Thomas Mayfield Uca Rochester

Animation Progress I need to do some smoothing out with the animation, as well as fix some camera issues, but apart from that, it should be pretty good.

So I need to create an animation based off the sound clip I have chosen, so here is what I have to work with. So in this sound clip, there is a clear sense of High/Low status, the character in the high status has the attributes of being a condescending parent whilst the low status seems very sheepish and annoyed. The sound clip is from guardians of the galaxy, but that doesn't really matter because we're only focusing on the content of the sound clip. So the reason I'm going to animate a man hold a squirrel upside down is for two reasons. The first was actually based off what the clip says, the first character says, "I picked this guy up a while back for petty theft!", but the way the audio is presented it sound like I picked this guy up a while back 'From' petty theft!" So I've come up with the idea that this squirrel is a recent purchase from the animal store "Petty Theft" Where criminal animals are rehabilitated and...

Right, so I need to make this a habit. During this summer period, I've had a little time to reflect back on the previous project and see the main things I need to improve, so I've got a little list of things that I should go over. One of my main weaknesses is my time management, so after a long time and a couple conversations, I've gotten a solid time plan in place for the next couple weeks and I have a generally good idea of the amount of time I am going to need in order to approach this project as best as I can. Secondly is consistency and rate of which my work comes out. Now this one may sound a little odd, but at this current moment in time, I have had a bad habit of only posting once every couple days in worse circumstances even weeks? This creates a number of issues, the main one being having a steady workflow becomes almost impossible to maintain because getting into the correct state of mind with these massive drop offs, rather than consistent updates...

Film Reviews Mary & Max (2009) Spirited Away (2001) Sita Sings the Blues (2009) Waltz with Bashir (2008) Perspolis (2007) Ethel & Ernest (2016) The Secret of the Kells (2009) Kubo and The Two Strings (2016) Maya Tutorials Pipeline 1 Pipeline 1: UV's Pipeline 1: Skinning Pipeline 1: Rigging Lighting & Rendering Sample & Quality Control Final Gather Physical Sun & Sky Portal Lights Mia Material X High Dynamic Range (HDR) Lighting Displacement Maps Ambient Occlusion Motion Blur Mental Ray Proxies In Class Activities Mudbox Mudbox 1 Mudbox 2 Mudbox 3 Mudbox 4 Animation Animation 1 Animation 2 Animation 3 Animation 4 Animation 5 Animation 6 Animation 7 Animation 8 Acting Acting 1 Acting 2 Acting 3 Acting 4 Acting 5 Sculpting Sculpting 1 Sculpting 2

Final Result So HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and what it is, in a nutshell, is an image or number of images that have been taken so that they may be used to replicate real-world lighting inside of 3D software. So for people who are creating anything with realism factored in, HDR is most likely used in their work. HDR images are used in '32 Bit' and have the most information, anything lower than 32 Bit is classed as LDR (Low Dynamic Range) . Multiple images are taken on a chrome ball, at different exposures, and are combound in order to create a single image, this is what will be used to create the lighting. When creating a HDR image in Photoshop, there a function already avalible called 'Merge to HDR Pro', which will basically create a HDR image for us, as well as allowing us to tweak certain aspects of our final image. Once this is made, the final file can be saved out as either an OpenEXR (*.EXR) , Radiance (*.HDR;*.RGBE;*.XYZE) or a TIFF (...

Clay Head Version 1 Clay Head Version 2 Spartan Helmet Sketches I want to talk a little about some of the other ideas I had before I settled on the Anakin head, just because of the build up to some of these ideas I personally though was insightful. The spartan helmet was one of my first ideas to do i clay, however it wasn't within the criteria of what we were able to create as stated on the group blog. Aku, First Sketches Now Aku is interesting, when I first sketched him I tried to do a multi-layered drawing, pencil first, slight shading, hard pen outlining, harsh shading, coloring and then a final layer of pen ink. Aku Head Studies This process was much more refined the second time round when doing Aku's head, it a surprisingly simple shape but very hard to pull off effectively, you could spend hours working on this. I had to scrap this idea as well because I knew it would not work as well in clay as I though...

Adaptation Part: B, has been somewhat of a mixed bag. On one hand, I think I had quite a good idea that was well thought out and had serious potential but executing the whole idea needed to have gone better. I'm going to split this into the good, bad and ugly to get an understanding of what could be done better for the future and then reflect on the feedback I was given. The Good In my opinion, I've come a long way artistically, being able to look at a piece of work I made in either Photoshop or After Effects and say "Hey, that looks pretty nice!" is a big leap for me. I've always felt I have been limited in my creative potential due to my lacking of artistic talent, but I can definitely say I have improved significantly over these past fifteen weeks, as well as take what I have learned and applied it to this project. The Bad There is a lot to be said on the negative side of this project, the main sin being not asking for help when I needed it. There was...

Adaptation Part B Presentation by Thomas Mayfield on Scribd  

So once again, cracking on a getting as much as I can. It took me a while to get the sunset highlands feel I was going for. So I've also figured out how to use the scanners for drawings and such, without losing image quality or having to use loads of layers. So a lot of my drawing buildup work won't go to waste after all.  I've finally also managed to create the storyboard layouts for the whole production. So I've got a lot of frames to do in a short amount of time, but what I want to achieve is doable.

Over the past six weeks, there have been many laughs, many tears. We have encountered oddities from a Pianist with an ego as large as his piano, To a couple where the cat is always been on fire. Games were played and lessons were learnt, and it has been a blast. The rivalry between Sharknado 5 and Wildcats has been interesting, and with much pain, I have to declare Sharknado 5 the victors of Cheeseburger Keepy Uppy, so congrats to you guys!   So away from the tomfoolery and onto what could actually be taken away from these lessons apart from a damaged nose. The main things we have learned in these sessions is the conveying of emotions, creating tension, improvisation, high status and low status. The whole idea of these sessions was to show us how we can put these techniques into our animatons, in order to get more bang for our buck. So for example, if a character has been created with the high status in advance, you ...

 So at the moment, I've been working out how to make the water look good with my current art style, and I think I've finally cracked it. The moon looks pretty good in my opinion and the depth test works pretty well as well. As for audio, I've almost finished one of the mixdowns for my project, I just need to add a couple more sounds and edit a really odd scream that seems to pop in? So hopefully this will be up soon as well.

Original Art Influences  So right when this project started I had a rough art style I wanted to follow, and how I was going to make this thing. I would have been using a hybrid of some of my old techniques used in Fugitive (creating loads of assets to be put in scenes, to give the illusion of depth.), so I would just be a case of creating the assets and getting them ready for AE. This was just a rough animation test, but I figure I show off one of the new effects I have been working on and how it will feed into he animation. Tank Development Zepplin Development I'm still currently working on assets for the boat fight and the knight conflict, so expect those soon, as the next week is the final push for this animation. I did have a slight issue with getting work out for the past little while and now that this problem is resolved I'm going on the full attack in terms of production. Storyboards have been created so now all I need to do is tra...

Mia Material X is connected directly with Mental Ray, so once again, Mental Ray needs to be activated in order to activate this function. So this whole tutorial was more of an exercise in the hypershade rather than in Maya. Things like HDR lighting, final gather, render resolution and color correction can be applied really well here. I think Alan actually worded this pretty perfectly when he said that Mai Material X is like "A Swiss Army Knife" (A Postings. 2016) The whole idea the whole idea of this shader is that it can do a ridiculous number of things, it can be chrome, copper, water, glass rubber and ect, ect, ect. This is a material that really just needs to be experimented with in order to get the correct result.

First Render Mental Ray Approximation Editor Settings Enhanced Ambient Occlusion Render You can also use a vector displacement map as well, which can make your render look a lot better, however, render times could be increased and you could encounter some issues. First Initial Render Bounding Box Size Increase AO Render The process of creating, applying and testing these Maps can somewhat tedious, and most of the time your left to guess what works and what doesn't. A lot of work needs to be done in the hypershade in order to achieve the results required, but if done correctly, whatever you work this into, it can make your work scarily impressive. Final Gather Render Side Notes: Page Up Increases the Poly View (Mudbox) Page Down Lowers it (Mudbox) Shift + D Creates a higher Subdivision (Mudbox) In Maya 2016 (Extension 2) There is no longer a color profile, so the way to fix this is  to change the 'Col...