Week 16

Hearing some of the presentation by

Terry Gilliam



Kuleshov
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov who was born in Jan 13, New Style

week 16

Working on my assignment.

week 16 class 2

Rigging and following Tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_UHYXVkko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JPEOn98-c
https://youtu.be/6DlNFZLIQl8

Creating Curve Deformer
Its always better to start with a first click where the pivot is going to be. After that create an end point and use the curving properties.
Next, the selected part can be rotated from pivot point controller. and toggle helps to bend the part.


Kinematics helps to parent the secondary object with first one.
The given tutorial explains in brief about animating a character and using a node graph for ease and effective outcomes.

Selecting all the drawing layer and applying attribute called "order node view up" allows you to align all the drawing layer in organized manner. Then selecting and pressing Ctrl + Shift + P will add peg to every single drawing and naming them as an original one.


Adding composite(Ctrl+H) layer and making it pass through in layer properties. The main idea for this property is it doesn't squash image, makes it more separate in 3d space. After compositing you can group them > command +G. 

Cutter tools
This helps to cut excess body parts which appears outside. What is going to be cut goes to the right hand side and what we used to cut goes to left hand side and also invert the cutter.

























B will select the peg layer(yellow in color) above drawing(pink in colour) to select all the hierarchy and flexible to move.

Deformer
Two types of deformer. They are Bone deformer, curve deformer with two points, very cartoony , bendy look.

Autopatch
To make selected object appear in front.

Line Art

this tools only takes the line from the primary image and keep it while been cut through the process of auto patching. 

Then add pivot point to every single body parts.

Multi port in
Allows to link layers in front group.

From this tutorial, I was some how able to do rigging, and develop the understanding of tools and method of rigging. next I will be making him walk.

While working in a background always make a palleted for a background.

week 16

Doing the title sequence for the submission for the final assignment.

I really liked everybody's work, They have done best with their stop motion video.
Mostly these videos were creative and ambitious.

I would consider my group has done well as well. since we have put so much effort into this. We had to show some thing. Mostly the issue I found with our footages is the camera keeps on slighting every time. Which we really need to put in concern.



In this picture, we have put a marker on the floor, but didn't seem to be effective at all. One which would hold it better in its position would be the best idea. since this is our first attempt on doing stop motion animation. we have learned a lot from our mistakes and weaknesses.

Making Credit for our final shot
Alicia did her best to come up with a credit sequence which I think is pretty good. and appreciate her effort.

final editing

Doing some final editing correction. 

Serious problem that I've come along is the issue with the hand showing in the shot.

Week 15

Continue with assignment/ comics

Tutor game us some extra time to carry on with our assignment.
And the picture below are the comics done by me at the last hour.

Week 15

seeing everyone's work
My views on everybody's work.
Thomas and screen did some green screening with the hand movement,
Pixel effects, mosaic effect.

Regil and Ben
What I liked about these guys are that they have experimented well with the lens and focus. Colour saturation

Maxe's group

Their animation looks very vibrant,  unique and smooth. They have given the attention to detail such as character breathing, wheel moving, The concept for the story is simple, funny and creative.

Bella's group
Cool papercut outs animation, video mostly covered shadows and highlights throughout the scene. cool animation and interaction between lady and men.

Migs group
Paper cut out stop motion looks very appealing and satisfying, story concept, camera closeup are used very effectively.




Stop motion shoot today:
We wre still behind from shooting our final scene, these images below are captured by my group and they have shared it so that we all can use it for our blog. I am a bit at the disadvantage of not having a smartphone. Hopefully I will get in future. this would be very handy for taking shots in future.





Used camera at various angles for scene 3 when the character changes its head.
Found the solution for shaky footage.

Wrap stabilizer in After Effects
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/stabilize-footage.html