*A collection of Stills from the different scenes of "I Am."* Approach: First, I would like to mention that last week I made a mistake in the amount of content in the short. I happened to actually have 4 sections of words rather than 3. I miscounted, my mistake! Now, for this week I went through and chose color schemes that I thought would work for each scene. Above you can see some examples of the ones I chose. The scenes colored for clarity and the toon-shader's rendered quickly with the Deadline application in the labs. It can render via Maya-Software render as well as Arnold. I haven't rendered out an Arnold pass with ambient occlusion, but the toon-render looks very fitting in my opinion. I have a question-mark after 'sound?' in the title because I'm not sure if just having the static noise is enough to push the scene. While watching my animatic I happened to notice that each section could have either some soft sound effects or some sort of ambient sound attached to it. Choices Made: This week I began rendering fully completed scenes. I also made some changes to some scenes that I did not feel I had time to animate, but still wanted a 'complete' product. I once had a professor who said to me, "Get it to 80%, and take a short break before getting that next 15%. You'll never make it to 100[%] because perfection isn't real." I made some decisions about the color keying of the animation and the lighting behind the meaning of the imagery. I hope that people will ask questions about the somewhat intentional compositing of scenes. I don't want to explicitly say anything about what I interpret the scenes as, because I am more interested about their reaction to the imagery and their interpretation as well. *An evolution of my awkward enthusiasm.* Inspirational Sources:
I had a tough time this week with contemplating my presence at ACCAD. But, speaking with professors from the Design department and ACCAD helped change my perspective. I felt a sense of relief while asking peers in the department if they thought I should continue. They said yes, and another wave of confidence came. It seems funny that it is coming so late in the semester, but I feel pushed even harder in the right direction now. I consider having the other graduate students a blessing; I'm not a religious person, but they are supportive until the end. I re-watched "Over the Garden Wall" this week. It will always be one of my favorite cartoons, as it is evocative, inquisitive, full of metaphorical inquiry and philosophy, and beautiful storytelling with wonderful animation. Questions Raised & Needs:
Next Steps: Continuing forward this week, I have to finish compositing the scenes together, consider the changes to the words between the sections of the film. I've thought about having a moving pattern in the background for the sake of making them less static. Maybe having an item from each scene in a diagonal pattern with brighter colors would help with conveying a foreshadowing before each section. Hopefully the rest of the week is as productive as this last one. -Taylor Olsen Comments are closed.
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