Render and comp

I set up three render layers: Beauty, shadow and BG. there are two passes in beauty layer: AO and Matte. and reflection on BG

Render from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Reference Videos

Rudy the Robot from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Movie Recording 6 from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Rulf rigging test

S:RudyAuditionmovieswalking cycle from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Blink 1 from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Animation for Lucy

\djcad3d.dundee.ac.ukUsersHomeFolderMAVbzhaoDocumentslucy 02 from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

\djcad3d.dundee.ac.ukUsersHomeFolderMAVbzhaoDocumentslucy 03 from Rudy ZHAO on Vimeo.

Hai's main character rigged and blendshapes

Final Rabit rigged and expressions

Ruff model and reference

How to Do the Robot

Umbrella rigging

Looking at you (Movie montage)

reference for moon walk

Moon Walk

This is very first animation test of Moon walk.

1st Animatic

This is the first animatic.

Rigging for Tick Off

This is the rigging I builded for Tick Off group in undergraduates, However, they didn't use this one for the final film, the reason is not very clear but I guess this rig is not good enough.

Animation reference video

This is the reference video I did for the Audition. Thank Tom, Hai and Gary's help, we finished this in one moring with 13 takes. The NG parts are very funny, will put into with the credit after the film. This is the first edition which have not been edit. I want to control the final piece within 90 seconds.

Miely's rabbit

Miely ask me for help on her rabbit model, because I am going to rig it for her, it is better for to take a look at it first. I realised there are quit a lot of  hidden issues which could probably become a problem, so I fixed the model according to the modelling and rigging principles. there are the two ribbit, try to find the differences:

After

Before

And then, here comes with the blendshapes:

Animation for Four Treasures

This is what I have done for Lin Ma, a interior and environment design student for her final project. in this video, I created a new model based on her real model, finished the UVs, Using her painting as the texture. With this project, I get to learn much more about textures than I did before. I also did the lighting, camera animation,rendering and editing. I feel quit excited as well when this video is displaying on level 5 for the degree show.

Acting Reference

Model for Brian

Brian did all texture works, this helped me to understand how to deal with facial expression of a sphere head.

Ben's model

Model for Hai

Start over!

New Project!                                             "AUDITION"

Fade in from black

"Next!"

Ben. Dan walk into scene from left, stop in middle.

"Mr. Ben?"

Ben is nodding.

"Mr. Ben? It would be more polite if you can answer me, don't you think?"

Ben looks innocent and point at upper of his chin.

"No mouth?... OK, well, (laugh) who is the idiot designed you?"

Ben take out a picture of RUDY from behind and shows towards the camera, with a hopeless expression of the eyes.

"Hum... carrying the picture with you all the time, you must love him a lot?"

Ben throw the picture away, without any hesitation.

"OK, let's get started. No mouth, which means you can't talk or sing, but can you dance?"

Ben is nodding very fast, then raised his right hand, a hat flies into the scene from left. Ben catches it, put on then snaps finger.

(Music: Billy Jean starts)

Ben is dancing in MJ's moves

"That's enough, thank you, Mr. Ben. what else can you do?"

Ben throw away the hat, stands in position, closes his eyes, raises his left arm and snaps fingers. Then a nu0-chuck flies into the scene from right, instead of getting into Ben's hand, then nun-chuck flies over his hand and hit him straight on the head. Ben can hardly hold himself on his feet. But he picks the nun-chuck up and starting playing with it, ending with hitting himself. So he becomes angry and throws the nun-chuck out of the scene.

"Ok, take it easy. I have seen enough about your skills, now let's see some performance, shall we? I need you to do a series of movements which is interacting with my description."

Ben nods

"OK, here we go. You are taking a shower."

Ben starts brush himself

"Now, here is a earthquake happening!"

Ben starts shaking and leaning his body, but suddenly he stops. He point to the camera, tell the camera man to shake with him by body language.

"OK, start over. You are taking a shower, then an earthquake happens, and you need to escape with your towel."

Ben starts shaking, and then grab something, tied around his waist, then start to run.

"suddenly your towel dropped."

Ben bends over, covers his crutch with his hands.

"But you need keep running."

Ben is running in a strange pose.

"watch the branch, dodge! watch the drain, jump!"

Ben dodges and jumps follow the instruction.

"Dodge, jump, dodge, jump..."

Ben keep dodging and jumping

"Watch the flying nun-chuck!"

Before Ben sees the nun-chuck, he have been hit by the nun-chuck which is thrown towards him, and pass out on the floor.

"This will do."

Fade into black

All the dialogs are voice-over from the director.

camera stay still except one scene.

包强VS寿司人(Super Baozi VS Sushi man)