Weekly animation assignments
Idea Development
For my lip-sync animation, I have used the quote ‘just relax and let your mind go blank,it shouldn’t be hard for you ’ from the movie Avatar.
During the week, I animated the facial expressions, and I think the most challenging part was finding the accents in each line and how to make the animated character’s facial expressions more exaggerated, lively, funny and fitting to the pipes.
The mouth animation was the most challenging part for me to control, the speed of the transition from the ‘O’ sound to the ‘U’ and how to make the characters’ mouths relax quickly when they are not speaking. These were difficult for me to grasp, and I spent a lot of time adjusting the transitions between the tones. Although he may still seem to have some problems, hopefully, I can continue to tweak this animation over the holidays.
Reference video & Blocking & Spline
Project 2：Shot render test
During the week, I finished rendering and presetting all the footage, For the rest of the week, I needed to think more about editing things such as I wanted to have, car sounds, whale sounds, and wind sounds. I also used some loose material in the sound of the video, some sound effects that I had recorded myself, and some sounds that I had recorded myself.
For post effects, I used Magic bullet denoise 3 to reduce the noise on my footage, I wanted the noise to be partially retained, but I didn’t want that much noise, so I used this plug-in for each shot to reduce the noise.
In the first shot, I used a push shot, gradually advancing the screen from black to reveal a meadow, tree house, and mushroom forest.
I set up the shot with some design in the butterfly’s animation path and the screen’s layout. The visual centre of the shot shifts from the butterfly to the scene and then from the scene to the butterfly to enhance the interaction between the shot and the animation
In this series of shots, the image will move from a butterfly in a bottle to one, two, and three bottles, meaning that the fantasy is pulled into the accurate picture. This shot is inspired by the butterfly effect and Inception, and I wanted to make a loop that recently ends the episode as the butterfly approaches.
Used Magic Bullet suite in after effect – reduce noise
Make Dubbing & Sound & Effect &Music
Dubbing text:
When the universe awakens from the dream of formalin
Glowing umbrellas of mushrooms fall in the forest of light
Dandelions line up in the waves and jump into the sea
In a dream
I smash open the toy box of my childhood.
The tiger head toy my grandfather carved for me is scattered across the grass.
I have dreamed of a blue butterfly many times
It seemed to be dancing, and it seemed to be chirping
I fell into a dream
In my dream, I hid in a tree house in the forest
Leaning against the damp trees
Staring at the light coming through the leaves
The light was ignoring me
I wasn’t looking at the light either