{"id":539,"date":"2023-05-22T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/?page_id=539"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:40:35","slug":"zenith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/zenith\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For our Zenith project in animation, we were given complete creative freedom. This was our Freestyle magnum opus. I originally was very ambitious, wanting to create a multi-minute long 3D animation that had had hints of lore along with a scary animation. As I quickly found out, animating even 30 seconds took a very long time. This was party due to the fact that when I was creating my environment, I made every object a duplicate instead of an instance, which meant that the computer had to render each individual object and made the process very slow and time consuming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, I came up with a short 30 second clip of a unknown character running away from a monster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Final Product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"22 23 p7 Zenith NicholasT\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIc5nau6rsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blender<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-1536x837.png 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-600x327.png 600w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2.png 1585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Blender, you can find many tutorials online for how to make forests and that&#8217;s what I did. I found a tutorial on how to make a dark forest and went with it. Since Blender has a built in tree generator, I didn&#8217;t have to model out the trees, which was really nice. After tweaking the forest and lighting to my liking, the scene was set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I then imported a Sirenhead model into my dark forest scene. Sirenhead is just a tall, lanky, scary monster that has two sirens attached to its head. It makes eerie siren sounds and is just overall unnerving. The process for importing a model into Blender is actually slightly complicated, because you have to import the model and the textures and make sure that it imports correctly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After doing that, I then installed a Blender plug-in called<strong> &#8220;Camera Shakify&#8221;<\/strong>. This was the key component to my projects&#8217; success. The plug-in makes it so that you can animate handheld camera movement very easily. After making a path for the camera to follow and putting the handheld camera movement on top of it, I rendered my animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After Effects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-1536x840.png 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1-600x328.png 600w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NicholasT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1.png 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After rendering out my animation, I imported the png sequence into After Effects. This is where I applied the VHS effect and some simple sound design such as the footsteps, breathing, and the wind against the camera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Premiere Pro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have a screenshot for what I did in Premiere Pro, but this is where I did the rest of my sound design. Since I wanted directional sound (the siren noises coming from a distance, behind the character), I had to do the rest of my sound design in Premiere Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premiere Pro already has preset sound effects, so I just applied those effects like &#8220;far away&#8221; to the audio clips I imported. After that, I rendered it all out and got my final project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NicholasT - Zenith Reflection by Freestyle Academy\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1516797274&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=750\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction For our Zenith project in animation, we were given complete creative freedom. This was our Freestyle magnum opus. I originally was very ambitious, wanting to create a multi-minute long 3D animation that had had hints of lore along with a scary animation. 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