Tuesday, 3 May 2016

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: Running out of time with Through the Medium...

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So... what happened with through the medium and why was it incomplete for the hand in date...? The main problems were Time scheduling ...

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: D-Eb31e VFX

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The visual effects for debbie posed a number of different challenges, such as recreating a virtual set and creating some complicated multi ...

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: Rendering with Arnold... and it's Limitations

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Rendering with Arnold on the University machines posed some troubles as both me and Jonathan were trying to bridge the gap between Cinema 4...
Friday, 1 April 2016

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: Animating CGI

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Animating the CGI was a very interesting and fun process, during which i started to see the other half of the film coming to life. Working ...
Thursday, 28 January 2016

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Stop Motion Shoot

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Our stop motion shoot took four weeks for about 16-17 shots in total. We used the film cutting rooms, a Cannon DSLR and Dragonframe, a so...
Wednesday, 6 January 2016

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Getting a room for Stop Motion

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Although our original plan was to possibly negotiate with the Animation course to use the stop motion room, we were quickly looking at alte...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: VFX Tests for D-Eb31e

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To try figuring out some of the techniques behind the effects for "D-Eb31e" me and Shahid shot a test using the GH4 and the Motor...

REFRAMING THE INTERFACE: Illustrating the indiegogo trailer

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To better portray our style and will for the project, Lauren suggested that we create a trailer/pitch video, but instead of just filming ou...
Monday, 23 November 2015

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: D-Eb31e Trailer Shoot

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To promote D-Eb31e on indiegogo we decided to shoot a test trailer and a segment explaining how the costs are going to be spread across th...
Sunday, 22 November 2015

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Production folder and Presentation

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This is our finished 74 page production pack about "Through the Medium":   And this is the presentation used in our pitch: ...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Animation styles

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One very important thing that i notices in cartoons and computer animated films is the extreme expressions, that even though are physically...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Starting to get the group folder ready

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After looking at examples during our group tutorial with Kathleen, we started preparing our group production folder. The first thing we a...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Indiegogo shoot for D-Eb31e

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To better promote the indiegogo page we decided to shoot a trailer and a promotional video with Lucy explaining the concept of the film an...

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: Camera Workshop 2

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During our second camera workshop we had a more in-depth look at the C300 and the URSA, including their respective lens kit, matte box and ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2015

BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES: CGI Character Rigging

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Finishing the base model: Continuing on from the last blog post, i continued to use extrusion modeling to create the rest of the body. T...