Moodboard
This shows the overall look that I am trying to go for, which is having someone interacting with a digital 3D object. I also wanted the outcome to have a certain style to it. The examples of that are the bottom three images. I wanted to have that curve/fish eye like lens in my scene. The first two images are from a music video, Passing Out Pieces by Mac DeMarco. It’s very stylized with its over saturated colours and homemade feel. The bottom right image is a still from Cloverfield and that’s there because that movie was made to look like it was filmed through a camcorder.
This is a very rough outline of how I wanted this shot to go
down.
As you can see in the final finished shot I changed a few things from the storyboard. First off, the angle. When I filmed with the camera straight on the person
and watched it back, it was boring and looked deliberate. It didn’t look
‘homemade’. I changed the shape of the object from a sphere to a more
interesting shape. This was because I didn’t really have the time to animate
the sphere coming apart in Maya. I did try a few techniques involving particle
dynamics in Maya, but I couldn’t get it to work how I wanted it to and it
didn’t look right. So by changing the animation to mostly rotation I had to
change the shape to make it more obvious.
Final Shot
Looking at the finished clip one thing that could have
helped to make it look real would have been to add a shadow to the person’s
hands from the object. Although I was anxious to start this project once I got
into it I found myself really liking it and I learnt a lot of new things in the
process.
Breakdown
As you can see I got a bit carried away with the colours and effects but it gets the point across and you can see how I did the shot.
As you can see I got a bit carried away with the colours and effects but it gets the point across and you can see how I did the shot.
