Reflective Week 7-8

Reflective week 7-

               During week 7, it was our last week with lessons in school, during this week we had no more lesson, but we still could advance with our projects. It was this where I had most of my work done. We also presented our first Work in Progress using Microsoft teams in the “cyperspace“ where everyone showcased their progress in the project.

               This week I wanted to have all my 3d renders ready because I knew it would be the thing that would take more time to render. But since I decided in the week before to use the sketch and toon shader on my 3d animation, the renders and animation worked pretty fast. During this time, I animated using a moving camera down and up to imitate the movement of the shoe entering the atmosphere, landing and then taking off. Used spaceship model to cut through transition. With the space ship model I also explored in cinema 4d the trail option which allows vertexes to leave a train in their movement, this created a really cool effect of the spaceship spitting out energy from the back, leaving a trail like airplanes leave a cloud.

 For Thursday we had to have our WIP meeting where everyone showcased what they had until now. I had most of my video done, was just missing 2 3d scenes and the outro, with also missing the shoes animation. But overall, the feedback was positive. The intro of the “live life text” did not really fit in with the rest of the animation.

               This week as we had to work at home, and we couldn’t leave the house I was able to advance progressively through my project. My plan was for after to finish the rest of the scenes during the weekend.

Reflective week 8 –

               The last week of the term, I finished up my animation 1 day before the deadline. The Weekend I finished the 3d scenes, took pictures of my shoe, and did frame by frame animation with small movements and hand drew all the particles also with frame by frame animation. I finalized the deliverables but came up with problems before the delivery because I badly rendered the day before and had to redo it, and then the file was not rendering. I delivered late.

               So during the weekend I finished up my final landscape and the outro with a model of a planet and the rings around it saying “To the max“ around the orbit. During the weekend I was also able to take pictures of my shoes and composed the pictures with only the to make him interact with the environment, I really liked experimenting to mix 3D animation with 2D frame by frame animation, I like the visual style that it could produce.

               In my postproduction I decide to add some vhs screen effects and little glitches throughout the video, this added a bit more or 70’s vibe to the animation and It ended up fitting well with the music and style of my video.  When the video was almost finished, I did the Instagram cut out, where the only thing was the framing of the intro sequence and outro.

               In the end I had some problems with the render, the file became corrupted and it was not rendering the project. After hours of trying different techniques to find the source of the problem I decided to render the animation with out the post editing effects of the screen glitches and effects. And added later over the rendered animation video.