Brief for Ball Bounces

Brief 1

Using the provided scene files found on myUCA>Digital skills 2>Unit Resources

This comprises of the 3 scene files found in the Softimage project “ds_2012_files”

DS_TB_v1.scn – Tennis ball scene

Shot description

The tennis ball has been dropped from an approximate height of 1 metre

Animate the tennis ball entering the shot from the top demonstrating its characteristics.

DS_BB_v1.scn – Bowling ball scene

Shot description

The bowling ball has been dropped from an approximate height of 1 metre

Animate the bowling ball entering the shot from the top demonstrating its characteristics.

DS_SC_v1.scn – Shuttlecock Scene

Shot description

The shuttlecock has been hit from the other side of the court and has landed with in the tramlines (within the white box)

Animate the shuttlecock entering the shot from the top and bouncing to a halt. You have creative freedom as to how the shuttlecock comes to a stop

Each shot should include research which includes planning notes and thumbnail sketches.

Minimum duration of each shot is 2 seconds Maximum is 5 seconds

Elephant

Change of pose

After the last character pose i decided to do something with squats and play around with the legs of the character. I was thinking of a interesting dynamic pose and decided to go for a gentlemen being hit in the middles. It worked really well although, however to make it look realistic

More images of initial Character rig

Playing around with rigging

Today we were introduced to the 3D human rig. We were told to take a inspirational/ iconic image of a pose and recreate it using the 3D rig. Ut was really interesting as it meant we could see what kind of poses we can and cant achieve with this rig. I found that i can not do any positions that have the legs high up vertical to the body as it creases at the hip to much making it look like the leg is disjointed from the body. It is a perfect rig for the walk cycle which we will we doing later in the course as you only need to lift the knees to a certain joint. So i would like to do some more poses with maybe a squat or something and maybe change the face a bit. I think from what i have seen from doing this pose i cannot move much of the face but i think i can move the eyes and also stretch the head, which could be quite fun!

Animation work flow

This is a diagram that Jon showed us to help up break up out time efficiently when approaching a new project.

Croquet 1 & 2

We were given these two tasks as homework to use and demonstrate