final

solar grid from timothy Cheng on Vimeo.

wk 13 crit

sunnygrid_001_h264 from timothy Cheng on Vimeo.

1st scene:

- show passing of time ( darker sky to lighter sky) maybe add a lens flare to enhance it.

- volumetric area light underneath the first scene panel to show it energizing.

we need consistent energy lines and the energy need to be on the floor and animated with null object.

multistage pull back for the last scene. ( try to show the whole grid)

I will post the video up later.

We should probably meet up over the weekend, either sat or sun to completely finish the video ( c4d and after effects) And I will try to finish the sound effect tuesday night.

Mountain Composite

Mountain Composite from Anthony Perez on Vimeo.

Meeting up

Hey guys

it would be best if we can have the cinema 4d files completely done and rendered by next week(wk 12)!

we need at least 2 weeks for aftereffects and sound ( i'm going to need at least 3 4 days for the sound)

Tony, we are going to meet up over the weekend. possibly sat and sunday, please try to join us.

I am really worried about the trees, because I know we need some variation. Please let me know if you can finish it Tony. if not, please send us the files.

the other scene that's far from done is the top view city scene, so we should really get going with the building animations.

the aftereffect is going to play a pretty important part to make our video look cool. I know Tony you are good at it, so we'll need your assistant when it comes to aftereffect.

week 11 overview

Things to be fix:

Tree: change the anchor point of the branches, the leaves have to be grow from the bottom to top.

When the first building come out: it should come out faster in the scene and shows slower animation forming the form/building.

The end scene: use new material w/ luminance affect on a plane object(the color have to be white) to replace the light.
Then put into after effect, use Starglow effect to change the lighting.
preset: white star, input channel: lightness

First scene cameramatic: no stop zoom in.

Bridge: it should be animate like building. exp) grow from the bottom to top

bridge and building

the bridge is assembling kinda fast. I'll fix that but this is how it's going to be

The building went off the camera, but i'll scale it down some more.

Let me know if you guys have any suggestions@

Tree Animation

Untitled from Anthony Perez on Vimeo.

wk 10 overview

Patty: work on the first two scene. ( wave, mountains) section the mountains so it's easier to apply texture.

Debbie: Continue with the city scene. apply and experiment the city light thing he showed us.

Tony: fix tree animation.

Tim: 1. fix camera speed.

2. I think Rob mentioned that we should have a couple different tree animation yea?. So I think i'll do the tree animation.

3. building animation if i have time.

Debbie and Patty. I know you guys usually work on adv 3d over the weekends. maybe I can join you guys on a sunday? join us if you can Tony

Since we need some after effects work and some sound effects. we should have all c4d rendered by week 12, week 13 the latest. Let's get this thing done!

first scene animation

Room

might need some more stuff in the room, but this is the look. yea?

GRID WAVE

GRID WAVE from Anthony Perez on Vimeo.

TREE ANIMATION EXPERIMENT2

TREE ANIMATION EXPERIMENT2 from Anthony Perez on Vimeo.

first scene preview

Look of the city

mountain texture experiment with hair

some experiments on the mountain texture. i'll do some more later

I think the texture here is super cool. not sure how i can do it, but i would want the mountains to look something similar. yea?

cameramatic 11/11

cameramatic from timothy Cheng on Vimeo.

the zigzag scene is going a little too fast, but that's the idea. Let's get this rolling guys

to do

Tony: tree & leaves & waves

Patty: First couple scenes. Mountains forming

Debbie: fix building, building textures

Tim: room, cameramatic, tree mountain textures

Textures:

grid

building

trees

leaves

room

mountain

Lighting:

city

room

natural sun light for first couple scenes

Scale:

each grid block is the size of the building.

size relationship:

cameramatic

Sunnygrid cameramatic_002 from timothy Cheng on Vimeo.

I think the zig zag scene at 12 sec isn't working. I prefer it to be straight. And we might need some help to fix 18 sec camera move.

1/2 cameramatic

still need to smooth out the camera move but this is how the camera is going to cut.

animation ref

http://hornetinc.com/site/project.php?id_project=258&id_film=378&play=1

City View (Top)

City View

cameramatic

cameramatic

music and video not synced yet

mountain animation

GRID POWERhttp://vimeo.com/16268261

http://vimeo.com/16268261

week 7 feedback

- "camerametic" !!! --- very very important! (maybe we should meet up and spend time working on it together!!!!)

- experiment with grid in cinema!!! the camera should never stops moving--always moving!

- try to have at least one zig-zag movement but with perpendicular lines, stick with the grid!

- don't really need to see the mountains in the last scene while seeing them all together

- think about what do we see in the last scene? mountains = not necessary?

- should adjust the time line curves (cam slider) making sure there's no swirling lines, everything is moving pretty straight left, right, up, down (turn off the "auto tangent")

- the use of colors on mountains might apply "spline wrap object" (ask him to show us later)

- the colors on trees: use the previous one! no texture! just plain colors

- try sticking the bridge (or any building/object) on the grid. What does it look like in the grid?

Basically everything should look very "GRID-like"

and the camerametic is all about it! we need to spend time working on the animation!

otherwise we are pretty behind! Work hard guys!

:DD

Forming building

Tower

Bridge experiment

more buildings

tree color treatment

colors on mountains

camera map

quick camera map I did. should be pretty helpful for cameramatic

animatic/songs

animatic with radiohead song

my friend made this other song. let me know what you think.

colors on mountains

tree form

building experiments

wk 5 summary

some more references

Summary of the crit

1. refine music. match up the big events to the chord and have a stronger finishing phrase.

2. try out more buildings

3. explore mountain color ( maybe snow on top?)

4. experiment with more trees. (more square like)

5. think about how the energy ray is going to work. maybe building a grid frame first and we can work from there.

Let me know if I missed anything.

forming a building

References pictures

More experiences on the buildings

just a little idea I like to share:

in the end scene, we can have the element (building)'s reflection on the grid?

because the grid is made out of glass panel

what do you guys think = )?

Animatic

Gird Power Animatic from timothy Cheng on Vimeo.

Thanks Tony for the animatic!

I think the first couple city part is just a little bit long. if we have the extra time maybe we can extend the intro just a little bit more. anyway, these are minor stuff. I think I'll show this to Rob and see what he has to say.

what do you guys think?

some grid explorations

boards for animatic

Please let me know if you want to add anymore frames in between or if you want a larger file to work with!

Things to do:

1. animatic - Tony ( maybe you can send to us and Rob when you are done)

2. I think we should all think about how the city should look in the end.

3. music ( I'm thinking something in the electronic genre)

block/grid mountains

grid mountain concept