I learned moving point tracking this week. I combined Crop node and CornerPin to change the shape of mask to match the green screen of mobile phone screen. The final output result is not very satisfactory. I guess it can be solved by changing the green screen background into black to solve the discomfort caused by incomplete overlap. And it requires extra attention to the timing of the finger slide to match the mask image animation.
This week, we first made the animation of the model smile, learned the use of joints, so that the character’s head could be raised and lowered, and understood the influence of the key scope of action on the model, and finally made the teeth of the head.
Facial smile is not very natural, the reason should be because of the point of the face movement is too small. It would be nice if we could expand the area affected.
This week has made me realize that the details on the model joints matter, and even a little bit of the wrong range of influence can have serious consequences. Next we can focus on model animation and joint selection.
The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
The main function of documentary is to restore what happened in reality to the film and television, usually using the video or pictures recorded at that time to prove its authenticity. So documentaries are realistic.
This week focused on color tuning and color correction, learning about the use of RGB and Alpha channels. And the effect of gamma and other parameters on the image.
Learned how to use Reformat node and Grade node.
This week we pasted last week’s model with UV and used multi-layer map to enrich the model. Learned the details of using UV to fit textures to models. But after I tried it, it was not very ideal. I felt it was because of the lack of ear model. UV was also attached to the eye model.
Israeli director Ari Forman’s Waltz with Bashir was nominated for best International Feature film at the 2009 Academy
Awards. The director tried to reconstruct through dialogue his memories of friends and other veterans of the Israeli
army during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Both chat and wartime memories are animated using stylized paper-cutting
techniques, which are often confused with dynamic rotography.
This week you learned more about how to use nodes, as well as the very important Merge node, and started to synthesize videos using the exr balloon files provided by the Maya course.
Tracing and layer overlay are also used.
This week we learned about topology, on a full head model. The topological process of the face head model is understood. For this topology, I think it can be improved, such as adding more topology wiring to make the face shape more real. Unfortunately, there is no model of the topological ear section, only the cavity filled.
After class, I made models of eyes with spheres. No UV was used to render the model this week.
The miracle of formative abstraction.
They used an analog computer developed by his brother John – a World War II residual ballistic computer based on gear drives – to move multilayer hand-drawn cels frame by frame. Everything was done by hand and took 10 years.
Particles in the irregular regularity of the law to show a different from the ordinary beauty. The religious music also brings the work, which took 10 years to complete, to life.
Formal Elements：Symmetry of cross，Out of order，Life force，Religiosity.
This week you learned how to use Roto, dynamic blur, proper workflow, and more.