我能解决 幕后与过程 媒体与材料动画短片
I Can Solve It / Material and Media
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软件
Softwares
Ideology
意向
Rationale
In my apartment building, I found where a lot of mixed garbage in the bin, seems no one cares about the label on the bin. I was curious if that happened in this building or if it is a border phenomenon. I asked some friends to investigate how people process garbage in their buildings. And the result is mostly identical.
选题原因
Why this topic?
I think it is important to raise awareness of classification. The current offer from the city council is not as valid. People are most likely to toss their garbage together for convenience. The reason that I could think of is till lag of advertising. Most of the trash will be sent to the landfill and buried Which is a dangerous move because not all the waste can be broken down over a short period. Plastic, for example, takes over 1000 years to decompose. It’s not only harmful to the environment but also the incused disposal cost.
Storytelling method
I’m going to show the audience a visual story, none-dialogue, with a representation of reality, and a sense of involvement.
Animation style
Simplify, Stylised 3D animation (low poly) with somewhat realistic texture and elements.
Targeted audiences
Simplify, Stylised 3D animation (low poly) with somewhat realistic texture and elements.
Place of showing
Considering the length of the film, it will be better to use it as an advertisement. Places like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
Research
字体选择
Fonts & Typography
To create a realistic sign, I did some research on what font is used on highway signs. And came back with Highway Gothic. The font is easy to read. Which is great for this project, because the time is fairly limited.
Source: https://youtu.be/4Kp8nQnt5VI
On the City Council website, there is documentation that describes how to manage the waste. but in real life, people just don’t seem to care that much. One of the reasons that I could think of is the document itself. Reading is not a very effective way to get the message across. Thus I think animation is a relatively affected medium to get the message around. When I was researching the topic, I came across a YouTube ad, that oddly enough just happened to match what I just searched for 30 minutes ago. but in this case, I’m glad The algorithm is doing a decent job leading me straight to the Auckland Council channel. and coincidentally, there was a recent upload about waste management. so it supported my topic. That this a relevant issue.
Government info
Waste generation and disposal
in New Zealand
The estimated composition of landfill waste in New Zealand:
Organic matter 39%.
Paper 19%.
Construction and demolition waste 17%.
Potentially hazardous 8%.
Plastic 7%.
Metal 6%.
Glass 2%.
Other 5%.
Source: Ministry for the Environment (1997)
Just over half the litter is paper (53 percent) and a quarter is plastic (26 percent). The remainder is divided among metal (6 percent, half of it cans), glass (4 percent), and a miscellany of items, such as wood, ice cream sticks, food scraps, tyres, rubber items, clothing and construction material. The metal and glass proportions have declined significantly over the decade, while the plastics proportion has expanded. Much of the paper, plastic, metal and glass litter comes from discarded packaging, particularly food and drink containers.
One way of reducing the amount of waste at landfills is to increase the fee for dumping it. A 1993 study of local authorities’ waste reduction initiatives found that disposal fees at landfills tend to be lower than the costs of landfill maintenance or expansion (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 1993). As a result, landfilling is seen as the cheap and convenient option in many cities and districts. The relationship between dumping fees and landfill waste volumes is shown in a 1993 comparison of four New Zealand cities (see Figure 3.14). Where fees are higher, businesses and householders have a greater incentive to produce less waste-or to dispose of it in other ways.
Why reducing, reusing and recycling matter
How to manage the waste
http://www.makethemostofwaste.co.nz/recycling/recycling-guides/
Guide of waste management
News
That’s rubbish! Reasons your bin hasn’t been collected
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12145197
Auckland Council’s clampdown on recycling cheats
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11885820
4 recycling mistakes you might not know you’re making
Keep the intruders out – recycle right
Millions of pizza boxes needlessly sent to landfill
Public Place Recycling Scheme (PPRS) research found half of those surveyed threw their pizza boxes in the bin not knowing they could be recycled.
That means about 26 million boxes a year – almost 3000 tonnes of cardboard – are being hurled into landfills needlessly.
What you can and can’t recycle from your weekly litter
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/107509810/what-you-can-and-cant-recycle-from-your-weekly-litter
A complete guide to what you can and can’t recycle in New Zealand
200,000 tonnes of rubbish sent to landfill a year – and that’s just Auckland
Over Christmas and New Year the amount we chuck away increases by 10 per cent and the number of items we send for recycling increases by 20 per cent.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11957595
Movie reference
Wreck-It Ralph – 2012
I got the gameplay style idea from the 2012 Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph. I got my Catchphrase from the movie Wreck-It Ralph. There a scene in the movie where every time fix-it Felix the Games started Felix will say “I can fix it!” So I borrow the idea of “I can “something” it.” And switch with the word to solve, hint the title I can solve it.
Ready Player One – 2018
The wasteland, Heavy industrialised looking style on 2018 film Ready Player one.
Story
To tell the story, have an outline. The story is about recycling waste. Using a high-contrast environment, heavy foggy dark kind of thing. In the film, I place the gameplay style at the start and turn down to reality instantly.
There’s also an irony scene in the film, the advert on the truck says “GREENEST CITY AWARD”. Play with the political aspect, local interest and the lies.
故事版
Storyboarding
I am thinking of using two main scenes in this project, one is the city scene, and one is the landfill scene. The first scene is the gameplay scene cam pan from the sky down to the subject and revived the title. And most of the cut scene will be hard cut, to achieve the instant look. After a rough edit, I found some shots were not necessary for the film so I cut them out. To make the storyline more compact and fluent. I marked out the scene number and shot number to time myself, and also helped with camera placement. Make it easier for me to work in Blender.
粗版
Rough layout
概念
Concept
The idea of concept art is to try out different elements before moving on to modelling. It provides a visual solution to help solve the problems. Here is an example; I draw a dozer with two sets of moving methods and try out which one is easier to model or show the movement. Asking for feedback is also important at this stage, as there are a lot of changes that might happen. After that, I started piecing out the moodboard for references.
环境
Environment
In this stage, I need to think of what the scenes are going to be, and the kind of emotion I want to create.
City scenes
At this point, changes in different colours/lighting are expected.
Colour node in Blender
Blender 2.8 Alpha version with EEVEE optimised Render node
建模
Modelling
When I had the rough layout and worked down the concept arts, it was time to model the necessary character out. In this project, I’ll be using Blender for all the modelling, animation and Environment. I’m currently running on version 2.8 beta. It is the most time-consuming part of the project, it is easy to overwork on a single object. In this case, I layer out all the objects according to their appearance in the film, if something is going to be shot up close, I’ll pay more attention to it, if something is far in the background, I’ll pay less attention to it.
表面艺术
Surface art
Surfacing is taking the untextured, raw model and texture it, in this project, I gave them two different sets of properties. One for the gameplay scene and one for the other. Texturing a model is not only like giving it a colour, things like plastic and metal, have different looks and feel, and how to achieve the realistic representation of a material is essential. In the end, some final touches of rust and dust give the model a bit more realistic appearance. I’m using substance designer for this. Substance Designer is an application used to create base textures. It is a node-based interface where you connect one node to another to create a texture. It’s simple, powerful and procedural.
动画
Animation
After texturing the objects, is time to animate them. It’s fairly similar to After Effects with timeline and keyframing. In my process, I’ll place down all the main models and animate them first. After that, I’ll animate the support elements like particle and collision. And finally, props animation, stuff like the cloud and the sun.
环境置物
Environment displacement
The next step is environment displacement. Which means adding more stuff to your scene to make it more believable or enhance the atmosphere. You wouldn’t expect a major street without lights and trees.
剪辑
Editorial
The final step. Editing. Adding VFX, music and title. All the fun stuff. Whit some careful fixing of the rendering glitch.
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