18 December 2011
06 December 2011
04 December 2011
Anim on the first + second sequence
No matter how much I cry, the eyeline does not match with the flying box during the second sequence...
29 November 2011
Matching the anim + base MOV
With After Effects;
1. Removed the green screen with mask.
2. Applied "Roughten edges" to the animation to soften the jagginess created after the separation from the green screen.
3. Color corrected the animation to match with the bluish base movie.
Animating with green screen
I have animated the boxes with green screen in order for me to later remove unwanted background with minimum pain.
As this is the first time I tried to create an AR movie, it took me a significant amount of time and a 3D Max expert support to complete the below process;
1. Modeling an opened book in 3D max with exact measurement of the Moleskine notebook I used.
2. Matching the notebook angle and the camera angle in order to place the 3D animation later in the similar manner in which I have tried during my previous projection mapping project.
3. Animating boxes in the modeled notebook.
4. Rendering and exporting the 3D video with previously fixed the camera angle.
5. Matching the original base movie and the 3D animation in After Effect.
28 November 2011
Flying boxes
The basic ideas of how I would like to animate boxes on the notebook in the Virtual Pop-up Book Base MOV Reshoot 001 that I have previously shot.
20 November 2011
19 November 2011
16 November 2011
Reshoot with my muse
Yuri Endo 2011
Thanks to my last shoot and the revised storyboard, I felt as though I was able to get better shots this time. Stay tuned for the new footage and animation.
The art of storyboarding
Storyboarding instruction by David Hall
It's absolutely unfortunate that I had never had a proper storyboarding education during my film school years. Following the advice, I would definitely give SketchBook pro + Wacom a try next time to refine my skill.
13 November 2011
Animation
The animation inside the book would be as minimalistic as possible; various boxes changing shapes and patterns.
Base MOV 001
Due to the technical difficulty ( my DSLR started misbehaving again), I missed some crucial shots. As the captured images are also lacking depth on the whole, I'm going to re-shoot it this week.
12 November 2011
New location
Yuri Endo 2011
After a long contemplation, I have decided to go back to my initial plan rather than building my own set and working on the goth piñata. I will be placing a girl in the location pictured above and have her flip the blank Moleskin note book.
10 November 2011
06 November 2011
05 November 2011
03 November 2011
26 October 2011
23 October 2011
10 October 2011
09 October 2011
Went grunge
Yuri Endo 2011
For this image, I merged 7 images with different exposures and chose the Enhence-Grunge option in Photomatix.
HDR experiment
Yuri Endo 2011
The above image is the result of my first HDR attempt. Utilizing the auto bracket feature on Lumix DMC-GH1, I took 7 different exposures of the location and merged the images in Photomatix. Frankly, I am not too sure whether I have succeeded in creating my first HDR photography as I am still trying to figure out how are HDR images supposed to look like.
04 October 2011
27 September 2011
Image based lighting
Yuri Endo 2011
After utilizing the spherical panoramic image for the light source, I played around with two spheres' reflection, transparency and colors. My next step is to improve their colors, transparency and image distortion behind so they would look more believable as two soap bubbles floating around.
Use Background
Yuri Endo 2011
I just started to understand how the plate can cast shadows on plate using "background" function.
26 September 2011
Transparent specimens
Yuri Endo 2011
I just encountered a curious art piece by a Japanese artist, Iori Tomita, at Korea International Art Fair. As seen in the picture above, he takes the scientific technique of preserving dying organism specimens to whole new level. (Find out more) Although I'm not particularly a specimen aficionado, the visual impacts those chromatic dead animals gave me was rather intense. In that sense, I've been contemplating wether there are any ways to adopt this very visual effects to my pop-up world.
25 September 2011
20 September 2011
Fantastic Mr. Caliri
The title sequence from United States of Tara by Jamie Caliri
I believe most of his works are consist of digital stills from a stop motion shots, then composed with After Effects, however for this TV opening title, he effectively uses pop-up book concept to illustrate the world of Tara, the protagonist of the show. Although this is not exactly what I intend to achieve from my project, it still is my favorite and an inspiration.
Next 4 weeks
Some more scrabbles
As a preparation for my final output as well as an experimental project, I would like to create a short movie; animation projected on a pop-up book which tells different stories each time someone turns a page. On that note, following 4 weeks I will work on:
1. Scenario and storyboard
2. Mock-up
3. Animation for projection mapping
4. Movie
Pop-up debut
Yuri Endo 2011
Upon setting my heart on the virtual pop-up book idea, I created a paper city from a DIY template in order to understand the pop-up structure and its visual effects. Even with an already made model, the process of building a pop-up from one sheet of paper was much intricating than I had imagined, however, I believe it'll be highly possible to apply this concept to create a virtual version of one.
18 September 2011
Travel without moving
Scrabbles from my initial brainstorming session.
Throughout this summer, I had been lucky enough to take in numerous museums, art exhibitions and events in several countries. Many of the presented works were wondrous on the whole, to say the least, I was vastly inspired by some exhibition designs from lighting, frames, showcases to the uses of spaces. Therefore, I would like to dedicate my semester in this course to explore new possibilities of exhibition design, in other words, seek and evaluate inventive and interactive approaches for public installations by mixing real and 3D moving imageries.
On that note, my initial ideas are;
Pop-up book:
Utilizing the concept of paper pop-up books, an empty book displays 3D moving imageries each time someone turns a page.
Product installation:
3D product animation replaces an actual product and displays interactively in a box.
Fashion showcase:
3D product animation replaces an actual garment and a model.
14 September 2011
Takashi Kuribayashi_INBETWEEN
Yuri Endo 2011 a Takashi Kuribayashi exhibition @ Beyond Museum
The exhibition INBETWEEN by Takashi Kuribayashi mainly features his signature installation; the giant snow white floating forest made by Japanese paper and pulp which to meant to realise the rifts of the land surface and their borderlines and gives us a different perspective on viewing the forest from the forest floor.
Although the exhibition was rather smaller ( in number of works that were presented) than I had expected, I enjoyed the use of space and the floating forest. Additionally, some unique objects and paintings he presented besides the forest; Wooden Yatai, a mobile food stool and photograph like paintings of tree branches which can be inspirations for my upcoming projects. I especially liked the metal cooler with leaves locked up inside the huge block of ice, for its inexplicable aesthetic.
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