MSC ANIMATION & VFX

Monday 8th December Final submissions were today. I didn't quite get my video finished but I was about 95% and without an extension for once, so pretty good going for me. I ran out of time to go hunting for visual examples of stop motion techniques, but I verbally spoke about my research and stated that I would put it all in the blog. So hopefully that's acceptable and I can update the blog before any assessors find it today Yesterday I managed to do some H3LPR concepts finally which I'm very happy with! Pleased with this direction for now I wasn't able to fit it in to the assessment video but I've thought of a new plot direction. H3LPR could be like a very early model of AI; friendly but breaks easily and gets commands mixed up. Inventor is still inspired by seeing his creations at work, but this time he directly upgrades H3LPR to be the next generation of artificial intelligence, H3LPR 2.0. It's not implausible within the metaphor; the difference between Chat ...

CGI Mimicing Stop-Motion CGI has occasionally been used in the past to recreate a stop-motion effect, but it doesn’t count as stop motion as it is created digitally. With this same logic, a stop motion style video generated by an AI would still not count as authentic AI. The amount of human effort that goes into could be an effective way to protest Generative AI. Examples of  CGI imitating a stop-motion effect include: The Lego Movie (2014) - it's actually entirely CGI, as are most of the subsequent Lego movies South of Midnight - stop motion is used in promo materials, and real models are scanned in, but the actual gameplay is CGI with the option to either play with the stop motion fps or the full 60 fps Flushed Away (2006) - the only fully CGI Aardman film. While it isn't animated to imitate stop motion it does keep the iconic style I know there are adverts and short films that mimic stop motion with CGI too, but am struggling to locate any at the moment. It's by no means...

 Not as much new progress this week. This week has been primarily focused on completing my research poster and my assessment video. There was a lot more I had hoped to complete by this stage, including a mockup model of the Inventor for my poster and for a photogrammetry test, as well as further 3D work including Blender trials and retopology of my Tails model. But alas.  Current plan is to complete as much of the assessment video as I currently can, and then try and get some additional practical work done and inserted last minute once the rest is done. Because while Sean said it's ok for me to mostly have research at this stage (and I do have a lot of it to include) I really wanted more visuals and I feel bad about the lack of any practical outcome I did manage to get a quick Machine sketch done, black paper looks more sinister. I'd wanted to do full illustrations of story beats for this assessment video but I ran out of time Friday Write script for assessment video Quickly g...