We started almost immediately with the exercises in 3DANIM2. I really enjoy 3D, even though I suck at it at times. Our professor gave us a model of a car. We were asked to properly put a texture in it using unfold tool in the UV map. It was really hard since I barely know what was happening when I started pressing the unfold button. I finally got the trick after a while, and started to use the so-called ‘blue print’ of our car and customized it using Adobe Photoshop. I know my design is too pansy, I just can’t help but not use my favorite complimentary colors (Violet and Yellow) in almost all of my projects and homeworks (especially purple, too obvious not to notice). Anyway, after customizing our car, we proceeded to render it in a way that would make it look ‘real’ It’s far from the perfect ‘real’ but I’m still happy that I was able to make it!
Some photos during my walk cycle line test in 2DANIM2. Click here for the video post.
Our first homework after the midterms in 2DANIM2 was to create a walk cycle for a faceless dude and one of our own characters. I was really unsure about my work since I really don’t like to think about anticipating body movements or positions (especially in animation) I seriously suck at it, so it was really a bit of a surprise for me that my walk cycle under the line test (the machine that plays all your drawing, it’s like a computerized flipbook) was decent enough. Yey for me I guess :P I’ll post photos about the line test in a different entry.
Background Music from the song ‘Clockwork’ by Up Dharma Down
For our midterm requirements in WEBDEV1, we were asked to fill up some sort of concept paper about our final project. Our professor provided the so-called “project sheet” and we were just asked to fill it up, and also include 3 design studies for our final project. Here are some details about it:
Title of Website
The Walled City
Slogan
“Explore Intramuros, Experience Heritage”
Objectives of the Website
The website aims to showcase selected, wonderful sites found in Intramuros, Manila. It seeks to entice local and foreign tourists to visit the ‘Walled City’. The website will be a great place for tourists to plan their tour in Intramuros by being able to view the hot spots of the said place.
Visualization Concept
The website will have a modern, clean, minimalistic tone to exude some sort of respect (due to its history) from its visitors. However, there will be a touch of antiquity within its modern tone to have a reminiscent feel of the past.
Layout Style
Hybrid layouts of ‘Clean’ and ‘Visual Impact’ have been chosen for this project to fully encapsulate the concept of ‘Modernity with a touch of Antiquity’. A ‘Clean’ layout was chosen to make navigation (for an ‘Average’ or ‘Below Average’ computer user) easier and to make the entire layout free of clutter since this the website –after all– is a historical location that demands respect from its visitors. ‘Visual Impact’ has been chosen to showcase beautiful imagery of Intramuros.
The designs are still not final, but my professor already liked my second layout. I have to revise it for my own personal preference.
We had another on-the-spot midterms test, but now it’s for 3DANIM2. Since 3DANIM2 is all about how to make your 3D model look all real, pretty and sparkly, our professor provided the 3D model for our exam. It was a billiards room. We were tasked (in 3 hours) to finish ‘painting’ the 3D to make it look real. Since I find it boring to follow the traditional way of making a billiards room into its typical wooden theme, I chose a weird theme of Pop Art. Meh! Actually, I’m not sure what theme I had in mind, I was more worried about if I can actually make it on time. I chose vibrant colors in my model and selected Andy Warhol’s famous artwork of Marilyn Monroe and made it into a retro looking billiards room. Well anyway, I’m pretty satisfied on how it looked like in the end.
Carla
Canon EOS 450D
Make-up, Styling, Photography and Post-Processing by Diane Rosales
Modelling by Carla Ellet
Photoshoot for my CNCTPHO (Concept Photography) class.
One of our midterm requirements in CNCTPHO is to submit all our plates in hard copy. I had a hard time layouting this since I was making my other projects for midterm, anyway, here it is.
Our midterm project for CADVIS2 was for us to animate our own logo (that we might probably use for an opening sequence, etc). Remember the opening sequence of Pixar’s lamp before the actual film? Or the Cinderella castle in Disney? That’s our project, but not that complicated. Anyway, I opted to make my own production company and called it ‘Lolita Production’. And yes: I love the complimentary colors of Yellow and Purple (which is pretty obvious in all of my designs LOL, especially the color purple). I’m quite disappointed with my work since the desired effect of the spotlight did not render properly when the AVI version came out. Oh well. I’ll make a better version in the finals. The music is by Up Dharma Down’s Return Saturn Return.
I really want to show you guys my finished layouts, but it’s tad too many to post, so I didn’t. After working on the layouts, my 2DANIM2 professor began lecturing about animation basics. Aside from the 12 animation principles, he lectured about the walk cycle. I guess it’s preliminary to learn this to understand how animating a character works. I understand the principle, but I have yet to put it in paper. Wish me luck guys :)
My professor finally arrived from Europe. During class, he checked all our works. One of the works I presented (which I haven’t posted here yet) is my homepage (which should contain a compilation of all the activities done for the subject). The images presented above are a preview of my site. It’s not yet fully functional (not all of my works are uploaded there yet) and the design still lacks some flair, but I’m kinda okay with it. It’s not beta version since it’s working already, maybe a prototype version I guess? Anyway, if you want to visit the actual site, go to: http://dianerosales.net/ I’ll be working on the first version this Christmas (hopefully).
