Elevator Pitch

      Elevator pitch is what you say as a teaser for your project, like at a cocktail party or if someone (like me every time we meet!) asks you, Hey what is your project about?The pitch is succinct, one to three sentences. It includes the basic concept, what is being explored, your audience, perhaps what medium you are working with. It should encourage more questions and excitement. It is a kind of seduction.
      So here is mine......My thesis is about creating a series of short animations that achieve realistic special effects often seen in present day TV commercials and movies. The animations can vary from car crash to meteor shower. My goal for this project is to create animation that is difficult to film or seemingly impossible to produce through a regular camera angle in real life.

Rough Concept Proposal (1)

      Ever since the first animation movie “Toy’s Story” made the debut in the movie industry it opens up a whole new way for us viewing movie or anything we see on TV. It makes impossible angle shots becomes possible. It makes the stunt that is too dangerous becomes easy task. Today, nearly out of 10 commercial on the TV there are about 7 commercial either made by the animation or related to animation. All these massive animation in today’s life inspires me a lot and makes me having an eager of trying to create it myself.
      Hence my ideas is about creating a series of animation effects that can be apply into the real life TV commercial or movie in the theatre. Most of these short animation effects will be done by Autodesk Maya animation software. The whole process should be start off modeling character, texturing, rigging, animating, and finally lighting to make the scene looks realistic. Modeling part as well might be furnishing in ZBrush. All these short animating effects as well might be composting to real life footage. In a way to creates out a much more realistic feeling for this short effect. Overall the whole thesis shall have about 3 to 5 short clips of short animating effects that will be look realistic enough to create a feeling that it might happen in real life.

What is Prototype?

      So what is the meaning of prototype? According to Dictionary.com the original or model on which something is based or formed. Which is as well meaning a model that will be modify multiple of time until the final model. In my thesis, the prototype will be basically shaping under couple of short story that i will be creating. As well further on will the story is the actual making the model, texturing, lighting and animating. So as the prototype of this thesis project it will basically making all these small pieces for this puzzle, which i will need to assemble later.
      Just for an ideas of building an animation, you will need following these below steps to build an animation

----Storyboard


----Modeling



----Texturing


----Lighting



----Rigging


----Animating

Some other related links

CG4TV.com
CG4TV have some real cool animation that they have done in the past. I'm most interest with the animation Monster, where the animation is take place in a real life footage and they key in the animation of the monster into the real life.
Monster Animation (15mb)

Some Inspire Video & Links

Toyota Yaris Commerical 1


Toyota Yaris Commercial 2

These 2 animations particular were very smoothly done. All the action of the car movement and weapon they were using were all very detail. Overall they achieve the realistic and still keep a idea of fun with the cars.

Scion is another car company that is under Toyota. I personally don't really know hows their car, but i notice they have created a lot of great animation. Their animation is mostly related to the idea of futuristic and customization of their car.
tC Series Page
xA Series Page
xB Series Page

Big Sky Edit is actually a company that one of my Maya teacher, Ryan Sears working with beside teaching. The company is not just doing simple good animation but as well trying to make it look realistic enough. As well their compositing idea is one of my favorite.

Peter Sanitra is actually one of artist that i found on one of CG Society articles. There are a lot of interesting work that Peter created inspired me a lot toward to the idea of realistic.
Peter Sanitra's Home Page
Peter Sanitra's Demo Reels

Core Studio Main Site

Core 6 Class Site
Class Site