Sunday, November 16, 2014

Special Effects in Animation and Live-Action

My first two term paper scores were 90 and 89; I will not be writing a third term paper.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Outline for the Third Term Paper

Visual Effects have a huge impact on the movie industry.  Especially that of fire.
A.    Films: The Avengers and How to Train Your Dragon
B.    Thesis- Fire is an effect that is now inserted into films digitally and added in during post production.
                                                                                                                   
Body          
1.     The Avengers
a.      The visual effects were mostly added in after filming
b.     Actors filmed on a green screen
c.      Believable fire added in post, creating an authentic scene

2.     How to Train Your Dragon
a.      Fire given a life of its own due to being a main visual effect
b.     Animators gave the fire a slightly different consistency, to make it more believable coming from a dragons mouth
c.      Different types of fire, created differently depending on the type of dragon

Conclusion                                                                                                        
1.     Fire used in normal live action movies tend to be pretty simplistic and used to create believable scenes.
2.     Fire used in movies like How to Train Your Dragon given a little more attention/life since it is a major aspect of the film.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Character Animation





I worked in a team with Nicki Yee, Ryan Eways and Geoff Nakanishi.  We all worked on coming up with a story, bringing props and animating the stop-motion animation.  As a group, we came up with the idea and created a rough story board.  We then created the set using pine cones, and other objects, as well as drawing the background and creating trees out of paper.  We then started filming, which each person in charge of different characters and movements. Afterwards, we complied it into aftereffects and added the sound effects.