Sunday, 18 August 2019

assessment 1



correcting and adding more detail to my story.






Story Concept 1

Mr. Dee is a hardworking 35 years fellow whose daily life is to go to the office and work like a robot and come back home. He is unmarried and doesn't prefer being in a relationship. His parents got separated when he was 13. He loves cars and has some old collection of cars like Maserati Ghibli, Chevrolet Camaro. He makes quite good earnings from his job and he is considerably successful. 
Despite this, he is very isolated from society, He always feels lonely, sad and lives all by himself. He doesn't have any friends to hangout or any pets to pet. The reason for this might be just because everyone is busy making money from their work and no one has extra time to indulge for a conversation with each other.

Early in the morning, he wakes up, opens the front window curtain and grabs a cigarette from the drawer. Then he tries to light it up, but first, he decides to take a quick look of the outside view from the window.  Meanwhile, he notices a flying bird, approaching his window. He keeps his eyes open and observes the incident. Suddenly, He realizes an owl bringing him a gift and a letter which says, "try this you will feel better". Inside the box, he sees the number of rollies, picks it up and put it on the table. He thinks they all are cigarettes but those were some thing else, It was made up of psychoactive plants that could make one high, namely Ganja or Cannabis in English.

Then, he lights one of the rollies. As soon as he tries it, the First thing he does is simply smile and becomes heedlessness. He finds it nice and considers taking it to his office. He puts all the rollies in his office bag then he carries it and heads out for work. He seems to be very happy and cheerful. As he enters the office, he greets people around him. Everyone is shocked, they all find it unusual. He was the only one who seems to be happy entirely in the building.

A group of people from his workplace are very curious to know the reason behind his happiness, they think that Mr. Dee might be hiding something from them. They plan to investigate and begin to search everywhere including his office Table, drawer and cupboard. But fails to find anything. Then they decide to leave. While leaving something moves making a scratchy sound from his office bag, one of the employees notices it and quickly gives it checks it, He finds a number of rollies (with cartoony smiles from rollies), they want to try it. heads outside and tries taking turns. afterward, everyone smiles and enjoys their work happily.
Mr. Dee returns to his office, he sees everyone happy and laughing at work. He wonders why they might be laughing. In a quick move, he checks his bag and sees it empty, at this time he is numb, and his movement is still for a while. Currently, his head is looking down to his bag, his eyes are big, and his facial expression is shocked.
After a minute or so, he moves, he points out his finger to other mates and laughs harder. Later, the crowd joins, they have a laugh together.

It’s 6pm and Mr, dee needs to head back home, He leaves from his work. reaches home, makes some food in the kitchen and goes to sleep.

An owl brings the same thing every day. Later he pets the owl, builts a nest and takes very good care of it. The process continues he takes ganja brought by an owl and takes it to the office and share it with other employees, the whole building seems to be very smoky, the smoke goes in the sky, goes up and up. Finally, the meditating Lord Shiva gets the smell of it, sniffs it while his eyes are closed then simply smiles.

character detail.

Name: Dick Thompson 
Nickname: Mr. Dee
height: 5 feet tall
weigh: 74 kg
Interest: loves eating, foodie, love to smoke weed and cigarette.





Thursday, 15 August 2019

Week 6 (1970's films)

discussed on what we watched.

1970 for film- Makers
A taste of 1970s Films:
Action Movie Trailers compilation
not good movies of this time but definitely gives flavor.

the omega man
action content as well as comedy.
Last man on earth
lots of gunfire and stunt, explosion.


horror and fantasy movies of 1970
-The brotherhood of satan
yellowish
-Hhous of dark shadows
-Troog
bluish filder
- When dinosaurs ruled the earth
-Lattitude zero
the Forbin project
scream and scream again

scifi Trailer

Star Crash
warcraft, explosion, looks more simnilar to star wars
david hassel huff


-message from space
- battle beyound the stars
-Space raiders
-freiheit
Electronic Labyrinth: cool theme title as a music
lots of phone calls recording effects, mind controll, multiple exposures, slow fadout, appealing cinematography,
like he story concept, a man running constantly through out the movie which shows he wants to escape, dark and shadow and highlights, blur,
written and directed by



thx 1128(1971)
Speed, fight scene,
bike and car chasing, 



A Decade Under the influence (2003) 54 min

francies ford capa
Robert Altman
Paul 
Pam Grier
Polly Platt

It wanted to be challanged and not to be repedatly same overtime

more like documentary like, real incident captured,

John ford
Billey
Dennis Hopper
The wild angels- greatest movie of that time
Roger Cronman: producer


Midnight cowboy
drug sex, methical freedom, assultive, huge social confusion,

Joe 1970
dirty harry

Home works
watch a movie from 1970




















Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Week 6 class 1

animatic should be finished in week 7
Record dialogue,
timing should be good.

sample for sounds are available in the college resource drive


Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Week 6

lessons with Chris Mcdonald.
We will be doing paper cutouts.

lost and found

Changing lenses

Focal length lower the number, wider the field of view
reserving gear in the Cheqroom.
Changing Lenses

better to grab flat, not vertically cause dust particle might get inside
change it to manual focus while changing lenses
line up with the dot reference.
change the cap of the lenses
aperture range

Settings:
High
depth of fi
info button shows you

a quarter of the second
exposure 5.6
iso 200

image quality: large file jpeg
White balance, daylight




practical in class



onion screen is available, to align it properly,
Exporting
go to file, export movie,

For more information, my friend Aron did take the note in detail and I have listed it below for learning purposes.

dragon-frame
mm-field of view (11=wide view)
200mm-elena used at tim shadbolt set=sniper lens

macro lenses-clay animation etx.
60mm
105mm
fee error?18 shoot?
quality-adjusted with zoom-in function
ISO adjusted with '-' icon
(top button on the cannons)
STOP MOTION CAN JUST USE RAW
SMALL FINE JPG CAN BE USED IN hd in post.

ISO= LENS SENSITIVITY
lower iso needs more light, makes less noise.
Higher iso more noise, require less light.
LOWEST iso for stop motion!!
full frame=D7000 Nikon...noise is noticed later.
d90 is a crop lens.

Shutter speed>light exposure
=length of time sensor is exposed to light
fractions of second>multiple seconds
=longer exposures=motion blur hence shorter exposures freeze motion

FLURO IN NZ- shoot slower than 1/50=banding and color shift

APERTURE>sharp (depth of field)
(rear 
wheel on cannons, front roller on D90s)
F stop
beyond 30 seconds=bulb-manual shutter
(f/#) DISPLAY OF f stop in
1.4=double brightness of 2
1.4 is the shallow depth of field. (TRIANGLES)
8 is Deep depth of field.(SQUARES)

DON'T USE MAX/ MIN APERTURE...poor performances
>distance to the subject- the shorter depth of field (aperture 1.8 rather than 8)
>Focal length- longer lens=shorter

DEPTH OF FIELD CALCULATOR--google play

eg..iso 100 with 1/2 second shutter speed.  
= 200 ISO with 1/4seconds. -(c) AARON ELSTON



The given information would really clarify our understanding of the Camera and software.

More about Dragonframe










Monday, 12 August 2019

week 6 class one

assignment submission day.
i got the extension, therefore, working on my story boards .

week 6


Catch up with your blogs, do write what happened in the presentation last week, hopefully, gave some ideas to refine your project.

don't forget to put the title sequence on your project.

3 of our classmates gave their presentation.

Emma's work was mainly focused on compositing and animation which will be done very professionally.

I kind of like TJ's powerpoint because it is short and direct on what he's approaching for his project that is arg.
distorted and wrapped.
watched some cartoon animation shown in the class which was very adorable and cute, more about making their love stronger and become happy,  they were baking lots of cupcakes an sell them in the market. later on, the oven gets blasted.

Next week work on the project.
Need to work really well this week

In this class, I did a general tracking for this shot which I captured at Invercargill.
Here, I'm not getting good tracking data.

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Thursday, 8 August 2019

Week 5 (1970's animation games)

1970-1979

France
Serge Danot
made a pilot for the TV series The Magic Roundabout
1970
Dougal and the blue cat
stop motion got really popular in 1970

a little girl chained, very sad and sorrow, tear droplets looks very natural, very close zoom camera angle. not pixelated at all.


UK
Bob Godfrey,
MAde kama sutra Rides again 1971
was given x certificate

what video is like monochromatic light bluish with shadow and contrast. cartoony character, sex for old age, book, nicely narrator, funny and comedy, smooth transition, the scientific and mathematical explanation for the stupid act.

1972 pong on its original
Nolan
gameplay 3:14
manually has to adjust by hand, similar to iPod game pinball.

France/Chech Rpublic
Rone Laloux
Fantastic planet 1973

sketches and hand-drawn images, world-building, alien, creatures, this video might be helpful.
how it might be made, cutouts, hand-drawn, the drug might be involved

Japan
Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita
adorable kid, shows day today life, where while wife looks after the house and a baby. impressive water ripple, birds flying, tap water splashes look very real, demolition, everything wiped out, after a nuclear bomb has been dropped, most of the people died,

presented well,


France/Poland
Piotr KAmler
Lepas
3d square, with paper flipping animation, very realistic, and smooth transision of a paper, must be done by some kind of 3d software, very organic,


Japan
Hayao Maiyazaki and Isao Takahata
Heidi, Japanese

2D animation, cheerful and joy

1974
Maze Wars
first graphics machine, computer

Norway
Ivo Caprio
Earlies version of

rd landscape, very real house and elements, details and hand made


1982 Retro sears ad

Hungary
Willian Feign
Hugo and the Hippo
I love the Hippo
cartoony animation, with a kid singing,

USA
Lillian F. Schwartz,
Newtonian I
back in 1970 human effort were not necessary, the computer might do everything for you.

Belgium
eddiie Lateste and Peyo
Hanna Barabera made and animated TV series otf the smurfs

The smurfs and the magic flute
colorful and vibrant character, red yellow, blue green, looks similar to snow white and the seven dwarf and and

1976
don wppds versopm of the pioneering text based game,
Game play is about 47 minutes
clossal cave adventure play through.

Italy
Vruno vozzetto
created Allegro Non
 trailer like intro, that shows how the movie is going to be

1986
Exidy Develops and publishes death Race NBased on the 1975
cult film Death Race 2000

Arcade Game
chasing moving object.


Australia/Poland
Dot and the Kangaroo
Still image and the man and the cartoon girl and man in the same real environment, greatly synced.

very creative and different approach to animation where cartoon characters are animated in the live shot footage. I really liked and enjoyed the video. sound and singing music makes it more interesting.

Jeff Kenn

1977
Atari 2600 Game console

Marting Rosen
Watership down
best selling nobel, provocative film,

1978
Taito's space invaders decends on japan causing shortae of 100 yen coins
game playing,
Its was really easy to track because of the music aswell
needs a great skill to play

UK
Roger Mainwood
Halas and Batchelor was one of the first studios
autobahn Kraftwerk psychedelic short film.

1979

Croatia
Zdenko Gasparovic
satiemania
 sketches



BAckground
Russian animator who was born in 1941
fox and the rabbit
Yuri Norstein's


Tales of Tales (1979)

home work take some yuri norstein film and watch it.
























Week 9 3d modelling maya

 Giant: