This week we had to start animating and put it in blocking first. The only parts I didn’t put in blocking is the mimics and lips movement.
My first attempt:
Artefact Animation
This week I worked on scene 7, previs of which looks like this:
I asked my classmate Gloria to help with a reference:
Playbast animation:
The second part of the week I spent on figuring out how to create a glowing effect for a firefly that is going to be visible in multiple shots, as well as how to create a fireflies swarm.
Our other tutor Michael was helping me to achieve a glowing effect. At first we tried putting a light in the body of a fly, but it didn’t give a desired effect. So then I tried adding emission to the body by adding a different texture first. It did help to illuminate light but the light was visible only when a fly was close to different surfaces. Michael suggested duplicating a body part and scale it but also didn’t do a wanted effect.
An example of the glowing I wanted to create was drawn over the rendered scene in procreate:
After hours or investigation I found the easiest solution to achieve a glow – I added a bloom effect under the “image” section in render settings. This effect blooms all the lights in the scene, but since my scene didn’t have any additional lights (I used Skydome for the light), the effect affected only a firefly.
A previous example also shows an example of the swarm.
To chive a swarm effect I knew I had to work with particle effect. Michael showed me a YouTube example that really helped to achieve a nearly desirable effect:
After testing a particle and a bloom effect: