1st Semester Showreel

Project 4450

The weeks 44-50 were spent on the Project 4450, which objective was to design a character that would fit within Ernest and Celestine movie, and model them within an environment.

On the first week we were working with concept design with Benjamin Renner, a co-director of Ernest and Celestine.
I called my character Dora, she's an artist and a friend to Celestine.

During the next three weeks our teacher was Kristifir Klein, and we spent them on modelling.

The last two weeks with Rune Rask we spent on texturing, lighting and compositing in After Effects. To achieve a style similar to the styleguide, I tried to switch from the realistic lighting to a more toony one.

Here's the final Showreel with model turnaround, final keyshot and the breakdown:

Project 4450 from Marta Milczarek on Vimeo.

Intro to Maya

Between 41st and 44th weeks of school we started learning Maya!
After few simple exercises, our first real project was to create a small diorama

The second project's objective was to design and model an alien's head, attach it to a body provided by our teacher and hen rig them.

I've met several problems during the project

But I'm happy with the end result

Design 1

Last two weeks were pretty harsh.
We spent the first week doing abstract assignments (the first one was to describe taste of a chocolate with lines; second was to make a cover for a jazz album using shapes; the third one was to create a composition for Frankenstein book)

This week was about perspective & rendering (the first assignment was to create Atlantis weapon and put it in perspective; subject of the second assignment was 'ancient ruins with a mechanical culture', third was 'an antique shop or a black market shop' - and I chose to mix them togetehr;  subject of the last one was 'a haunted house')

Maquette

Need to update a bit on my schoolwork! Our 4th week was all about design and one of the assignments were to make a design & a maquette of a character from a story (age group 4-6)

some early designs:

And the finished maquette:

 

Environment estabilishing shot

One of assingments we've got in the 3rd week of studies was to create an establishing shot in After Effects. Here's mine:

Progress & finished piece:

Close-up:

Intro Project

The first two week in my first year at The animation workshop were spent on an Intro Project in groups! I'm very proud of the results of my group!

I designed and drew some of the objects (i.e. the fridge and the diamond), as well as the background used in the pan shot: