Collabration Project - Reflective Statment

For the Collaboration project we were assigned into a group consisting of three members, Michael Brook, Michaela Cernejova and myself. At the briefing we got giving a theme/guideline of “Failed / Forgotten Superheroes”.

I took us several weeks to arrive at our refined idea that we went with. I feel like we’ve wasted those week but it couldn’t be helped and I’m glad we did because otherwise we wouldn’t have got to the concept we went with.

I strongly feel that this project was a success. It gave me the opportunity to learn to animate in Maya 2018 and also gave me the opportunity to work as a park of a great team, with Michael being good team leader and keeping us organised and Michaela being a good modeller for sets and props. I really enjoyed working in a team where we all flexible enough to change idea when need be. This project has given an insight of what it would be like working in the creative industry.

If I could go back and do this project again I the only I’d change would  be to communicate more with my team and be more clear with what I was doing and keep them more up to date with my progress throughout the project.

Collaboration Project - Final Animation - "Hero's Journey"

In this story we see a scenario where superheroes are no longer in the prime and what they're up to in their spare time.

Collboration Project - Hulks Scene Final (no audio)

I've yet to edit some audio into the scene but here is the complete scene for the hulk.

Collaboration Project - Hulks Scene - Rendered Shots ( 2 & 4 )

Here are the final render for shot 2 and 4 of the Hulks scene.

Collaboration Project - Hulk's Scene - Shot 04 Renders and Playblast

Collabration Project - Hulk - Blendshape Test

Collabration Project - Hulk scene - Shot 3

This the part where Bruce Banner can no long supress his anger and transform into the hulk.

Collabration Project - Hulk's scene - Shot 02 update

Animating the Body



Here I've added a few more movements and gestures to the hand and shoulders to try and not make the character look too robotic.

Collaboration Project - Hulk's Scene - Shot 02 Update

Animating the Face



After blocking in the animation for the neck movements, here I've gone in and put in key frames of the movements of Bruce Banners facial features. The next step is to work on timing of poses and then start putting key frames for the body to add more life to the character.

Collaboration Project - Hulk Scene - Animating Shot 1&2

Hulks - Shot 01 from Douy on Vimeo.



 Shot 2 - Basic rough outs

Collabration Project - Hulk's Scene - Lighting

Camera 1

 Camera 2

HDR Dome Texture

For this scene I decided to light it with a HDR dome to give it a global lighting and I also used a directional light to get strong casted shadows to show the time of day (afternoon).

Collaboration Project - Matte Painting and Texture

Collabroration Project - Flash Articles

Collaboration Project - Flash News Article Test

After exploring different looks for the news article for the flash's scene we've decided to go with the third one as it looks simple and the there's no colours to distract the views from the headline. 

Collaboration Project - Matte Painting

Here are 2 variations of the matte painting for the background of Superman's scene. we're not sure whether to have to dotted texture on the or not. 

Collabration Project - Concept Art

Here are two concept paintings depicting the last scene of our animation. We weren't sure whether to set it at a beach or a park so I did paintings of both.

Collaboration Project - Thumbnails - Props

The Hulks Car

  I like #4 the most because the edges are squared off which will give more contrast to when old Bruce Banner turns into the hulk where the car will be inflated and rounded.

Drawing #3 is the best choice out of the three as its easily recognisable as one of Batman's gadgets.

Collaboration Project - Influence Maps

Here art some visual reference/influence showing the art direction we are going for and also showing what our 'Forgotten or Failed Superheroes' are going to look like.

Collaboration Project - Twisted Turtle Studios

As the Collaborative Project has started, some of you may already know that I am grouped with Michael Brook and Michaela Cernejová. We've created a blog for our group called Twisted Turtle Studios. Be sure follow our blog (http://thetwistedturtlestudios.blogspot.co.uk) to see updates/progress of this project.

Collaboration Project - Influence Maps

Influence Map 1 by douy singsamran on Scribd