In the first video, I used 3D Tracking to replace the poster on the side of the road. The second video is a short film I made based on my understanding of Nuke technology and principles. I mainly hope to use what I have learned to include Roto, 2D/3D Tracking, Color Correction, etc., and relevant technologies to make effects that impress the audience.
This video uses Nuke 2D Tracking to replace the screen with my personal instagram pages. In class, let us understand how to track the screen and replace it with other screens.
This week, we officially completed the character model, lighting and materials. In addition to the modelling of the teeth, the main progress is the production of the joints. Use the Blend Shape tool and joints to control the expression and pose of the character, and then add skin weights so that the parts will have too much deformation when the model moves.
Color correction is a very important part of the CG industry. I used my understanding of hue, saturation, and contrast to correct the color of the plane and the background to make the picture look more harmonious.
Human Face
This week is a continuation of last week’s modelling and retopology. I applied the scanned textures to the character model and practised the rendering of SSS texture. Other than that, I use hard lights for solid contrast in lighting.
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Waltz with Bashir (2008) is a work of courage and creativity. It bravely faced the massacre in the Beirut refugee camp in Lebanon in 1982 and broke the barriers between animation and real life, records and plots. Suppose animation is the form of expression he adopts. Interviewing them one by one will belong to the category of documentaries. In that case, however, those past events that are told in their mouths through the simulation of animation have the dimension of drama films. On the other hand, Honess Roe believes that one of the main features of animated documentaries is the (often pleasurable) ontological tension between textual, extra-textual and referent. In my opinion, this work perfectly interprets this sentence.
In this week’s animation documentary discussion, I chose ‘Waltz with Bashir’, because he portrayed the cruelty of war very realistically, and let the audience deeply feel the current atmosphere through animation.
Bradshaw, P. (2008) Film review: Waltz with Bashir, The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/21/waltz-with-bashir-folman (Accessed: January 6, 2023).
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Categorisation: The Afternoon Grid (1943) is an avant-garde experimental short film that stitches several poetically interesting images with music. It tells about a woman’s multiple dreams in the afternoon, reflects the female’s psychological state and survival situation, shapes the character’s thoughts from the background of the character’s growth and the conflict between the characters, and forms a climax.
Form and Function: Maya Deren uses films to create temporal and spatial artworks, using the relationship between space and time to create an experience and feeling for the audience.
Process: Filming and editing techniques that deliberately alienate the audience from the image, such as quick editing, intentional out-of-focus, collage juxtaposition, and even painting and scratching directly on the film.
Formal Elements: In the short film, the actress’s ideologies can simultaneously appear in the same space and time. This is Deren’s manipulation of time and space in the way of film editing to create an incomplete reality, which is not only a kind of imagination but also expresses the actual state of the spirit.
Marin, D. (2022) Analysis: Meshes of the afternoon (1943): A Spiralling Lucid Nightmare, Maya Deren, & A dialogue with the unconscious, DIANA MARIN. Available at: https://dianamarin.com/2019/12/19/meshes-of-the-afternoon-1943-spiralling-nightmare-maya-deren-dialogue-with-the-unconscious/ (Accessed: January 6, 2023).
Riebe, C. (2019) A quick look at Maya Deren’s meshes of the afternoon, ScreenAnarchy. Available at: https://screenanarchy.com/2019/07/a-quick-look-at-maya-derens-meshes-of-the-afternoon-contrib.html (Accessed: January 6, 2023).
Full Video :
This week’s practice is to apply the roto and tracker to the bridge and combine the character roto from last week to form a separate layer. In addition, we also need to start to conceive the presentation of the hot air balloon animation, and this project will use the techniques learned before.
This week we formally learned character modelling. First, we topologically modelled the high-polygon model and then created a low-polygon model to facilitate animation. I also pay special attention to the wiring of the character model, as this will affect the animation production later on.
I decided to analyze ‘Killing Them Softly’from 2012, directed by Andrew Dominik.
Characters
Hero: Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), the protagonist
Mentor: Driver, The protagonist’s partner, a lawyer who cooperates with gangsters.
Threshold Guardian: Markie and Frankie, As casino owners and robbers, they involve the protagonist in this conflict.
Herald: Frankie
Shapeshifter: Markie
Shadow: Mickey, As the killer hired by the protagonist, his partner was almost arrested because of his negligence.
Trickster: Driver
Allies: Driver, Mickey
8 Archetypes:
Stasis: Jackie can’t get business in a recession.
Trigger : Frankie robs Markie’s casino.
Quest: Anyone with inside information must be killed
Surprise: Russell’s arrest may lead to robbery exposure.
Critical choice:
Whether to kill other gang members involved in the case.
Climax: Markie and Frankie are assassinated by Jackie.
Reversal: Driver refuses to pay Jackie the full amount.
Resolution: Jackie seriously asks Driver to pay up.