Here is the first look at Shot0011! I feel this is a lovely start with steph using Nuke to get that depth of field. We plan to adjust this scene abit more as the lighting needs some more depth to it. But as a first completed render I think we have really started to capture a nice style and essence.
Above is the first look at Shot0014, no compositing has happened yet and there are few tweaks with the poses and the buttons disappear at the start but as a first draft we are really happy with the other come. I did the lighting for this shot and I'm pleased to see the screen reflection has come as good as it did!
Friday 16 March 2012
Personal Reflection
During this project we have established our films market (introduction-for-professional-skills post & Marketing Plan) and how we plan to advertise our film through the use of social media links and video streaming sites like youtube. (Marketing Plan Blog). Through this I have shown how I can use this to advertise my self as an individual by having external links to my blogs as well as having a brief bio about myself on the films website and Facebook page. Through research I was able to see that these websites and social media forums are really beneficial and easy to update and improve on. (Marketing Plan: How Others have done it post).
For the Degree show I have invited several big names at Framestore and Cinesite, two examples are Diamid Harrison Murray who is the Head of 3D Commercials at Framestore and Scott Eaton who is known for being one of the best 3D sculptures in the world. I have also got Ellie Emes wanting to come and she is going to be a big bonus for people who want to get work as a Runner at Framestore.
This project and the whole project has been all scheduled using Facebook and Google Calendar. These have been a great way to plan deadlines for work as well as weekly meetings via skype or in person! When it came to the degree show I have mentioned how as a Group we plan to advertise our film. Also how I plan to advertise myself at the degree show, through images and videos of my work as well as entering into competitions. Also at the beginning I posted an individual contract that shows a plan for the rest of the project and keys dates we want to meet so we leave enough time for tweaking things! This follows along with the Google calendar as all the dates are on there are followed by a meeting to critique and move onto the next task.
This project has given me a chance to look at how to sell an idea or film as well as advertising myself professionally and effectively through a wide range of websites and links. I plan to develop my own website before the degree show but the blog is something I feel really shows my developmental progress when creating my work.
It has shown me that however good you are at what you do, if you don't advertise yourself or use all the tools such as facebook and youtube and work in magazines. This is something I plan to do more and enter in asmany competitions as I can and send my work out to magazines to see if I can get published.
Finally, I believe that from this project is a start to bigger things. We are working well as a team, we are sustain a organised project, we are on time for completion to a high standard and we are well a where of all the areas that we need to keep on top of such as Rendering and the time it takes to do this.
Thursday 15 March 2012
Poster Designs
Developing these images in 3D was a key moment for the group as we could look and see exactly what the final film animation renders should look like when we finish the film. For the Posters I worked with Joe to Render all the images needed for both the posters and the website.
Finally (right) you can see an image that is the size perfect to be a printable poster or to be a display picture again for our website or facebook page.
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Who will I Invite to the Degree Show
For the end of year Degree show I have emailed and managed to get a few people to agree to come along! This should be a great way to get not just myself but the whole class.
Scott Eaton - I have had the great chance to work alongside Scott on a feature film as well as attend several of his courses. He has agreed to come along as is due to to confirm this later this month!
Ellie Emes- Has been my boss for several years now at Framestore and has the role of hiring runners for the commercials department for framestore she is already agreed to come along and this would be great for people to make contacts in the industry. Image shows a email conversation with her agreeing to come!
Warwick Hewett - Warwick was one of my line producers for the feature film I worked on during the summer holidays. He and some others including Jonathan Fawkner who was the executive producer on the film has agreed to come along.
I have also emailed a few others such as Ben Lambert (Head modeller at Framestore), Romain Seguardo (modeller) Diamid Harrison Murray (Head of 3D commercials Framestore), Russell Dodgeson (Head of Nuke at Framestore) and finally Adam Redford (Texture Artist at Cinesite).
For this project I have used some of my contacts within the industry and hopefully will give great opportunities to the rest of the students at the degree show.
Sunday 11 March 2012
Quality Control
We had a lecture with Mike Davidson. Here are some of the notes taken during the lecture and from the manuals sent to us. We are using this information as its important the film fits the QC specifications:
Picture Quality:
- The picture free of excessive noise, grain and digital compression artefacts.
- The picture must be free of excessive flare, reflections, lens dirt, markings and obstructions.
- Movement must give rise to distortions or break-up to moving objects, or cause large changes in resolution.
- The picture must be free of excessive black crushing and highlight compression. Hard clipping of highlights (e.g. by legalisers) must not cause visible artefacts on screen.
- There must be no noticeable horizontal or vertical aliasing, i.e. jagged lines.
- The picture must be stable and continuous - i.e. no jumps.
- There must be no visible contouring caused by digital processing. Noise must not be noticeable.
- There must be no noticeable spurious signals or artefacts e.g. streaking, ringing, smear, echoes, overshoots, moiré, hum, cross-talk etc.
- 1080 lines not 560 as it will look static and odd on the screens.
- 1080i interlaced footage - Also has to be 25 FPS to be able to be played on the big screens around uni.
- 1920 x 1080 pixels in an aspect ratio of 16:9 ␣ 25 frames per second (50 fields) interlaced - now known as 1080i/25, colour sub-sampled at a ratio of 4:2:2
- Before our video we must have a count in to with the image below counting in our video.
This is to give indication to the editors who take the footage when they are cutting together several films and it protects against any cutting of the film!
The image to the left shows an image of the Safe areas for Caption. So any text or credits must be contained in the central box you run the risk of it cutting.
Picture Quality:
- The picture free of excessive noise, grain and digital compression artefacts.
- The picture must be free of excessive flare, reflections, lens dirt, markings and obstructions.
- Movement must give rise to distortions or break-up to moving objects, or cause large changes in resolution.
- The picture must be free of excessive black crushing and highlight compression. Hard clipping of highlights (e.g. by legalisers) must not cause visible artefacts on screen.
- There must be no noticeable horizontal or vertical aliasing, i.e. jagged lines.
- The picture must be stable and continuous - i.e. no jumps.
- There must be no visible contouring caused by digital processing. Noise must not be noticeable.
- There must be no noticeable spurious signals or artefacts e.g. streaking, ringing, smear, echoes, overshoots, moiré, hum, cross-talk etc.
- 1080 lines not 560 as it will look static and odd on the screens.
- 1080i interlaced footage - Also has to be 25 FPS to be able to be played on the big screens around uni.
- 1920 x 1080 pixels in an aspect ratio of 16:9 ␣ 25 frames per second (50 fields) interlaced - now known as 1080i/25, colour sub-sampled at a ratio of 4:2:2
- Before our video we must have a count in to with the image below counting in our video.
Sound Info found in the manual for broadcasting specifications:
- Sound must be recorded with appropriately placed microphones, giving minimum background noise and without peak distortion.
- The audio must be free of spurious signals such as clicks, noise, hum and any analogue distortion. The audio must be reasonably continuous and smoothly mixed and edited.
- Audio levels must be appropriate to the scene portrayed and dynamic range must not be excessive. They must be suitable for the whole range of domestic listening situations.
- Stereo audio must be appropriately balanced and free from phase differences which cause audible cancellation in mono.
- The audio must not show dynamic and/or frequency response artefacts as a result of the action of noise reduction or low bit rate coding systems.
- The audio must be free of spurious signals such as clicks, noise, hum and any analogue distortion. The audio must be reasonably continuous and smoothly mixed and edited.
- Audio levels must be appropriate to the scene portrayed and dynamic range must not be excessive. They must be suitable for the whole range of domestic listening situations.
- Stereo audio must be appropriately balanced and free from phase differences which cause audible cancellation in mono.
- The audio must not show dynamic and/or frequency response artefacts as a result of the action of noise reduction or low bit rate coding systems.
Photosensitive Epilepsy:
Flickering or intermittent lights and certain types of repetitive visual patterns can cause serious problems for viewers who are prone to photosensitive epilepsy. Children & teenagers are particularly vulnerable.
- All programmes for tape delivery must be tested using the Harding Flash Pattern Analyser v2.54b on an SD down converted SDI feed. Any failure whatsoever will result in rejection of the programme, and any affected sections must be repaired and re-tested before acceptance. Broadcasters will, at their discretion, either test the programme during the Quality Control process, or will require a relevant Harding FPA pass certificate to be delivered with the tape.
- Verbal or on-screen text warnings at start of programme may only be used in exceptional circumstances when:
The relevant content is completely integral and necessary to the context of the programme and,
Permission to use the relevant content has been cleared by the relevant broadcaster and documented in writing by those responsible for commissioning /editorial content.
Advance notification and planning requirements will vary by broadcaster.
Flickering or intermittent lights and certain types of repetitive visual patterns can cause serious problems for viewers who are prone to photosensitive epilepsy. Children & teenagers are particularly vulnerable.
- All programmes for tape delivery must be tested using the Harding Flash Pattern Analyser v2.54b on an SD down converted SDI feed. Any failure whatsoever will result in rejection of the programme, and any affected sections must be repaired and re-tested before acceptance. Broadcasters will, at their discretion, either test the programme during the Quality Control process, or will require a relevant Harding FPA pass certificate to be delivered with the tape.
- Verbal or on-screen text warnings at start of programme may only be used in exceptional circumstances when:
The relevant content is completely integral and necessary to the context of the programme and,
Permission to use the relevant content has been cleared by the relevant broadcaster and documented in writing by those responsible for commissioning /editorial content.
Advance notification and planning requirements will vary by broadcaster.
This last post about photosensitive is important to use as we need to make sure we check with Mike that we can have a warning at the start of our film as we need to have more than 5 flashes a second.
My Employability & Advertising Myself
For this project I have also looked into how to advertise myself through websites and videos streaming sites. Below you can see a link to my Blog where I can show work I have been doing in my own time as well as link to my projects from uni and even commercial or film projects that I have worked on. This is a great way I feel I can catalogue my skills as I can show how I develop my work as well as things I learn whilst creating them.
http://oliverkane.blogspot.com/
Below are some images on my Blog:
Below is my Showreel, this is a great way to send a brief look at some of my work. I have tried to show a range of work to advertising different abilities to model using different softwares or techniques.
I have used my blog and showreel as a way to advertise my work and my abilities. I feel this is important as it it gives potential employers a chance to see what I can do! I feel that when I leave RAvensbourne I will be a at a level and have the experience to work as a modeller in the film or commercial industry.
What I have learnt!
Apart from having a youtube channel, facebook page and a blog. I have learnt that magazines are also a very strong tool for getting noticed. I want to try get myself in a magazine. I have been looking at the 3D world magazine as a possible goal as it publishes peoples work and does pages on students. Here is the link to their site: http://www.3dworldmag.com/
I have also as mentioned early planned to enter myself into the student of the year competition and see if I can try win one of the categories. Even if I don't win I will still get my work noticed and might lead to other possibilities.
http://oliverkane.blogspot.com/
Below are some images on my Blog:
Below is my Showreel, this is a great way to send a brief look at some of my work. I have tried to show a range of work to advertising different abilities to model using different softwares or techniques.
I have used my blog and showreel as a way to advertise my work and my abilities. I feel this is important as it it gives potential employers a chance to see what I can do! I feel that when I leave RAvensbourne I will be a at a level and have the experience to work as a modeller in the film or commercial industry.
What I have learnt!
Apart from having a youtube channel, facebook page and a blog. I have learnt that magazines are also a very strong tool for getting noticed. I want to try get myself in a magazine. I have been looking at the 3D world magazine as a possible goal as it publishes peoples work and does pages on students. Here is the link to their site: http://www.3dworldmag.com/
I have also as mentioned early planned to enter myself into the student of the year competition and see if I can try win one of the categories. Even if I don't win I will still get my work noticed and might lead to other possibilities.
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Degree Show: Group and Individual Marketing Plan
When Marketing this film we have looked into a range of ways to get our film out there! All of these tools will be to advertise our work for the Degree Show. We have planned out a few things we want to create and do to make sure we get people knowing about our film before or even after the degree show.
As mentioned earlier, we as a group have identified our chosen target market. We want to try aim it at all ages groups. But personally I want to make an award winning film. I want the film to be an advertisement for what we can do and our abilities within our chosen careers.
We have looked at a range of festivals we want to try and get our film show at. This will be a great way to get out the film seen by a wide range of people. Here are the festivals we have looked at:
British Animation Awards - http://www.britishanimationawards.com/
Edinburgh film Festival - http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/
Anima Mundi 2012 - http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/animation/
London International Film Festival - http://www.liaf.org.uk/entries/
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - http://www.itfs.de/en/
Annecy 2012 - http://www.annecy.org/home
Animex 2012 - http://www.animex.net/
Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) - http://www.haff.nl/en/
Also we want to try send our work around different companies as again it shows what we can do and if they like a certain aspect of the film, for example the modelling we will give contact details and information for them to get into contact with us. Here are some of the companies we plan to send our work to:
MPC
Cinsite
BlueZoo
Pixar
Bluesky
Framestore
When it comes to advertising and marketing our film, we plan to use a wide range of platforms to which we can promote the film. Here are the tools that have already started using!
Website - http://www.goingdownfilm.co.uk/ - here is a link to our website that we have created! This is a great source to get work uploaded on there and then we can send that round to everyone we want to try get involved. We also have links to our own personal blogs and to our Facebook page.
Youtube/Vimeo - like I found in my research these two video streaming sites are really beneficial as we can upload any videos we create and add them to any of our sites or even send the link directly to potential employers. Here is a link to Going Down's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/GoingDownFilm?feature=mhee
Facebook Page - GoingDownFilm, as previously mentioned we have created a Facebook page that is our hub in which we will post weekly updates of new posters or renders to keep people interested! Here is the link to the Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/GoingDownFilm
- Website with loads of downloadable content
- The final film playing on loop
- Videos showing breakdowns of shots and a making of video!
- Posters, Business cards and stickers
- A youtube Channel that will have all videos made in the production.
- We plan to have facebook on going form now until past the production vase to keep everyone who follows in the loop of what we are doing and even how we are doing it.
We believe all these tools are a great plan to get our film noticed and to showcase our work where alot of people can see it! Also all these tools will be a great way to get our product out to our target market. We want this film to be watched and enjoyed by anyone but we want to make sure it sells what we can do. The idea is its a short showcase of our abilities and that we can use it to show to companies, festivals and competitions so advertise ourselves and us as a group.
My Individual website marketing on-line presence.
The image to the left shows a about me page on the Goingdown website. On this there is a link to my blog (http://oliverkane.blogspot.com/) where you can find more information about me!
Also I wrote a brief introduction about myself and my work:
'I was the Character Artist on Going Down! I have been a modeller for 4 years now and have worked as a Modeller for Framestore's Film, Commercial and Design departments. My main goal is to get into Creature or Character modelling but also love modelling anything that is a challenge!
Please check out my blog for more information!'
Here is a link to my Youtube Channel, as mentioned earlier its a great way to show work in progress or turntables and know they can be easily played and stored! Link Here - http://www.youtube.com/user/Oliverkane2010/featured
Another way I plan to advertise myself is to enter into a few competitions as entering or even winning is a great way to advertise myself as an able professional:
http://www.cgstudentawards.com/ - I plan to upload a few of my best pieces of work and try see if I can get far in a few of the categories.Also I have entered into the CGHub 3D production Challenege, this is a challenge to model a posed sculpt based on a piece of concept art.
With my experience and contacts within the industry, I think I am now more employable than someone leaving uni without working on a film or a commercial. I am already being offered job opportunities at Framestore in the film department. All of my work with my blog, youtube channel and showreel has paid off as Framestore have given me great references and contacts to be able to move to other companies around london maybe even abroad.
Degree Show
As for the Degree show as an individual, I plan to try have a selection of pieces of my work. I will create an upto date showreel that can be played on my laptop. I want to be able to maybe have a 3D print out of one of my best character peices. But I want to be able to give business card to anyone that may want it. Before the degree show I plan to invite several more people I have worked with or worked for. Finally by then I plan to have a fully made website as well as blog, a youtube channel (already running) Facebook page and start design posters from my work to maybe generate some other income.
Here are some of the images I made and that we plan to use in future posts for our Website.
As mentioned earlier, we as a group have identified our chosen target market. We want to try aim it at all ages groups. But personally I want to make an award winning film. I want the film to be an advertisement for what we can do and our abilities within our chosen careers.
We have looked at a range of festivals we want to try and get our film show at. This will be a great way to get out the film seen by a wide range of people. Here are the festivals we have looked at:
British Animation Awards - http://www.britishanimationawards.com/
Edinburgh film Festival - http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/
Anima Mundi 2012 - http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/animation/
London International Film Festival - http://www.liaf.org.uk/entries/
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - http://www.itfs.de/en/
Annecy 2012 - http://www.annecy.org/home
Animex 2012 - http://www.animex.net/
Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) - http://www.haff.nl/en/
Also we want to try send our work around different companies as again it shows what we can do and if they like a certain aspect of the film, for example the modelling we will give contact details and information for them to get into contact with us. Here are some of the companies we plan to send our work to:
MPC
Cinsite
BlueZoo
Pixar
Bluesky
Framestore
When it comes to advertising and marketing our film, we plan to use a wide range of platforms to which we can promote the film. Here are the tools that have already started using!
Website - http://www.goingdownfilm.co.uk/ - here is a link to our website that we have created! This is a great source to get work uploaded on there and then we can send that round to everyone we want to try get involved. We also have links to our own personal blogs and to our Facebook page.
Youtube/Vimeo - like I found in my research these two video streaming sites are really beneficial as we can upload any videos we create and add them to any of our sites or even send the link directly to potential employers. Here is a link to Going Down's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/GoingDownFilm?feature=mhee
For the Degree show, we plan to have:
- Website with loads of downloadable content
- The final film playing on loop
- Videos showing breakdowns of shots and a making of video!
- Posters, Business cards and stickers
- A youtube Channel that will have all videos made in the production.
- We plan to have facebook on going form now until past the production vase to keep everyone who follows in the loop of what we are doing and even how we are doing it.
We believe all these tools are a great plan to get our film noticed and to showcase our work where alot of people can see it! Also all these tools will be a great way to get our product out to our target market. We want this film to be watched and enjoyed by anyone but we want to make sure it sells what we can do. The idea is its a short showcase of our abilities and that we can use it to show to companies, festivals and competitions so advertise ourselves and us as a group.
My Individual website marketing on-line presence.
The image to the left shows a about me page on the Goingdown website. On this there is a link to my blog (http://oliverkane.blogspot.com/) where you can find more information about me!Also I wrote a brief introduction about myself and my work:
'I was the Character Artist on Going Down! I have been a modeller for 4 years now and have worked as a Modeller for Framestore's Film, Commercial and Design departments. My main goal is to get into Creature or Character modelling but also love modelling anything that is a challenge!
Please check out my blog for more information!'
Here is a link to my Youtube Channel, as mentioned earlier its a great way to show work in progress or turntables and know they can be easily played and stored! Link Here - http://www.youtube.com/user/Oliverkane2010/featured
Another way I plan to advertise myself is to enter into a few competitions as entering or even winning is a great way to advertise myself as an able professional:
http://www.cgstudentawards.com/ - I plan to upload a few of my best pieces of work and try see if I can get far in a few of the categories.Also I have entered into the CGHub 3D production Challenege, this is a challenge to model a posed sculpt based on a piece of concept art.
With my experience and contacts within the industry, I think I am now more employable than someone leaving uni without working on a film or a commercial. I am already being offered job opportunities at Framestore in the film department. All of my work with my blog, youtube channel and showreel has paid off as Framestore have given me great references and contacts to be able to move to other companies around london maybe even abroad.
Degree Show
As for the Degree show as an individual, I plan to try have a selection of pieces of my work. I will create an upto date showreel that can be played on my laptop. I want to be able to maybe have a 3D print out of one of my best character peices. But I want to be able to give business card to anyone that may want it. Before the degree show I plan to invite several more people I have worked with or worked for. Finally by then I plan to have a fully made website as well as blog, a youtube channel (already running) Facebook page and start design posters from my work to maybe generate some other income.
Here are some of the images I made and that we plan to use in future posts for our Website.
Above are the two images created for the website, we have adjusted them slightly now by changing the lights around in 3D as we wanted them both to be abit brighter. The final images can be found on the website.
The three images above show renders I created for the character sheet that we plan to develop ready for the degree show!
Final image found below is a latest piece of figure Sculpt I have been working on. Renders such as these and turntables to the same degree I plan to have at the degree show. Showing a wide range of models I have created.
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