Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: UV layout Part 2 - Body & Exporting Maps

Premise: Mrs Pratt Development - Colour Keys

I have done some colour keys of Mrs. Pratt. Next I want to give a whirl of adding patterns and textures to her clothes such as paisley to see if that adds more to her character.

Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: UV Layout Part 1 - Head & Head Details

Toolkit 2: Arnold Part 24 - Stand Ins (Proxies)

Toolkit 2: Arnold Part 19 - Depth of Field

Toolkit 2: Arnold Part 22: Sub Surface Scattering

I have no idea why the characters eyes won't show up in the beauty render even though I have all the layers turned on and why his mouth is closed, so because of this the ambient occlusion doesn't sit right. Ill return to this at a later stage.

Toolkit 2: Progress Report

Maya tutorials 

Jetpack Jones Head & Body

In Progress -UV Layout

(I need to complete from UV layout onward)  

Toolkit 2: Lighting & Rendering

(Not yet completed - Part 19 - Depth of Field, Part 22 Standard Surface Scattering)

Toolkit 2: Life Drawing

Life Drawing 

Toolkit 2: Character Design

Character Design Bible

Toolkit 2: Sculpting

Sculpting

Toolkit 2: Acting Class

Acting

Toolkit 2: Infographic

Infographic

Toolkit 2: Mudbox

Mudbox

Animation Moom

Moom Posing

Moom Posing - Expressions

Moom weightlifting poses

Moom Weightlifting Playblast

Moom - Facial Animation

Moom: Facial Animation - Phonemes

Toolkit : Arnold Lighting & Rendering Part 18: Photometric Lights

Toolkit: Facial Animation - Phonemes

Toolkit: Acting Class 1, 2 & 3

• Sculpting: The moulding of the person to get the character across to the viewer.

• Status: High or low status are completely different and the body language and mannerisms of the character is what determines if the character has high or low status

• Staging: relates to how the person is staged in the scene, if they have their back to the audience the staging isn't good and results in the audience not understanding the character.

Lesson 1 - sculpting 
The sculpting lesson was about how body language can really tell the difference between a person and what it is that they are doing. We were put in groups of two and we were tasked with one of us being the sculptor while the other was clay, the sculptor had to move and mould the clay into the character and their action, some examples included a drug addict, a gardener, a hair dresser and a conductor. It was eye opening to see how the slightest flick of a finger such as with the conductor can make all the difference in getting across the persons action that they were conveying.



Lesson 2 - Staging and Status 
In the second acting lesson we learnt all about Authority and status. We were given a random card from a deck of cards and that number correlated to the status of whoever picked the card with one being the lowest status and ten being the highest. We then had to act out entering a room and try and get everyone to guess our numbers from acting with either a low, medium or higher status.

Another Scenario that we acted out was one of us was allocated the highest status of being the King or Queen and we had to enter the palace of the king or Queen and try not to net get killed by the King/Queen from a snap of their fingers.



Lesson 3 - Staging and Status
In our third class we had to pretend that we were in a saloon with each of us given random characters such as the drunk, gambler, and a pianist. One member of our group was the antagonist and had to enter the saloon with a high status while the rest of us with a lower status had to watch in threatening awe. This lesson really thought me about tension and to keep the tension for the audience silence is needed even if you really want to break it, also the slightest look away from the antagonists eyes really shows off their higher status.

We also gave a whirl of improv. we were split into groups of three and we were given an environment where we had to improv our scenes out. our group was given a zoo and at any given moment one of us had to be standing, sitting and lying down. Improv thought me that its all about movement, you cant stand there all together at the same time because the audience will lose interest. You also need to say yes to anything that is given to you by a group member to keep the story unfolding naturally otherwise you can jumble back and forth with a story that doesn't flow nicely.

Alex, Jenn and Ruth acting out their scene in a garden using improv

Premise: The Cupboard - Concept Art

I have done another sketch of the cupboard for my premise project. I am trying to keep the energy of the line work and also seeing how as I am recalling these from my memories I am trying to show that memory is warped by skewing, warping and shifting the perspective using the warp perspective and liquify/bulge effects which also show how cramped and claustrophobic the cupboard was. I want to show that because I used art as an escape from life at that time I want that to reflect in the film with a painterly/sketchy feel so I downloaded some watercolour brushes for photoshop which I think add a nice touch. I am going to give a whirl of trying to show most of the energy in the link work only and keep the colour to a minimum to see the results.

Original

Warped/ Bulge Effect

Warped Effect 1

Warped Effect 2

Warped/ Liquify Bulge Effect

Toolkit: Sculpting 2

In todays sculpting class we added more volume to the mould of the character and blocked out certain parts of the character in basic shapes to start off with. 

Toolkit 2: Moom - Facial Animation

moom facial rigging from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Toolkit: Sculpting Class 1

In the first sculpting class we prepared our stands with wire, milliput and tinfoil to be used to create the heads of our characters and we also made the eyeballs for the characters. I have decided to model the character Sterling from the TV show Archer. 

@Alan Toolkit 2: Sculpting Class - Homer Simpson

Toolkit 2: Sculpting Class - Nigel Thornberry

Toolkit: Life Drawing - Session 17

 Coloured Chalk 30 min coloured chalk

 Coloured Chalk 10 poses 3 - 2 -1 mins

Coloured Chalk 10 mins

Coloured Chalk 30 mins

Toolkit 2 // Pipeline 1: Body Modelling Part 6 - Hands And The Final Model

Toolkit : Arnold Lighting & Rendering Part 17: Ambient Occlusion

Toolkit : Arnold Lighting & Rendering Part 16 - Mesh Lights

Toolkit: Acting - Session 1

Acting class today was a lot of fun. We had to come up with a story and break it down into 3 key poses to get to the key moments that tell the story. Joe, Karolina and myself were a team and our story consisted of myself as the vengeful mob boss, Joe as the ne'er-do-well who owe's the mob boss money and Karolina as the mob boss's pet dog that has bladder issues.

Joe, Karolina and myself acting out our scene

Noah and Polly giving us all the sass

Premise: Audio Script Recording

I recorded a rough version of the script for my Premise Project. There are some parts that could be improved and I will return to this at a later date. I just wanted to get an overall time slot going so I can pace the storyboard and animatic more precisely, I am surprised that the recording clocked in over 4 minutes.  overall I enjoyed the process and I tried my best to make my voice sound like a conversation with a friend rather than mechanical and have it in parts feel authentic to the emotions that the script is linked too.

Permise: Character Design - Mrs Pratt - Further Designs

Some further designs of mrs Pratt. I started out using basic shapes and adding and drawing through them. I enjoy doing characters doing this way as it feels like it makes a lot more sense to break the character down to its bare essential and then flesh them out with more detail.

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Toolkit: Life Drawing - Session 16

Toolkit 2: Updated Infographic

I wasn't happy with the previous version of the infographic so I decided to revisit it, There's still a few things that could be improved but I really enjoyed doing this project and it has opened my eyes to  the more 2D possibilities of Maya.  Stranger Things Infographic from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.

Toolkit 2: Stranger Things - Infographic Snagging list - The Demogorgon

Infographic Demogorgon Snag list test from Graeme Daly on Vimeo.