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I put the 18 shots into PR for editing, adjusted the time and speed of each shot, and added video transition effects between shots to achieve a better video effect. After that, I started to look for the video music background, I will be a whole piece of music for the combination of articulation, as the background music, in each piece of music between the music is also re-adjusted to make the music more natural, in the background music also added the character’s heartbeat, so as to make the story more a sense of urgency. I made the title in AE, but I found that after putting in the animation, it looked very unsuitable and I needed a simpler title, so I just entered the animation title in the P R, and the text as the beginning of the title display. I finished my entire animation in one minute and 20 seconds.

I began in the scene, assuming that the camera idea of how each step of the camera is how to develop how to promote the development of the whole story, I first will probably have in mind to build out the picture, for example, in the aisle in the eyes of the robot shot beams, the protagonist fox to the cage, and then the protagonist protagonist feel bad, and turned back to find the robot is watching him, so quickly run forward to the end of the end of the fox as he runs! Push forward. Then is the protagonist into the process of the crane machine, where I added a special effect like the protagonist was transported into the interior of the crane machine and then fell into the crane machine, and at this time the protagonist found that the monster is coming towards him, and he was unable to leave from the scene, only to watch the monster operate the joystick and press the button to operate the clamps fell towards him. I created the shots I had in mind and then thought about how each shot would be connected, and that’s how I completed the whole story.

In the next production, I picked two character models as the two main characters of my story, one is an evil monster, his character is a robot, because I want to have a kind of monster with the sci-fi colours of the scene to match the monster without being so abrupt, and the other is a cute little fox, so that the protagonist looks more pitiful, and in the whole scene with a hint of cute colours. I put the characters into the scene and started to conceptualise the size difference between the two characters and the size they would occupy in the scene, I first put the characters into the doorway of the crane machine to compare the sizes, I needed to be able to get into the doorway of the crane machine, and the other protagonist, the monster robot, I set up as big as possible and could go through the door of the aisle, and the difference in the sizes of the two characters made the chase seem even more unfair! The difference in size between the two characters made the chase even more unfair, and the protagonist was even more pathetic, unable to get out of the chase and resigned to his fate.

I began to think about how to achieve the effect that the teacher wanted to see only the door, so I added a gate in the aisle, so that at first you can not see the shape of the crane machine, after entering the gate, the light suddenly dimmed, here I used the effect of fog, and in the crane machine at the top of the light, so that the protagonist re-entered the door, you can only see the steps and the door. I repeatedly adjusted the intensity of the light source, I changed the contrast of the auto exposure in the project settings as I found the exposure effect of the scene was too bright, this resulted in some harshness in the image, when I reduced the contrast it worked much better. I have reworked some of the material sphere effects, I have put some models inside the doll machine, the dolls have been textured, I have also colour coded the material of each part to keep the overall tone of the doll machine to a pinkish-blue tone, and the rocker of the doll machine has been designed in the shape of a lollipop. I also used a lot of saturated colours to make it look more dreamy and vibrant.

During the week, we learnt how to create Resolume, a software that allows us to add a layer of text or pattern effects to our videos and then project them onto a projector. The teacher explained the basics of the software and how to overlay it onto our own videos.

I’ve made some progress in setting up the scene, I’ve set up a lot of light sources in the scene, which makes the whole scene look colourful, but it has a big impact on the colour of the scene, so I need to adjust the colour of the material sphere more to achieve the colour that I want, I’ve reset the material of the doll machine in Maya to position each piece of the place with a basic colour to distinguish it. The position of each piece and the colour tone of the large colour block, when I put the whole large colour block of the doll machine into the scene, I found that the lighting had a greater effect on it than I thought, so I decided to make the material in UE5, using UE5 I could make a more distinctive effect of the material or the dynamic material, which was very conducive to my conception of the whole scene. I repositioned and scaled the aisle and the crane machine, and then created some colourful texture balls to put into the texture. For the aisle material, I used a dynamic effect to create a flickering light effect on the floor, which I had not thought of before, and I was very satisfied with the result, which gave me a new understanding of material spheres.

Serra suggested that when I entered the crane machine in the scene, the whole picture of the crane machine could not be seen, but only the flashing “Bar” on the doorway or the door plate, when the main character enters, the whole picture of the crane machine can appear, which is more of a kind of surprise feeling.

In this week, I carried out the modelling of the crane machine, and split the UV and rough scene building, the whole story is about the protagonist found himself in a brand new scene, and then a beam of light towards him, there is a monster behind him, so the protagonist made a mad dash and finally walked into a crane machine, the protagonist is glad to be able to escape from the monster’s pursuit, but the monster manipulated the crane machine to catch the protagonist, and the story ends. The story ends. I shared this idea with my teacher and looked at the model and the scene. She gave me some suggestions on camera and lighting changes, and added some ideas on the claws of the crane machine, and I began to think of more possibilities for this story.

In this course, we were taught how to import TD into UE5, we can first build a screen in UE5, and then put the TD content into the big screen, which will form a 3D effect, similar to the giant advertisement screen seen on the street.

During this week of production, I found that I hit a bottleneck, I found a lot of material, but they are not quite the same style, and when I did the build of the underwater scene, I found that I had a hard time making the colours colourful, because the ocean is solidified, and the blue blue has an effect on all the objects, the colours are too big, and the whole scene is confined to the blue-green colour, and the rest of the other The other scenes I added were affected by the lighting and it was difficult to bring out the colours I wanted, and when I was thinking of interesting buildings underwater, I found that all the reference models I found were very standard building models, and the interesting models I wanted would take a lot of time to make before I could achieve the underwater world I wanted. And at this point this idea at the suggestion of my teacher required VR again I went to study some videos and found that I had a hard time debugging without equipment so I lost that option of VR. While I was stuck in this problem and couldn’t solve it, there was a new idea conceptualised in my mind, I wanted to do a scene and story production about a crane machine.

Here are some illustration references I found on the site。

I found some modelling material afterwards.

I created this scene as a background, but wasn’t too happy with the results

This class we learn TD software production, TD software I am not unfamiliar, in the undergraduate sophomore and junior I have contact with this software, this software can carry out some dynamic effects of poster production, he produced some random effects, so can produce unexpected effects to bring some inspiration for the production.

In the classroom we learned some basic TD operations, such as his interface and how to add controls, and then carried out the study of sound visualisation, we uploaded a piece of music, you can generate a visual dynamic image. This may be useful in experimenting with animation.

In this experimental project, I conceived a fantasy dream about the ocean, inspired by the feeling of falling body when people sleep, the story is the protagonist lying on the bed, and then with the sleep into the dream, the protagonist feels the body’s fall and then the camera down the protagonist fell into the ocean, in the ocean, he saw a lot of fantasy creatures and strange buildings. I want to make this story have a fantasy significance, instead of the common ocean scene that everyone sees, I want to add a moving tram in the ocean or a huge machine that operates in the ocean or a lost relic, I want to make the scene of the strait more colourful, colourful. To make the shooting sculpture look more than just pure blue, I found some floor plan illustrations that I could refer to, as well as some model material.

In this lesson, we followed Kay to see how the animals are made, and learnt how the equipment is worn on the body of the motion capture actor, and how the surrounding equipment is used to sample the movements and input them into the computer. Motion capture equipment is expensive, and requires a very large venue, as well as professional action personnel to perform, which may be difficult to achieve for us when we are making personal actions. But after a series of systematic study of motion capture has a deeper knowledge, perhaps in the future the company can use such equipment to produce animation, which is very energy-saving for action designers, can be produced in a very short period of time on the action you want, may be the future production of animation in a very good way.

In this lesson the teacher talked about the assignments we need to create this term, this term we need to create an experimental animation of 30 seconds or more as our animation project for this term.