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