Simulated Client Evaluation

We had three weeks in which to create anything we wanted for the NTU Alumni project. I decided on creating a short animation with two fully rigged characters. The modelling of the characters took more time than it needed as overall I created three models and after I created my second character and no longer liked my first character so I decided to completely re model my character. Another problem I came up with is that one of my models files got corrupt as in the process I was working on two computers as I made a changeover to one computer so this set me back a while.

It's been a while since I have modelled fully human characters so I had to dust myself off and get myself back into it and you can see from the animation the rigging is off due to my models not being model in a correct and pliable manner. I will need to model more characters and looking into the anatomy of organic creatures more to get a better understanding of how to rig the models better.

As I want to focus more on the character animation side of things in this course I don't think I allowed myself the most amount of time to actually animate. All in all I think I only gave myself about three days out of the three weeks to animate which I know, is just bad time management and is just ridiculous seeing as I want to be more involved in character animation.

Overall I am pretty happy with what I have churned out in three weeks but in future I will definitely give myself more time to actually animate but for now I will further my skills in actually modelling characters.

NTU Alumni Project - Thank you Video

Here is my final, animated thank you video for the NTU Alumni project.

Script

Myself and a friend will record the dialogue. This script was mainly taken from the NTU Alumni website but it has been changed slightly in order to work better as a script.

Boy - Hi and welcome to the Jon Van Geest Cancer Research Centre which provides the University's world class team of cancer research scientists.

Girl - Did you know breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK. Each year more than 35,000 woman aged over 50 are diagnosed with this cancer and, although rare, men can suffer from it as well.

Boy - The most common cancer in men in the UK is prostate cancer, where approximately 10,00 die from disease each year. It is vital we find new ways to manage this critical disease.

Girl - NTU is widely recognised fgor the quality of its cancer research and it has been identified as being of global significance. Extensive research is conducted on several types of cancer, with the principal focus ion prostate and breast cancer.

Boy - Today, due to the advancement of cancer research, many people diagnosed with cancer have a much stronger chance of survival.

Girl - Your support will make a difference, helping our scientist to continue their life saving research and to purchase vital analytical equipment, enabling us to try and beat this disease.

Boy - We want to take this time to say thanks to everyone for their support and donations but we still need your help so please keep supporting this worthy cause.

Both - Thank you.

Rendered Models

Here are my models, fully rigged and unwrapped.

They're not the best modelled characters and there are some problems in the rigging as I just used CAT rigs but overall I think they will do.

Sketches

As I want one female and one male looking scientists I started by drawing some rough sketches to get a few ideas of what I wanted.

Once I had a good idea of what I was modelling and laid out the designs for both the man and female characters.

Simulated Client Proposal

I am going to create a short animation to say thanks to anyone that has supported and/or donated to the Jon Van Geest cancer research centre. I want the animation to briefly go over some facts and statistics about cancer and to go on to say what this cancer research centre specialises in. I want the animation to have two scientist looking individuals, one male and one female. The animation will be focused on giving brief facts and information about what is happening and just a general thanks.

This video could be imbedded into emails and sent to a mailing list of individuals that warrant a thank you video or even placed into a thank you page on the NTU Alumni website.

Simulated Client Project - Alumni Project

The first project of this year is our simulated client project. We are given the project by the University and it is about their Alumni Project. The Alumni project is a sector of the University dedicated to keeping in touch with post graduate's to see how and what they are doing a few years after they have graduated from the University. The project brief was very open and it was left up to us to decide what we were doing.

Final Year!

So it's the final year and it is time to get serious! I got a 81.3 for last years results but I am determined to get a higher grade this year, so lets go!