Applied Animation: Competition: Week Two: 19th - 25th February 2018

This week as LiamS worked on storyboard and animatic, I did a bit more work on VFX testing.

The first one I did this week was a paint effect trailing from a hand. I did this using a mask in after effects and keyframed it to reveal as the hand moved across screen.
I like the effect that this gives because it is something quite surreal as the colour changes after it has been painted.
For the actual effect, we would be filming against a greenscreen so the hand will be sharper, as for this I simply keyed it out from a white backdrop. 

The next test I did was in maya. At the end of our video, the character will build buildings around him by just raising his hands. To do this from all angles needed, I will be making a model in maya and then we will draw sketched construction lines over it as if they are leading the build before the model fills it.

For this, I created a city scape to surround the character which rise out of the ground as the camera moves across the screen. I animated some with details of the buildings only appearing once the building was at it's max height. This is the principle I will be working from for the final thing, since we are going to be doing him inside one big building now (something like a cathedral).

Liam showed us the animatic he had put together and it was really good and well considered. He had included many of the ideas we had previously discussed while also adding some new stuff too. From this, we made a shot list and I can flesh this out into a bit of a shooting script to make filming more organised next week.