as an extra animation.

For the Animation its self its coming along to a quality standard and we should have an MVP ready provided we don't run into any issue along the way. By Wednesday the 30th (end of this college week) I want to have everything in place together so i can add the effects and try to get a render done. This will also allow to begin adding other parts like Snow effects and Music to the animation.

Creative and technical and Imagine worlds 2 weeks remaining

With only 2 weeks remaining until the deadline of the imagine worlds project it means everything is finally coming together. The Animation only has some small parts to go so that should be done by the end of next week with 1 week left for improvements and refinement as well as fixing any other issue which pop up last minute. I believe we should have the MVP done within the time constraint



For my creative and technical the engraving is fully done all that needs doing is a quick texture in substance painter which is currently being held up by an issue with being unable to bake i can't do this in either Maya or Substance. I am having other issue as well but these are things i am sorting and should be fixable.

Creative and Technical model And imagine world

8th of November 2017.

I have begun to make the designs the indentations in Photoshop I have some spirals and i have the colors set up to allow Mudbox to imprint them. The background is black and the spiral is white with a gray outline this will make it stick out i added gray border to smooth the transition i want to design some more to imprint in.

I still have some refining to do on the imprint as i want a sharper edge this is something i intend on adding in.

For the Imagine worlds Project I am mostly just focusing on the sled model as thats my main part of imagine worlds but everything is slowly coming together and the animation is starting to take shape.

Overall the team is working effectively and we are getting everything ready. The animation is forming well. For Time I believe we will hit the deadline if we keep working well however we don't have much time to spare. Looking at other members work everyone is working effective. I belive i have been managing my time well as my C&T and imagine worlds tasks overlap it means that i can tick off 2 boxes at once. While I still have other imagine worlds tasks to do i think they are minor and i should be able to get then finished off quickly.

Sound

Sound comes in both diegetic and non diegetic sound

none diegetic is things which the actors can't here like sound tracks and over narration

diegetic is what charcters can here like conversations

Sound can be used to enhance a scene and add tension to it