Tutorial

In this tutorial I proposed my idea for the clients brief, tutorial feedback was necessary, and was received well by most of the members. Some critic and small adjustments were given to me, which were helpful and so I adjusted my proposal accordingly, to make a better piece of animation.

v-ray rendered house

first time using v-ray, its complicated, but il get used to it i hope

Mustang

old man part 2

piano part 3

Not sure if i prefer this one or the previous one.

random old man face

Z brush and Max were used, im trying... lol

piano part 2

i re made the scene for the piano i made earlier in the year so it has outdoor lighting with windows rather than a closed off room.

Kyoto lounge computer room

its the computer room of my cousins gaming lounge in manchester, i thought id model it in 3D.

room and sun

Looks better from a distance, need to work on textures.

research question + topic

question

Romantic Comedies are targeted for a more mature audience, can an animated romantic comedy create the same emotional connection with its audience, using traditional animation techniques, and therefore be as successful commercially compared to movies with real actors.

topic 

I believe that it shouldn't matter how a movie is created, whether it is a 2D cartoon or a film with real people, it is the story line and the directed techniques and elements shown within the scene that can make a movie great. This has been proven with great family movies across all styles of film making. From 'Toy Story' or 'UP' being 3D animated movies, 'The Lion King' being a hand drawn animated film, and films such as 'Forrest Gump' or 'Back to the Future' which are great family films with real actors.

This ideology however doesn't seem as present with other genre's such as Romantic Comedies, or the Horror/Thriller genre. Aside from Family/Kids animated films, it seems there is not as much of a connection to the audience with Animated films.

I would like to look at the film techniques and elements that are evident in existent 'Rom-Com's' and 'Horror/Thriller' movies and see what is used to connect with their target audiences.

I would also look at the more successful animated films and what techniques they use, what animation styles gain more attention, and what makes them so successful.

Then I would like to look into how the film elements and techniques used in the other genre's can be integrated into an animated piece.

If there are existing animated movies within these genre's then why aren't they as commercially aware, I do believe that because the animation industry, especially 3D animation, is still in its infancy and is still growing and developing with technology advancing rapidly, that the films being developed for the box office are very similar to what is expected of animated movies such as 'The Lion King', it is still in the 'comfort zone' in making movies for the same demographic, so it is a possibility that over the next 10 years, with techniques advancing in animation, that studios could start taking higher risks and developing high budget, different 'themed', animated movies.

Exhibition images

For context 3 I have to use 5 images for a fake exhibition as a sort of practice for our real exhibition, showing 5 images which show what we want to do and our strong points.
I am still unsure as to what I want to get into, but I think something in the modelling side of animation rather than the animating, so character and environment modelling either for games or film/tv.
So for the 5 images I think a strong representation of modelling and visualisation skills, well rendered and lit scenes as well as some z brush examples, to show my skills in modelling and more realistic renders.

Research project

For my research project I am going to look into animation genre and why the most successful commercial full feature films are mainly in the kids/family genre.

I want to see what makes a successful animated film and then look into successful romantic comedies and horror movies and what makes them successful commercially.

Looking at techniques in production and development, I want to see if an animated romantic film or horror film can be successful and whether it will work in the cinema like films such as shrek or toy story.

I would like to see a development in animated genre's and an expansion into more genres such as romantic comedy or horror, more adult themed animated films, because I believe people still think of animations as kids movies, I want this to change.

Live Client

I had a couple of ideas i wanted to do for the live client, both of which are now out the window because i have something else i want to do now.


my initial ideas were either, creating some sort of virtual tour etc for my cousins gaming lounge in Manchester, either in real time or with a character giving a tour.
This idea would have been OK but it would have had very little animation, and i want to incorporate and focus on animation as well.


My other idea was to approach Omid Djalili because i have contact with his daughter so thats a bit of a connection, and i would have proposed a cartoon style adaptation of some of his sketches that he does in his stand up shows.
This would also have been good as far as animation is concerned but i feel contact would have been a bit difficult.


Then today I saw the competition briefs for both YCN and DandAD and saw a few things which interested me a lot, so i thought i would go for a competition entry for the live client.


Aside from the fact that it may look like iv'e done little client research and little practice in approaching real clients, the only downside i can see with competition, is that the deadline is a month earlier than the university deadline, this doesn't mean i cant keep working on it and hand it in a month later to university too, but if i was to fully enter the competition i have till the end of March rather than end of April.


These are 3 that highly interested me from YCN.



ESPN

Develop a brand affinity campaign to inspire younger audiences to engage with ESPN on any platform.

The Feel Good Drinks Company

Get fruity, make people smile and kick start your career.

SEGA

Create a piece of communication that celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Sports Interactive, the studio creators behind the Football Manager series.

Context StartUp Factory project

basically my idea is to create a digital menu for restaurants rather than having a waiter write down your order, you just press what you want on the built in menu, which will be part of the table. I believe this can reduce waiting time in busy restaurants, and can be quite a different and enjoyable experience considering touch screen menu's are taking over everything.
This is a concept.

Simulated Client Project

I have chosen to use the cancer research section of the alumni client project and produce an advert for it.

My main idea is to produce a pin ball machine, with the camera following the ball as it goes through the machine during gameplay, then at some point it attempts to go through a wall but can't go through and eventually the ball gives up and goes to the end, the wall says cancer and the advert will read something like 'help us beat cancer'.

Guitar

Piano

keeping myself busy...

a few screenshots

screenshots because i dont want to show my actual video

this yoda one isnt exactly a screen shot as he doesnt play fifa in my film

500 word rationale

This project's brief was to re-interpret an existing script, we were given 3 samples but I chose my own script, the Pod Race Scene from 'Star Wars'. By making it a bit different I wanted to do it in a city rather than in the desert, and as the story goes on you realize it's a game in which Yoda is the player in real life.

I chose to do this, not only because I wanted something different from the main examples we were given, but a lot happens which tests my abilities, I have had to create fire, an explosion, pod racers, a city, and I also took a different route with texturing from what I normally do. There is a cartoon/game effect in texturing, making it look less realistic, so when it shows Yoda playing, there is a difference between the game play and real life.

Within the first few weeks I storyboarded and planned exactly what I needed to do, this definitely helped me do things in the right order, I was a lot more organised than the first animation I created.

I feel I have improved a lot on this project, my modelling of the pods and characters shows this. I also found it a lot easier to rig the characters this time. As I mentioned the texturing is different, and is split into two different styles, the main piece is cartoon like, and the scene with Yoda is more realistic, this tested my ability to texture but I feel I have accomplished the difference in textures and I am very happy with how both turned out in finished renders, and best of all neither style had a big impact on render time, unlike my first animation which was taking up to 5 minutes a frame, most of the frames in this piece took a maximum of 50 seconds a frame.

There weren't many big challenges I faced in this project, I did believe I would face a few, but I managed them quite well, for example creating fire from the engines, I set this aside and worked on other parts first as I thought it would be difficult, but creating a blizzard particle system and making it look like fire, still in the cartoon effect, was very easy.
The sound was the biggest challenge, as i did not spend enough time on this and i feel it may have ruined the animation, my lack of sound editing knowledge may have let me down on this project, none of the sounds matched up with what i had created.

In conclusion I feel I could have planned the rigging and animating a lot better, I feel they may have let down my finished piece, especially if I want to become an animator. this project made me realise that maybe I should work more in the visualisation side rather than animating as I enjoy making realistic images, although I liked the cartoon effect I gave this piece. I do feel I have improved from the robot project, but I definitely have a lot more to improve on and learn before the final year.

fully textured pods

i haven't shown much so here is a preview of the final looking pods, and yes iv cut it down to 2 racers, things piled on and i realized iv managed it badly so instead of 5 racers there is just these 2, the good guy and the bad guy.

Yoda plays Fifa

Flickr Material Library

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60837426@N07/

my website

www.wix.com/peyman89/peymanimation

I know Wix isn't that good but its only a temporary website until i learn to make a proper site, and get better at the work i do.

Also you can see my showreel on the site.

update on what ive been up to

iv'e admittedly been very lazy over the past couple of weeks, i have barely done any work, and any work i have been doing has been working on my showreel, so i guess all i can show are little things ive been adding to my showreel, only stills as you will have to see the showreel when its ready for the full thing.
(I decided to go all out on the poker chips, i made the pattern myself, i didnt google the image!)

today we learnt how to make sky scrapers

since josh did a poster i thought id do one too

games console and my game

yoda's hands

Nothing overly complicated but its Yoda's hands for he is playing the game in my animation, thought id have a concept render of him playing too.

i umm... drifted away from the project for a bit - living room

I started by making the tv for the end scene of my animation, then i drifted off and made a living room, it wont be used for anything, but i thought it looked cool.

the fireplace is supposed to be one of those fake ones thats like, on a screen.

dont pay too much attention to this, it was just a time filler.

3rd alien head - white eyes or black eyes white horns?

Toon shaded

Alien Helmet

My original sketch of the alien helmet i wanted to create...

My pretty much completed helmet (without body)  which took me from 12.30pm till 8.30pm (not including gym which was 4-7)

It was very hard to model but i feel iv'e captured the concept sketch pretty accurately.

Toon shaded - how it will look in my animation

Nas & Damian Marley - Patience

this is the new video for one of my favourite songs of 2010, 'patience' by Nas and Damian Marley. I love the video and its just brought back memories of my summer as i saw them live, which was great. But yea this is the video for it, which looks similar to the 'Power' video by kanye west, a lot of layers overlapping, very arty.

Directed and shot by: www.NABIL.com

Editor: Eric Greenburg

Post/artwork: Gustavo & Clara

Producer: Nabil

add Prod: Kathleen Heffernan

thx: kathleen Heffernan, Marc Antoine, Jodie Smith, Sheku



Damian Marley & Nas are Distant Relatives

Pod racer and character 1 in 2 locations

cartoon textured 1st character

lumpy skin texture man