Poster Malarki

In todays lecture, I found myself not doing much and I felt like I wasn’t contributing enough. I decided to go to Nick to see if there was anything I could do, and so he told me to go off and create a poster for the project. This made a nice change from just researching like usual, as my other assigned role Digital Effects hasn’t kicked off yet.

Unfortunately, Nick refused the poster by a decision he made later in the day between a few other choices. Here is my poster anyways for you to feast your peepers on.

How Random! The Final Cut

Whilst here in Eastbourne, I got bored earlier as all my friends have full time jobs and I was home alone. Therefore I decided to tweak up the video and get it up on the internet. I didn’t want to make it public until I was completely satisified with it. Therefore I ventured back into the realms of Premiere, included a soundtrack and tweaked the audio in places due to the video seeming unfinished.

Yet here we are then! Presenting to you all the final version of my viral video titled ‘How Random’. Lets this beauty up to 1,000 views if we can!

Step 1 : Photoshop

So before we could get started on modeling our heads, we needed something to model from. Luckily enough, Filippa had prepared for this very moment and was able to get shots of the group. We all need two photos overall, one from the front and one from the side, to give us the full 3d workstation while we modeled. My two snaps are presented below as you can see.

Once everybody had their moment in front of the camera, we all dragged our photos from the SD memory card supplied. Elliott then talked us through bringing both our photos to the same proportions. This means that when we come to model our heads, the front and side views will be aligned and no dodgy heads will hopefully occur.

To achieve these results, we had to create horizontal black lines across our main facial features (as shown below) on one of the pictures. The second picture would then simply be bought into play and re sized, which would then put both pictures at exactly the same size and proportion.

Once this task was completely by everyone, we saved our pictures as two separate files. This meant we were ready to import them into Maya and get modelling.

Study Group Session 2

Yesterday, the second study group was in order. Improving from last time, we managed to shotgun the room next door to our class from 5 30pm – 9pm for a solid Maya session. The session was run by Elliot, who has had previous experiences with the program. Elliot and I set up the projector for the lecture, and once everyone had arrived, we began the task.

For an assignment we were set to create our faces and animate them, so Elliot (who is a mile ahead of everyone else) gave us a detailed step by step guide on modelling our faces using Maya and Photoshop.

Semiotics And Meaning Of Images

In todays lecture, we discussed the semiotics behind images.

We started off by finding an image which, at some point in our lifetime, has had the power to inspire, motivate, or even change us as people.

I decided to go for the infamous photo of Birhan Woldu, the Ethiopian infant who, approx 15 minutes from death at the time of the photo, amazingly survived starvation and become the face of the 1985 event Live Aid.

This was the image for me that introduced poverty into my life. Only young when I glimpsed upon this image, I cried for hours and had many sleepless nights. Many years on and the image still sends a horrible chill down my spine, knowing that although Birhan was lucky enough to endure what you could call “hell on earth”, there are still many millions out there going through the same crisis.