Animation:

Zachary Greenfield

Project 1: Planets (1-31-2019)

In this project, I followed the tutorial to create a planetary system.

Tutorial output

In addition to the tutorial here, I added color to the sun and sped up the revolutions of the planets towards the sun, to make it slightly more realistic.

3 Changes:

Weird orbits of planets in all planes
- Goal to utilize different planes within the key frame system
- Experimenting with what objects with due if you modify x, y, and z.
Movement of the sun, as well as other planets to go along with it.
- Goal to add some life to the system
Modified sizes of planets
- To make planets seem a little more realistic, instead of being all the same size

Project 2: Teasure Chest

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

Simplistic Design

Beloved Game

Youtube videos are having issues where they gain in quality midway through. Original Files do not have this issue.

Treasure Chest Closed

Treasure Chest Open

Wireframe Closed

Wireframe Open

Project 3: Cannonball (2-28-2019)

Storyboard:

Basic Layout of Scene

This cannonball animation features a cannon falling from the sky onto a raft, which causes the cannon to shoot its ball into the house. The cannon falls back and the raft recoils at the same time. After hitting the house, the ball falls into the water, causing a splash. The house ultimately topples.

Disney principles incorporated:

Squash and Stretch
- Cannon stretching
- Cannonball stretching
Anticipation
- Wind up for cannonball firing
Follow through and overlapping action
- Cannon counter-motion
- Platform motion
- Building falling
- Cannonball splashing
Also others
- Technically a mix of straight ahead and pose to pose
- arcs
- Secondary actions
- Timing
- Exaggeration
- Staging

Version 1 -

Version 2

Better camera angle

Smooth edges

Motive for cannon

More movement

Smoother action

Project 4: Motion Path: Tempesto

3-19-2019 by Zachary Geenfield

Storyboard:

To make my storyboard, I mapped out a series of images that illustrate the roller coaster design that I wanted to follow.

Animation Principles:

Staging:

Position the roller coaster to mimic the real life version of Tempesto at Busch Gardens.
Begins with a forward view, still to view the rest of the ride.
Sign in background to describe the ride.

Anticipation:

Fall back from the roller coaster's first attempt to breach the top
Slow roll through twisted at top of track
Slow at the top of twists

Arc:

Camera movement and ride moves in arcs, not in a line.
Roller coaster track moves in arcs

Video Demonstration: POV Camera

My finished animation featuring a first person perspective.

Video Demonstration: Persp

With this overview, I took some liberty in the flow of the animation. Since duplicating a motion path seemed impossible, I did not animate the cart like I did the camera. In the future, I will remember to keep it in mind that they both should be constrained while animating the first time around.

Project 5: Rube Goldberg Machine

4/1/2019

By Zachary Greenfield

Feeding The Dog.

A ball is placed on an initial platform, starting the machine.

The end goal is to put food from the box into the dog bowl.

Ball and Launcher

-Serves as start of machine

Water Funnel

Funnels ball onto the thrower

Lever Box Thrower

Flings box into dominoes

Dominoes

Used to change the path back towards the wall rather than continuing away from it

Large Ball

Stored at top of hill, used for knocking into Box holder

Box and Bowl

Goal of machine: feeding the dog

Final Animation

Final animation rendered as 720p JPEG frames, assembled in Premiere and edited with Final Cut Pro.

Complications:

In the creation of this animation, I ran into many issues with rendering and the playblast behaving differently.
- Fixed by opening project each time wanting to watch video.

Features:

Lighting array of 5 lights, 1 having ray traced shadows turned on
Lots of texture types
- Floor
- Funnel
- Blocks
- Walls
Many camera angles, shots

Project 6: Dominoe Picture

By Zachary Greenfield

4/18/2019

Dominoe picture reveal

Description:

In this animation, a picture is revealed as an object from the right knocks into the dominoes, toppling them over.

This picture is chosen from a file of your choice.

Animation is generated entirely from python scripting.

Final Animation

Lighting exists, but does not show in playblast. Would show in render if rendered.
Camera would work better if it could move from a parallel to up position as dominoes fall
For some resolutions, dominoes will not *all* fall over
Could include a texture on table to make it more realistic.
- Same with object on the right
720p

Difficulties

Numerous difficulties

Bad documentation

Not everything is 1:1 with a command in python

Using UV projection to adjust a texture

Does not work in render (especially when rendering with software/arnold)

Using cmds.evalDeferred(command) to run commands at the end of the script so everything is made before playblasting.

Final Project: Performance

Posted on 5/7/2019 by Zachary Greenfield

Description

A man walks onto a stage to hear applause. He sits down and raises his hands to play the piano. The climax is when he just shuts the piano. He then bows to applause. As the curtains close, a message on the screen appears, "The performance is not only the music."

Anticipation

Follow Through

Finale

Problems

EXTREMELY hard to animate a person's movement by key framing.

To do this, I

Keyframed the positions of the person
Keyframed the positions of appendages
Worked on in between frames

Working with rigging in models

Texturing with UV changes

Storyboard

Disney 12:

Anticipation
- Preparing to play piano, exaggerated
Staging
- Off center piano, sitting
Straight ahead / Pose to pose
- How animation was constructed
Follow through / Overlapping action
- Curtains moving after moving
- Door closing after going through
Slow in and slow out
- Not initially seeing movement
- Ending on a bow
Secondary Action
- Moving curtains after moving
- Door closing after going through
Timing
- Sounds, visuals
Exaggeration
- Exaggerated raising of hands to play piano
Solid Drawing
- No clipping

Credits:

Piano, Bench, Chairs from TurboSquid
Applause from http://soundbible.com

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