Month: May 2023

I sorted through the finished footage and sorted out the story lines to help with the post-editing process.

After filming, the next step is to conduct further research on the project. My theme is “misfit,” so I wanted to highlight the difference in the crowd. I would replace a human head with an animal head. In the choice of animals, I chose dog and cat.

I finished a new shoot based on the new story.

Combined with the first shooting and the setting of the story, I updated some settings of the story version and improved the direction of the story.

After deciding what content I wanted to produce and the general technicalities I did a test shoot. In the next step I will continue to complete other scenes and test what kind of tracking I need, as I am not sure if I need facial tracking or a direct green screen composite 3D model for the time being.

Keyword: Misfit

Concept：Don’t feel bad about not being able to cater to a group or being excluded from a group.

I hope to express a kind of “minority” that seems somewhat out of place in society. Despite our constant quest for equality, there is still a lot of explicit or implicit discrimination and disregard for minorities in the world. This minority may be a person with a physical impairment or a different idea, but it is also ignored or disregarded because it is different from the ‘majority’. It is difficult to meet their peers or people who can understand them in their lives.

Reference :

Danny Boy

Character design: Live shot +3d

I want to replace the human head with the animal head, because in many news or illustrations, some artists will replace the human head with the animal head to express some of the personality or practices of the person. So I want to use this method to express some different people’s character and personality.

In terms of the production of characters, I will focus more on the compositing aspect of 3D models, and I will probably find some resources more often.

Scene design: Matte paint + Simulation 

For the scene, my current idea is to focus on the cool color and the gray feeling, to express a relatively depressed feeling. For the scene, I will mainly use matte paint, and then dust or fog elements may be simulated using maya or Houdini

Story：

The city is thick with fog, and the sunlight that looms in the clouds signals the arrival of morning.
In the early morning, in the office centre, people come and go, everyone in a hurry. In the midst of the crowd there appeared a man who seemed different, with the head of an animal and the body of a man. His head was bowed as he rushed to work alone, and no one passed by to say good morning to him, or to give him a cold glance when they saw him. He quietly goes to his workstation and finishes his day’s work. When his colleagues communicate with him about their work, they only have a cold tone. When he walks towards another colleague, he laughs and smiles.
In the evening he returns home and is about to open the door when he hears the door open behind him and a man like him pokes his head out and waves to him