Week 3: Continue to flesh out my 3 ideas

Sessions with George

  • Continue to flesh out my 3 ideas.
  • Provide feedback to help me modify the details and ending of the script to make the story more complete.
  • Provide feedback to help me modify the details and ending of the script to make the story more complete.
  • Create Mood board to better analyze animation scripts.

Reference:

Scene reference for underground and underground stations

MOOD BOARD：

Why the mood board is important in the process?

The mood board can well reflect the emotions and atmosphere of the storyline, provide emotional reference value for animation production, and help develop the plot emotions.

Week 2 : Design and Digital Processes and DAOs

  • This week’s theme was Radical Friendship, Gamified Collaboration and DAOs.

  • This week we brainstormed together in class through two games to appreciate each person’s role and task in collaborating in groups, and felt the charm and fun of working together through cooperative games.

1. Cooperative painting

Three-person group origami cooperative painting

The first game is to draw a combination picture in a group of three people, but the part of others should be covered before painting, so that everyone does not know what others are painting until it is finished. Because everyone’s ideas, designs and brush colors are different, there will be many interesting things in the end.

2. Design our own group games

The Pumpkin Game

Shizra, Donatella and I came up with a simple game, in which the player has to take a selfie, replace the head with a pumpkin filter and send the picture to a friend.

Reflections and gains:

  • We learned how group work should be done, the importance of each person dividing up the work and that we should share our ideas boldly, no matter what it is. Communication is important, as well as sharing the results that come from collaboration.

Week 2: Experimental Animation

In the early 1900’s the avant-garde interest in part, focused upon the formal aesthetic potentials of film and animation, line and form, movement and rhythm, colour and light.

The limitless potentials of developing visual and film language fuelled by technological advancement has and continues to motivate independent and ground-breaking work.

Personal Vision through independent film and animation remain central to the development of the medium.

Experimental film umbrellas a vast variety of concepts, models and approaches. The work may by nature hard to to categorise and define. It is therefore important to;

Find systems by which we can recognise qualities, aesthetics, abstract themes and concepts.

Analysis the influences of new technologies, society and culture on individual works or movements.

Determine the individual motivations and priorities of the artist/s

Establish the significance of work from a historical and contemporary context.

Week2: Creating 3D Storyboard

First Script:

Idea 1:

A man was waiting at the underground station, and then a beautiful girl came up. The man looked at the girl shyly. At this time, the girl also looked at the boy. The boy was attracted, fell into imagination and love. A few minutes later man come back and found that the girl had taken the underground and left…The boy looked at the subway to look for a girl, and found that the girl also looked at him on the subway. At last, he was very disappointed. Suddenly, he found that he had a note in his hand. When he opened it, it was the contact number left by the girl…To be continue

Second Script:

Idea 2:

This is a story about two undercover agents, one is a bad guy undercover among the police, the other is a police undercover among the bad guys, the confrontation and dialogue between the two on the rooftop…

Third Script:

Idea 3:

The story of a man playing the piano, close-up…
some images while playing the piano, a series of mental scenes are interspersed, such as dancing or love, and finally lying on the lawn

Week 1: FMP thesis proposal

1. On graduation which area or environment of production do you wish to focus upon and why?

When I graduate, I hope to be engaged in the field of 3D animation special effects,

2. What skills will you need to attain the standards required for vocational practice?

I need mature 3D modeling and special effects technology

3. How will you showcase your FMP practice for the final shows?

Combine practice with theory,

4. Is it important to directly connect the thesis research to your practical work?

It is very important to directly link the research of the paper with the actual work, because the theory of the paper is the basis of practice. You can have a good plan and theoretical guidance from the paper

Week 1: Unit Introduction & Assignment Details

In the course

  • In this week’s session, we were given a general overview of the course structure, objectives and syllabus of the collaborative unit course, as well as the specific assignments and projects we will be working on throughout the semester. We also discussed the workflow during teamwork, the skills and knowledge needed to work effectively in a teamwork course.
  • During the class, we post our details and topics of interest to us on the padlet board to connect with other students.

After the course

  • After the class, we went to the canteen for a meeting. And we met course leaders and students from other majors and discussed collaborative content and areas of interest together.

Week1: Elements of Mise En Scene/ Camera animation

What is Mise-en-scene:

WHAT IS PREVIS & POSTVIS?

Previsualization is the visualizing of complex scenes before filming. Directors and cinematographers rely on the previs to plan their shots and angles. Postvis, or post-visualizations, happens during postproduction when viewing rough cuts, without the expense, and time, of completing final visual effects shots.

Why is it important to learn previs?

Previs has become more mainstream in the entertainment
industry. Most of the major blockbuster films use previs on
a regular basis—just look at the credits for the latest VFX
film. Chances are, you will see at least one of the many
facilities that do previs credited. Some films previs every
frame you see, and some only do a sequence or two. And
it’s not just the heavy fight sequences that are prevised, it’s
also many of the acting shots too. The biggest reason to
learn previs is to learn how to quickly lay in performances
and cameras in a way that is actually filmable. This is why
ALL animators should learn at least some previs.

Week 9, Report Structure and Referencing

Harvard Referencing Conventions

Citing books, texts, films and other sources for bibliography

Title / Subtitle A research title can identify a main topic and a subtitle can qualify a specific area or focus for the research. Often it is helpful to create a question your research can answer or pose a problem the research aims to resolve.

Abstract An abstract is a short summary of your dissertation. You should briefly outline the research question you started with, the methods you used to answer it, and the results of your research. This is not a promotional piece, so you do not need to keep the reader in suspense – simply explain what you did.

Contents Page You should include a list of the contents of your report along with page numbers. Remember to give your chapters meaningful titles, do not simply use Chapter 1 Chapter 2 etc. You should also make sure that the contents list matches with the actual page numbers

Introduction The introduction should tell the reader what your research is about, explain the context in which you are working, state your research question, and outline the ways your writing will answer that question over the subsequent chapters. if your practice is central to the Critical Report, it is crucial that you place your work and the questions or ideas that motivate your work in the introduction to your assignment.

On the one hand consider what is going to spark an interest and curiosity about your work in your audience, on the other, the more precise you can be about the field of knowledge in which your research is situated the better.

Literature Review The purpose of writing a literature review is to present the sources you have used in the research to your readers. By doing this, you’re communicating several things:

Explaining the type of research you conducted, mapping your research showing where you started, which concepts you chose to focus on and where following those concepts brought you and where your work fits into the bigger picture explaining how your findings connect to the existing body of research on your topic.

Don’t just list and describe the sources you have read; respond to them, interpret them, and critically evaluate them. Keep in mind that you don’t have to agree with every source you use—in fact, exploring where your findings diverge from a source’s findings can be a strong point in your literature review and paper.

Chapters for main discussion In this section you will discuss all the key issues and strands that have consequence or relevance to your research enquiry. Provide a structure for a balanced argument and objective analysis of the subject with relevant materials, recognising established and contemporary theories surrounding your topic.

Structure your discussion into relevant chapters with suitable headings and sub-headings required. While each chapter may cover different subject matter it is important to maintain a connection to the overall research question or objective informing the reader of the relevance of that information.

In the discussion your voice and perspective should be heard but balanced and supported by recognised and reliable referencing and citation.

Conclusion This should sum up the findings of your research, and clearly explain your overall position. It should bring closure to your discussion alongside broader meaning and any implications for other topics, you can also identify areas where your work could be extended.

You may want your reader to think differently, question something, or perform some action or make a recommendation of what your reader should “do” with the information.

Avoid introducing new topics or additional content not previously discussed.

Bibliography You must include a bibliography. This is a complete list of the texts (including books, articles, websites, etc.) that you have referred to in writing your dissertation. This list should be Harvard referenced. You may also require a filmography, image list etc.