Month: April 2023

Advanced and Experimental 3DCA Techniques Project 2

Week 13: Blocking Plus

Blocking plus is even more extending the blocking by adding more poses in between the key ones. These poses are breakdown poses and their purpose is to better show the movement.

To simplify, the concept has to look like KEY – BREAKDOWN – KEY.

Last week we also received a feedback on our first blocking attempt. After the feedback I had to work more on the poses for falling:

This feedback helped me to develop my blocking:

Animated Artefact

I decided to start by animating scene 9 first, as I could try out animating a fly that will be present in more scenes as well as I will not need to focus on the lower part of the body of the character.

Previs:

First version of animation:

I did a render to see how well the character works with the world and how fast will render a render farm located in the university. The answers: the character works perfectly with the environment and rendering is very fast, comparing to my computer. The only thing is that the eyebrows were rendered wrong in a few frames.

As for the other character in this animation and the scene specifically – a firefly, I have found a rigged model of a regular fly online and have changed it a bit so it looks a bit less as a regular fly. In the future I will need to add a glow affect on the body.

Thesis Proposal

Week 12: Research Methodology

Post author By Veronika Butkevich
Post date 27th April 2023
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Research Methods

Research methods are the strategies, processes or techniques utilized in the collection of data or evidence for analysis in order to uncover new information or create better understanding of a topic

Types of Research

Qualitative Research gathers data about lived experiences, emotions or behaviours, and the meanings individuals attach to them. It assists in enabling researchers to gain a better understanding of complex concepts, social interactions or cultural phenomena. This type of research is useful in the exploration of how or why things have occurred, interpreting events and describing actions.

Quantitative Research gathers numerical data which can be ranked, measured or categorised through statistical analysis. It assists with uncovering patterns or relationships, and for making generalisations. This type of research is useful for finding out how many, how much, how often, or to what extent.

Mixed Method Research integrates both Qualitative and Quantitative Research. It provides a holistic approach combining and analysing the statistical data with deeper contextualised insights. Using Mixed Methods also enables Triangulation, or verification, of the data from two or more sources.

My research will combine both qualitative and quantitative types. However, the principal component will be a quantitative analysis of the percentage of women working on films correlated with data showing female representation on screen. To support these statistics, literature will be analysed to extract data collected by other researchers.

Advanced and Experimental 3DCA Techniques Project 2

Week 12: Blocking

Blocking is essentially the skeleton of the body!
© George Toombes

Blocking is a very important second step of the animation (right after creating the reference). It helps to see what are the key poses, how the story is going to be told and to better understand timing between the main poses. In general, it helps to see how the animation is going to develop further.

George also shared with us a very useful video on how to approach blocking: