Brief & Schedule

A quick summary of this term’s project. With Steve Crocker: Mondays and Wednesdays ANI09207 Industry Exercises 2   For this project we will be building on your existing animation and compositing skills. You will be introduced to Maya Matchmove camera techniques, lighting, advanced UV editing and modelling and have opportunities to improve your rigging and animation skills. To make it all manageable you will first be introduced to project management and tracking software.  You will be working to create a short sequence mixing live action with Maya derived animation or props and buildings.  There are two aims for this project: first to enable you to plan and execute a project in a productive manner, thus enabling you to make the most of the time constraints on this and all future projects. The second is to improve your 3D or 2D animation and or modelling skills and enable you to show those skills off in an engaging and entertaining way.  In order to achieve the above you must choose a short clip from a film and composite in your own animated character, props or buildings. Perhaps you feel that Four Weddings and A Funeral would have been better if there had been more gorillas in it. Or that Titanic would have been better with giant sea monsters. This is your chance to put things right. The clip you use must, when composited, show at least 30 seconds of your own work. Do not choose any animated films as you will have to match or better the existing characters in the film. I can guarantee that the animators working on that film would have had a lot more time than you have for this project. So keep your choice to a live action film.  For next week!  Next week you will present a proposal for your project to a small group and negotiate your final brief with me. .  So to be ready for next week’s class you must write your own version of the brief, working within the parameters covered in the introduction above, and prepare for next week’s peer presentation by choosing a short video clip and making a story board. Plus write an explanation of the choices you have made for your project and how it will help to develop your software and animation skills.   Thanks, Steve. 

This is my schedule for Industry Excercise 2 and hopefully i will keep on track as i have planned it.