2012年4月27日星期五

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.


2011年12月4日星期日

First failure on IKFK switch.

The rig in the video below is that I created follow a tutorial about building a IKFK switch. Ironically, everything apart from the switch seems fine, it is jumpy when it comes to the switch point.





I am going to solve it, and use it for one of the L4 film "Time Machine". Here are some tips I concluded by doing the two different rigs:

1.For spine, the spline Ik tool is easy to control for basic movement, but need to be careful about the Hierarchy. FK is used for taking full control of it.

2.Head applies to mainly FK, the only place for IK on head is when the head move left to right like it is in the india dance.

3.Arms need both IK and FK controls, for creating unlimited movement more easily.

4.Legs is mainly IK with knees on FK. For example, Kicking.

General Basic Rigging

This is the short video of rigging text, which is with FK spine and IK arms and legs.

3D Model