NEW BLOG

I have created a new blog to upload all of my third year Animation work.
http://bhanimation3.blogspot.co.uk/

I will still continue to use this blog to upload other pieces of artwork that I am working on, or personal Animation projects.

Hospital Room Props and Furniture List

Researching into different hospital rooms, I have decided that I will put my characters in a private room. Looking at machinery and objects commonly found in a hospital room, I have created a list of props that I would need to design and develop.

- Bed/Chart
- Bedside Cabinet
- Photo Frames
- Bed Table
- Window
- Table
- Armchairs
- TV
- Heart Monitor
- IV Post
- Sink
- Toilet

Hospital Room Thumbnail Outlines

Based on my thumbnail designs I have decided to develop designs 2, 3 and 15. I really like the space and shape of thumbnail design 15, but the larger window in design 3 would give the scene a good, strong source of light. The corridor on design 2 would give the scene an interesting shape. I will now continue to develop the floorplan of my hospital room design.

Hospital Room Thumbnails

Hospital Room Textures

Hospital Equipment/Clean Mood Board

Father/Daughter Mood Board

KEY WORDS:

- Love

- Caring

- Protective

- Fun

Words to remind myself of the feelings to show within my film, I want to focus on the loving and strong relationship between a father and his only daughter. 

Sadness/Joy Moodboard

The base of my story has two strong emotional contrasts. The first emotion being portrayed is sadness by the father growing worrying for his daughters health, the second being happiness showing the strong relationship of the father/daughter bond in the flashbacks.

I created this mood board to show the visual differences between the two emotions. The monochromatic and lifeless colours can clearly show the depiction of sadness and the bright vibrant colours and joy of happiness. I have looked at a variety of people, medias and images that come to mine when you think of both happy and sad situations.

Hospital Room Research

Final Year Story - Daddy's Little Girl (Working Title)

My Final Year Story

All 3D Scene....
A young girl 19 years old lays sleeping in a hospital bed with her father sat beside her, he sits hunched over exhausted and sullen. Softly stroking the girls hand. He sit's looking at her heart monitor, whilst trying to hold back his fears and uncontrollable sobs. He looks towards the young girls face, and towards the photos on her bedside cabinet. (photos of them together, only colour in the opening scene the rest is grey and white)
Fades into 2d scenes.

2D Scenes..... 
These scene will start off in full colour, gradually getting darker and grey as the story progresses. (showing the emotions of the characters)

The girl younger than in the bed (around 4) runs over some small hills and jumps looking as if she is flying through the air. Her father (looks the same but fresher) catches her and swings her around. (Just showing a healthy young child enjoying the sun)

Girl (age 7) learning to ride her bike with the dad behind her, she falls a few times but he picks her up dusts her off. The little girls gets back on the bike wabbles and then rides off slowly. Quick shot of the fathers face looking proudly into the distance.

Christmas scene. (Age 12) Scene starts with the young girl getting up out of bed struggling to move quickly, even though she is trying really hard to jump up out of bed. (Two hospital notes can be seen on the wall) The girl slowly walks down the stairs. The father looks up, standing by a tree with lots of presents covering every surface. The girl tries to run and jump with excitement but falls, the dad catches her once more and walks her to the sofa.. The girl coughs but keeps her smile, she begins opening presents with her dad.

Bedroom scene (age 16) some time has passed, the girls bedroom is covered with calendars saying Doctors appointment. The girl lays in bed with her dog, as her dad brings food to her. As he puts the tray down he feels her head and runs to the phone. The girls eyes are closed.

Hospital scene quick. Pan shot of the dad looking out of the hospital room window.

Back to 3D
3d clock turns fast showing the progression of time.

He slowly comes back to reality as the Heart monitor slows down and stops. The dad falls to the bed crying. (fade to black)

Alternate Ending 

The girl wakes and gives her dad a smile. (scene gradually turns to full colour)

End

NOTES - Show hints of the mother within the scenes. Dad not wearing a wedding ring, photos, small details.

Reference Movies - Inspiration

Father and Daughter - 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePhP-qRzSc

Riding a bike reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7HsWf8cbI

Third Year Work

ALL WORK FROM THIS POINT IS FOR MY FINAL YEAR ANIMATION COURSE.

Project Evaluation.

Throughout this term, I have learn't how to model, texture, animate and light a scene in Autodesk Maya. As well as rendering out all of my scenes and editing the animation in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Overall I am really happy with how my project and the final underwater and light ray effects I created in After Effects CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6 turned out. I feel that my modelling was the strongest part of my project, seeing as how it was my first time modelling an entire scene in Maya on my own. I wanted to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone by creating two scenes from scratch, one being my bedroom scene and the other being my fishbowl scene. I also feel that I was able to achieve the realistic quality that I initially set out to create. My weakest point of my project was the texturing and UV mapping in Maya, I found it very difficult in the beginning to get my head around the process of how to texture my models. I did look at a lot of tutorials and guides online which helped me and I think did look really good in the end, however it did give me the most trouble throughout my entire project.

My strongest part of the animation I felt was the swim cycle, because the animation look quite smooth and I spent a long period of the production getting the weight of the character looking right. Next time I animate in Maya I will make sure to keep an eye on the movements of the arms, I found that in some circumstance they were twisting at awkward angles and it did take me a while to correct the problem before I could finish the production to begin rendering.

Overall I have learnt a lot about animating in 3D, and I have found that I did get on well with the software once I figured out how it worked. I think modelling and animating in 3D software could be a possible career path that I would pursue based on this project and what I have created. 

Audio

For the audio in my animation I used a voice actor to create all of my sound effects and to re-record my movie quote "Show Me The Money".

Finished 3D Animation

Premiere Editing

Here is the final editing process in Premiere Pro CS6, for my 3D animation, with all my sound effects and editing. The Background colours and light ray effects were all created by me in After Effects. I was not able to use my movie quote "Show Me The Money" directly from the internet because of background interference from the movie. So I asked a class member to do the voice acting for me, in a recording studio which I feel worked out a lot better as I could then get my actor to record sound effects rather than using to many sound effects from the internet. 

Background Video References

Video tutorial for my final project, to give the scene a deep underwater feel.

Final Rendered Scenes - Fishbowl and Bedroom Scene

Bedroom Screenshots

Bedroom Scene normal, wireframe and rendered view.

Lighting Set Up

Lighting Scene in wireframe.