COSC 3P98 PROJECT
MOTION Sports
Lei Shih (3709540)
IDEAS
At the very beginning, I intended to create an animation that seemed
different and special. I was thinking about old-fashioned black and
white movie effect or perhaps an animation with the effect of
comic-books.
As far as the content of the animation, human motion was chosen as the
topic because I really intended to concentrate on the overall effects
and the precess of actions and motions instead of too much details of
appearance or textures. Intuitively, sports could be one of the perfect
examples to actually demonstrate human motions.
Tools
Poser: Used to create the figures, objects
and motions.
IMovie: Used to do the final cuts, titles,
transitions and sound effects.
Implementation
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1.Creating figures and objects
The figures and objects were created based on the models in poser
library with some changes made to meet better visual effects.
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2.Posing figures
This was the most time-consuming part of all. Poser’s library has a lot
of good poses that could be helpful. However, when I tried to apply
them to my figures, it always turned out inappropriately and way
different from what I expected. So I had to do most of the posing
things on my own and some of them from scratch.
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3.Camera control and final cuts
It took me a while to really understand how poser’s camera control and
animation manipulation works. Especially when adjusting the camera and
storing camera positions in animation clips, clicking on the camera
switch icon without saving the file would lead to losing all the camera
adjusting work, which really depressed me. Anyways, eventually I got
though all of the camera things and finished up all the sound effects
and final cuts in IMovie(mac). By the way, the comic-book effect
was done by using sketch render function in Poser.
Music and Sound Effect
Background music:
“Clint Eastwood” From Gorillaz
Sound effects:
IMovie Sound effect Library
Enjoy “Motion-sports”!
Feel free to download...
