Final Evaluation

evaluation

first year  FD animation and illustration  is finished, for me it was a my first professional learning on my  way to reach my dream to be professional animator, this dream  has started  about 10 years ago I have tried over these year to improve deferent  techniques on graphic and 3d animation programs, so I managed to get some skills on these programs  which allowed me to have general understanding about 3d and graphic environment
 

by starting FD animation and illustration course my learning started to be more academically, so  during  this course we have had different projects to work on which helped me to  have wider knowledge about  animation techniques and more understanding  about animation  environment .  

first project was about how to do story board  ,I learnt that  it is a step in the process of making basic start of animation, and I fond out that the storyboard is a graphic representation of how our animation movie will unfold, shot by shot , it is made up of a number of square with illustrations or pictures representing each shot with notes about what is going on the scene and what's being said in the script during that shot ,it's really helped me  to know how to build a scene from  my storyboard  which allowing to visualize the scene before I start animate it 
.second project was about doing short move loop and it have been my  first time I do such a 2d animation movie  which focuses on creating characters , and backgrounds in tow dimensional environment.I found this project was quite useful to understand basic techniques of  building  an animation film
.other project was about  character design which is a visual representation of a character concept or idea, I have learnt how to build my character on order start form write character background , do initial sketching on paper and then line it out and colour it on Photoshop and illustrator programs  , after that I learnt how to build  a 3d model of it on cinema 4d program .

final project  we have to do 3 illustration representing 3 part  of famous story , I learnt from this project to read the story and understand  it in way to be able to visualize it and delver it to the audience

 research which I have done during this course it  really helped me to know about Many techniques which  are used in the animation industry such as 2D animation, stop motion …etc. However, the 3D animation becomes one of the most effective technique in animation industry by time consuming, giving more reality to the animation products by using high quality visual effects. In addition to that, 3D technique is used now in wide range of scientific and industrial field. For instance, 3D modeling is an essential tool in medical industry ,movie industry, architecture industry, mechanical and earth science by giving clear visual design leading to well planned projects.

during this project we had lots of sections which were very helpful to know more about deferent technique on 3d animation such as human walk and run cycle , how to apply materials , character rig, topology and universal character ,which all are  very important skills to make a complete animation project .
 

these projects as it was very useful to learn and improve new skills in animation industry ,it was a great chance to define my strengths  and my weaknesses and it showed me the way to  use my strength and improve my weakness .so I believe working on 3d pregame  is one of my strengths which  I think I have good understanding of working of these  kind of programs  

my second strength which I believe is that I have a  wide  and general understating of different graphic ,animation and editing  programs  which all are important to make an animation movie or project .

on other side time management  was one of biggest  weaknesses, it refers to the way that you organize  and plan how long you spend on specific activates ,it  was one of my biggest barriers which  stand  on my way of making a good project on right order and in  very good quality which  I think I could do if I managed my time correctly during  last year , second weakness that I believe I need to develop my own  unique style of animation and art ,because  I think most of my works don't have a different ID than what other people do so I need to improve it for future .

to be aware of what are my weaknesses is  a first step to find out  the way to improve it  and make it  strong points ,so after I have defined my weakness I started set a plans  for my  future work which is going to be focused on it to improve it to be strong points .so firstly as I said before time management is one of my weaknesses  for that I will try over coming summer to  improve my time management skills  by training  myself  to do these 6 steps before and during  any future works  or projects :

1-make a list .the thing  about making list is that I have to do use them

2-set deadlines

3 -stop multi-tasking 4delegate 

5-use my downtime 6 reward myself

so hopefully  with  practising these steps by the end of summer I will be able to make a good quality project with less pressure for the next year .

secondly to developed my own unique animation and art style  I am going to practice doing these steps 1- decide what am going to draw
 2 -look at deferent  artists works
3-create some character of my own

.working on my weakness is not  only thing I am going to do in  my future plan ,I decided to do more stuff to help me improve more skills on deferent animation program like 3d max maya ,as well I will try to have some more knowledge of other computer design  programs such as gaming and computer programming ,for this reason I already bough some learning books  .

finally I really fond this year was full of new learning and new improvement in deferent places which makes me believe I am on the right way to achieve what I was always looking  for

The Upper Berth Final Outcome And Evaluation

Here my final 3 illustration of Upper Berth story

 

 

 

 

evaluation

 

in this module  we asked to do 3 illustrations that respond to upper berth story and reflect the content , these illustration going to represent three part of the story bagging  meddle and end

the story I chose is upper berth written by f.Marion crawford in 1854 -1909 this story about a ghost on board kamtschatka he had been assigned the lower berth in  cabin 105 and noticed everybody  was nervous about it.

first step, was to read and understand the content of story ,and  to choose which parts of a text I want to illustrate which was a challenge for me because English is my second language, and the story is written in a difficult language for me, to break this difficulty ,I watched movie on YouTube about the story and it was very helpful to me to full understanding  of the content the story. my first  aim was to try to convey the feeling of story period by studying the lifestyle of the  time the story was written at 1845, so I made research about this time fashion decoration, I collected some images to support my illustration.second aim  I wanted to deliver the fact of that the story is a ghost story ,so the way I though to do it by using  dark colour and faded light.

second step, I was looking to explore a new technique of illustration, I always impressed with 3d art design, so I have decided to make my illustration by using mixed media technique which is 2d character inside 3d environment,    so I made research about deferent  3d illustrations art and artist so I have been strongly influenced by the work of Tiago Hosiel ,red nose studio and ==== .I wanted to mix between these three artistes  styles  to help me to do my  illustration in the  easiest and most effective technique I could do, I  chose to my do make do my illustration character on Photoshop and then move to cinema 4d to do the 3d environment  of scene event  

after 3 week of work I managed to make to 3 illustration made by mixed media technique I used Photoshop and cinema 4d to make. first one representing the ghost moving inside cabin 105 which is the place where the mean events of the story  take place,  second one  is about the doctor who on board  kamtschatka  steamship telling Brisbane the man who is sharing the cabin 105 with ghost about strange events have happened inside that cabin ,last one is showing  the ship captain  and Birsbane are fighting the ghost. I used in these three illustrations  gradual fading spot light like candle light  as the story set on time when people used candles this spot is taking place in back  to give a scary feeling what is behind the dark

finally I am satisfied about my final outcome as it my first try to visualize a story has been written by deferent person so it was a challenge , the quality would be better if had previous experience about this kind of art, I will try and  explore and deferent illustrations  technique and look more at deferent artists works.

Jeff Soto.

Jeff Soto.

Jeff Soto’s style developed from an influence of skateboarding, hip-hop and graffiti culture, cultures which thrive on individuals developing their own styles.  This set of influences results in Jeff’s work being instantly recognizable, a feat that many artists seek their entire careers.

The body of work presented here is from Soto’s latest solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City.  (The show is on display until October 6th, 2012.)  Entitled, “Decay and Overgrowth,” the show explores his recent musings on life and death after the passing of both his grandparents.  Soto sought out myth and the beginnings of time to help him overcome the grief of loss, an investigation that brought him closer to nature and human existence’s ever growing relationship with it.  This body of work reflects - In Soto’s trademark style - those ideas of beginning, nature and renewal.

Brosmind

Brosmind
The Mingarro brothers, Juan (1978) and Alejandro (1981) were born in Huesca, and spent their childhood in Binéfar, drawing comics, building vehicles for their action figures and shooting movies with his domestic camcorder. In 2006, they founded Brosmind studio and stablished in Barcelona. Their style is fresh and optimistic and always uses fantasy and humor. Currently they combine commercial illustration with personal projects involving multiple disciplines, such as sculpture, music or video.

Andy Ristaino

Andy Ristaino is an American artist who is best known for being the former lead character designer and current writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series  adventure time .

 

 

 

Joan Cornellà Vázquez

 

Joan Cornellà Vázquez (born 11 January 1981) is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, famous for his unsettling, surreally humorous and blackly humorous comic strips as well as artwork.Joan Cornellà Vázquez was born in Barcelona, Catalonia on 11 January 1981. Having graduated in fine arts, he has collaborated for numerous publications, such as La cultura del Duodeno, El Periódico, Ara and has illustrated for The New York Times.[1]In 2009 he won the third edition of the Josep Coll Prize with his album Abulio, published in the next year by Glénat.[2] Since 2010 he provides cartoons for the Spanish magazine El JuevesIn 2012, Fracasa Major, a selection of Cornellà's black-and-white cartoons made from 2010 to 2012, was published. Most of the material was previously unpublished, although it also contains material published in El Jueves and various other fanzineIn 2013, a third album of his, Mox Nox, was published via Bang Ediciones

 

I found his illustrations are very simply funny effective style. has a simple colour palette as it has one or to colure background and character in all his illustration have been lined out in red colour I believe the artists is focusing on the idea more than the quality of the drawing but he is successfully delivers his ideas



 

 

Walk Cycle To Run Cycle

Today class Work been on changing a walk cycle to Run cycle

 the difference in the key frames, I used 40 frames to create my loop and for the run cycle I used 20 frames.

 

 

first picture shows clearly how is walk cycle are made by 40 frame

 

                             second picture shows how is run cycle made by 20  frame

 

finally how character look like on run cycle

 

next week target

1-finsh my final evaluation

2-finsh my project

 

 

Topology

It is an area of mathematics concerned with the properties of space that are preserved under continuous deformations including stretching and bending, but not tearing or gluing.

                 http://cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/learning-mesh-topology-collection/

 

The Upper Berth story illustrations(final design )

after I finished my 2d charter I moved to Cinema 4d to make my final finish to my 3 illustrations

 

-First illustration is representing a the gust moving  inside cabin 105   in Kamtschatka steamship.

 To build the steamship cabin which is going to be cabin 105 in the story ,I  made 5 cubes shapes  and I placed them on order  to make cabin  walls to I kept one side open to make space for the camera

 

Then I applied wood material on these cubes .

 

 

-Then I put the ghost charcter whcih I made before by using photoshp inside the cabin i used .

-finally I add some lights  and cameras to the scene ,and now  my first illustration is ready to be render .

 

-second illustration is representing the doctor who is travelling on Kamtschatka steamship
telling Brisbane the mean character of the story about the strange scary events have happened inside the cabin 105.

to build this scene I made one side of the ship which is going to be facing the camera by making cube shape and adjusted it to create the steamship surface and 12 tubes to make steamship border.

 

 

Then I add the 4 characters to the scene by using the same alpha channel technique I used for the first illustration.

 

 

-finally after I added some materials ,light and camera to scene my second illustration is ready to be render. 

final illustration is  representing Brisbane and the Capitan are fighting the  ghost I used to build the scene the same

cabin shape which I made for the first scene after added the

the characters I made it before on Photoshop

 

after I added camera and light to scene

my illustrious ready to be render.

 

This week target

1-finish my project

2-work on project evaluation

3-update my blog

4- work on my final evaluation

The Upper Berth story illustrations(2D design )

This week  I finished making my 2d design  character to my 3 illustrations of  Upper Berth Story

-First I used Photoshop to draw 2d all the  story  character then I used brush tool and layering technique  to colour them  , then  this charters  have to be  installed to the cinema 4d  so  I made black  colored copy of the character to use as an alpha Chanel in cinema 4d

Ghost character line out

 

 

 

 

ghost character after been colored

 

Brisbane  and the doctor character line out

 

Brisbane and the doctor colored   

 

next week target start
1- start build 3d model of my illustration
2-make art research

The Upper Berth's illustration broject (Resarch)

in this project we have been asked  to do 3 illustrations that respond to upper berth story and reflect the content  these illustration going to represent three part of the story bagging  middle and the end

The Upper  Berth

I chose the upper berth as the story which I am going  make three illustration representing a three parts of the story  first , middle and the end. The upper berth a story about a ghost on board kamtschatka he had been assigned the lower berth in  cabin 105 and noticed everybody  was nervous about it. on the first night ,he found the window open ,and  heard the man who shared the cabin with him ran away , the following morning he was told that the man had disappeared ,the same had happened to three other men who had travelled in that cabin before, Brisbane soon found that the window would open during the night and was determined to find out what happed he stayed in the  during the night with captain ,and they found there was a strange damp creature in the upper berth they fought it out, and the cabin was locked to passengers ,Neither he nor the captain travelled in the kamtschtka again.   

- history research.

this story take place at 1854 which is  about  a Victorian time  ,so the history research is about this time fashion decoration and lifestyle  all that will help me to build  my illustration character and environment   of the story ,in this story there  is no women  so my fashion research only about men dressing ,during  this time of history, men wore tight- fitting , calf length frock coats and waistcoat or vest and dark tail coat and trousers .the shirts were made of linen or cotton with low collars occasionally turned down.  

 

As the story take place one steamship I have done some research about the steamships are used in time of the story .