Final Pendulum Animation

The use of design principles and camera movements helped develop a mood for my animation. The camera angles I used helped give the feeling that someone was filming what they saw in the woods. This helped develop curiosity in the viewer in the purpose of the woods and the location. The camera angles also helped build the story/events of the animation from the film person just filming random things to exploring the pendulum to spotting a ghost. The principles of designs I used in the animation help set the mysterious mood of the scene. The formal balance help give the scene a sense of power while the unity and leading lines give the simple and mysterious mood.

Pendulum Animation Storyboard

Pendulum Animation Ideas

For my pendulum animation, I was thinking of doing a creepy anonymous woods with a tire swing. Some principles of of design I plan on using is formal balance so the scene gives off a strong feeling. Since its a woods there will also be many leading lines and rhythm as the viewer's eyes would bounce from one tree to another tree to another tree. The scene will also have unity since everything in the woods will be very similar. I want the scene to be dark, but I want the enter tree to be on focus in a creepy way.  For the lighting, I will be using "the moon" as a way to light up the forest and candles to light up the main tree like this:

Some camera angles I plan on using will be done as though someone was filming it themselves so it is shaky and edgy. I will also begin the scene with a quick push in as it will give the viewer a sense of shock in the beginning. Throughout the animation I will do a 360 handheld shot around the tree to continue the creepy vibe.

Other references:

Camera Angles

Crane Down: This creates the feeling of falling down into the character's world.

Crane Up: This creates a scene showing how small the character is or how big the obstacle the character has to face is.

Crane High to Low: This gives the feeling of authority and makes the character look strong and also creates a sense of fear.

Handheld Camera: This gives a feeling of uneasiness or danger.

Quick Pan: This changes the emotional direction of the scene and reveals something dangerous or an obstacle the character has to overcome.

Quick Push in: This creates surprise or shock.

Slow Dolly in: This creates tension and helps us feel uncomfortable for the character or share emotions with them.

Slow Dolly out: This makes the character look emotionally lost and abandoned which creates emotion of empathy.

Dolly Across: This reveals something and changes the emotion direction of the scene.

Smooth Glide cam: This creates and epic or dreamlike scene like a ballet or dance.

Handheld Glide cam: This creates and edgy and stressful scene.

Glide cam 360 Reveal: This creates the feeling of suspense like something is going to happen.

Zolly(Dolly and Zoom): This creates an overwhelming feeling and blows the audiences mind.

Timing and Spacing Reel

Resolution

History of Animation Sketchbook Page

Scoreboard Animation

Lighthouse Animation

Curve Modeling Project

Drafts

Final Render

I didn't go through many big challenges while modeling this but one tiny one was setting up the scene. This was manly because I had to duplicate this many times in order to get it in a design I want. Another tiny difficulty was looking for materials to get the results I wanted but after some trial and error I was able to get the materials and the object to look like how I wanted it to.

Character Model

Some challenges I went through was making the background and in what to make it and how. I wanted the ground to be covered in snow and wanted it to look realistic and after some research I did receive good results but did take up a lot of time and was pretty complicated. Another challenge was rendering since it took a lot of time to render them and to overcome this I did have to put less snowflakes in.

Lighting Photos

Old Lighting

New Lighting

Lighting

Light and Shadow- When there is a balance of light as there is dark(shadow) allowing the lighted object to have depth

Tonal Range- The difference between white and black(the contrast)

Three Point Lighting- A commonly known lighting system that consists of three lights:

Key Light- Brightest light source which is typically placed at a 45 degree angle

Fill Light- A lower powered light that is placed 90 degrees away from the key light

Rim Light- The low powered light that is in the rear of the scene

Implied Lighting- The camera shines on the the focus object casting the shadow of it in the scene (makes scene look bigger)

Back Lighting- The main light source is in the back or behind the scene. This uses bounce lighting to create soft diffused shadows. This makes the scene look soft and intimate.

Silhouette Lighting- A very bright light source is in the back of the scene. This makes the main focus appear black as though it is a silhouette.

Non-Key Lighting- Using lighting but there isn't a key light that is used. For this bounce lighting is a main light source. Soft diffused shadows are created.

*How to Read a Histogram*
A histogram is read left to right and a good histogram tends to start with the left(the shadow) being low rising to the top and then going back down further to the right(highlights).

Works Cited

Meyer, Jeff. "How to Read a Histogram: What You Can Learn from Your Camera's Exposure Graph." TechRadar. TechRadar The Source for Tech Buying Advice, 18 Apr. 2012. Web. 01 Mar. 2017.

Hard Surface Modeling

Eye Level

Medium Shot

Bird's Eye

Over the Shoulder

Worm's Eye

One of the biggest challenges while making the hard surface model was making the violin look real. I do play the violin so when making it I realized some parts of the violin that I didn't even notice before. I also had trouble making the body look like a realistic shiny as I noticed while observing other's violins during orchestra that violins have a different level of shiny to them based on the violin and I had to determine which one I wanted.

Shape with Sharp Edges

Low Poly Car

Macaron Final Project

Eye Level


Point of View


Extreme Close up


Bird's Eye


Worm's Eye



One of the most surprising challenges was rendering the photos as when I chose a pose and began to render it I would notice flaws in the photo. To fix this I would simply just fix the problem and render again. Another problem was adding image textures and forgetting what to do to make them show on the object. To fix this I simply looked back on the donut video and followed what he did so the texture would show up.