MDDN241 Project 2B Final Vedio and poster

Final video

Poster

MDDN 241 Project 2B - Development

Real world environment 1: Here I chose paper as transit from character's world to real world

Real world environment 2

Character's world environment 1: Here was the previous paper environment I made for my character

Character's world environment 2: I will use color to highlight the end of my story

It is the color source where my character would be dyed accidentally

Testing on the fire and burned mark

The burned mark on the paper is a portal connecting the character's world to the real world

Testing on the smoke as well

Several movements of my character

Several movements of my character with colors

Playblast

MDDN 241 Project 2B Source Image

These are the precedent images for my animation. Three environments are all created by paper, where I started thinking the environment might suit for my paper made character. Besides, the transition between my character world and real world is the color, so I might only use white in my character's world.

MDDN 241 Project 2A - Origin of the character and personality

Origin of the character and personality


Three objects
Material: Paper plane
Motion: Chinese fan
Meaning: USB drive


My character is based on the shape of the kitten but is made of the paper. She can fly and float in the sky by adjusting her tail, which is inspired by Chinese fan. For my story, I came up with a curious paper kitten burst into the real world from her paper-made world. Finally she came back to her own world with the colors from the real world, and the colors dyed her world colorful. That’s why I chose USB as my character meaning.

Her personality would definitely be curiosity. Her curiosity drove her into the real world and started the story after. 

MDDN 241 Project 2A - Hand-in

This is a real world environment for my character

I created a paper world in maya for my character's environment

The paper environment with colours

Turntable character

Character in motion:

The way how she flies 

 The way how she floats 

The way how she shakes her head when she is unhappy

Storyboard

My story is about a paper cat from her paper world came into real world due to her curiosity. She happened to fall into a garden full of flowers, and she got dyed with the colours she had touched. She finally came back to her paper world and pass the real world colours into hers.  

MDDN 241 Project 2A - Material Testing

Tried the paper material on my character

The texture I chose which is paper

MDDN 241 Project 2A - Sketches of my Character

Rough shape for my character

Front/side view of my character

The sketches of my story

MDDN 241 Project 2A - 3 Objects for Inspiration

Material: Paper plane

Motion: Chinese fan
Meaning: USB drive

MDDN 241 Project1 - Finally FINALY!

Poster:

Video:

MDDN 241 Project1 Development - 5 Video test

I rendered the video which looked fine.

MDDN 241 Project1 Development - 4 Environment and Lighting

I created the environment that I wanted to show the sense of being in the outer space on a strange planet. 

MDDN 241 Project1 Development - 3 Materials test

Materials and textures were applied on my models, which gave me a closer glance to what render should be expected.

MDDN 241 Project1 Development - 2 Material

The materials I created as well as the textures I attached as my experiment

MDDN 241 Project1 Development - 1 Modelling

I was trying to model the organic and inorganic substances, which were shown quite differences, as my further approach to my final models.

MDDN 241 Project 1 - Final 3 Concepts and Precedents Image

Damien Hirst















My first concept is based on "For the Love of God", which inspired me of that we are not seeing every object as its nature, because we are normally misled by what it looks like. Therefore, I came up with this idea, which we take for granted for its transparent form without thinking of what is actually inside. I gradually reveal my object inward looking by object's own transformation, and try to narrate the truth of nature.


László Moholy-Nagy

Concept 2 is also referred to nature-to-face, what happen in lower sphere actually reflects to upper sphere, which means the smaller is determined the bigger. In other words, what we can see is only the reflection and shadow of the nature. However, when the surface is carrying on too much, it sometimes would refuse to respond to the original, then ends up as revenge.

Damien Hirst

Concept 3 is about expansion. The core object absorbs every smaller object all around in order to meet up its desire of expanding. It constantly draws everything could reach and never feels satisfaction. Eventually, it is over burdened and ends up with explosion.