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Week 7: Behind the Scenes: Head 3

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Post date 22nd November 2022
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before the course begins, I finish eye modeling and UV making. This time to learn to add joints for control the head, and use that makes head up and down, and open the mouse.

And opening the mouth requires the use of the full weight tool. But this is only the simplest initial use with the shape editor can be recorded, we use the sculpting tool to leave marks on the face, such as closing or opening the eyes machine.

The combination of the shape editor and the weights makes it possible to manipulate the opening of the mouth as well. rig is also an indispensable part of the process, and because of it the raising of the head when opening the mouth becomes very natural.

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Week 6: Practise paraphrasing

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Post date 17th November 2022
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Practise paraphrasing
Read and summarise a designated passage：

The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’

Horness Roe. A. (2013) Animated Documentary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Summarise by myself：

Honess Roe (2013, Animated Documentary) argues that the authenticity of a documentary is demonstrated by the fact that documentary images provide indexical evidence of what is happening in reality and that documentary images are linked to the notion of realism.

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Week 6: Behind the Scenes: Color test

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Post date 14th November 2022
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In the adjustment of the color of the picture, I used ColorCorrect and Grade to adjust the values of the RGB channels of the picture. My intention is to have the background’s backlit environment affect the color of the plane. At the same time, the contrast is enhanced to make the sunset/sunrise in the background more visible and beautiful.

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Week 6: Behind the Scenes: Head 2

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Post date 13th November 2022
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In this exercise, I practiced using topology to make the ear, but because of the number of faces, I don’t know how to “combine” the ear and the head perfectly. In addition to practicing facial animation, with the basic UV of the head.

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Week 5: Discuss Animation Documentary —— Chicago 10

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Post date 13th November 2022
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This documentary feature combines archival footage and animation as it explores the Vietnam War protests at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the participants’ subsequent criminal trials.

According to Honess Roe’s Taxonomy of animated documentary, this animated work is a documentary. It was created frame by frame based on interview recordings and was received by a large audience at the same time. I personally agree with Honess Roe’s point of view in terms of work value and value, which is “animation is a fruitful means of documentary representation in part.” However, from a visual point of view, I still think it is controversial.

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Week 5: Behind the Scenes: Roto – Man running add Bridge & Hot air balloon

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Post date 5th November 2022
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During the process of combining the balloon with the background, my balloon became transparent. After trying and watching the tutorial, I figured out that it was because the alpha channel of the background material was not set to Auto Alpha when it was imported. Eventually, I finished merging the footage.

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Week 5: Behind the Scenes: Head Quad Draw

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Post date 5th November 2022
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We started with the eyes and then Quad Draw until half of the face was covered. Because of the magnetism. So every point we created would be attached to the original model.

We also created interiors, such as the eyes and the mouth. We made mirror copies of the completed half of the face. A complete model of the head is then obtained. We also created interiors, such as the eyeballs and the mouth.

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Week 4: Experimental short film Analysis —— Pas de deux（1968）

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Post date 1st November 2022
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Categorisation: I think of it as Formative abstraction, a short film showing a ballet dancer performing a pas de deux with a male dancer. Colour and dance are used to express the feminine and masculine beauty of the human body.

Form and Function: McLaren photographed on high-contrast stock to create an experimental sensual experience.

Process: He used high-contrast stock, then used an optical printer to expose individual frames up to 11 times. The premise of backlighting the sequence preserves a large amount of visual residue and shadow overlay, which achieves an effect that is hypnotic.

Formal Elements: Only black and white colors are used in the frame at the same time. The background is also exactly the same shade of black as the figures, and grey is avoided as much as possible. The use of ethereal instruments such as the piano gives a dreamy hypnotic effect.

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