During the course of this module, I developed many
techniques including 3D modelling and Aftereffect, and on the other hand, also realized
several problems where I could have improved or can improve it in the future.
For the first part of the module which is
the Maya induction, I think I did not practice enough, or to apply the
technique in the animation. Therefore I think I should practice more by
applying in animations, or to do more action practice, such as walk cycle or
other similar movements as well. I also struggled with remembering the short
cuts and procedures especially of how to animate the movements of the model,
the way to solve it would be to practice with using Maya more in the future.
As for the second part, I chose brief 2,
which is Title, to make a title sequence for a book that I have read. I came up
with the book And Then There Were None, as it is one of my favourite novel,
which is very suitable for adapting into a film as well. I used mind map to map
up the ideas that I have got initially, and did the story board roughly, which
leaded to a re-doing of the story board on the template afterwards, therefore I
would do it on template in the first place to avoid any delay of time
afterwards. During the production of the animation, I meet a few problems that
I struggled, and one of them was the movements that I made in Aftereffect is
not smooth enough, and can look weird. I tried to use the poppet tool, but it
did not came out with a satisfying results. Speaking of the final outcome of the
animation, I went back to it several times in order to find out any
disadvantages or anywhere that I could improve. The time arrangements of the
animation could be better, to make it more smooth and flows well with the
background music. In additional, I am not totally satisfied with the audio, but
it is the best I could find to sync with the animation. To solve it I would
look at more resources and constantly save any relative websites for later
needs. Also, as I used traditional method of animating, which is using the
animation paper, I struggled to sync the style of this part of the animation to
the other parts that were made digitally in Aftereffect. Finally I covered the
part made with animation paper with the same colour I used for other parts and
change the opacity to 50 percent, though it made the animation blurred a bit.
If it could be improved, I think darker pen could be used over the pencil
drawing on animation paper.
Overall I enjoyed this module, as it pushed
me to a lot of techniques which are all new to me. Although I am unsatisfied on
some aspects due to the unfamiliar with the techniques, but it suggests that I
need more practice.
