Hand In

Minor Project
11th January 2018
Its the
By Rebecca Ryan Year 2500
 Contents
Pipeline ———————————————————— 3
Describe your home - What does it look like? ———————— 7
How are you cooking your dinner? ——————————— 9
How are you watching television? ———————————— 11
What is your mode of transport and where do you keep it? ——— 13
What are you / your children playing with? ———————— 15
Describe your garden / outdoor space —————————— 17
What is the year 2500 like to live in? —————————— 19
What can you see from your window? —————————— 21
Layla’s World —————————————————— 23
Chosen Drawings ————————————————— 25
Maya Models And Texture Tests ————————————— 29
Voice Overs —————————————————— 31
Minor Project - Goals ——————————————— 32
Minor Project - Submission List ———————————— 33
Major Project - Where to Next ———————————— 34
Moving on from the Interim Crit ———————————— 35
Amended Submission List ——————————————— 36
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Contents
Project Overview ————————————————— 37
Planning the Look ————————————————— 39
ehind the Textures ———————————————— 40
Orthographs and drawings —————————————— 41
Mockumentary Ideas ———————————————— 49
Texture Tests —————————————————— 51
Starting the Models
Nanny - Pod —— home —————————————— 55
Beth - Cup —— cooking —————————————— 57
Josh - TV ——television —————————————— 59
Both - Horse —— transport ————————————— 61
Dad - Car —— transport —————————————— 63
Mum - Jetpack Man —— transport ——————————— 65
Dad - Holo / A.r Dome —— children —————————— 67
beth - Forest Dome —— garden ——————————— 69
Josh - CityScape —— 2500 ————————————— 71
Nanny - Pods —— window ————————————— 73
Voice Over Script ————————————————— 75
 Influences
Premise Brief The Rules The Questions & Outcome
An animated short I’ve asked a Each person was given an A3 1. Describe your home – what
Art Style
The Outcome will
featuring a select select group of piece of paper, A3 tracing paper does it look like? The influences
be varied due to
group of people’s people to draw and a black felt tip. The 2. How are you cooking your and art style is
each person's
responses to a responses to a instructions were as follows: dinner? unique. The piece
drawing skills. The
set of questions list of questions. 3. How are you watching was created by a
final animated
about what they The responses • Please ONLY use the paper, television? collection of
pieces will reflect
think the year 2500 given will be tracing paper and pen 4. What is your mode of transport ‘artists’ that
the original articles
will look like. made into an provided. and where do you keep it? created the
as much as
animated short in a • Please draw a response to 5. What are you/your children original drawings.
possible.
3D faux documentary each question and if possible playing with? Every aspect will
Modelling style piece. Each write a short explanation 6. Describe your garden/outdoor reflect their work.
drawing will be The final piece will
& alongside it. space. From mimicking
be a “mockumentary”
Animation animated in a • Sign your work! 7. What is the year 2500 like to or using their
showcasing the
& loop and feature live in? handwriting within
a Voice over. best responses.
Voice Having no set way to format the 8. What can you see from your the piece to the
Over work allowed for creativity in all window? crooked lines of a
the responses. building.

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 Digital Pipeline Technical Questions
From Drawing to Model to textured
1. How to correctly light a Maya
scene with Arnold Renderer.
2. How to add a floating outline
onto a rotating model.
3. How to add an offset outline
onto a model.
4. How to create a looped
animation.
5. How to layer up paper
textures without the final
piece looking flat.
5 Pipeline
Challenges
1. Making sure that the models
reflect each persons’ drawing
and sympathises with the way
they have been drawn.
2. How to model in 3D but keep
the initial ‘scratchiness’ of the
drawings.
3. Creating a variety of textures that
are very similar but different to
define each model
Pipeline 6
 Describe your
home - What
does it look
like?

7 Home Home 8
 How are you
cooking your
dinner?

9 Dinner Dinner 10
 How are you
watching
television?

11 Television Television 12
 What is your
mode of
transport and
where do you
keep it?
13 Transport Transport 14
 What are
you / your
children playing
with?
15 Children Children 16
 Describe your
garden /
outdoor space

17 Garden Garden 18
 What is the
year 2500 like
to live in?

19 the year 2500 the year 2500 20

 What can you
see from your
window?

21 Window Window 22
 Layla’s World
• Portals with parking spaces (you park your spaceship on the roof)
• Another portal that leads anywhere but its favourite is the beach.
Portals all lead to different places
• House floating - can land on platform
• Robot pet shop. Sells all pets as robots and some are radioactive and
glow in the dark.
• Disco trampoline changes lights with each bounce.
• Light up pool (mood lighting) Comes with a calm pool for if you've had
an angry swim.
Her responses to the questions are as follows:
Home - intergalactic!
Dinner - Ultra violet combined with gamma rays
TV - EVERYWHERE
Transport - Levitating
Children - Robots and bouncy slide
Garden - Blue grass that glows in the dark with light up flowers
By Layla (aged 7) Window - spaceships

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 Chosen designs
1 2 3 4

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 Chosen designs
5 6 7 8

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 Maya Models and Textures

The textures used from left to right are as follows:

• ‘Real world’ plastic
• UV Map
• White plain paper
• White cartridge paper
• Scrunched up white paper
• Scrunched up white paper with purple marks
To the right is ‘real world’ coloured glass

29 Models & Textures Models & Textures 30

 Using Voice Overs Goals For Minor Project
My goal for this project is to push myself to create models and textures
The chosen responses to each question aren’t necessarily chosen
that reflect the participants to the best of my ability. Without their input, my
because of the drawing skills. Some have been chosen due to the
project would have nothing, and I want to honour their designs.
written response. The style of the piece is a ‘mockumentary’, and as each
one appears onscreen with a looped animated movement, a voice over will be
I also want to push myself to create a brand for my work and have a
heard reading the written response.
consistent theme throughout the Art of, animation and ultimately on my
blog too. I want to build an Art Of, to sum up, this project to the highest
The text will be appearing on screen, around / next to/alongside the
standards that I can achieve.
animated pieces in time to the voice over like some music videos feature.
I’m hoping to get some more results back before the January deadline.
Each voice over will be recorded by a professional and will be as close to
Initially, around 20 kits were sent out, but so far I have only received back
the accent, age range and gender of the original artist as possible. This
8. Ultimately this may change the final piece, but I think it would be
way no distracting background noises will be heard. It may be necessary
interesting to see more peoples responses. Already a theme of glass
to add a few extra words here and there to make it flow better, but it will
domes has started to appear across several peoples work, and I would
be as close to the original as possible.
be interested to see if this carried on or if any other common theme
popped up.

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 Submission List
• 10 voice overs obtained to coincide with the
chosen designs
• 10 models made from the chosen designs.
• 10 initial textures
• 5 text sync tests
• A script including the main voice over
• A ‘main voice over’ obtained
• An up to date ‘Art Of’
• Outlines of a brand / theme for the project
Major Project
The major project will take the work of the minor
project and see it through to completion of the
‘mockumentary’
This will include:
• Looped animations with textures
• Fully synced voice overs and on screen text
• A final ‘mockumentary’ animation
• A completed ‘Art Of’
• Completed / successful product branding

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 Moving on
After the interim crit, it was clear
to see that the project was
possible but that there was a
profound confusion around my
Moving on project and that I’d possibly taken
on too much for a valid
submission list.
from the Myself and Phil were both very
Interim Crit passionate and aware of how the
project would work, but to any
‘outsiders’ it seemed confusing or
that it was missing some
backbone or structure. This will
be adequately explained and in
detail over the next few pages
35 Moving on
Submission List
(revised)
• 10 models made from the chosen
designs.
• texture tests
•
•
A script including the main voice
over
An up to date ‘Art Of’
• Outlines of a brand / theme for
the project
Voice overs have been moved to
become a part of the major
project submission. Due to this
there is no text sync tests either.
The textures required have also
changed due to the methods of
creating a realistic tracing paper
texture and testing outlines.
Moving on 36
 Project Overview then used to created small ‘looped animations’ based on the
piece itself. For example, the little jetpack man will bob up and
This project is based on a set of questions and a kit given to
down whereas the cups will rotate as if to show of its packaging
various participants of different ages, genders and backgrounds.
in an advert. The texture intended is tracing paper with a pen
It is almost like a public experiment to see what people think the
outline - just like the original people used as part of the kit.
Year 2500 might look like. The participants were asked to draw
visual responses to a list of questions which I have collated.
These short loops will then be used to make a ‘mockumentary’
about the Year 2500. Each piece will be narrated by someone
Some responses to answers began to show similarities which
who is the same age and gender as the original person and
were interesting, but ultimately the element that made them so
what the original person has written will be used as the voice
appealing was the pure nature of their responses and the thick
over. Their drawings would have been transformed into 3D
black pen that they all had to use.
Ultimately I aim to keep the style of my work as close to the
From the responses, I have chosen the best ideas and drawings
original responses as possible. I intend to keep it as rough and
to move forward with. The original drawings will be transformed
scratchy as they initially made it with all of the flaws. This project
into orthographs by myself which will be drawn in the same style.
started with paper and pen and it is designed to finish appearing
These orthographs will then be modelled in Autodesk Maya and
to have been made with paper and pen.

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 Planning the Look Behind the Textures
When deciding on the way the project should look, it made
sense to show a strong constant link from start to finish.

The project started with kits made from pen, paper and tracing
paper. To continue this handmade looks through out, the texture
of the 3D models will have a tracing paper texture with a black
‘hand-drawn’ outline.

The piece will revolve around a ‘tracing paper’ theme. Making a

semi-translucent texture with a thick black outline that reflects the
original drawings will be a key aspect of this project for which a lot
of research, design and tests will be needed.

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 Orthographs and Drawings

Nanny-Pod Beth - Cups

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 Orthographs and Drawings

Josh - TV Beth - Horse

43 Orthographs Orthographs 44
 Orthographs and Drawings

Dad - Car Mum - Jetpack man

45 Orthographs Orthographs 46
 Orthographs and Drawings

Dad - Holo Dome Beth - Forest Dome

47 Orthographs Orthographs 48
 Orthographs and Drawings
+

josh - Cityscape Nanny - Pods

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 Mockumentary Ideas
Each featured piece will showcase along with a voice over. To tie
it together further, words and movements will be shown on
screen.

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 Textures
1 1

2 2

3 3
Test 1 - Weight 0-10 increases by 0.1 Test 1 - Coloured Glass
Test 2 - Diffuse Roughness 0-10 increases by 0.1 Test 2 - Anisotropy 0-10 increases by 0.1
Test 3 - Metalness 0-10 increases by 0.1 Test 3 - Anisotropy & Transmission weight 0-10 increases by 0.1
Left - Opacity x Each test is a repeat of the Left - Opacity x Each test is a repeat of the
Right - Opacity / previous with a new variable Right - Opacity / previous with a new variable

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 Test 2 of making
glass glow
worked a lot
better. This time I
increased the
transmission.
Now that glass
These were part of a test to see if I could internally can glow - will
light a cube with a fluorescing cube. The glow worked paper glow?
well when it was just the cube. When an outer body
was added the light didn’t show any signs of showing
through the textures - even glass.

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 Starting the Modelling

This model was used for initial outline tests. The outline
seen is stretched and warped cylinders.

Nanny-Pod
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 The text the should go
on the outside of the
cups will be added later
on during texturing.

Beth - Cups
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 Josh’s TV doubles
as a window. This
might be axed later
on as early tests
showed the plain
white texture
merging on screen.

Josh - TV
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 The horse is currently missing its
saddle, eyes and mane. This will
be added later on.

The neck doesn’t line up with the

original drawing. I might revisit this
later on and see if I can get
closer to the original orthograph.
Beth - Horse
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 The black is supposed to
be glass! Maya doesn’t
seem to always want to
render it…

Dad - Car
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 A very funny little guy to
make. I’ve tried to reflect
the squashed aspect from
the original drawing and I
think it gives it a lot of
character and charm.

Mum - Jetpack man

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The orthographs will need to be revised as the angle of the bottom
doesn’t work well. Also this model looked better un-smoothed!

Dad - Holo Dome

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 Once again Maya
didn’t seem happy
rendering glass but
even so, it seems
to be really effective
within this model!

Beth - Forest Dome

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The cityscape and TV were both originally drawn by josh so it
made sense to combine the two of his city versions together. The
TV one shows the original version and this is the updated version.

josh - Cityscape
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This model has been changed from the original drawings as I felt it
was odd to show one type of pods and then completely disregard
it for a Rubix cube looking model. Instead I have mimicked it using
the other pod model.
Nanny - Pods
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 Voice Over Script
Narrator: In late September 2017, we decided to conduct a study. We asked
a select group of people how they thought the year 2500 would look. It is
unfair to say that as a whole, this is how the general population think the future
would be like but some could say that is a fair representation… What you are
about to see is how they responded…
Describe your home - what does it look like? Nanny: Pods all one
size, expand up or to the side. Windows are solar panels for engird and
heating
How are you cooking your dinner? Beth: We don’t need to eat, only
drink - so they made flavoured drinks for peoples fav foods. Eg Road, BBQ
and beans!
How are you watching television? Josh: The TV is built into the
windows so if you wanted to change your view you could.
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What is your mode of transport and where do you keep it? Beth:
Go back to the old days with horses but ROBOTIC! They are so protective +
have lasers for eyes - stored in a dome stable with lift - as they cant go up
escalators.
Dad: Privileged few own car order hailed as needed. Electric - hinge up door -
no manual control
Mum: A jetpack which is kept locked up outside and solar powered public
transport.
What are you/your children playing with? Dad: 360 holo/AR dome.
Big door for bike or car. cooling air. Floor moves in all directions so you can
run, jump or cycle.
Describe your garden/outdoor space Beth: Well as everyones living in
domes, there will be massive forests in domes as well. The air is poisonous so
tress will die or mutate if they touch outside
What is the year 2500 like to live in? Josh: The city would be tall skyline
buildings
What can you see from your window? Nanny: Pods, pods and more
pods.
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