February 2017 – insertacat

Process – >_<

Can’t seem to get the thing right…. why… huhuhu T^T

process and reflection as of 10pm (><)

initially i had a pink background but i removed it was it was too distracting.

I also found out that i put too little flowers for some areas… will update this tomorrow again once i am done with the media wall test. Will need to do more research to my topic to create better effects.

Also I did not consider the number of flowers per tube when i first started, so some ended up being rather empty (eg daisies). Will need to re-render.

Also tried arranging the flowers vertically. I felt the hyacinth were too small to stand. Would need to test sizes and speed out as well. Need to add more flowers so i will need to further my research…..

Initially i added sunflowers as well, but the turbulence does not seem to match well and it ended up rather chaotic. I removed it at the end. However, the sunflowers were quite nice so I would made edits to it rather than not including it into the whole video.

I found out that there might also be a need to extend the video from a 30sec to a 1 min video. Have not added music yet so i will add it after i finalised everything!!! 🙁

how i feel

i don’t know what to do… ok kidding I need to play with more features such as the stroke time and texture flow… I did play with them but I am still not sure how it works so i didn’t include it inside this prototype. However the final one might have them… I loved the effect of the flowers gradually disappearing like fireworks so I thought it would be good to add a few to create a wave!!!

(This needs to be EXPERIMENTED ON COMPUTER FIRST BUT IT KEEPS CRASHING SO ANNOYING T^T)

I might consider adding trees as well to create a garden-like feel and import high-res images from the internet as Ina suggested the last time.. but i have to study Jennifer Steinkamp’s book first…. need to kop with tissue paper haha. KKIE BYE HAHA

Research 2.2

I do not have mental ray on my computer 🙁 And i tried rendering. There was a problem and all my images can’t be displayed.

This is an example on flowers growing and flowers swaying across the wind. I haven’t had a sketch or an idea on how i want to arrange them so this shall do for now??? I will get to it as soon as possible.

Settings – flower growth

Reflection/Things to note:

Some flowers disappear after it grows.
Also, the branches and leaves become really thin after i added in the flow animation for some reason. Need to play with the values more.
Try out with more flowers.

EDIT here is a rendered version which was then exported to aftereffects

Sample of flowers growing and flower influenced by the wind.

Now i have to figure out the arrangement of the flowers

Research 2 – Painteffects

Handsome guys are colourful but it’s definitely flowers over boys for MAN… MAN!!! omg!! (pls ignore me)

After consulting with Ina on Monday, I have decided to explore further into flowers and how i can incorporate it into my topic. With that, I have decided to play around with Maya Painteffects

And then I FORGOT TO SAVE and now i have to redo ;_;

Aside from that, she also introduced me to Jennifer Steinkamp, an animation artist who makes use of Maya Painteffects to do her installations. She is very famous and has experimented with various items in Painteffects such as plants and paint (oil and acrylic)

1. Daisy Bell

These were made by varying a few values (such as wind speed or type of wind, as well as the appearance of the flowers (petal colours, no. of petals etc)

2. Loop

Made with paint fluids or fibre brush, drawn into a loop with an addition of a little turbulence. to make it have a ‘vine’ feel.