This week’s task is to rig the main character and the doll, and then import them into different scenes for animation.
Due to time limitation, we will divide the work more clearly：
- 3D: this week to do animation, four days
- From tomorrow to Sunday (3.1-3.5) finish the animation, Monday (3.6) start rendering plus post 7-14 rendering and post.
- 2D: do the first frame and footage 1. carousel 2. characters pose a movement for reference
About rigging
The work of rigging is done by Qiaoqing Yu, who needs to fix the position of the bones on the character model first, and then use ADV to complete the basic rigging, after which the weight of the skin needs to be adjusted, and this step is the most complicated, after many attempts to try again and again to complete.
About Animation
We divided a total of 16 shots in the animation section, and we were respectively responsible for the animation of three different scenes.
- First frame: comic book (2d)
- Second frame: shoot the gate camera from top to bottom (2-3s) to shoot the little boy walking into the gate (walk two steps, walk into the gate 2-3s)
- The third frame: the boy walks towards the carousel and then stops (walk 3s + 2s after stopping)
- The fourth frame: holding the rabbit in his hands very happy (4s, holding the rabbit in his arms)
- Fifth frame: holding the rabbit in front of the merry-go-round and dancing around (small range) (5s)
- Sixth frame: turn around and cover the camera from far to near and then turn the scene (3s)
- The seventh frame: the camera close-up to the feet, from the feet to the house, (3-5s)
- Eighth frame: give an empty shot of the crane room, from left to right (5s)
- Ninth frame: still shot, close-up of the doll lying in the crane machine (3s)
- Tenth frame: side shot of the little boy, close up (above the shoulders, head shot) (tilting the head and bringing it forward) (4s)
- The eleventh and twelfth frames: two other shots according to the split screen (add subtitles, add voiceover) (5+5s+2s freeze frame) (the twelfth frame, the little boy’s hand lifts up and sticks to the glass, the doll follows suit.)
- Frame 13: Far shot, amusement park gate, the camera pulls down and captures the rabbit in the beam of light. (5s)
- Frame 14: close-up, the tattered rabbit (2s)
- Frame fifteen: close-up, a hand holding the rabbit (two steps forward with the camera in first-person view, approaching the rabbit, pulling the picked-up rabbit closer to the camera) (5-6s)
- The sixteenth frame: on the basis of the fifteenth frame, the subtitle (I will take you to home.) (3s freeze frame, end) about 1m10s, the end of the film 20s
- The total length of the film is about 1min30s.
I was responsible for the 3th shot of the carousel and the 5 shots at the end.
In addition, we are not individuals. As a group, we watch the preview after we make the animation, then we give each other comments, and then we make modification of actions and shots.