Under the sea animation collaboration

For the final animation process and production session, each of the students including myself had to create a 10 second clip of a under the sea scene. I created a scene with a simple fish, using keyframes and some expressions in after effects to make the fins move as a fish would. I used the 'loop' expression on the keyframes for rotation in order to create a continuous swimming motion.

After making the body of the fish the parent, and the fins children, linked to the body. I moved the anchor point to just in front of the tail of the fish. This allowed me to move the fish around with ease, and therefore allowed the rotation and position of the fish to move as one whole, even though it is made up of multiple layers.

The video below is the animation I produced for this workshop.

Under the sea animation from Jack Pomfret on Vimeo.

I am happy with the result of the video. I believe that the rotations in the fins work well with the fish, and create a realistic look. However, in order to improve the scene further, silhouettes in the background of other sea life could improve the look, as well as some more sea vegetation or a few star fish for example.

Year One Finale - Group B from Motion-go on Vimeo.

This is the full collaboration together.

Introduction to Cinema 4d

For the introduction to Cinema 4D, the task was to create a 3D type/logo. In order to do this I just created the letters JP in Illustrator, and created a path. I saved this as an Illustrator 8 file in order to import it into Cinema 4D. 

This is how the letters looked when I merged them into Cinema 4D. 

I then used extrude NURBS on each of the letters. This creates the 3D effect that can be seen. I also added a floor and lighting which created a shadow, though selecting soft shadow in the lighting effects. 

I then added a wood texture though the Cinema 4D presets.  

This is the final render. I am happy with the result, and have learnt something new. Cinema 4D is defiantly a program that I intend to look further into.  

Helvetica

We watched the documentary film "Helvetica" which is a font that used to be called 'Neue Haas Grotesk'.The film by Gary Hustwist who also directed the film Urbanised that we watched early on in the year, looked at the difference between the style of the type back in the 1957 as well as went through the history of the typeface and how it came about.

The clean and modern typeface is used by many companies, and was one of the first fonts to change the old overwhelming advertisements in america to the clean, crisp ones we know of today. I enjoyed seeing how just a font could have made such a difference to a whole style of advertising. It was also interesting to see the opinions of the people who dislike the font, as these opinions are very rarely voiced about the much loved typeface.

I was not a huge fan of the film. I have only recently become more interested in typography since being at university, as i have realised how important it is in order to create a good finish for a piece. However the film was very long considering it was only about one typeface, and i think that it was dragged out a little bit longer than it needed to be.