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Nuke

Rotoscoping

In this project, we use the nuke roto tool to frame the running man for further modification and compositing, and we also used the tracker tool for the selection of the bridge.

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Design for Animation

Design for Animation: Film Story Arc and Character Archetypes

Film The Post (2017)

Story Arc

Stage 1:

One local family newspaper, The Washington Post, prepares to go public and sell shares due to financial distress.

Stage 2:

Ben, the editor-in-chief of The Post, noticed the strange actions of a Vietnam War editor of the New York Times, and he always hoped that the Post would become as influential as the New York Times.

Stage 3:

The New York Times broke the shocking news about the Vietnam War.

Stage 4:

The Post begins an investigation into the source of the story, hoping to get some other coverage before the New York Times.

Stage 5:

A Post editor found the source behind the New York Times story through an old friend.

Stage 6:

The core members of the Post’s newsroom spent a day sorting through the documents and preparing to report, because the Nixon administration had issued a ban on the New York Times, and their move would be tantamount to the demise of the Post.

Stage 7:

The Post still decided to report on this resistance to the ban, and they, along with the New York Times, were sued by the Nixon administration.

Stage 8:

Newspapers across the country scrambled to report the contents of the Vietnam War document, setting off a wave, and the Supreme Court’s final decision said the Post and The New York Times were not responsible for their action.

Characters Archetypes

Heroes: Kay Graham, Ben Bradlee

Allies: Ben Bagdikian, Fritz Beebe, Meg Greenfield

Herald: Neil Sheehan

Shapeshifter: Robert McNamara

Threshold Guardians: Arthur Parsons

Shadow: Daniel Ellsberg

Timeline:

JUNE 13, 1971:

The Times publishes its first story about the report under the headline “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon’s Study Traces Three Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement.”

JUNE 15

The Nixon administration secures an injunction to block further stories by charging that Ellsberg committed a felony by leaking the papers. The Times appeals and the case quickly goes to the Supreme Court.

JUNE 18

After internal debate led by new publisher Katharine Graham, the Washington Post begins publishing its own series, based on copies provided by Ellsberg. The Post’s first story runs under the headline “Documents Reveal U.S. Effort in ’54 to Delay Viet Election.”

A federal court refuses the Nixon administration’s request for an injunction. More than a dozen other newspapers start publishing their own stories.

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Design for Animation

Design for Animation Research Topic

Topic title: Combination of actor performance and VFX

In today’s film production, digital special effects are more or less integrated, so the cooperation between the film workers is particularly important, where the performance of the actors is the most direct to the audience, so the cooperation between actors and special effects is very significant and worth discussing. At the same time, the cooperation between actors and digital effects will also bring great improvement to the quality of special effects films and the actors’ own careers.

Keywords: film acting, filmmaking, VFX, performance skills, cooperation, digital effects

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Nuke

City

In this video creation on the theme of urban exploration, I filmed a short bus trip in the first-person narrative, recording the landscape along the way。

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Maya

Hot air balloon

Based on the modeling skills we learned before, we created a hot air balloon model that Nuke session needs to use. Then, we assigned materials and textures to different parts of the hot air balloon.

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Maya

Glasses and bottle

In this week, we have studied the material to a certain extent, and created the material of the wine in the goblet.

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Nuke

Time

This set of pictures is to fit the theme of “Time” through the timeline of sneaker design. These four sneakers were designed in the 1980s, 1990s, and after 2020. From the changes in these sneakers’ design, we can see the changes in people’s aesthetics of footwear over time.

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Maya

Lego figure

In this week we have continue more complex model building, more in-depth study of some skills in model building, we have created a model of Lego figure.

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Maya

Tesla Cybertruck

In this week, we learned the Maya interface and some basic modeling tools, then we built a simple Tesla truck model and gave it lighting and background environment.

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