Month: June 2023

In the final production I fixed all the mistakes George mentioned, I know it looks like there is still room for improvement, but for the finished piece, I wasn’t disappointed as he moved logically and didn’t have major mistakes , this is a kind of progress for me.

I’m very happy with the final result, although there were a lot of animation issues and rendering issues, but it means a lot to me, this is my first mockumentary. My ultimate dream is to be a cg director, this is a small step for me to succeed. I am very grateful to all the people who have helped me during this semester.

At George’s suggestion, I revised my reference, where I paid more attention to the performance of the character’s demeanor and avoided overly exaggerated movements. In the production of blocking, I roughly made the main expressions. It has to be said that the production of emoticons is indeed a difficult subject. You must understand and practice emoticon animations in order to achieve smooth and consistent character movements.

During this week, I repeatedly made and modified the scene. The reason is that the performance of the computer is not enough, and it is difficult to drive high-resolution textures, so I did a lot of subtraction. The scene I hope to make is similar to the feeling of the beach in Iceland. Because the black land of Iceland gives people a very primitive and unspoiled feeling, so in my setting I decided to make a beach similar to the Icelandic landscape. I used fluid flux to make waves in the sea water, and it cost me 7 days and 7 nights to study it.

I fixed the previous mistakes and added more intermediate frames to make the whole animation look smoother.

The main work this week is to disassemble the uv and draw the texture. I refer to the appearance of the ancient crab to make the current appearance. Because it is a realistic style, I use the pbr material process in terms of materials. I will try my best to consider some realistic elements, such as soil stains and wear. As for the material of the Velociraptor, I also used a lot of normal brushes packed with modern animals, such as crocodile lizards and so on. By the way, all of this is done in substance painter.

I fixed the whites of the eyes, but my shot still has some issues. Also I added the shoulder animation for more detail, but embarrassingly, it moves like a butterfly flapping its wings instead of the correct one. .

I edited the rendered footage and edited it, and for what it’s worth, the whole process was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed the soundtrack because the sound effects of the monsters are so compelling it seems to give the work its soul.