{"id":611,"date":"2021-04-13T17:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NickS\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2021-05-17T22:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T22:06:05","slug":"narrative-2-animation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NickS\/narrative-2-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative 2 – Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Animation Narrative 2 Unit consisted of more 3D Maya modeling\u2014but including animations, instead of just rendered objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weapon Design, Modeling, and Renders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The weapon modeling project started in Maya: creating the base design with simple polygons. I chose to match my character and weapon in a preemptive attempt to make some cool animations later on. As my character was Shotaro Kaneda from the 1988 film of the same name, I chose to make the weapon he used in the film\u2014the Arasaka HLR-12X Heavy Laser Rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After modeling the weapon in Maya, it was time to continue in ZBrush. In Zbrush I continued to work on modeling the weapon, making sure the object would render correctly\u2014see below why I had to work on that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, the laser rifle was moved into Substance Painter, in which I could give this “bunch of polygons” an actual texture, and make it look like a real object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artist’s Statement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We knew ahead of time that the 3D Weapon modeling assignment would eventually be tied into our 3D Character modeling and animation, so I chose as a theme for the two the 1988 animated film Akira. The main character of the film was going to be my character as well, so I chose a laser rifle he used in the movie as my weapon of choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3D Character Poses\/Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This project was short and self-explanatory. We took our finished character, and gave them a short bibliography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The artist’s statement for this project is the bio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

3D Character Animation\u2014Walk, Run, & Jump<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally! We were moving on to animating our character. The process was not easy\u2014taking your finished object (an OBJ file) came without the beautiful textures and colors we made in Substance Painter\u2014we had to make a brush that used the Substance Painter file as its “paint”, and apply it to our OBJ to create our character. In this way, the “skin” or paint can stretch as the character moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What it looks like for me in Maya (yes, we come back to our character’s origins to create the actual animation.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pardon the lighting and reflectivity of my character in the animations below\u2014we’re only just learning how to render. Same with the actual animation itself\u2014we’re practically animating frame by frame, and at 24 frames per second, that’s a lot of frames to make tiny adjustments to your character’s position for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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