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Advanced and Experimental 3D computer Animation Techniques Project 1

Week 8 continue adjust the previs shot in Maya and draw character design

In this week, I change some of the order of the shots, and delete the close up shot for character’s eye. I feel the story looks more smooth and connect after I change it. Cause some of the shot gives audience anticipation to what the character will do and why she do this next. That makes the whole action more logic.

This shot I added in week 6, when George and I were discussing how to give the character a close-up, and he suggested that I could jump down an air duct, which corresponded to the episode where she was wanted by police.
I delete the shot of her eyes, and make the shot looks like the fly robot notice the police car is coming.
Then the shot is the police cars fly to her
In week 7, George suggest me she can put the ball into robot body, with the camera went down, so gives audience a signal they notice the police and prepare to escape.
As previous shot the fly robot flies down, so it create a connection of the change of the robot position.
In this week, I edit the movement of the character, Before that, I added a move where the character is about to get hit and spins around in front of the camera to avoid it, and George thought there was something weird about that, it looked like he was dancing, so I got rid of it. It did work a lot better after I removed it. I find that often I complicate simple problems and simplify complex ones.
In this week, George advice me can add a shot shows the door is almost close up, like as the first person perspective. That may make connection between this shot and next shot.

I also drew the character design for the protagonist and the concept art for the flying robot.

She is an ordinary person who has signed an unfair contract with a large corporation and is forced to participate in alien colonization. The company stripped her of her body and transformed her into a fully mechanical prosthetic to work in extreme conditions.

So her current appearance is actually a projection, which is why she has such a strong physique and can navigate through the city. This is because her real body is made of mechanical components.

After an unexpected program glitch, she was cut off from the company’s monitoring system. She reaches out to the colonized aliens and makes a deal with them: If she can infiltrate the company’s headquarters on Earth and steal the gene ball containing the genes of the original creatures, the aliens will rebuild her real body(Her appearance is a projection). After she get the ball, she regains physical body and along with the aliens and other laborers, fights against the company’s exploitation.

However, considering the workload, my animation will only include the segment where she escapes the city.

The little robot is a simple and cute character, with a screen on its face to switch expressions. However, considering the animation, the little robot might be redesigned into the shape of a skateboard.

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