Rough Cut

In the previous post I mentioned about our rought cut. So here it is. Apologize for the poor quality. Soundtrack was produced by a friend of mine, Ahmad Hanif. Credits to him for making a decent music which fits really well with the mood in every scene of our video.

Week 13

New term re-opened and once again our busy schedule was restarted. A week before the new term, Alfred and I were polishing our characters, the male and female bunny by smoothing the polygons, add textures on it and did some rigging. We were really behind the schedule, since we have not started some basic animations on both of the characters. We also did some re-filming during the final week of our winter holidays. Alfred's friends were willing to help us out to carry out the couple scene. So, gratefully now the rough cut for our video is complete. All left to do now is animating our character. We just hope all will go well (especially for our upcoming prototype demonstration). So yeah, fingers crossed.

Final polish of male bunny

UV mapping of male bunny

Texures applied.

Incomplete rigging.

Male Bunny Model

These are the draft 3d models for the male bunny. Not the finalised version though. Need to do some more readjustments.

Possible Filming Location around campus

In week 4, we start to think about the filming location around campus.
Possible shoting location:

1. The pond near Jennision building

2. Area in front of the sport centre

3.Parkwood footpath

4. Eilot maze

5. Library

Storyline and Storyboard

The story is talked about a male bunny want to find his girlfriend but he cann't and he sees a pair of couple that let he feels very upset. However, there is a female bunny appeaered in front of him. So he wants to follow that female bunny and her movements. He wants to attract her and becomes a couple. Unfortunately, that female bunny is dead due to a car accident finally. Then, that male bunny returns to his single life.

Video Reference

1.

This video is just a few seconds. It shows that a iron ball is approaching to the man. That iron ball is created in 3D software. It looks like real.

2.

This video is shown how to show the 3D text on the building.

3.

This one uses a virtual iron ball to hit the car and damage it. It also creates a dynamic effect into the video, that smoke.

4.

A 3D virtual robot is standing on the drawing tablet, it is similar to our final year project. It also creates different movements for the robot.

5.

This video is very nice. It is completely done what we want to do in our final year project. This video has its own storyline and different movements. The lighting is good as it can match up the surrounding environment.

Week 2 and Week 3

Modelling were mostly done during week 2 and 3. Both of us spent most of the weekdays in JCS lab, trying to finish modelling the female bunny and male bunny as much as we could. The character modelling were based on polygons. Basic functions such as extrusion, cutting faces and edge looping were used in order to get the result we wanted. We used the sketches as our reference.

During week 3, we had our second meeting with our supervisor. We showed our progress to him by showing our almost complete character models, and he was clearly satisfied with it. He stated that we were probably ahead of schedule, so we just need to continue working on with the models. Further on we discussed about the next steps if our modelling has been completed. He suggested that we should think about the basic facial expressions that could apply to our characters. And later on, we discussed about when filming should be done and most importantly about our proposal presentation in week 5.