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Nuke

Planar Tracking

The poster on the wall is replaced using the nuke’s planar tracking technique. At the same time, we also used the color-correct and color-grading techniques we used before to make the poster blend more naturally with the scene.

Before

Planar Tracking

After

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Design for Animation

Critical Report Structure and Developing a Research Topic

Critical Report Structure

•            Title: Subtitle

•            Acknowledgements – Optional

•            Abstract

•            Key Words

•            Contents Page

•            Introduction

•            Literature Review

•            Main Body of Text

•            Conclusion

•            Bibliography

•            Image List

Also, we talk about how to develop a research topic, experiment, and critically evaluate methods, results, and their implications in a range of complex and emergent situations and articulation of criticality, clarity, and depth. Communicating a diverse range of intentions, contexts, sources, and arguments appropriate to your audiences are very significant processes in research topic development.

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Maya

Head Rigging

During this week we articulate the joints and rigging the head model to prepare for further animation.

Then we make the head model move correctly by assigning weights to different joints, such as opening the mouth.

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Nuke

Nuke 2D Tracking

This week we used nuke’s 2d tracking tech to create and modify the interface of the phone.

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Design for Animation

Design for Animation, Narrative Structures & Film Language: Developing an investigation The Principle of Argument

This week we learned how to build an argument during the process of developing an investigation, clearly state your contention, identify the important reasons/premises of your argument, identify possible objections, research evidence that supports your reasons and/or reduces objections, structure your argument so your points logically lead to your conclusion and clearly state your conclusion bringing together your thesis statement and the supporting points are very significant steps of building arguments. Also, we need to consider areas of professional and academic development that motivate the investigation study. At the same time, we also learned some relevant knowledge about literature review

”A literature review has four main objectives:

It surveys the literature in your chosen area of study

It synthesises the information in that literature into a summary

It critically analyses the information gathered by identifying gaps in current knowledge; by showing limitations of theories and points of view; and by formulating areas for further research and reviewing areas of controversy

It presents the literature in an organised way“

Sources Available at: [https://www.rlf.org.uk/resources/what-is-a-literature-review/]

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Nuke

Nuke Color

During this week we used a variety of nuke’s color grading tools’ nodes to make some adjustments to the tonal unity and blend between the composite objects and the background, which I think is crucial to the final result of the film and TV composite.

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After

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Design for Animation

Animated Documentary

During the week we discussed documentary policy and animated documentaries, learned about the history of animated documentaries, and watched and discussed some excellent animated documentaries. Animation is often use to to ‘clarify, explain, illustrate and emphasise’ (Honess Roe, 2013,: 9)

The one I really into is Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war documentary drama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman’s search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War. ‘Animation, in part through its material differences from the live-action film, shifts and broadens the limits of what and how we can show about reality by offering new or alternative ways of seeing the world. It can present the conventional subject matter of documentary (the ‘world out there’ of observable events) in non-conventional subjective, conscious experience – subject matters traditionally outside of the documentary purview’ (Annabelle Honess Roe, 2013: 1) This animated documentary gives an unprecedented perspective on the war and is very impressive

Bibliography

Roe, A.H., 2013. Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017468

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Maya

Head

In this head project, we first built a model of a human head

Then we use the UV editor to process the material and texture of this head model

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Design for Animation

Abstract Animation and Conceptual Animation

This week we learned about the conceptual division of these two forms of animation, abstract animation, and conceptual animation and at the same time watched and analyzed some representative works about these two forms of animation. Those are the animation or film works that contain no acting and do not attempt to reference reality or concrete subjects. They rely on the unique qualities of motion, rhythm, light, and composition inherent in the technical medium of cinema to create emotional experiences.

The abstract art animation I want to share here is the animation created by Josef Heks at Start VR, which is also the field of animation that I really want to explore because I find the effect of this animation very fascinating, and it will remind people about life, the universe, and philosophy, etc. There are many fields, and this kind of animation is also very healing. It is one of the fields that I really want to get involved in.