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[howiejai]

Hi everyone, I think it's about time that we get our own animation contest! I am very excited about this and I hope I can make some contributions to this special event!



- references
- simple 2d storyboard
- first stage of animation: blocking out the key poses
- second stage of animation: fill in the in-betweens
- third stage: polishing the animation (or the final output)

Please feel free to comment on any of my work.

Looking forward to see more participants in this event! And good luck to all of us =D

Howard

[howiejai]

Time for some updates:

Concept:

I've been brainstorming about concepts for a while. To be honest, I think 10 seconds of magic trick is really tough!! First you will need to have a trick that can be completed within 10 seconds. Secondly you need to make sure your magic trick is believable to someone's eyes. And lastly, you need to ask yourself a question: Is it only 10 seconds of making the magic trick or 10 seconds of just acting or a little bit of both? For me, I think I will go with the last options. I can only say this is going to be quite challenging.

I have been a big fan of pixar. Most of the time I like to take many of their films for my reference. I really liked their realistic and yet very cartoony animations. So I try very hard just to imitate how they animate their characters. The animation test of the magic trick performed by "Emile" from ratatouille has really inspired me. I will borrow a little bit of the idea from this and use it in my animations.

So the magic trick that I will be performing is very simple. I am just going to make a coin disappeared. But, I will be adding a little bit of stuff there just to make it a little more interesting. Also, I will be having few characters in my animations so I can do some interactions. I'll try to make it as simple as possible.

About storyboards, I don't really have one. But I do have this tiny sketch of poses that I did during work.

[howiejai]

This is the 1st blocking of my animation.

At this stage, I am just making sure the timing of the animations is right and having some of the key poses in the shot. I know I did a little more then just the key poses, but that's how I usually work. However, I might be changing some of the poses a bit. I have a really bad habit of changing things every time I look at it. Please feel free to comment!

Howard

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/o3jtIifKkI0[/flash]

Sorry, I am having some trouble with uploading the youtube thing on the site.

唔好意事， 因為最近比較忙，所以遲咗開始, 希望趕得設啦~!

離緊呢幾日我會再張的timing教好一點 同埋define好d個poses, 先至再進入第二街段。 我會再post多個first blocking。

[howiejai]

睇咗條片幾日，此中都系覺得唔系好順眼，再返去key過...-_-"

時間無多。。


[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/Oi9V0Ej8AnI[/flash]

內容:

The magician borrowed a coin from the audience. He wants perform the disappearing coin trick. The magician then throws his hat in the air to distract the audience. Meanwhile the audience is still looking up, the magician throws the coin away. When the audience look back, he sees the coin disappeared! At the end, another person comes in the scene returning the coin that the magician threw away. (Unfortunately the coin hit his head!)

[howiejai]

今次我把魔術師的動作做准小小，跟住就會key埋其他兩個character...

我覺得定帽個timing唔系幾好，會返去執執...

因為我對maya唔系太熟, 所以摸咗一陣先至教巖個constraint -_-"

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/VYCKhIGlRbk[/flash]

[howiejai]

再執!!!!

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/3OU-toAZiVI[/flash]

[howiejai]

臨訓前張魔術師o的 in-between 簡單地key埋落去，我有可能再改改o的pose.

根住我放咗條tie比佢等我可以比番o的secondary motion落去....

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/6XPscH-Hgzo[/flash]

[howiejai]

今次加多咗o的in-between比魔術師 同埋key埋條tie...

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/tzETAxWJCd0[/flash]

Merry Christmas! =D

[howiejai]

終於把魔術師既animation key 完。。。

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/iDLxP7a-asc[/flash]

I'll finish off the animation for the other 2 characters tomorrow.

[howiejai]

Finished the animation for the 2 characters, and minor fix on the magician.

[flash width=400 height=300 loop=false]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/iNtA3zjsfDg[/flash]

This is the final version of my animation (I hope -_-")

[howiejai]

I've uploaded the final version on the official MAVS site, please feel free to check it out!

http://www.cgvisual.com/memberpages/view_video.php?file_id=64

Thankyou for watching!