Day 13 Rube Goldberg Machine

Final assignment here, cheers!
Here I actually encounter several questions:
1. Maybe it's because I stop half way through the external rendering there is a leap in the animation.
2. Not sure if it's the texture I added on the floor with bump map using noise, the final film has a lot of noise after I rendered them.

Mandala

Day 11 Follow a Polygon Modeling Tutorial

Polygon modeling

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Day 08 Texture a Model with Different Texture Projection Modes

Day 09 Procedurally Modeled Environment

Day 12 Animated Camera Mapped Image

Here is an original photograph that I have of a delicious watermelon.

And here is the animation I did using c4d projection mapping.

Assignment List

CHECKLIST

1. Day 01: Character Made from Primitives
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/09/day-01-ex-02-camera-focal-angle_8.html
2. Day 02: Verb Animation
   https://vimeo.com/113962880 (password: c4d)
3. Day 03: Theatrical Texturing Exercise
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/09/day03-ex03-bedroom.html
4. Day 04:
1. Upper Body Rig
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/10/day04-ex04-hierarchy-scene-layout.html
2. Bedroom Scene + 3 Imported Objects
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/10/day04-ex04-hierarchy-scene-layout.html
5. Day 05:
1. Photographic Lighting Recreation
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/10/day05-ex.html
2. Thematically Appropriate Lighting
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/10/day5-ex2-fruit-bowl-lighting.html
6. Day 06: 30 sec Single Object Film
   https://vimeo.com/113963921 (password: c4d)
7. Day 07: Ukulele or Other Object Made w/ Splines
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/11/day08-environment.html
8. Day 08: Texture a Model with Different Texture Projection Modes
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/12/day-08-texture-model-with-different.html
9. Day 09: Procedurally Modeled Environment
   http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/12/day-09-procedurally-modeled-environment_10.html
10. Day 10: 30 sec Procedural Animation
    https://vimeo.com/113965856 (password: c4d)
    https://vimeo.com/114160139 (password: c4d)
11. Day 11: Follow a Polygon Modeling Tutorial
    http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/12/day-11-follow-polygon-modeling-tutorial.html
12. Day 12: Animated Camera Mapped Image
    http://foundationsof3dxliang.blogspot.com/2014/12/day-12-animated-camera-mapped-image.html
13. Day 13: Rube Goldberg Machine
    https://vimeo.com/114460849

Day10 Procedual Animation

Day 07 Object Made with Splines

I came across with this beautiful photograph of seagulls.

So I decided to use it for my cinema 4d assignment this week

by adding some subtle floating particles onto the background.

Here is a picture of  the particles that I modeled by

simply  using the spline tool, cloner, and two visible lights.

 Then I project the image to a plane,

and started to adjust the camera to make it look better.

Here is the first attempt, a close shot, kind of creepy.

 Then I think a wide shot might be better, 

because 

then you can see all the seagulls.

Here is the second attempt, then I realize the particles are really huge and it's even creepier.

So, I lower the opacity and adjust the material applied to the particles and

came up with this picture.

It's more subtle and I like this version

although the c4d works become almost invisible...
(but it's okay...)

Day06 Camera Angle

Day05 Ex03 Fruit Bowl Lighting

Day05 Ex02 Describing Light

  photo by 

Florian Scholz
 

Primary light source in this photo would be a winter day sunlight.

Sunlight in a winter day would be more close to the earth surface so the light would be softer than in summer.
An overall cold tone and  long shadows dropped on the ground indicates the time of being in the morning.

photo by

Amanda

The Sun is being the main light source for this photograph.
The nice trace over the cat's silhouette indicates that the light is coming from the "east" and above.
We can still see a lot of the details on left part of the cat's body,
so there might be some fill light with a colder tone comparing to the sunlight
or there might be a surface or object which is reflecting some lights from the sun.

photo by
Reurinkjan

This is a photograph shot in Tibet. 
Tibet has a really high altitude so it is closer to the sun and thus has a harder lighting.
As you can see on the ground, the sun forms a high contrast looking in the photo with a clear division of bright white light and shadow on the ground.
I guess there is no other lighting in the room where the camera stands for the silhouette are really clear and dark.
However, the fabric helps soften and spread the light a little bit and forms some sort of soft  box.

Day04 Ex04: Hierarchy, Scene Layout, & Preset Models

UPPER BODY RIG

SCENE LAYOUT

( 3 Imported Objects )

New developed scene referencing <The Little Prince>

Supposed to develop the room scene from last week but ended up deleting all the presets.

So I gathered few models from online resources and trying to build another scene.

Day03 Ex03: Bedroom

CHARACTER

Dr. Nohng
The female doctor who works in this Thai hospital.
Her job is to serve out-patients and interview incoming doctors.
She is soft and never gets angry but somehow doesn't laugh a lot.

In c4d I am trying to recreate how her bedroom look like (in a modern time)
I consider her might be a person fond of natural decoration and like to put old Japanese woodblock prints on her wall. Since she is from Thai and she might be fond of tropic plants in her room. Her favorite color would be pink, green, and baby blue.


SCENE

The bedroom scene "appears" in the film when she goes home after a whole day of work. (Not exist in real film but let's imagine)

She took a look around the prints on the wall everyday she goes back home because they can really calm her down.

Try to re-create the same room atmosphere according to 

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film 

Syndromes and a Century.

Here are screenshots from the movie just so let you know the reference.

This is a scene where people are talking in doctor's interview room:

( texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing by SUNNY LIANG 2014, modeling by DAVID VACEK)

Day02 Ex02: Verb Animation

Day02 Ex01: Bouncing Ball

Day 01 Ex 03: Character

 There once were three cute chicks

 Very cute little yellow chick

 But suddenly "BOOM!"

 They found them three all dead

 With angel rings over their cute little yellow heads

" What just happened?"
 Their little brain ran so fast trying to know why

But "BOOM! BOOM!" it happened again

Only two of them left in the land

They think "Uh oh, one of us has disappeared"

 Then they stared at each other but there was no fear

 Because deep inside they know it clear

Once once, there was only one egg

They were all one and will never left

Day 01 Ex 02: Camera / Focal Angle