C4D Bottle and can

In our Process and Production session with Jay, we undertook some training to learn how to do prototyping for some cans and bottles in Cinema 4D.

This was a really fun, and exciting task to see how we can use Adobe Illustrator and Cinema 4D together in sync with only basic lines. These lines were created in Illustrator and then we took these through and using the various tools in Cinema 4D to create our 3D cans and bottles.

To start off Jay gave us the lesson notes which will be put below:

To Create the Cans:

1. Create project folder: Folder name, C4D, Artwork and also Output.

2. Set up Illustrator: Open illustrator / open ‘Canshape.ai’ - Open rulers / Move centre to bottom of shape Reduce art board size to fit - Save file as - Illustrator 8

3. Cinema 4D: Merge ‘Canshape.ai’ / rename paths Create 2 Lathe Nurbs / add each shape rename accordingly / tick flip normals

4. Create Environment: Create a Floor / Create a Background Add a Compositing tag to floor - tick ‘composite background’ - Create a new material / change colour to white (?) Add material to floor & background

5. Create Materials: Create a new material - Add Reflectance to material - Add... / Reflection (Legacy) - Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / PET Turn down Globals - Colour channel / add ‘canable.jpg’- Add this to can lathe

6. Adjust Mapping: Material tag / projection / cylindrical Side = front / Rt click / fit to object test render / map should fit can

7. Create Material: Add Reflectance to material - Colour / grey 36% - Reflect / Layer / GGX / Rough 20% - Layer Colour / Texture / Fresnel / dielectric / PET Turn down Globals / 50% & 60% - Add this to top lathe

8. Add Lights: Omni Light / Coords XYZ / -500, 1000, -500 Copy light / Coords XYZ / 500, 1000, -500 second light / intensity = 50% - Add an Area light / place on right of can Coords XYZ / 500, 400, -400 / Rot H = 45deg

9. Render Settings: Anti-Aliasing / from Geometry to Best - Add Ambient Occlusion - Output / size = A4 portrait / dpi=300 Current frame / save / jpg / 95% Test Render

10. Add Clones: Cloner object / Random effector / Grid array Count = 3,1,1 / Size = 400,200,200 Random effector / Parameter / rotation only Rotation H = 180 (ish)

11. Render Out: Change background colour & label artwork as necessary Save file

Workshop Week: Stop Motion

We produced a stop motion animation by creating a face within a window space, and i helped produce one of the eyes and move it in the animation.



face from louise fielding on Vimeo.

Representation in animation

Maureen Furnish Issues of Representation in Animation Aesthetics.

Sean griffin the illusion of identity gender and racial representation in Aladdin in Maureen furniss' animation.

There is two sides there's representation in animation theory and animation industry and animation content, the animators themselves have not been recognised and been really represented as much through history compared to male animators. In the early history of animation 20's to 40's there was no one really the represented women animators that was a main contributor to the industry the only exception is lotte reigner and Mary Ellen bite closer to the end of the war. These were rare female presence in the industry. A number of others operated under pseudonyms/initials e.g.  Mj winkler productions by Margaret winkler. More female presence tends to pick up a lot more in the 1990's.

Females operating at big company's such as Disney and Cartoon Network and others but usually in a managerial position ususually in the production of the shows but not the designers/animators.

Many of the core animation theorists are mainly women and they include Jayne pilling and Esther Leslie.

Sarah Lucas: penetralia

two fried eggs and a kebab 1992 - idea of being true to materials your using onald Jude and industrial materials.

Truth to material associated with Henry Moore and the movement in 1930 is in the Yorkshire part of history.

Lucas the pleasure principle: it is a beautiful piece of sculpture and used very economically and you can compare it to Tracy emins my bed which is where it has had nothing done to change the look of it or a weird sculpture wasn't formed it was a literal translation.

Lucas priere de toucher shows she is aware of surrealism and she is indebted to some of these works.

In her penetralia exhibit she looks at the way she takes on British surrealism, she would plaster casts of things on wooden platforms, we argue the arrival of this exhibition should be recognised as a logical development because it engages with a movement in British art. The poster for the exhibition is provocative and takes on notion of object personage and sense of fertility of land, looks like Nash photos. It tries to literalise things and throw insults back at the audience, making it funny to try and give it a new life.