Camera projection in Maya

I start doing my camera projection for scene set-up with my rough concept matte painting.... I'm facing some issues I guess.....and the zoomerate is not working as well

the issue in here is the camera is not covering the picture fully....i set-up the image fit to film gate and set the camera to fit to fill..... and when i play around with the offset it goes crazy...the pic disappeared ....well I need some help in this......

my perspective view 

Concept matte painting

im doing this for first time and i need some feedback from you guys what you guys thinking about this...


this is my concept matte painting

i took the colour palate from this picture

And this is my scene setup..

Our goals must be to make a good short film , not just any short film.

This is for my friends who are doing story based short animation for the year project this is for you guys. I would like to share with you guys about what I read from the book named 3D SHORT FILM PRODUCTION.

It is not enough to make just any short film. Rather, your goals must be to make a good short film. A good CG short must be

•  Entertaining 
•  Accessible 
•  Original
•  Memorable

The film will be entertaining if you successfully capture and maintain your audience's attention. This is achieved through interesting and dramatic plot structure, story pacing, character development, style, and appeal. These elements must be delivered with an effective combination of anticipating and uncertainty. Each scene and plot beat must have purpose and move the story along by continuing, punctuating, or explaining a previous scene or by introducing, announcing. or anticipating a subsequent scene without giving anything away prematurely. 

Accessibility will be realized if your audience is willing and able to follow your narrative flow. To connect your viewers to your film, the character and events of the story must be believable and at least somewhat related to familiar reality. But keep in mind that while realism is optional, believability is imperative. The progression of your story beats must also be easy to follow or if they intentionally confusing, you must offer some degree of explanation. In a fantasy or a comedy, outlandish scenarios and character need not be explained, but the story must flow with immediate or eventual clarity.

Originality is achieved by introducing unique story, character, or design elements, and your film will be memorable if it inspires some degree of aesthetic appreciation or emotional response from your viewers. At least one of these two experiences must be delivered or your film will be routine and forgettable. 

F1 Race

Here finally I came up with an idea of sequence of accident for my short animation project. Which is F1 race and end up with an accident. I am doing this in 3D and the purpose is I want the animation to look realistic I mean super realistic look and I'm going to use all my knowledge in 3Ds max , after effect or nuke to give the realistic look to my animation.... here is i came up with a rough storyboard and dome of how the animation story going to look like ( Just a rough idea )

 scene 1 : all the cars are ready to race.

 scene 2 : the camera will follow the car ( scene projected from the build
                in camera in the car )

 scene 3 : play around with the camera angle and will cover the
               environment with the cars.

 scene 4 : to show the speed of the car ( passing by the camera ).

scene 5 : the car overtaking another car .

scene 6 : in this scene i want to show the car in close up to show the details in the car to the audience.

scene 7 : Finally the cars get into accident and crash......

 and this is the car that I am going to model and I planned to model it in Maya.


and all this animation i expected to happen for 2 minutes and I'm going to play around with the camera angle and the cars speed to give real life speed .

Here i came up with a demo clip for my rough idea about how my animation going to look like ( just a rough one )

3D modelling in MAYA..

Here is my concept car and I came up with basic body modelled.... This car is two seater car (front and back) can drive by both person.

I faced a problem while I'm modelling my car in maya, this weird line appeared suddenly and im trying to fix it but its not really working. any idea guys for fix this issue please ? 

I found double faces in my modelling....I'm not really sure whether to just delete or there is any other proper way to remove it ? so, if anyone know the way removing double faces please let me know guys. thanks.

3D Visualization

Hi... Our assignment in this class is to create a house with fully furnished bedroom in 3ds max. Sounds cool ya. and I'm done with my house and now step in to my bedroom for the furniture. Here is my todays work for this assignment.

ill update this post with other scenes soon once i done with them.Hope you guys like this look.

this picture about the same bedroom with a light id the centre...hope you guys can see it clearly...

with curtain....

tv set area in my bedroom.

after so many time failure at last im successfully finish my 3d small fountain
in my bedroom.













Few more picture ......

Visual Effects class....

 Well today's class for visual effects breakdown. Came up with my space ship final design and the three shots.

My Ship Design......The exhaust is rotatable so its easy for him to land in Y- axis and its plan to model with 

portable bottom keel to land in water surface in case.

                        Scene 1                                         Scene 2                                        Scene 3

 Here is my three shots.

   Scene 1 :  Wide shot of the ship.

   Scene 2 :  Close up shot of the ship landing ( Environment : Iceland )

   Scene 3 : Mid shot of the ship after land ( while is landing because of the heat from           

                  the exhaust the ice surface melt and change into water and the ship landing )

I'm Crazy In After Effect....

Hi guys... Wahh after long weekend I went to work and just back around 9 pm and I'm so lazy to move around...As I mention before...I love Motion Graphic and obviously thanks to my lecturer Mr. Adil and Mr.Richard  who taught me so many tricks in Adobe After Effect....and I love to work with After Effect....there is some cool websites where you can watch a lots of cool tutorial for After Effect...and one of my best is Video Copilot....Whenever I got extra time normally ill play around with after effect and watch video copilot's tutorials.... and here is my today's work ( Thanks to Video Copilot )..

Short Animation Movie

I would like to share here my ideas for one of my course project which we have to produce short animation movie. While I'm thinking what to do for this project I came across with a slide show in YouTube about a true story.. A slide show about two bird's true love which touched my heart and I would like to give life to the slide show through my short film ( animation ).  And I came up with a draft storyboard.

Scene 1 : There were 2 birds ( couples ) living so happily.

Scene 2 : Unfortunately here his mate is injured and the condition is appalling.

Scene 3 :The injured bird was lost her wings and couldn't fly.

Scene 4: The another bird fly around to find food for his mate.

Scene 5 : Here he brings her food and attend her with love and compassion.

Scene 6 : Brings her food but shocked with her death and try to move her.

Scene 7 : Stand beside her and scream saddened of her death. Finally aware that she would not return to him and she has departed, stands beside her body, sad and sorrow. 

Here I want to show trough my movie how the bird will face the situation , what kind of expression he will give and what kind of feelings he going through.

My Works

I like to play around with different software's for motion graphics....and I love motion graphics. The software's that I try to play around are After Effect , Cinema 4D and currently I'm learning Nuke from tafe which is really interesting. Still I haven't become familiar with nuke yet but I will soon....

Here some of my works ...

About Myself

My name is Manoj Kumar. I'm from Malaysia and I have been in Perth for three years. The first years of my college life in Perth was really hard for me because I never use computer until my age of 17 but I have my passion on animation in perspective of VFX motion graphics for movies and I'm really really want to be a animator, so I start playing around the computer by myself and watched lot of movies. Here in Perth the studies are really advanced like secondary school students are using Adobe Flash in class. But in my country the students wont know how to use Power point until their age of 15. I have no idea what's happening now there and all these things I'm talking about like 10 years back. So I work so hard to compete with my other classmates.

For the past three years I have learned a lot of stuff  like software's and  tricks . But still its hard for me to produce a good drawings for my projects in college. All my classmates were drawing so good and so lively but I'm still far away from them. I'm really worrying because when talks about Animation its all about drawings and I'm keep working towards to become like my friends. Hope it will happen soon...

My Favourites

Recently I have watched couple of  short animated films which were has been nominated for Oscar award 2013. From my perspective "PAPERMAN" did very well and gets everyone's attention. I would like to take this moment to say congratulation to the "PAPERMAN" crew for won the Oscar award of this year and all the very best for your upcoming works, eagerly looking for it....Good works guys, really inspired.I really admire the story line of the "PAPERMAN" and the screenplay was marvellous. I'm really interested with their own software that they used for these animation..its really superb which is really useful for an animator . What the software does is generating the In Between drawings for posses, which is really awesome.Hopefully I can use that software soon.

To those who are interested to watch "PAPERMAN" short animation movie here is the link. In this webpage they explaining the process of this movie and you can watch the full movie here.

Paperman

well sorry if you guys found any grammar mistakes in my post above. I'm not really good in English and trying to be good. so if got any mistakes please tolerate that and bear with me