Maya - 3D animation A 60 seconds Music Video
SD440 - Introduction to 3D animation / 05733767D - Joan Ma Wing Yuk ( Visual Communication - Yr 2)
Process book of Maya 3D animation - by Joan Ma Wing Yuk 05733767D -
Objective This is a Maya animation project for us to explore, applying and reflecting what we have learned in this course. We have to apply the principle amd timing of animation or story telling technique by using some simple geometry form, and it should also match with the selected song and season.
The Story “Bear’s delight” is a story about a selfish polar bear’s life. Since it was getting hot in the North Pole, many icebergs were already disappeared. However, by consider his own delight, this polar bear ignore this facts and still using airconditioner, fan and TV...etc frequently. Since he thought that the weather is really so hot, he jumped into the sea to swim without awaring his energy light was flashing ( that means both the island and the bear are running out of energy). As he was swimming, the light turned off, and he could not move anymore and drown into the deep ocean.
Content Chapter 1
Pre - production P. 10 Concept & Description P. 11 Visual Structure for Music P. 12 Visual Research P. 14 Character development P. 16 Visual development P. 18 Story Board ( Animatic ) Chapter 2
Production P. 26 Character & Set modeling P. 34 Shot list P. 36 Testisng P. 38 Final Maya animation Chapter 3
Post - production P. 46
After effects
Chapter 1
Pre - production of the animation
Concept & Descriptions
week 4 - 6
Many people still don’t believe that global warming is getting serious in the recent years, the earth already gave us some signals, just we didn’t aware. People just think we are still safe and keep on destroying the earth. I think this concept is very silly, thus i was looking for a childish song to be my music.
MV idea
After watch the movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, the concept of Global warming was always in my mind, then I started to conceive a story with this topic. The movie has mentioned about the iceberg of North Pole would be melt within servel decade if the people keeps on using those electronic equirpments, those polar bear would probably die of tired because of no more resting place. Therefore, hot, iceberg, and polar bear became the basic elements of my story.
Song selected
SONG PROFILE Name: Track 08 Album EMI KPM music library Genre: Children Time: 60 seconds Format: Mp3 SEASON Summer FEEL & CONCEPT The general feeling of this song is quite childish and rapidly. It makes me think of those fairy tales that would never happen. Moreover, the drumbeat parts draws me a lot of attention. Just like emphasize something or a warning, which I think is match with my story idea.
10
pre - production
STROY
weak
strong
COLOUR
cool
warm
SPACE
wide
narrow
MOVEMENT
fast
slow 11
Visual Research
week 4 - 8
References for enviroment, lighting, texrure, motion and colour settings from internent. WEBSITE OF SEARCHING REFERENCES - www.flickr.com - www.gettyimages.com - www.yahoo.com
Texture
Ligtening
12
pre - production
COLOURS
Gesture
Enviroment
13
Character Development
1st Draft
14
week 8 - 9
pre - production
2nd Draft
The character was develop base on the Polar bear image. It represent the silly and selfish part of human. Since he didn’t stop wasting energy even he saw the warning signal given by the nature (iceberg sinking). That’s why he died when running out of energy at the end.
15
Visual Development
The enviroment
Jumping motion skecth
16
week 8 - 9
pre - production
Final design of the character 17
Story Board (image 001 - 008)
week 10
TV System and Time Unit: PAL - 25 frames per second Resolution: CCIR PAL|Quantel Pal; 720 pixels x 576 pixels Aspect Ratio: Device: 1.333; Pixel: 1.066 Video Format: Apple QuickTime Photo JPEG .MOV format Audio Format: Stereo, 16bits, 44.1KHz Sampling Rate
No. 001
002
003
004
18
Image
Content
Sec
It was a sunny day
001
The bear was drinking coke on his land
005
After finished he threw the cup into the rubblish bin
012
The iceberg arrond keep on sinking, but the bear still watching TV
015
pre - production
No. 005
006
007
008
Image
Content
Sec
The sun was still shinny
017
The bear thought i was really very hot
018
So he turned on his fan with the highest speed
020
Then turned on the air-conditioner with the coolest mode
023
19
Story Board (image 009 - 012)
No. 009
Image
Content But he still felt hot.
Sec 026
The warning light on his tummy started to flash in the same time, but the bear didn’t notice
010
011
012
20
He walked towards the coast
028
The jump into the sea
029
To enjoy swimming
031
pre - production
No. 013
014
015
016
Image
Content
Sec
The fan kept on running
033
The warning light kept on flashing
034
The air-conditioner kept on running
035
The warning light kept on flashing
036
21
Story Board (image 013 - 020)
No. 017
018
019
020
22
Image
Content
Sec
The TV kept turnning on
037
The light turned off
038
The fan stopped
039
Air-con stopped
041
pre - production
No. 021
022
023
024
Image
Content
Sec
TV turned off
045
The bear stopped moving without knowing what was happened
047
Started drown slowly
050
End
055
23
24
Chapter 2
The production of the animation
25
Character and Set modeling The main character
Structure
Texture
26
27
Character and Set modeling The bench Structure
Reference
Texture
The coffee tabel Structure
Texture
28
29
Character and Set modeling The electronic fan
Reference
Structure
Texture
30
31
Character and Set modeling The enviroment Lighting
32
33
Shot list
Frame Scene 1
ACTIONS
A
zoom out slowly(window)
160 356
pan up slowly (bear) B
390 471
CAMERA INSTRUCTIONS
A
521
pan downward iceberg sinking
stop
Bear jumps to the ground
rotate form L to R
throw away the cup
pull back and follow the cup
581
B
iceberg sinking
stop
683
A
Bear turns on the fan
pan to ( fan )
835
air-con emit snow
pan up ( air-con )
966
jumping to the sea
pull back and follow the bear
1033
C
bear underwater
stop
1066
A
TV turns off
stop
1094
pan to the fan
1090
fan slow down
1123
stop pan up ( air con )
1129
air-con stops emiting snow
stop
1143
iceberg sinking
stop
bear swimming
follow the bear
1241
waring light stops flashing
focus to the bear
1315
the bear drowning
stop
1181
34
C
production
Scene A
Scene B
Scene C
35
Testing Ripple of the sea ( play blast screen shot) I tried to add some ripple wave to animate the sinking iceberg effects, however, the detail wave should be increase the subdivisions of the sea surfaces. That always make the maya running out of work. And it even not allow me to render. That’s why finally I reduce the subdivisions to 100 uv.
36
production
Shadows I think the most kill time things of making maya animation should be lighting and rendering. Sometimes when I render a picture out to check. It does not have matter, but after render a movie out, I found that the shadow will be flashing and with a horrible quality, then should be re test and render again.
Test 01 Depth map shadow attributes Resolution: 512 Filter size :3
Test 02 Depth map shadow attributes Resolution: 512 Filter size :1
Test 02 Depth map shadow attributes Resolution: 2500 Filter size :3
37
Final Maya animation Bear’s delight - 60 seconds MV screen shot
38
( 001 - 016 )
production
39
Final Maya animation Bear’s delight - 60 seconds MV screen shot ( 017 -
40
028 )
production
41
42
Chapter 3
Post production of the animation
43
After Effects Applying Title
Movie title
End
Producer name
44
post - production
Applying lens flare
45
Personal review
Apart from learning using Maya, this project gave me a very good chance to learn story telling as well. I’m happy that I could apply my personal message into the story. Altough it might be hard to deliever it completely to the audience, I still tried to do so because I think it would be more interesting. Modeling, animate and rendering also have to spend a lot of time, since we all have work with the other project at the same time, I started to work on this animation a little bit later than the other classmates. However, I really enjoying working on it. I could create what i want in it. On the day I finished the animation, I feel very friutful with what i have done. Even it still has a lot of error, I have already spent most of the time and tried my best. I hope I could have improvement in this summer vacation.
- Joan Ma / 05733767D -
46
47
48