This week I have collected some moodboard materials for the assets. I tried to find the correct mood and feeling for the short film visual style. I like the style of cartoon with the mid-realistic textures. And after I got some feeling about characters I started to skecth them... So here we go!
Add current date and time value automatically to the text layer with a little expression. Automating things can save a lot of time. If you have big project and there is many values that need to change, you'll save time with little expressions in After Effects.
Frame numbers on images is great way to keep tracking what happening in different timings. Number indicator in frames is very used in video and animation pre-productions. I have faced situations where I need numbers but there is no option to show or produce them on to the image. Of course there is timeline, but I need to burn that frame number to the image itself. NUMBER2FRAME is tool that make you a little image sequence from your chosen frame range.
This week was creative
In this week I have done mainly things that related straight to the story. I have planned shots, done animatic from the storyboard and started the layout. There is so much to do before I can start to make the "real" 3d job, but I think these phases teach me a lot about whole short film process.
This week was filled with storyboarding and planning for "Talent Night" short film. I bought program that is only intended for the storyboarding, so I tell couple words about it. There is also some templates for planning of your short film that I have done. I shared 'em in Google Docs, so you can use them.
This week has been quite busy. There is so much scheduling, sketching and planning with my new project called "Talent Night". Guess what? It's a new animated short film project! In next four months I'll focusing only to this project and keep my strictly on the screen. Read more about what I've done in this week.
Summer vacation are almost over and final year in Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences starts at next week. This was my last training project with Modo in this vacation and what could be better topic than "Beer bottle" at the end 🙂 So check out what problems I have and what solutions I found for those.
Hola! Today is a big day in my new "Modo life" again. It's a pleasure to show you some new stuff that I have made with Modo. My first modo training case was a still image, so now it is obvious that we need to move ahead and make some movement.
Everyone who's in creative sector knows that learning new program can be pain in the a**. Usually that's because you don't have enough time to learn. And if you try to learn it now and then you forget everything after a while.
It's summer holiday here and good time for learn something new. So I decided to learn something new. Time for 3D program called Modo! I bought this great tool over year ago, but I hadn't never time to learn it until now. I started this learning session over week ago and I want to tell some parts of that process to you. So let's get started.
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