Paper Prototype: Building Collapse

And here is some of the storyboard for the building collapse

Paper Prototype: Meteor Collision

Here is another story for the short animation

CafeFX......

      Just saw this company's name from CG Society's article about creating "Ghost Rider". It's a very cool company. Every animation they have created was very detail and nicely design. The most wowing thing to me is their demo reels. It's like all the special effects that i have seen from most of the movie that inspire me. Here is the link to their website....check it out....

Concept Propsoal Version 3? i think........maybe 4th

      Through out these years, 3D animation has been polish into a tool for creating realistic effects and change the way we view movie today. It makes impossible angle shots becomes possible. It accomplishes the stunt that was too dangerous to perform. Today, nearly out of 10 commercials on the TV there are 7 of them are 3D animation related.
      My thesis is about creating a series of short animations that achieve special effects which often seen in present day TV commercials and movies. The realistic special effects can vary from car crash to meteor shower. The target audiences for this project will be male around 18 to 27. Their personality mostly enjoy of gaining excitement and having trill from anything they view. They love to get away from their dry and typical life style. Most of these short animation effects will be done by Autodesk Maya 8. The whole process will be starting off by modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, and finally lighting. Modeling part will be furnishing in another 3D animation ZBrush. Some of these animations will be composting to real life footage to add another layer of realistic feeling for the animation. My goal for this project is to create realistic animation that is either too difficult to film or seemingly impossible to produce through a regular camera angle in real life.

Paper Prototype: Car CrashStoryboard

Here is some rough paper prototype storyboard for the car crash animation.....

User Scenarios??? Who is Your Audience?

George Smith,
A male high school senior student who is having a hard time decide on what he want to do in his future. He is from New Jersey. He has a younger sister named Caroline who is a sophomore in the same school as him. George's life been controlled by his dad, who wishes his son to be on the right track for his future. George love to have thrill in his life, since most of his life is boring school life. He always try to experiment new things for the excitement. He is also love sports such as football, hockey, basketball, and wrestling.

User/Viewer Attributes

List of the attributes for the user or viewer for this project.....
-Male
-Single
-Around the ages from 18-29
-Culture language mainly English
-Born in urban area
-As a high school/college student or a worker at a small firm
-Most of their time is dedicate to school or job. Doesn't have that much of free time through out the whole day
-Everyday life happen to be exactly same everyday
-Not a lot of excitement from their work or school.
-Interest to action movie
-Interest to special effects in the movie
-Love explosion
-Love thrill
-Love sports (football, basketball, tennis, or soccer)
-Like attraction
-Love comedy
-Hate romantic/drama movie
-Computer literate
-Use computer often for surfing online or online game.
-Have the latest computer hardware
-Love video game
-Interest of first shooter type of video game (Halo or Gears of War)
-Love racing type of game
-Interest to the game that can spice up their life

Rough Concept Proposal (2)

      Ever since the first 3D animation movie “Toy’s Story” made the debut in the movie industry it opens up a whole new era 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 to perform become an easy task. Today, nearly out of 10 commercials on the TV there are 7 of them either made by the 3D animation program or using it to support the ad. All these massive animation in today’s life inspires me a lot.
      My thesis is about creating a series of short animations that achieve realistic special effects which often seen in present day TV commercials and movies. The realistic special effects can vary from car crash to meteor shower. Most of these short animation effects will be done by Autodesk Maya 8 and other supported animation software. The whole process should be starting off modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, and finally lighting. Modeling part as well might be furnishing in ZBrush. All these short animating effects will be composting to real life footage. In a way to creates out a much more realistic feeling for this short effect. 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.

IDEA #5.......Explosion?............

      So another idea will be creating an explosion that can be very from a notebook computer to a building. This as well related to the idea of imagine where the explosion will be start and how is that explosion going to affect the rest of model. This might require a very detail model and nicely done dynamic effects in Maya. The challenge will be simulating the animation to look just like a real explosion.
Here are some reference of explosion......

-Rocket Explosion


-Notebook Explosion


-Car Explosion, a slow motion car explosion and looks like there is a small effect that is added in the scene.


-And here are some sketches of explosion....

IDEA #4.......Meteor Shower? or Meteor Collision?......

      So another idea that i been thinking for this short animation is creating the meteor shower/collision to multiple building. Challenge part will be creating a realistic key animation. Some of the part can be easily done by dynamic from Maya.....the only thing is making it look real and nice....It might take a long time to render out a nice effects too....

-This is some animation created from Japan. Looks kind of cool but slow tho....


-This might be the main inspiration of this idea, I just love this scene where meteor is hitting NYC.


-This movie contain a lot of short multiple clips from director Micheal Bay. It as well contained some of the footage from Armageddon that i posted above.


-Here is some rough sketch of how the scene will be looks like



-And here is a quick animation build by Maya Dynamic, just for a rough idea

IDEA #3.......Earthquake With Building Collapse?......

      This is one of the idea that still need to be polish around....not solid enough. I am always interest to the earthquake and how affective it can be. As well this is one of thing that you have to rely on technology, because you can't really create a earthquake. Unless you have a big production money to purchase some sort of machine to create the effect in the set. Otherwise animation is the only way to go.

-Surveillance Camera shot, pretty cool angle of the surveillance camera. It capture some of the shakiness in the building.

IDEA #2.......Shatter Glass?......

      This is actually another idea that i am still not quite set yet. Since it's not relate to animation that much. But I just love the idea of the glass break apart. Especially when you standing on top of a piece of glass that is cracked and about to break apart. It's like the scene from Jurassic park 2 where the girl is standing on top of this piece of glass in the trailer truck. It's one of my favorite scene in that movie. Unfortunately i can't find any footage from Youtube. But i am sure you got the ideas. The idea of this animation possibly of having a person standing on top of this glass floor and he is jumping on it. Then after few jump, the glass starting have the crack and break apart.

-Gun w/ Shatter Glass, this is actually a digital make shatter from Adobe After Effects. It is not mention in the description that it's digitally made. But there is some part in the scene that just don't look right. I believe is the shatter pieces. It just don't look real enough. So i just put in this to have a sense of how glass break apart


-Hockey w/ Shatter Glass, hockey is actually one of sport that you often see with shatter glass. Just having the idea how glass break apart.


-Here are some very very rough sketch....im very bad at drawing particularly something like glass shatter

IDEA #1.......Car Crash?......

      Car crash is the first idea that pops up in my head when I decide to do this animation effects thesis. I really love this idea since it's very solid and doable. I still not quite set where how the scene going to come up, but pretty much set to use a truck and a regular 4 doors car in the scene.

-Real Life Car Crash, not as crazy like movie but still giving out some great idea to me to understand the physic part of the scene that I'm going to create.


-Matrix Car Chasing Scene, This scene is great because they have a lot of effects that is in the scene. I really want to put in the 2 trucks heading to each other scene. However i cant find any in the scene. But I'm sure everyone is pretty familiar to it.


-Burnout, this is actually taking from the video game, if you didn't notice. I just want to put this in since it relates a lot back to the animation, so it's definitely helpful to the scene that i am creating.


-Here are some sketches of the rough idea for this scene.
-So roughly the scene will take place in the tunnel. The idea of cramp and can easily causing car accident.


-This is just some rough idea of the truck will looks like


-This is just some ideas of how the accident happen and how the car react to the accident