Mudbox - sculpting

With Thriller lighting and Ambient

Character Design Project -

During the Brief to our new character design project we received two key words with which we are to base our projects upon. I got the words, 'Arthurian' and 'Arabian Knights' 
At first I was a bit confused on how I could approach the design of my characters, but after a talk with Justin the ideas began flow, and the two words offer such diversity of design that I could create an interesting character.

Arthurian

Arabian Knights

Lip syncing - Modelling tutorials

First stage of lip syncing, focusing on jaw bumping

Second stage, adding the movements when the character pronounces the (M's and O's)

The First Stage of Modelling:

Pixel Reign! Follow our group blog

http://pixel-reign.blogspot.co.uk/

Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to Pixel Reign. A small animation studio comprised of four students from UCA Rochester studying (Ba Hons) CG Arts & Animation. Together we are working to create a short animation based around the theories of narrative structure.

To do this, we have been given a specific time period on which to focus our animation, The Middle Ages or Dark Ages (800-900 AD).  Be sure to follow each of our personal blogs for more information, all of which will soon be brought onto this official Pixel Reign blog!

Group Members:

George Whiley (http://georgewhiley.blogspot.co.uk/)

Ilmi Omar (http://ilmiomar.blogspot.co.uk/)

Jake Carpenter (http://jake-carpenter.blogspot.co.uk/)

Anthony Duke (http://anthony-duke.blogspot.co.uk/)

Maya Tutorials - Unit 6

Render Layers

Passes

Shape De-formers

COMMISION - Final Animation

COMMISION - Art of

The Art of –

COMMISION - CD Template

COMMISION - tracking test

Commision - Influence Map

Commision - Storyboards and Animatic

Animatic

Unit 6 - Pitch

After Effects - 3d Space

Commision - Draft Script

Aging of the Telomeres - SCRIPT

Commision - Initial Idea

Having one single camera movement for the duration of the animation, slowing down at certain key stages of - Cell Division - Shortening Telomeres - DNA bases breaking and dieing.

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With the use of Motion tracked 2d text (in 3d space) to describe what is happening. Much like futuristic information Holograms - or like in the opening sequence of 2003 film Spider-man, however not as complex.

 

Begin with a table and a pair of shoes with laces hanging down as the camera pans towards the end of the shoelaces (in this case playing the role of the Telomeres) 
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The camera then zooms through the end of the lace into the inside where it shows a network of DNA strands and bases
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As the Camera weaves in and out it stops and zooms out of the cell to see it duplicate, and then the pan back into the new divided cell.
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In this cell there is substantially less DNA bases, supporting the strands as they begin to break up, due to the cell division, and the shortening of the Telomeres
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The Camera pans slowly back weaving in and out of the DNA strands withing the cell back to remainder of the Telomeres as they are about to die
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Camera glides backwards out of the shoe lace ending with the words 
(Telomeres - Tying up the loose ends of Life)


The information will be given as stated above in text motion tracked to the key areas of camera focus.


Art Style

Light shades of Grey and whites for the majority of the DNA strands and vibrant colours for the DNA bases -