ps Animation Assignment

Also in regards to my animation.  There are 1000 blocks weighed at 1 pound apiece with nothing but gravity affecting them.  There's a little glitch, I guess you could call, in RealFlow that made the blocks fall.  When assigning a rigid body to the blocks there a few options on how you want the program to find the vertices.  I chose "cube" since they are cubes.  However, two or three of the blocks were bound 45 degrees off their pivot point.  This could be fixed by using all faces for the rigid body rather than "cube".  This option however did not result in my desired effect.  The cubes just fell on top of each other in their respective pillar without crashing down.  It took around 12 hours to simulate so instead of adding another force to knock them down I went with the previous option of "cube".  Which really shouldn't have made the blocks fall down.  But, whatever works.

It took 12 hours to simulate and about 6 hours to render.  There were two lights with depth map shadows at 512 resolution so they came out softer than I would have liked but I wasn't going to rerender another 6 hours.  I didn't adjust the lightness in compression, which raised the black input level, but the result really didn't help the shadows much it just added more contrast.

Animation Assignment

This is my video for the animation assignment.  The dynamics were simulated in RealFlow. I chose to use RealFlow because I am familiar with the application and its rigid body solver is one of the best I've worked with.  

After I was able to preview the animation in realtime, I realized this could work for both the spiritual or informational themes.  Therefore, I am not going to say which one I intended.  You decide which theme it's for.

Within the duration of this assignment I happen to have gone to Dallas one weekend to visit some friends.  On the way there I saw a huge field covered with enormous wind mills.  It was night on the way back so I couldn't see the mills, all I saw were flashing red LED lights.  There was one light for each of the mills.  Thats where I had the idea for this assignment.  

Similar to Christmas lights, there are 50 lights hanging from the ceiling.  Although, the final product resulted in lights that were larger than LEDs.

Week Seven

While brainstorming for the next light assignment and after a few various sketches, this was my favorite.

I had fun browsing around light design ideas.  Here were some of my favorite sites:

http://www.cooldesignideasblog.net/tag/light

http://www.jamesclar.com/piece/2009/versace/index.html

I tried to be a little more creative with the chair that we had to model.  I imported the .obj file into Vue xStream and rendered it after playing with the setting.

Week Six

This is an idea that I had about how to render the chair out.

There are a lot of fantastic resources for inspiration, and back to my last weeks photoshop update here are a few more photoshop sites.

http://www.desktopography.net/

I couldn't find his website but Mike Harrison creates some fantastic work.

Week Five

Nothing special about this sketch.  Just doodling.

http://www.nopattern.com/nopattern/

http://www.burdu976.com/

This two links are some great Photoshop work.  Whenever I need some inspiration I sometimes look these guys up.

Week Four

For this sketch I was just playing around with a landscape I thought I could create in 3D.

And here is how it turned out.

With 3D landscapes such as this one I created, here are some places I find inspiration:

http://www.thomaskrahn.com/

http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/f/tg2

Haptic Model Illustrations

Week Three

I will include this drawing in a presentation at my work.  (Creating an illustrator image for this presentation is not needed and would be overkill, really, the presentation does not matter as much as the idea.)  At work I am proposing to build and install a multi-touch display for our foyer at minimal expense.  From a quick Google search, I found various "how to" experiments for building this.  

http://johnnylee.net/

This link is to Johnny Chung Lee's website, he was the one who created this "hack."

http://www.instructables.com/

This next link to instructables.com is a site where one can find how to's for many experiments.  Here is where I found instructions on how to build the multi-touch screen.

Haptic Modeling

Week Two

I am beginning to conceptualize a short animated film I want to create.  In this sketch I drew some character ideas.  Some of the drawings I found online and in movies, but I am trying to create my own character based these others.

This is a DVD magazine I subscribe to.  It is a compilation of various professionally produced videos.  By watching these I find ideas and I try to understand a breakdown of how they accomplished them.

http://www.stashmedia.tv/

Below is a link to a website I find very inspirational.  I visit here and other sources to ideas for my work.

http://cgart.com/