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Sep 5, 2019
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CGI
Computer Generated Imagery, totally computers like games
VFX
live action shot with editing/computer generated EFFECT
SFX
sound Effects, explosions, mechanical robots, rains
FX
All Digital effects generated by computer
MESH
collection of vertices, edges and faces
TEXTURE
the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.
DIsplacement Maps
Bump Maps
Reflection Map
BSDF - Bidirectional scattering distribution function
RIGGING
going from static models to animated characters
Act of assigning relationships b/w objects so that moving one thing will move another
ART
something which stirs/arouses (good) emotions in you, touches heart
could be visual like painting, sculptures
could be auditorial, like music
could be a mixture like movie, animation
standup comedy, theatre, live performances
About your personal experience, potential to learn and grow from it, tell a STORY, record history
when you draw the HEART of something
What is GOD? What is ART?
Brainwashing
Brainwashing is said to reduce its subject’s ability to think critically or independently
Techniques
Isolation
Monopolization of perception
Gaslighting
brainwashing technique that makes victim lose all self confidence in themselves and question their own sanity
Studio
a film or television production company.
a room where an artist, photographer, sculptor, etc. works.
Pyrotechnics
cience and craft of using self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions to make heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.
Air Ram - catapult a person as soon as they step on it
Can wipe the wires easily

Robyn and Rand Miller developed a game called MYST at home, on mac PC

  • blender 2.8
  • Learn shorcuts to save time and be efficient

3D Animation BASICS

There is NO belieavable relation between a color and a emotion

  1. Where is it used?
    1. 3D printing, VR, games, VFX, animated movies, Architectural animations, still image
  2. Modelling - mesh
  3. Texture and Materials
  4. Lighting
  5. Concept of Open Movies, Ton Roosendaal (founder of blender)
  6. Photo Realistic Images
  7. Model and scultp characters
  8. Create realistic environments
  9. Architecture, fire, smoke, fluid, object simulation
  10. Camera Tracking, compositing
  11. Lighting is important````
    1. Direction
      1. direction creates SHADOWS, and shadows reveal FORMS
      2. circle or sphere? Shadows are your friends
      3. Front lighting makes everything flat
      4. above head light might create shadow uner eyes, and eyes are doors to soul
      5. Split Lighting, half
      6. Guide your eyes, with background lighting composition
    2. Size of lamp in relation to object
      1. For human photography, use BIG filter lights to remove impoerfections, details
      2. Custome BIG light, gradient with point light
      3. GOLDEN HOUR is typically one hr after/before sun-rise/set, air particles flatterns the light
        1. Photo maganizes wont even consider if photos are not shot at dawn/dusk, such a strict rule
    3. Color of light
      1. changes mood and feeling of picture
      2. NAtural light color vs Artificial
      3. BLUE HOUR architectural photography
        1. 1 hr after sun-rise/set
    4. Redability
      1. Adequate light
      2. Object Seperation
        1. RIM lighting
    5. Emphasis / Composition
      1. Closer the light, larger the falloff and emphasis
      2. Eyes are drawn to contrast, not the light itself 12.Color Harmony 12.Blender Project/Film management using ATTRACT

ART is the #1 priority and NOT the TOOLS

3D Model a sword

  • Navigating the plane
  • Split/join worspace area
  • Orange outline when selected
  • MODES
    • Object mode
    • Edit Mode TAB
  • g GRAB to move around the object
  • Create a base mesh
  • Extrude and Scale
  • Inset Faces
  • Wireframes z in Edit Mode
  • Merge everything to centre
  • F3 search options
  • Edge loops alt + select
  • Scale with perpendiculars Alt + S
  • Duplicate and scale perpendiculars to get interesting shapes
  • Bebble to create more circular look
  • Camera Ambient setting
  • Applying materieal to faces

3D Sculpturing

  • Brushes

How to make shot CGI movies?1

  • Get animated characters
  • Readily made animation packages from online community

Animation

Keyframes
snapshot of objects location, rotation and scale at specified point in time

FX

  1. Water
  2. Smoke
  3. Fire

How to rig a Skeletal animation?

  • CTRL + P With Automatic Weights
  • Create, rig, animate2

SAMPLE

  • Hollywood B-roll shot from avengers infinity war from yt
  • Tracking, chroma key, masking
  • Composition - new movie clip
  • ctrl + shift + click user viewer mode
  • Make a keying screen, instead of color key to remove entire green screen
    • Generate as a gradient and use it as a keying color
  • Galton board design

How to utilize blender in your production pipeline/ workflow

  • Tell stories
  • Demonstrate principles of visual effects

Why do we have 29.97 frames per second?

Blender

3D pipeline

modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

  • Viewport Navigation and object selection deselction
    • Perspective, zoom and camera
  • ctrl + space Maximise current window
  • shit + S Pi Menu
  • Selecting and setting RENDERER properties
  • View Layers and passes. Each scene can have multiple layers (backgrounds and character passses)
  • Context Modifiers very powerful
  • Transformation - moving, scaling, rotating
    • each operation could be ddone individually on any of the axis
    • Monkey options is used to test materials, lightings, Animation, rigs, texture
  • Collections are the foundations of object organization.
    • Background
    • camera
    • characters
  • SHading Workspace - node based shaders
  • Composition - after effects
    • glow
    • blurr
    • masks
  • Modelling
    • Manupulation of
    • vertices
    • edges
    • planes / faces
  • Loop cut - create more vertices in your object
  • bevel - a slope from the horizontal or vertical in carpentry and stonework; a sloping surface or edge.
    • use with modifier
  • Most of the tieme Texturing is done with images
    • like bricked wall texture on sphere
  • Procedurally generated Textures
    • generate texture using a methematical formula instead of pixels
  • Three point lighting
    • Beautiful lit monkey in blender
  • Rendering Engines
    • Eevee - node base, faster for real-time
    • How do we make an material glow? Like a lot!
    • Cycles - more accurate but takes more processing, cpu | gpu
    • Raytracer
    • Sampling
  • Rigging
    • parent-child relationship using Constraints
    • Armature ~ skeleton3
    • Object and Bone COnstraints
    • position object relative to its position constraint
    • Keep an object on certain path during animation
    • Rigify - AddOn
    • Rig matching on X axis
    • Align rig to scene origin and then scale
    • Advanced rigify rig wwith constraints
  • Inverse Kinematics
  • VErtex groups and weights
  • Keyframes - foundations of animation
    • KeyFrame Editors
    • Graph editor
      • view and edit motion curves
    • Dopesheet
      • most powerful animation tools
    • Timeline
    • How to insert keyframes?
    • Keyframes types
    • Adjust the loop region in timeline
    • E Try animating a bouncing ball
    • Add Markers, like to insert an explosion
    • Add music/audio to your animation
  • Sculpturing
    • Draw tool - add/subtract volume
    • Clay/ clay strip - circular and rougher look
    • Inflate / Defalte
  • MOrphing

Jobs in Animation

  • character development and modelling
  • VFX Effects
  • Rendering Developers

How to create a CGI with blender

Industry work done

  1. NextGen movie on Netflix
  2. Develop 2D movie within blender - Greasy Pen
  3. Blender Industry standards
  4. How to make Games?

How to make a movie

Part I

  1. Brainstorm
  2. Story
  3. Script
  4. Concept Art
  5. Storyboard
  6. Criticism
  7. Animatic
  8. Improvement

Part II

  1. Modeling
  2. Rigging
  3. Previz
  4. Animating
  5. Texturing
  6. Lighting

Part III

  1. Rendering
  2. Compositing
    1. stacking all your assets (smoke filter, castle, real footage)
  3. Editing
  4. Color Correction & Grading
  5. Music & Sound Design
  6. Voice
  7. Finalize

Part IV

  1. Preview
  2. Publish

Effects

  • Smoke
  • Fire, explosion
  • Muzzle flash, with sparks and lighthing and shadow
  • Texture imperfections, fingerprints
  • Particle effects
  • Simulations
    • crumbling building
    • rain
    • fire
    • smoke
    • fluid
    • cloth
    • hair
    • full on destruction
    • Particle

References

Footnotes

  1. yt, shot CGI movies [return]
  2. mixamo [return]
  3. https://cloud.blender.org/blog/introducing-blender-animation-fundamentals-training [return]