Coming down to the end

So finally find out the deadline for the this thesis project is due on April 30th. Quite a long and scary journey, but i am glad it's almost done. However it's not done yet. I am still have a lot need to be done. Here is the to-do list for the following 3 weeks. Hopefully everything will turn out to be exactly same as this schedule.....looking from the pass experience with setting schedule with deadline, this might be tricky to get it done......but there is always possibility :D

To-Do List
Week 1 (April 07 - April 13)

• Thesis Abstract Submission, due on Friday April 11
• Fighter Jet commercial
• Research on Ironmen trailer, jet sequence especially, how did they create the shoot
  
• More motion of the Fighter Jet
• Hand sketch of the the Fighter Jet need to be more technical
• Add in more transition image in-between of 3d model to 2d hand sketch (ex. wireframe render of the model)
• Add in a miniature of Fighter Jet, research image on the desk, looks like more realistic.
  
• Butterfly Commercial
• Start render out animation in maya
  
• Fix static hand
• Add in wireframe transition
• Add in new logo animation once it's done
  
• RollerCoaster Commercial
• Add in wireframe transition
• Add in new logo animation once it's done
  
• Slogan & Pentel Logo Animation
• Hand draw revel
• Hand draw color in
  
• Sound Effects & BG Music
• Butterfly
  
• Combine both of the BG sounds
  
• Something is not as fantasy-like
• RollerCoaster
• BG music need to be more fun and exciting
• Sound effects of the girl screaming is too obvious as a loop, get rid off it
• Fighter Jet
• Need start thinking the sounds that works with animation
• Pentel Logo
• Add in hand drawing sound in the ending transition.
  

I was thinking to put week 2, 3, and 4 to jsut set myself with a good schedule. However I really don't know how much it will be done for week 1. I'm going to leave those blank for now. I will update it every week from now on. I will definitely try to achieve most of task for that week.

F-22 Fighter Jet Commercial Rough Cut

Here is another one....the F-22 commercial. Feedback of this commercial is not as great. Generally i need to rework on the story part....Here is the link

Here are some of the test render

Butterfly Commercial Rough Cut

Finally get to finish the rough cut of the butterfly commercial. Overall it turn out pretty well. Gonna be adding in fade in & out of the whole piece as well. Comment & feedback are welcome :D Here is the link

Roller Coaster Commercial Rough Cut

So i finally able to lock down the idea of this mechanical pencil with roller coaster. Here is the link to the rough cut. Feel free to comment on anything. There still are some parts that will need to be fix, for example the hand moment will be recapture, and the logo transition need to be modify for a bit more fun way. However the outcome of the roller coaster commercial turn out better then i thought....Here is the link to the quicktime (right click/save as if you want to save a copy, its 36mb)

Butterfly Model Render Image

Here it is, the list of test render for the butterfly model. Right now i am in term of working on the rigging on the model. But as far the model and the texture is pretty much done. Once the rigging is done i can finally move into roughly cut up a short test animation of the commercial. However i still need to work on the environment of the butterfly commercial, stuff like different texture of the butterfly, trees, cocoon, and grass......a lot of works need to be done for next couple days.....wish me luck.....and i will keep you guys posted.

Research on the Butterfly

So i been research on the butterfly i been working with in term of texturing the model and animating the butterfly. I finalize the Monarch will be the butterfly i will be working with. So I already have finalize model for the butterfly which i will post later today, again. But here are some of the research that i got so far from online.....

Vimeo

Test _Birth of a Monarch from Richard A. Walker on Vimeo.


Monarch Trying to Come out! from monarch on Vimeo.


Monarch just coming out from monarch on Vimeo.

BBC Motion Gallery
here are the list of the video i found quite interesting and useful.....
1 2 3

Critics from Animation Project Studio

Sorry of haven't update for about 2 weeks, been busy of modeling for the butterfly. Which i will post up later today. So i got some feedback 2 weeks ago on the concepts of my thesis project. Here are some of the feedback.....

Feedback
-not showing the hand drawing the concept near the end.
-a bit forcing people to understand the idea
-it should be more imagination for viewer
-transforming part should be taking away, it's not very important to the viewer and not important to the concepts

Reaction
-possibly cut out the transforming part
-instead of the transforming part it will be a cut of transformation of the object into a flat drawing and then zoom out the drawing where a hand holding the pencil coming in to continue to finish the drawing.

Finally get to work on the roller coaster commercial concepts, whole roller coaster shot turn out pretty sweet!!!! anyhow, still not quite done with the compositing with hand into the commercial. But here is the rough cut of the animation. I should be working on it this whole week and i will keep up the update of the newer version.

Here to view the animatic or right click/save as to download it

More Render of Roller Coaster Concepts

So i get to work on more roller coaster ideas. Here are some of the finish render. Probably will be modify the camera angle a bit and will be start animating soon......As well i did most of the key pose of the roller coaster car.








Here are 2 links to the keypose avi files Pespective Side & Roller Coasrer POV

Feedback from Class
-Roller Coaster fly off/drop down = scary
-Roller Coaster fly up instead of scary drop down
-Beginning sequence dont show the roller coaster car, people would thought they are in roller coaster car. However when camera cut to the side its the very front of a part of mechanical pencil. Then the Mechanical pencil assemble when it fly up in the air. Mechical pencil then land on a person's hand or a hand came in grab it.

3D Render of the 2nd and 3rd Concepts

Sorry of not updating for awhile, been busy of doing nothing....>o<
So i get to work on the modeling part on the 2nd and 3rd concepts, roller coaster & butterfly. I pretty much use the Autodesk Maya to work on the modeling part, most of them are polygon. I haven't finish the butterfly model yet....still a bit rough

Roller Coaster

-Roller Coaster Car in wire frame

-Roller Coaster Car in Mental Ray

-Roller Coaster Track Side view in Mental Ray

-Roller Coaster Track Persp view in wire frame

-Roller Coaster Track Persp view in Occlusion pass

-Roller Coaster Track Persp view in Mental Ray

-First Person persp view in Mental Ray

-Another shot First person Persp view in wire frame

-Another shot of First person Persp view in Mental Ray

Butterfly

-Butterfly in wire frame

-Butterfly in Mental Ray

-Butterfly in top view

-Butterfly wings UV map

-Butterfly wings texture map

3rd Comercial Concepts

Here is the 3rd concepts that i came up, if you already see the final presentation from previous post its the same thing. But just want to post it up for easier access. Its a very rough version, which i will be drawing a more detail one later. But here it is.....

Latest Jet/Pencil Commercial

Here it is the latest rough animatic for the Jet/Pencil Commercial
here is the link to view the commercial (58.1mb) (If you want to download the quick time just right click on the link and Save As)

Final Presentation

So here it is, the final presentation, sounds scary, but overall the presentations is not as bad.
Couple feedback from critic,
-more research on rhe target audience
-time pacing for all the commercial
-keep consistency of all the commercial

Presentation Contained
-Updated Introduction
-Inspiration
-1st Commercial Concept Storyboard
-2nd Commercial Concept Storyboard
-3rd Commercial Concept Storyboard
-Goals over the Winter break

-Here is the link to download the Final Presentation Power point (8.2 mb)
-I will post up the latest rough jet commercial later today