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[DW-088] Dissertation

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[RW-087] Referral Work - Dissertation Writing

Research: How to write a literature review?

How many words for Introduction in a 3000 word Dissertation?

How to write a Reference?

What to write in the introduction?

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End of Semester 01 | L6

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[SR-085] Reference ideas for shooting

Got some inspirations for the shot

set 01:

Scenes: Open scene as the initial animatic (sky/ environment) A- open field scene (striking rocks/ gazing at the nature/ eats berries from a bush) (scene) B- hunting a red deer/ antelope (scene) C- holding/ bringing/ carrying a hare (scene) D- fishing in a small lake (scene) E- plucking a fruit from a tree (scene) F- thundering/ raining (green screen-scene) G- bird hunting (scene) H- gazing at the night sky (green screen-scene)

set 02:

mentioned in the storyboard

set 03:

Scenes: A- venturing in the dark with torches B- eating cooked meat by a fire camp C- making fire with the crystal (shot before sunset) D- keep warmth at night E- one guy could get burnt (see if you want a green screen or acted in the nature)

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[PD-84] Final Project Document

1st semester final project document:

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[AW-083] Animatic Work

I wanted to try something new, I had an idea to create a miniature map of the cave so it would be easier for me to analyze the humans' movements and the camera angles.

This method was also used so that I could determine the light paths when filming the greenscreen shots.

I had the following below images taken using a filter and drew over it on Ps to mark out the positions of the characters and paths they move during the final story which is the idea so far.

Pink marked are the cave people and the face of a creature would be the creature itself, there is also fire marked right where the main scene takes place.

Light marked on the left of each image is the direct light from the sun and the cave mouth is wide and the light from the right above would be the reflected light from another smaller opening of the cave.

So far, for the animatic I took the frames of the new storyboard and compiled them together.

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[CA-082] Concept creature

Concept art of the creature:

Final Concept creature art:

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[SB-081] New Storyboards

Storyboards for the 3 sets:

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[GS-080] Video shoot

While working on the storyboard I was able to get down some important scenes of the cavepeople acting. With the help of our college admins and my friends from a batch below who volunteered to act as cavepeople for my final.

Here are some BTS of the shoot:

Here are some character poses in front of the greenscreen:

A scene from from the script acted:

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Here's what was displayed earlier but removed due to certain content priorities.

I will be changing the outfits for all characters

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[AS-079] Animatic build set up

Setting up the scene for the animatic, to extract some camera scenes and also to analyse the shots needed for the green screen videos.

Very rough set up of the scene:

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[CA-078] Creature concept art

Looking at the reference images of the creature I thought I better have some concept for the creature as well

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[SB-077] New Story Buildup

Here are some notes I took down to work on the story, the story is divided into 3 sets or parts, I will have the whole animation playing with a bit longer blank frames to indicate the sets chaning. The first part will be Life of cave people before fire

To this I first wrote down in points what things could the early humans have done and just simply what things could have been available for them at that time:

1. other cave people (maybe there could have been fights among themselves) 2. trees were available and fruits that bore on them, so were sticks and grass, rocks and stones 3. even lakes were available and fish in it 4. birds in the sky 5. Primate creatures and land creatures (red deer, hare, antelope) 6. how was rain like to them and thunder and storms at night and day time? 7. caves?

The second part will be Discovery of fire for the first time

In this set, it is mostly what was mentioned in the previous story

1. a wider opening of the mouth of a cave, revealing the cave feather 2. sun light directing all the way inside the cave 3. some cave people explores the cave 4. they noticed shiny crystals everywhere 5. they see a fire(first time) burning a bush next to a larger crystal, they go near to see the fire 6. just then a creature appears from the shadows of the cave(smilodon) 7. the people run away, but one 8. the creature jumps to catch the caveman who is also holding the stick but then he swings to the opposite side where the creature was(the two as if exchanging places) then the creature comes in the same frame as the fire 9. the creature steps on the fire and burns his leg 10. one of the caveman sees this act and is astonished

The third part will be Living with fire for the first time

Here I justed jotted down things that cave people could have started doing for the first time, with the use of fire and fair understanding about it

1. cooking, eating around fire 2. warmth at night 3. safety from creatures 4. light in the dark (caves) 5. exploring jungles at night

These are all the parts I want to show in the story as much as possible according to the time provided, now working on the storyboard

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[RR-076] Reference images for sculpting the Smilodon

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[RV-075] Reference videos of creature sculpting

Before I go any further into sculpting the creature I wanted to have watched a few videos of sculpting a creature similar

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[CD-074] Creature sculpting

I began working on the 3D model of the creature, the smilodon.

Using some reference images I just did a touch, I began with spheres of a tiger preset which was the only animal that was close looking to a smilodon.

After watching watching the reference videos on post above (RV-075)

I did a touch up on the sculpt, and got the proportions as much as possible I could to the reference.

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[RV-073] Reference videos for VFX ideas

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[FB-072] Feedback session 12

Have a blocked out animatic (in blender) - use distinguishable characters and objects

Complete the new storyboard (3 sets), analyse the camera shots and scenes and try to minimise the number of cuts in the story by having less frames in the storyboard

Get the character done for the live brief (MI6011), try color variations for the character

Get done with a none textured creature (Smilodon)