Thursday 17th October 2013 - Morning

Exercise 4
Team: Dean, Kelsey & Lorne

For this exercise we need to shoot a short animated sequence with a bare armature which includes a walk and a range of body expressions.

The camera settings we used today were 1/6, F20, ISO 1600 and used white floresent lighting. We used white floresent lighting for the test shoot as the lighting was fairly yellow on the cloudy setting, we also had the setting on tungsten but the shots were quite blue.

The lighting on the cloudy setting

The lighting on the tungsten setting

The lighting on the floresent setting

We did three different types of test shots to help us understand how to animated various types of shots and what type of camera angles we should use. The first test animation was of the armature going from a standing pose to a fighting stance and then go for a punch.

Afterwards, we then did a test for a walking animation. This helped us greatly as we got a little bit of experience making the armature walk as well as knowing where to drill the holes so we can screw the foot to the table. 

The last test we did was a very short one to see about conveying an expression with an armature with no face. So the expression we chose was shock, and animated the armature putting its hands to the face.