Sequence shots

Storyboard rough

Rough idea storyboard

Water effect i made

This little water effect was made after watching the new Audi TTS commercial, it gave me idea that i will use to work towards. The reason for making this effect was because as you can see in the TTS advert, the car has to beat the puddle of water before it hits the ground thus resulting in the water colliding on top of the car. This is something that i will be using also similar to the Audi TTs advert, for refrence check out the advert i have on my blog.

sequence

Storyboard 1

Brief: Audi R8 Commercial

Brief: Audi R8 Commercial

Area of concentration

• 2D Conceptualisation
• Visulisation (and modelling)
• Visulisation (Texturing and Rendering)

www.Audi.com

I would like your students to design, texture and completly render the new and amazing beautiful Audi R8. The main purpose of this brief is to produce a short 30 seconds commercial in a 3D package software of your choice, for the new Audi R8. Students will also need to research into the production stages of creating a TV commercial, i assume this will involve 2D based dawings. Storyboard will take a major part in this project as you would have to plan out your camera shots for each scene of the location. Looking up existing Audi commercials will really help in your progress, these will be able to give you ideas into how you would like to set out your shots or your enviroments.

You should try and consider the following areas when undergoing the project:

• Research into the Audi R8 and its original commercials, gain some ideas from this but try no to copy it scene for scene, also look into exisiting Audi car commercials.
• Produce a set of viewable storyboard, (Does not need to be too neatly done).
  
• Along with the stroyboard student must also produce a anamatic of thier proposed scene, student's can produce this as either 2D or 3D anamatics.
• Produce a photorealistic model of the Adi R8 maximum poly count of 150,000
• creating an environment is up to the candidate, if he or she wishes to model out the background they can then do so.
  

Image of Audi R8

Existing Audi commercials

Audi R8 blue print template

These are the templates are will be using to guide my way though the modelling of the Audi R8, I found these on Google as one picture, but i had to separate them in Photo Shop so I could place the cameras in Maya to look through either the side top or back of the image plane. One of the problems i encounterd was that the front and back template do not match the side and top, this will be a little troublesome when modelling the car.

Escape stuidos

Friday 23rd we had a lecture with escape studios up in the lecture theater, they were here to give us an insight into the 3D visualisation industry. The main purpose of thier visit was to show us thier new 3D couse available to the ravensbourne students. This course at a price of £100 offers the students video tutorials on modelling rigging and other areas in Maya, this is something that i will be keeping an eye on

Key dates

A timetable for the specific project will be made available via moodle but for the moment, the year will be devided into two groups. usual green and puple group.

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9
Tues Tues Tues Tues Tues Tues Tues Tues Tues
Green Green Green Green Green Green Green Green Green
Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs Thurs
Purple Purple Purple Purple Purple Purple Purple Purple Purple

Mornings will be spent in lectures, workshops etc, but afternoons will be dedicated to ongoing tutorials at times that will be established based upon the decision to fulfil a group or individual resolution for this brief.

Project Introduction
Green Group Tuesday Jan 13th
Purple Group Thursday Jan 15th

Formative Submission
Green Group Tuesday Feb 10th
Purple Group Thursday Feb 12th

Summative Submission
All Students Friday March 13th 4.00pm

Students must refer to the detailed timetable for times regarding sessions and lectures.

Discussing the brief with Jared

Today green group had to come in to class so we would be ale to discuss the brief with Jared, either the chosen project from the brief given or ones that we formulated our selves. At first i did not have a clear understanding of where to categorise my own brief, i thought it would be ok if i went to the meeting regarding the second project listed on the brief which was the national gallery. The reason i associated my project with this brief was because the main purpose of both the brief was about branding a product for a company. A week before we were handed the brief Jared asked us to pick out 2 out 4 areas we would like to concentrate on when producing our project. These areas consisted of:

a)2D conceptualization
b)Character animation
c)Visualisation (and modelling)
d)Visulisation (texturing and rendering)

The two i chose from this list were Visualisation (and modelling) and Visualisation (texturing and rendering). The reason for me choosing these two was because i thought that they would fit well with the project im undergoing. As the meeting started with Jared i was to first to inform Jared of my proposed brief and the two areas i was to concentrate on the project. After stating my brief and the two areas i would focus on Jared quickly informed me that the two areas i chose to focus on was actually one area which covered both aspects. At first i was a little disappointed due to the fact that it did not state on the brief that these two areas were seen as once , i thought it was little misleading as they were shown as option C and D.

Talking more with Jared he recommended me choosing 2D conceptualisation as my second area to fous on, he stated that this would be the best choice for me as i was producing a car commercial which through the production stage focuses on the storyboard and animatic aspect. So just to clear things up now the two areas im going to be focusing on are:

a)2D conceptualization
c)Visualisation (and modelling)-Visualisation (texturing and rendering)

I will post up the brief in the next post.

Let's start the brief

Start of the new term went quite smoothly as i had expected, catching up with friends was fun and discussing their holidays was good. The first day back we had a a PPD presentation to present to the class about the dos and dont's in a working industry.

For this brief I have formulated my own working parameter that i will be working on through this term, this brief consist of me producing a short commercial for my chosen company Audi. Taking in the brief Jared gave us in to consideration i will be concentrating on the visualisation(and modelling) and visualisation(texturing and rendering) area. I am aiming to produce a professional looking model and render/texture of the Audi R8 , this will used in my commercial and it will be used to show off the modelling skill. I will also be thinking about modelling the environment for the locations, i still don't know if i will produce the background as detail as the car as im am mainly focussing on the car. I will gain the knowlege i learnt from the previous proeject and apply it this term.