Test Composited footage

So over the weekend i get to work on the composited everything together. However the result is a bit more jittery. So i will be fixing this part for the following week.
-click here to link to the composited footage

Some more New StoryBoard

Idea # 1 Transformation to Mechanical Pencil
-Roller Coaster after a loop
-Snake's movement

Idea # 2 Drawing out imagination
-While a person is drawing, things comes to life
-A girl draw out Mr. perfect Guy
-A guy draw out hot sexy girl
-A girl pick up the pencil on the floor and draw stuff in the air. Then the stuff starting to follow her around.
-Same idea with the girl picking up the pencil, but she is in the rush and can't get any taxi. She then draw out a taxi.

Idea # 3 What is Underneath It?
-Showing the mechanism of inside of the mechanical pencil.
-Whole City living underneath the pencil

Here are some of the storyboard coming from some of the ideas

-the roller coaster idea, where the drawing become real then transform back to the pencil

-The office idea, poking on the fact of people's utopia of been on the vacation on the vacation.

-The smoke idea, where showing an imagination of been smart and clean to the polluted environment.

New Inspiration

So i been thinking about how to tie back all the commercial together with one identity and what is this identity? that is something i will need to define very soon. So far i will be sticking with "imagination" as the central idea for all 3 commercial.
One of new inspiration is thinking what is underneath the product. So showing some of the stuff that is really happen under something that normal eye won't catch. Here are some of inspiration.....

This is the latest Guinness Beer commercial, they are using the idea of sound machine tie back with the smooth feeling of the beer.


Here is just another Guinness Beer Commercial that i thought is something cool to think about with use the idea of time traveling

Here is an link of a flash site that i found during summer, its a Japanese website called one click award. This flash site particular interest me with the similar idea of what is underneath of a mouse cursor. Very interesting idea
---->click here to see the flash site


-Another commercial of whats happening inside of the products

---->clickhere for Spontaneous Reel, where the transformation of the snail is very interesting and cool ideas.

Right here are some of the commercial i found to be fun and cool where thing become real.






here is a link of all the favorite youtube videos....if you want to check up some other commercial that i found is fun and interesting

Shattering Fighter Jet

So since the BlastCode is a bit more complex to be able to use, I decided not sitting around wait but to try out how the shattering and animating works. And i can tell you its Hell!!! not a very fun stuff to work with. You will have to shatter each individual pieces into certain shape that you want. Then you will need to animate each individual little pieces. Its insane and crazy way to do this test. I was only have couple hours to work on this, because i don't really have patience to wait. Anyhow here link to some test result.....

Shatter Angle 1, 2, 3, 4

BlastCode

So before the break i was able to attend one of the Particle class that was hosted by 3D Lighting and Rendering instructor Jasmine Katatikarn. She was able to ask her friend ,Vadim Turchin, to come to the class and give a 3 week lecture brief of particle system. I was very glad to talk to Vadim regarding about some of my issue to shatter my Fighter Jet. He recommends me to look into BlastCode which is one of very powerful tool that is a plugin to Maya. And one of the test shot they are showing is shattering a fly aircraft!!!

I am quite happy to discover this program. However it is a very complex plugin program in term of controlling it. I wasn't able to find a lot of tutorial to teach about how to use the program. BlastCode website do give out tutorial of how to do certain stuff, but it is given in a very fast pace. So now i will be not using this program in the mean while. But it is definitely a pretty sweet program if you are interest to shatter something :D

Here is some of the tutorial link that you can download if you are interest to learn BlastCode

• Box Exploding
  

• Cracking Wall
  

• Laser Logo Blast
  

Back to Production Bible

So over the turkey break i went back to the Bible re-organize and update all the information that i been working on.

First off i start with looking into some of the commercial and literally using screen capture and capture frame by frame of the animation. Just in order to get some of the information of how they pace the commercial.

Then i move to the production update. i put in all the process of making the model, from rough to the finalize shape. As well the research of how the model should be look like. Also some of the image i took while i was document the live shoot. Which might possiblely need to reshoot again, how great is that
Click here to the PDF of break down shot of the TV commercial
Click here for production picture PDF
Click here if you want to see a guide line of Production Bible

Judgment Day

So Judgment Midterm is just few hours away, i finally get to finish up the Power Point Presentation.....Here is the link to download the Power Point
In this presentation I used the previous presentation slide and added in some more stuff.....

• Revised the Title
• Revised Project Overview
• Added Description of Pentel ERGoNoMix
• Added 1st Commercial Concepts
• Added 1st Commercial Storyboard
• Added 1st Commercial Character List
• Added 1st Commercial Research
  
• Added 1st Commercial Animatic
  

Its the Movie Week :D

So over the weekend i was having sometime to get to watch Top Gun and Stealth. Overall both movie is very stylize and nice toward to the jet

Project Proposal #2

Midterm Judgment day is here!!!!!
Here is the link to the New Project Proposal for the thesis Proposal. Few thing are fix in the proposal.....
-Parsons School of Design logo added
-Revision of Summary
-Revision of Schedule
-Styleframe added

Live Shoot 3rd Try

Another thing i did over the weekend is re-shoot the live shoot again. I was suggest by one of my former 3d lighter & rendering teacher, Ryan Sears, who is the effect supervisor from Big Sky Edit He told me to re-shoot the live shoot again. It's better to see the light of the area and easier to try to composite it. I wasn't able to upload the footage it's a bit big to upload it. But here are some of the footage image.......

New Animatic!!!!!!!

So another thing i was able to revise is the animatic. I went back to the different shot and fix it. There still are couple shot that is still not set yet, so i will be trying to correct it in the up coming week. As well the break apart shot is not yet started, which is another thing i will be working on for this coming week. So here is the link to the animatic #3........

Cloud Test

Because of the heavy rendering time in 3D program like Vue or Maya, i was suggest to play around with just still cloud images in after effects. So over the weekend i was able to play around with cloud, one of the shot in the animation is the jet going through the cloud. Right now this is just a test of how cloud moving toward away from the screen. So Here is the link of the animatic......

Logo Breaking apart

So Here is the logo break apart animation. I came up a quick logo animation that i want to show at the end. It will be a shot that will be establish to pass thru cloud and the quote will show up....let your imagination fly. then following by that with quote breaking apart and Pentel logo under it.

And right here is a Particle Test that i play around in Maya and render out in 3d
And then here is a test of the Particle with Jet

3D Animatic Parts

Here are some of animatic part i render out from Maya......

Beginning 1
Beginning 2
Beginning 3
Spinning Jet
Jet Cut in Fly out
takeoff1
Hand caught pencil
Rough Animatic 2

Environment Builder "Vue 6"

Just got my hand around Vue 6 over this weekend. Its a program that is very nice on the creating environment in CG. Here are some of the test result i got from it.







Overall Vue is a pretty sweet program in term of getting some nice and realistic environment, however it does require some decent machine in term of rendering a production quality image. All the images above are just a quick draft render which take about 2-3 mins to render it. I didnt even bother to render production quality because it probably gonna take about 1 hour just for one frame.....crazy.....But if you do have some decent machine it shouldnt be that bad. Im running it with 1Gb ram....which is pretty outdated with standard core 2 duo today. Anyhow, another thing cool about Vue is the ability to create simple animation with the environment you created. I didnt get into creating animation yet, since my machine is pretty slow i didnt even bother to try it.
Here are some of tutorial link that i found out pretty useful in term of leaning Vue by yourself.
-Vue Official tutorial from E-OnSoftware
-Geek @ Play tutorial

Project Proposal #1

Here it is the the "Project Proposal"...it took me a while to think off what to write......

Objective
Identity always plays a big roll of creating an effective commercial, especially for recent 3 years. Today, an effective commercial is not just showing the function of the products anymore, it’s about a life style, an identity you try to associate in your commercial. I want to use this exact same theory to incorporate into my thesis. I want to be able to explore with advertising and create an effective identity for this product, ERGoNoMix. ERGoNoMix is a brand new evolution design mechanical pencil, which design to create comfort toward to writing experience. I will be creating 5 major commercial with different identity approach. The conceptual idea of the commercial right now is the idea of “imagination” toward to writing/drawing experience with this product.

Goals
Overall goal is to understand the idea of why using identity to sell products and how to use it in a commercial. In the short term goal toward to this semester, I will want have 2 finalized commercial ready to be show. In the long term goal toward to the end of spring semester, I will want to have total of 4 to 5 commercials to advertise for ERGoNoMix.

Solution
There will be a series of commercial integrating with different type of identity associate with “imagination”. Slogan can be example like “Let Your Imagination Fly”, “Imagination Is Everything”, “Drawing is Imagination”….etc
-Here are lists of the key central idea of commercial I will be work on

1. Jet Transformation to Pencil
2. Elderly hand transform to a Youth hand by using the pencil
3. In progress…
4. In progress…
5. In progress…

Time Schedule
October 

• Finalize 1st jet animation sequence
  
• Breaking jet part shot finalize
• Sound Effects of 1st commercial
• Logo Design/Animation of Pentel ERGoNoMix
  

November 

• 1st Commercial Done
• Detail storyboard of 2nd commercial
• Live shoot the 2nd commercial
• Modeling addition 3D model in CG, ie. desk scene, background
• Sound Design/Effects of 2nd commercial
  

December 

• Rough cut of 2nd commercial
• Finalize 2nd commercial
• Addition add-on for the first 2 commercial
• Brainstorm new idea for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th commercial
  

January 

• Draw out more post-it storyboard of the commercial
• Detail storyboard drawing for 3rd, 4th and 5th commercial
• Start working on the 3rd commercial, in term with 3d model or live shoot
  

February 

• Finalize live shoot
• Sound effects on 3rd
• Composite live footage with 3D
• Finalize 3rd commercial
• Detail Storyboard of 4th commercial
• Preparing filming and 3D modeling
  

March 

• Rough cut of 4th commercial
• Sound effects on 4th
• Finalize shots and animation of 4th commercial
• Composite and finalize the 4th commercial
• Detail storyboard of 5th commercial
  

April 

• Preparing for film production and 3D model making
• Rough cut of 5th commercial
• Sound effect on 5th
• Finalize shots and animation of 5th commercial
• Composite and finalize the 5th commercial
  

May

• Addition time for projects that’s needed

Here is the PDF format one if you would rather download it

Jet Breaking Off

So i get to play around with the breaking-apart shoot of the jet to the pencil. I just simply use After Effects to mock up a rough cut of the scene. This is still in a very rough stage, but its still a good experience. I'm probably be working on that part in Maya as the final version.
Here is the rough cut of the breaking apart shot

Tutorial of Dynamic

-Here is a link to one of the tutorial that i found online which is pretty helpful for creating a dynamic explosion.


-Here is a Digital Tutor tutorial of shattering an object


-Here is a tutorial from Skymedias of how to break a wall with some particle effects

Here at CGTutorials have a lot of tutorials of dynamic beside shattering effects.

Live Shoot 2nd try

So over the weekend i went on the journey of trying to do the live shoot again.....here are some of the result......





Example Key-out Footage

Modification On Storyboard

So after couple feedback of the beginning sequences of the animatic. I decided to re-draw out the scene in multiple of option.
Option 1
-Option 1 will start off with a shoot of cloudy sky, and the next sec a jet cut in to the shoot. Then the jet will speed and fly away, follow with the rest of animatic

Option 2
-Option 2 is an establish shoot of the jet & hanger. So in the time frame of 1 sec, you will get the back story of the jet taking off and flying away.

Option 3
-Option 3 is the combination of both option 1 and 2. Instead of sky shoot at the beginning, we will have a bird eye view of the hanger. The next second the jet will cut in to the shoot. Then the jet will speed up fly toward to the camera and fly away.



After the live shoot, i was at a point very confuse of how to establish the shoot of composite shoot of pencil and hand much easier. Here i draw out one of the idea of how to fix this problem. Instead of waiting the pencil slowing land on to the hand, we will have a hand show up at the bottom of the scene. The hand then will gently adjust to the position of drawing then moving out the frame.

Hand Live Shoot

So over the weekend i did some live shoot with my own hand, end up with some not so good quality footage. However i get to have a idea of what exactly i want the camera to be. Over this weekend i will be shooting the footage again....wish me luck

-Some green paper for live shoot, purchase at staple, $4.99

-taping green paper together

-the homemade lighting in the scene :D



Live 1 Footage
Live 2 Footage
Live 3 Footage
Live 4 Footage

-This is actually a composited image from the footage, 3d pen, 3d grid, 2d rulers, aftereffect's shadow. Came out quite nice, but in a weird way