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Squirrel hand trouble

Apparently i  found a bug in my rig. When im trying to load my rig that i made at home, it loads with a bug that my hand is missing. Dont know why but i think i will finish my Squirrel model at home, doing this hand again and again and again will give me nuts.

Making sound effects

After few playings with animation of Daxter and Robot. I found a problem that they are talking with human voices, which isnt good. Thanks to Sony Vegas, i easily managed to play with it, and iv made a squirrel voice and a robot voice. Really loved it, now the animation is starting to be a little bit realistic.

Shame i cant place an example of it, but i will add a folder and place 2 different sound files.
1st will be original
2nd will be changed

Animation Ideas

So when the time came to think, what i would like to animate. Iv started to think, what sorf of animation i want to create. As my theme was Game Of Thrones 11 sec episode, with Nedd Stark and Jamie Lanister, where 2 soldiers dies, i had problem finding a perfect match for it... After that i'v started to fill that i wont find anything special for my animation.

Suddenly i found a solution. Well first thing was that... almost everyone took same rigs. I just wanted to go global and take something else, i found a free rig called Daxter

I though i could make something of it.
It was kind-of easy to work with this rig, however in the first time i had trouble with it. Could find all the necessary rig options.

After that i tried to make a voice change. So it would be little realistic, that the squirrel or rabbit is talking.

After that i placed 2 more of Daxter copies and changed their texture color a bit. So they wont be the same color.



Second idea was to create an evil side, of Jamie Lanister. Same here i had a problem finding a perfect rig for that role. But after a few searches i found a robot. It was a great idea, but i faced another problem. That robot didnt had a mouth. So i was hard to animate it. Few rig controls but.I made it.

Animation Project Script

Animation Project Script

Game Of Thrones Short Animation clip

 “Dead man”

Title: Dead man

Characters:  Nedd Stark; Stark guards;  Jamie Lanister; Lanister soldiers;

Scene: In the alley, near the public house, surrounded with Lanister servants.

;Eddard Stark looks in the eyes of his opponent, Jamie;

[Nedd]:  You kill me... “short pause” Your brother is a dead man...

;Jamie laughed;

[Jamie]: Your right.

;Jamie turned his head to his servants and ordered his men to attack Starks guards.;

[Jamie]: Take him alive, kill his man.

;Jamie’s servants throwed  pikes, and killed some Starks men;

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Short Video clip: part with the conversation

11s

Computer generated imagery[presentation files]

First Cat Animation

In 1968 was made a  model of a moving cat across a screen. A program was made for a specialized computer called BESM-4

Big Success

The 1977 movie became a huge box office hit and became an inspiration for many CGI effects that followed.

 

Huge Step

2009 – 2012

Films with big box office money

 Script for the presentation it self(the part that should be learned)

For the origins of computer-generated imagery (CGI) we need to go back to the year 1968. In this year a group of Russian mathematicians and physicists headed by N.Konstantinov created a mathematical model of a moving cat across a screen. A program was made for a specialized computer called BESM-4. The computer printed hundreds of frames to be later converted into usable film material.

The first 3D computer-generated imagery was created in the film Futureworld in 1976. In a scene the hand and  face of the actor was enhanced with the use CGI. Futureworld used 2D digital compositing to materialize characters over the background.

After these first steps into discovering the possibilites of CGI a probably familiar man named George Lucas saw it’s possibilities. George Lucas conceived the popular Star Wars franchise which made use of top edge CGI effects  at the time and many that were never seen before. The 1977 movie became a huge box office hit and became an inspiration for many CGI effects that followed.
Many movies using CGI effects follwed soon after Star Wars: A New Hope which showed the real potention and mind boggling possibilities of computer-generated imagery. Superman: The Movie (1978) conceived the first computer-generated title sequence. The movies Alien (1979) and Black Hole (1979) pushed the boundaries of CGI further by conceiving 3D wireframe rasters that created more detailed CGI effects.

Many breakthroughs followed as we entered the realm of photo realistic CGI effects. The last years computer generated imagery has almost become the standard in any feature film that hits the cinema’s. In 2009 the best selling movie of all time, Avatar, pushed CGI to yet a higher level, creating a movie that was fully made with performance capture, transforming the actors into photo realistic 3D characters.

As we move forward toward the future of CGI it is for sure computer-generated imagery effects will improve further. With computer power constantly advancing CGI will do the same. I am looking forward to the near future of CGI, especially to the prequel to the Lord of the Rings: The Hobbit that is being made as we speak. Having a scheduled release in December 2012 I believe the movie will hold some interesting CGI techniques for us. I wonder what CGI spectacle we can admire in the coming years, I hope it will be as interesting as it has been so far.