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FINAL IMAGES

Pretty happy with my end result considering the fact that i was on holiday for the last few weeks. Keeping in mind this is no excuse. encountered a few problems throughout this project with the walkers not being the right size and not moving smoothly. However, all in all another succesful project on my part. Its been a good trimester with 242 and i lookforward to whats installed for me next tri.

Thanks to the tutors and jp for a good tri you guys manage to teach a paper that in my opinion is really quite hard to teach. 

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Iteration

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More iterations. Pretty happy with where i am at.. theres not much i want to change for now , just need to make everything smoother.

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making progess.

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Reduced the size and got the movement working a little better. Its been hard to document my progress with the limited "technology" that is available to me here in America. Going to keep pushing through. Just need to touch up the movement and the clarity of the image.

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Coding

started quiet a bit of the code and integrating thew walker code with the filtering . Had some help in class and everything seems to be going on track.

However, no where near finishing trying to get the walker to actually move into positon smoothly.

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Final 3 images that im looking at using for my piece.

I particularly like the image with the bird as it is somewhat abstract with a detailed interior.

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What is a silhouette?

A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless, and the whole is typically presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an outline which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic media.[1]

I have highlighted some key aspects in bold in which i will be focusing on for my project. I intend to keep the entire piece in black,greyscale and white as it makes the most sense for a silhouette.

"The interior of a silhouette is basically featureless"

This part of the description is interesting. Now i intend on having more then one image in my iteration and i want them to be different. So i am thinking of having one image as text book silhouette image and another being more abstract and having the interior to have features.

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After our presentation in class, i have decided to go with concept 1.  

I feel that this concept which i have named "silhouette" is the most achievable and also the most desirable. Having done a presentation on emergence i would like to further explore this concept and also touch on the concept of kitchen sink. 

I have a rough plan on how i am going to tackle this. I will be looking at using the "walker" code provided in the lecture slides along with the filtering code which has also been provided. Then integrating them together in a way that the "walker/bugs" filter a given image, creating a silhouette. 

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William was thrown out on to the streets after a tragic accident that left him arm-less. No one wanted William anymore, he was left all alone. However, there is still hope when William thinks of a fantastic idea to regain his missing arms. But we all know nothing ever goes to plan...

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POSTER

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Sounds

some of my favourite tracks that ill be looking at using for my final animation.  Along with soundeffects from freesound.org 

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Compositing 

Mapped out my footage in Premiere and im roughly around the 1:30min mark which is great. The rough edit will also help me when i starting importing my renders so i dont get lost. All in all, im currently in the final stages and considering the amount of time i have left im am very happy .

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Final Playblast

As you can see alot of the scene have already been rendered out. Reasons for this being that i am going overseas and had to power through everything in order to hand in on time. However, everything is going very smooth and i only have a few more scenes at the end to render. The next step is going into Adobe and play around with cuts and compositing. 

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UPDATE!

I really dont feel the need to blog every indivudal scene as i stated before, unless ive made a significant change worth noting about. As for now here are some renders that i have done and i will be posting my playblast soon.

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Trying to perfect the 'Plank' scene. Animating the planks to fly off was relatively hard. I broke the entire scene into 3 parts and tried to tackle it that way. This playblast shows the final outcome when the planks actually do fly off.  I know the planks look a bit comical when they fly off spinning around acting all crazy. However, that was the desire effect and im happy with the outcome. 

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Planks and Boxes

Made some boxes and used the same planks from before. Was relatively easy in Maya. The textures and UV mapping definitely took the longest but was all done within an hour. Obviously tried to get it as realistic as possible especially with the shadows and it turned out pretty well.