Author: Yingyue Feng

Project 2 Week 4

In my project, the bird basically walks with its wings folded, so I need to understand how the bird folds its wings.

So I first went to the supermarket to buy a chicken in the easiest way, so that I could clearly see how the bird’s wings folded. And because the chickens in the supermarket are all hairless, they look very clear.

Next I went to the Natural History Museum again. There is an exhibition hall about birds, which has very detailed examples with examples, detailed information on bird wings, claws, tails, hair, etc., and even anatomical diagrams. These are very useful to me. I’m very interested in how the bird’s hair grows on the wings, even though the model I used in this project is already hair-ready. But I still learned about the growth of a bird’s hair in detail through the materials in the museum and anatomical maps.Next I went to the Natural History Museum again.

There is an exhibition hall about birds, which has very detailed examples with examples, detailed information on bird wings, claws, tails, hair, etc., and even anatomical diagrams. These are very useful to me. I’m very interested in how the bird’s hair grows on the wings, even though the model I used in this project is already hair-ready. But I still learned about the growth of a bird’s hair in detail through the materials in the museum and anatomical maps.

In the end, the chicken was very tasty.

Project 1

Project 1 Week 4

The main work of this week is to build the scene. Because my project mainly focuses on animation, the scene construction is relatively simple. The marble material is the marble material that comes with MAYA.

Importing reference sequence frames and models into the scene makes it very clear how big the scene should be built and where the various parts are best positioned. This is very useful.

I replaced the glass part of the scene with sequence frames. I’m not going to make glass because it’s going to be cumbersome to render and texture, but I need a face to replace the glass so I know where the cat’s claws should stop when the cat flies at the fly. So I replaced the glass in the scene with the face of the imported sequence frame. This not only solves the problem of no glass, but I can see the movements of the cat in the reference very clearly for animation.

This image is a simple rendering, I need to see what the scene looks like. I’m not going to put a lot of effort into the scene. So for me it’s fine as long as the scene looks good.

Project 1

Project 1 Week 3

Story Board

Project 2

Project 2 Week 3

In this project, I want to show more bird animation principles and my ability to do 3D animation, so I want to show more bird animation principles in this project for my model, as well as my 3D animation. capacity, so my model chooses to download from the web.

ModeRed Whisker Bird Maya Rig by Truong CG Artist：

Download Link：

https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/zd62/red-whisker-bird-maya-rig?utm_source=artstation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_term=marketplace

Very thanks to Truong CG for the model here, allowing me to get a very nice rig model for my homework at a very friendly price.

This image shows all the controllers on the model. In order to reduce the load on the computer, I did not put the texture in.

Because there are so many controllers for this model, I divided the required controllers into many layers. The body, wings, claws and other parts are layered. When I animate later, I will do the body animation first, then the wings animation, and finally some details.When doing animations, only open the devices you need.

After layering adjustments, the entire model looks clean and fresh, and there are no unnecessary controls. It laid a very good foundation for later animation.

Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation Project 2

Project 2 Week 2

Some references to bird movement patterns.

I found a lot of pictures or references about the animation principle of birds. Most of them are related to the wings of birds in flight. There are few references when the bird walks. But the video I need to use to make an animated short has more money in the walking part.

However, some of the information is very useful. Although it may not be what I need most, it has a very detailed explanation of the animation principle of bird flight. I still put it in my blog.However, some of the information is very useful. Although it may not be what I need most, it has a very detailed explanation of the animation principle of bird flight. I still put it in my blog.

Later, I looked for bird walk cycle animation on YouTube and found a useful reference. And there are detailed explanations about the animation of the bird, which is very useful to me.

Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation Project 1

Project 1 Week 2

Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation Project 2

Project2 Week 1

I did this project to make a 3D animated short based on a cat video.

At the company I used to work for, almost all character animation was done with motion capture technology. Even in the “Long She Yan Yi” project, the protagonist’s facial expressions are also used motion capture technology. This made me less interested in character animations, which can already be done in a very fast and cheap way. My previous project, “Jiu Ye Shen Zhuan”, can complete one episode in more than a week on average, including the rendering time. So I turned my goals and the focus of my research to animals. After all, motion capture of animals is not very common these days, and it is not easy to make animals do the actions that the video needs to do. Therefore, the research mainly focuses on the study of animal behavior and the production of 3D animation in this area. And I have a cat named Mo Qi, I love animals.

This video is a video I shot a while back about birds. At that time, I finished visiting the museum with my classmates, just in time for the Christmas market at the entrance of the museum. We bought hot dogs at the market, and the leftovers were placed on the guardrail and the pigeons in the square came to grab the food. In the end, the pigeons threw the hot dog bun directly over the guardrail. I filmed this funny scene and intend to use this video as a reference to make a 3D animation.

I don’t know why this video can’t be played on this page, but here is a link to see my reference video.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9p9VWHCQoY

Advanced and experimental 3D computer animation Project 1

Project1 Week 1

I did this project to make a 3D animated short based on a cat video.

This video is a video I shot a while back about my cat. His name is Moqi (万俟), it’s my Ragdoll cat. He is 2 years old. At that time, a fly flew into my room. Mo Qi thought it was very interesting, so he started to play with it. Cats especially like small things that move, and flies are one of them. This video starts from Moqi discovering the fly and playing with it, then the fly flies out of the window, and at the end, Moqi can only lie on the window and look out.

I have many videos about Moqi, but I think this one is the most suitable, not only the length of the video is right, but also this video is telling a very complete story. From the time the flies came in, the cat played with the flies, until the flies flew out, and finally Moqi lay on the windowsill and looked out. No one was hurt during this period, and the poor fly was free. Moreover, when Moqi is playing with flies, the range of motion is also very large, which is very worthy of research and the production of animated short films.

MA 3D Collabration Unit

Week 10

Since my work is animation and camera and storyboard, by the end of the current stage, my work is done. So here are the other people’s renderings and post-production effects.

When I saw the finished animation of the part I was working on, I wasn’t satisfied. Because that part of the screen shot was really bad. None of the locators on the character are turned off, and the resolution is very low. I was so shocked by such a bad screen shot that I asked him to retake the screen shot and submit it, but he refused. Because it was the night before the deadline when the rendering was done. So put the whole video together and it’s time for the deadline. Yes, he just dyed the part of the scene he made, he didn’t render this part of me, although at the beginning he promised me he could render it all and showed me that he was better than the school computer Computer. What’s more, I submitted my work to him at least a week in advance. The submission date of my corresponding video can be found on my Youtube account. And he didn’t tell me before that he couldn’t take screen shots.

I found out about his poor screen shot and wanted to do it myself, but the character’s clothes and hair and scene textures are all there with him. I asked him to give me the clothes and other assets, but he didn’t send them until days after the submission deadline closed. So I can’t resubmit or modify my assignment.

I have screenshots of my own other projects on my blog. Those all looked good, and if he told me ahead of time or allowed me to remotely control his computer, I could submit a high-quality screen shot in less than 10 minutes, but he didn’t tell me that.

When I saw this video, I was really angry, these fighting animations were made by me 1 frame by 1 frame K, I worked very hard to complete my work, but I didn’t expect to get such a result!

This is my first Project.

This is my second project.

MA 3D Collabration Unit