Week: 19 – 25 April

During this week class (21st April), Luke gave a bit overview of what tasks will need to be done by each department in the coming weeks. I took the animator role, so I my task would be animating a car. Perhaps to make it look realistic since this 3d car will be combined into a real footages. Luke said that the videos are still being filming at the moment, so we will need to wait a little bit until we receive the videos.

Few days later Abbie setup a new Discord server for the project, and everyone involved quickly joined the server. There are several team members from the VFX course as well, and I’m glad to see Antoni & Ghera joined this project. I’ve teamed up with them during the Term 2 collaborative project, and they are very good and cooperative.

Week: 19 – 25 April

After thinking for several days and watching quite a lot of short animations since the last week post, I decided to do 3d character animation in a real video footage for my personal project. I really love character rigging and animation, and quite weak with camera tracking. So with this project, I can practice character animation while at the same time improve my camera tracking skill. For the collaborative project, I decided to join the indie film project as animator. I then emailed my project proposal to Luke.

I then booked a session with Luke on 6^th May for his further advices and also to show my initial progress of the personal project.

Week: 12 – 18 April

I’m now in Term 3. In this week class, Luke briefed us on what we have to do throughout this term. There should be 2 minimum projects which are another collaborative project and personal project. The collaborative should be a teamwork project with students from other departments, while the personal project is solely our own ideas which can be something that we interested to explore and showcase our preferred style and aim for the skillset to jobs that we are looking. Luke mentioned that there is a collaborative indie film project for anyone interested to involve as animator, matchmover, VFX and render artist.

We will do a lot of self directed learning and research for the projects, but at the same time we can book a session with several mentors for their advice and guidance. During this term also, we will need to be planning for our thesis and final major project and pithing them in week 9.

Our task for this week is to think about what projects we want to do for this term and why, then send the email proposal to Luke before class next week.

Personally, I’m not really sure yet what I want to do for my personal project, but I really like character animation. For the collaborative project, I probably decide to get involve in the indie film project. So I have until Monday to think about this. I’m going to watch short animations on YouTube to get some ideas.