Assignmet 7

While I had the assignment done, I felt I needed a little more time to make it look like I needed it to look. It didn’t adequately portray the time I’d spent on it, so I finished now and I think it looks good.

My first idea was to have the tree represent our mind, storing information. This would then travel down into sphere, and then be funneled down tubes. The ball of light would then unravel into the phrase, but I soon noticed the whole thing started to look like a Rube Goldberg machine. Its purpose was cloudy, and it was confusing, so I settled for a simpler approach. The sphere is now the output generator, where the brain works and the body shows the work, such as the brain moving the hand and the body responds.

The sound behind it is a nice augmented choir with an electric shock at the beginning, and a time-stretched radar beep at the end, including the title screen.

Weekly Post 11/1/09

http://www.3dtotal.com/getgalleryitem.php?cat=scenes&id=1786

Weekly Post 11/1/09

http://www.flickr.com/photos/younesze/4012217932/in/pool-psdvault

Man with trees growing out of him... well, it's fluid, and more inspiration to draw from for my project involving modeling a tree of sorts. This is also kind of spiritual, something I was going for in my animation. While it failed there for the audience, not so much for myself, it had a fallback plan, so it was informational.

Weekly Post 11/1/09

I decided to sketch out my idea this week. It’s a tree of knowledge. The threads are continues, and they converge at the trunk. They spiral around each other, influencing each other. Once at the trunk, they disperse into the ground, maybe a breaking sphere, and they come out as balls rolling out of pipes. These balls with emerge and form into words. The camera will track the spark as two twigs interact, and the journey of the idea as it grows and changes color on its journey. Once out of the tube, it will morph into the word “mind”. The camera will pan out to reveal the sentence: “the mind is an incredible thing”. A bit ambitious, but I’m confident I can find all the right ways to lower the workload and make this an attainable goal.

Weekly Journal 10/26/09

http://www.cgartworld.com/fullimage.php?imgurl=%2Falbums%2Flandscape-architecture%2FThe_Journey_Ends.jpg&imgtitle=The+Journey+Ends

Again with more pictures of trees. This one shows more of the tree, but is far enough away to hide details. It relies on secularity to illuminate the trunk. The branches show every now and then, so their splitting is hidden by the leaves.

Weekly Journal 10/26/09

http://www.3dtotal.com/getgalleryitem.php?cat=scenes&id=3782

I've been looking at pictures of trees. Surprisingly there don't seem to be the most popular modeling topic. This shows some nice leaves, along with the nice fog. The leaves look very photorealistic.

Weekly Journal 10/26/09

I chose the best picture out of the paper, though I couldn’t find it online to upload it for a comparison. I started with the balloon, and then drew the guy to be a placeholder. After drawing him horrifically, I chose to devote all of my allotted time on him. His face went from feminine, ultra masculine, and I couldn’t get away from making him look like a computer programmer. Most don’t have braids, so I assumed he wasn’t, and changed his features so they looked like they belonged to him. I’ve decided to devote my time to faces, seeing as how it challenges me, and I can draw multiple faces quicker than an entire scene.