Ani 105- Crystal Refences Colour: Crystal 1

The first crystal that we will look at will be the more clear one of the two. Using the sweet wrappers over the front of the touch and with the help of someone holding the touch I was able to take the image below:

Brown

Red

Blue

 Green

Pink

Purple

Yellow

Orange

The colours from the sweet wrappers worked well over the touch and these are the results. The crystal does not have much shadow but lets all the colour through to the paper behind. 

Ani 105- Crystal Refences Colour

I needed reference on how crystals look in different colours and thought that the easiest and quickest way to do this was to get some coloured see through sweet wrappers and a touch. The image below shows what I have used for the research:















The next two posts will be of the two different crystals and how the colour looks on them. There will be one post for each crystal because of the number of images.

Ani 105- Crystal Refences

Creating a crystal within maya will be hard. Also colour changes will be taking place as well, making looking for reference even more important.

I brought two Quartz crystals, both shown below:

Crystal 1:

This crystal allows the light through to hit the paper below.









Crystal 2:

This crystal is not as clear as the first and has more imperfections that do not allow as much light to come through, creating large shadow.







Using these as references for the shape of the crystal, I will also use them to look at how colour passes through and effects the crystal.

Ani 105- Idea

The idea for the group was to create something simple in shape, but enough to show what we can do.

We came up with the idea of a crystal and book animation. The first part of the music will be of the crystal (myself) and the second of the book (Tony).

The way that the animation will play out is after the title sequence, the music will start in the black screen and then move onto the crystal animation. I am still thinking of how to move between the two scene, but for the moment the animation is high on the list then the transition. Once onto the other scene the camera will start at the bottom of the crystal and pan upwards. As it moves upwards the camera will change between different shots of the crystal and smaller crystals around it. The music at 0:03 starts to add in a main beat and to that main beat I want to work with light strikes coming on and off screen. This can be done within after effects, once the maya has been completed. This will continue as the camera moves up the crystal until 0:26 where the music changes. At this point the I want to use the crystals to change between soft pastel colour with the main beat. This makes it more interesting to the viewer. By the time of 1:06 the camera will have reached a misty, cloud layer which is at the top of the crystal. This will continue until 1:10, where the animation will change to the book and Tony's part.

Through the animation of the crystal I wish to use different angled camera shots, nothing fast as this will get very tiring and the audience will lose interest. Also I wish to change the focus of the camera shots to create depth of field that will re-focus onto different parts behind or infront of the object. This will be planned out into storyboards to be used as a reference when animation begins.

Ani 105- New Idea, New Group

The music animation for the Ani 105 unit, had no moved on for the first two weeks of the assignment. This is something that I could not keep going along with and so left the group with one other, forming our own group.

The first day, we started to look at what music we should chose for the animation. Each of us chose three different piece of music and looked at which one would be used for our animation. The following are the three songs that I had chosen to look at:

1 | Rob Dougan- Nothing at all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxofkW5iPpI

2 | X-Ray Dog- Time Will Tell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOt_Mlrwnc

3 | E.S. Posthumus - Lavanya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uVfNpQDb4A&feature=related

Number two from the list was my number one choice because it has a lot of different changes to the music through out the song, making it more interesting to animate too.

After listening to the songs sent and received the two of us decided upon the song Time Will Tell by X-Ray Dog. We have chosen to animate to the first 1:40 of the music, as the song splits itself into different sections. The splitting that happens within the music makes its easier to have a rounder animation as we do not have to fade off in the middle of the music.

The next post will be about the project idea and what we are both going to do.

Animation Techniques: Bouncing Ball

After the formative assessment, I took the advice that was give and changed how my bouncing ball ended. Also there were a few frames that need to be move and/or take away.

The video below is the bouncing ball animation with the changes made:

Animation Techniques: Ball with Tail Research

Now that I'm starting the animation with the tail, I need some research to have as a visual reference for how both the ball and the tail will move. The best reference for this is a squirrel, as this best resembles the ball and tail.

Red Squirrel Assault Course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TamMqvk4Bb8&feature=channel

Squirrel Obstacle Course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY

These two videos include but the jump, run and falls that will come into play within the ball and tail animation.