Computer Animation

Here is animation created in maya ,as you can see, it is a program with immense power. This animation I find has a niece smooth style and lots of humour involved! This is possibly how I'd like to have my animation. Though now I need to come up woth an idea! I like the way things move particulary in this , gravity is portrayed well here.

Stock frame animation

Heres a niece stock frame animation. Stock frame animation is done by modeling something , moving, it, taking a picture and so on. I quite like the style and mix of colours in this add. The animation is very smooth too ( though its what you except if Sony is going to use it). Though I think stockframe would be interesting to do-I'd rather use a 3-D editing software as Id rather use something that I havent tried before.

Space pods , the capsules.

Giger


NASA


Should reach a comprimise?

I was watching the Aliens film t'other day for some futurisic inspiration.
Was good.
Though I like the one with Winona Ryder best as she is v v v pretty, (not many woman could pull that short hairstyle off, )well I think so anyway.

ANyways thats besides the point , I've been thinking about the pod for my space lift. I thought I want something stylish , something different to what we have today . When I saw Giger's craft design I was grabbed , I think I will use this kind of organic shaping and slick finish . Though I've been looking at NASA's pods and realised I will have to meet some sought of compromise . This I will do for I may have to keep the thing quite small and streamline to keep it mobile and I could still use an organic kind of shape.
While finishing the final design for the pod I will keep these things in mind.

Animation! my own little sketch

Heres a flower I animated in photoshop, I first drew all the scenes on a flip-pad, then scanned into Photoshop. I then added them into a timeline. I quite like the way the leaf drifts off , though it isn't very smooth , I still like it as animation. It does look quite delicate.

knew idea development for space travel

hey,

when I was looking through some info on the "railgun" , I read that it fired an electrical charged line which somehow created a parrel charge which alows you to glide along , so I was thinking maybe my space lift should be run using a similar mechanism , so that it floats straight up with ease , or glides straight up. I think this would be more suitable than a massive kind of average escalator , as this idea would be more futuristic.

Anyway I'l draw some idea's up and let you see what I mean.
I'l keep you posted.
(even if you means I'm talking to myslelf)

Animation research-Newtons

Heres a much better animtion of Newton's cradle .

The good

The balls seem to travel with grace , gravity and tension. Thye slow when they get to the top , and speed up when they are about to hit. The way the balls on the other side react is very well timed too. The balls even move and react when the collision happens the balls all jitter alightly. Its impressive also that creater bounces 7 balls at a time at the end.

The Bad
I couldn't really pic a fault , apart from its a bit dull , though how fun can you make a Newton's Cradle?

This is a much bigger improvement on the stock frame animation I looked at earlier!

Nanotechnology

The image above is a prediction of a nano bot which is proposed to help repair damage cells and monitior the status of your insides. Though that pic which was crreated in 1999 now does show its age . For scientists have now created a nao sub that can travel through the bodys blood stream. There is a picture of this type of thing below , its made by a lazer which maps out fibers similar to that of the patterns of your finger prints. The machine can travel through arteries , but is not yet advanced enough to go through human arteries (just animals).

Nano-technology was derived from nature , for instance the pads on the geckos feet have small hairs on them , which in them have smaller nano hairs , this is an evolution to help the gecko stick to things.

I thought maybe it may be useful to include nano tech in my research in case I find a use for it in the space scheme!
Below a "nano submarine"

animation research-

The Bad,

Here's a stock frame animation of Newtons cradle , I think this is a rather jerky and poor portrayal of gravity . For the balls don't seem to have much energy , they seem to travel fast and yet go no distance.

The Good,

errrrrrrr... Funky style (not much going for it really), the fact its so bad you can see the string pulling one of the spheres up on the right.

पीसी doodle

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Heres a doodle I added some colour to it (rather quickly) , I think its messy but quite a niece idea , for the shuttles are big so you have room to float around and the pods are different colours to attract different audiances (as will the features inside that arent shown). Anyway I'd say this is a small stepping stone to the right idea , I guess also from now on I should make some more refined ideas!

If you want to work hard, have a tendancy to slack and a weekness for online First Person Shooting games..... Don't Buy Halo3!!!!

Yeh well ,



Two weeks ago I played Halo3 for the first time (offline) , I enjoyed it slightly , slightly because it still seemed similar to the old Halo games and after a while you get tired of fighting multitude of enemies in similar scenarios (and similar graphics , well on normal screen anyway) . Well I did any way.
Then the other night my cousin recieved an Xbox 360 for his Birthday , so I embraced the oppurtunity to go round and play it , though this time I was able to play it on line , some thing I'd never done on a 360. First I was amazed amazed by the loading to time (really quick in relation to the playing time) , but yeh the gameplay was ace when I got on it , you can have a tonne of people online at once, at multiple scenarios with loads of knew weapons . The knew mines are pretty cool to wreck cars with and such , it took a while getting used to it all but once you do its ace.
Thats a brief summary but I'm not a games reviewer and I arent going to spend ages rattling on about the tactics and such. As that would just get dull . If you want an in-depth review go on Ign or gamester.
Though one other thing that was excellent about it was , my cousin had the headset so you could really have a go at people(Immature I know) , hours of fun , I couldn't believe that you could here every body who had one , it just shows how fast technology has grown.
Well there my enthusiasms about the game anyway.

Drawn rough ideas!

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These two sheets , show and idea fro the carriage that takes them up (the left) and a basic representation of the kind of mechanism that will take people up , its like a big elevator!.
I think the idea on the left maybe a bit to dull , it doesnt look futuristic enough , though I quite like the pic on the right , I think its prett cute . If my target audiance were children I'd use a style in the final similar to this I'm sure( of course a lot more polished)



Heres some more carriage ideas , Im quite please with the look of them actualy , I think they look pretty futuristic and spacious , though they may benefit from having two floors!. I know this would make the thing on a massive scale but its the future ! things thought of un achievable today , will be achievable then. The things on the left are ideas for VR glasses , I think I could probably do with some more inspiration!

Seu Jorge - From favella dwella' to movie and music star!

I thought I'd take a break from writing about the space idea, to write about something else I found interesting.
Recently I stumbled across this knew musician who I have to admire. It was when I was watching the film "City of God"(A film which displays the harsh realities of streetlife , it follows child to trying and survive the violance on the streets of Rio De Janeiro.)The film was great , one of the best I've seen of the past 10 years (and in the film they used many people from the slums themselves to play the characters , this I thought was very sincere and clever)My brother told me that one of the characters in the film who was dragged into the violence (knockout Ned) is a singer/guitarist(in real life) famous in Brazil .




I was half interested...Then he told me Seu had been in a Bill Murray film in which he played a musician who covered Bowie tracks in Portugeuse. I was interested. Then my bro told me he'd done a soundtrack for this, of Bowie songs translated and adapted to Portugeuse. I had to get it. So I did , and above my expectations the guy can sing and play guitar amazingly. I think hes done so well in life to come from living in a favella in Rio' to becoming such a succesful artist , though its no surprise the guys got talent. Vocals and guitar.

Heres a clip of him playing a Bowie song in the Film , "The Life Acqautic" , "Changes"

Onboard entertainment

I watched the Matrix the other day , partl in search for inspiration , partly becuse the first one is the best and I hadn't seen it for a while. Anyway one of my favourite bits is where Neo Jacks in to the training session for the first time. This realy is Virtual Reality for thats what the matrix Is. O think I may include VR machine in the cabins of the space wheel , though maybe not all for people would want to enjoy the views . I did look into VR on a few sites , and they say its in development ( its even used for training pilots and soldiers in some areas), though at the moment its hard to get it a really high resolution. though they say in the future it wont be a problem!

Animation Brief

For are latest brief , we'v been asked to create an animation where to objects interact and show emotion. Though the objects dont have to be too complex , we have to show a movement sequence and portray reactions between the characters/objects. First I will animate something simple to try and get the hang of it. I have done flip book animations before, though I'l try some other types of animation . Over the next couple of weeks I'l do some research , into animations showing relationships.

Space Enternaiment

Space Cabin Enternaiment,



Well recently I'v been thinking about what I may have un my cabins , to entertain people. For many different types of people will wan to go into space . So I needed something that would satify those different audiences (ya know : kids , couples , families and whatever) . So I thought I'd need something flexible , something most people could use and enjoy . I came across this computer table , (through a friends recomendation) the table I think would suit most people . As you can see it looks easy to use and fun , I mean this is just one now !, in the year my space tour is launched there could be 3D versions that you can play games with and such,(for the kids) adults/couple/fmilies could watch movies on it or search for information on the net. Or you could just eat on it?
The type of people that may want to travel to space in a modern machine would I think feel inclined to use the table for its entertaining features. If not you could just read a book on it.
+ there could be different style cabins with different tables.

Anyway its an idea, a hologram emitting table for entertainment. SOunds pretty good to me.