This will be a trailer review, because the movie is not released yet. So, I have not watched the previous Jumanji(1995) film which features the same characters with different actors and a same story. Welcome to the Jungle(2013) is also a film. This time, they remake the film with a similar story after 22 years. After watching the trailer, it became one of...
This is to update my 3D assignment progress, although I have handed up my assignments, I will share my processes and experience on what I did. I have completed animating my animation in week 13 and waited for rendering. When I got to render, I have used multiple computers to render my animation and saved it in jpeg. The process of rendering is the...
In this review, I will write and analyze about the Malaysian film called Sepet (2005), directed by Yasmin Ahmad and its representation of Asian cinema from the mise-en-scene and cinematography. Sepet is a drama comedy story of a Chinese boy with a bad background falling in love with a Malay girl with a good background. An unlicensed VCD seller Ah Loong's entire life changed when...
In this review, I will need to analyze the director, Wong Kar-Wai's film style in Chungking Express. Discuss how his style portrays the aesthetics of Asian Cinema. Chungking Express is one of the weirdest films I have seen, other than the fact Wong Kar Wai was directing the film, the film does not have an ending and it feels like two films were...
For this review, I will have to analyze the style of the filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock by citing an example from his film, Psycho (1960). Alfred Hitchcock is a remarkable film maker who has directed a huge number of films that left a mark in film history like Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest and the famous film Psycho. Psycho is the most...
In the review, I will need to analyze the editing techniques in Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer) and discuss how the techniques are important to the narrative development. Run Lola Run, originally named Lola Rennt in German is a 1998 German action film, the story begins where a woman attempt to get 100,000 German marks for her mob boyfriend because they accidentally left...
The below are my current progress, it is almost 80% done, but further consult is needed. Firstly I have model everything but the gun and the sacks which I have downloaded online. The cameras are set as needed from the stoyboard. These are the few scenes I have set the camera for. Additional tasks needed to be done, like adding the gun and...
In this article, I will have to analyze the mise-en-scene in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, supported with relevant examples. And also discuss how the filmmaker's style enhance the psychological horror genre. The Shining is once a famous novel in 1977 written by Stephen King and turned into a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick a few years later in 1980. Although the movie is one...
This is one of the weirdest subject to turn it into a movie. There are a whole lot of ideas Hollywood could use to turn it into a great movie, but who could've thought they used Emoji as the theme. So, this movie is coming out 17th of August, which can be a big hit because it attracts kids. This is a movie...
This week, we learned how to make create a human in 3Ds Max, the principles are pretty similar to Maya, but different in many ways. Maya has more complicated steps, or maybe it's just me using 3Ds Max very often. We are given a 70-page tutorial program to follow, the steps were pretty easy to understand compared to using Maya. I prefer using...
Particles, a very common effect used in Adobe After Effects, it is used to simulate dust, fire and much more. But there is one in 3Ds max with a similar name, and it is used to simulate similar things like snow, rain, dust and so on. It is a very useful system especially for a fountain and falling snow, it is quite simple and...
Lathe, make vases in seconds. Lathe modifier is a simple tool in 3Ds Max to make objects like vases and bottle. Start by drawing the shape of the vase with a line, the line tool can be found at the shapes menu. After that, in the object modifier list, select the Lathe modifier. And your line will turn into a cylindrical object, with options...
We are required to find 3 videos and animate our footsteps by following it, so we need to search through YouTube video to get some examples. There are a lot of unique examples, some too funny and some too stiff. Here are the examples that I've chosen. Double bounce walk cycle - Fallout Scout by Ferhod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuPie0obEU Character animation example (walk cycle): Confident...
Biped system is a very helpful tool in 3Ds Max, it is in simple term easiest way to make a skeleton compared to Autodesk Maya. First of all, going to the Create panel, click on systems and biped. There are multiple options on the body type like Skeleton Male Female and Classic, usually choosing skeleton is fine, but male and female brings more...
This post is for a new trimester, let's make this post simple, I'm sure there are lots of explanation and history about surround sound, but at the end, what's important is to understand the concept. A lot of people were curious about what's the point one means, it actually has a meaning for it, and it's used in many of Surround Sound standards....
On this week, I am going to provide my opinions on using both 2D and 3D animation software to work on. First of all, these opinions are based on what I understand and experienced through out my use of these programs. For 2D, I will be using Adobe Flash and Toon Boom Harmony as an example. For 3D, Autodesk Maya and 3Ds Max....
This is my blog for week 5, and I will be sharing my thoughts and experiences on this wonderfully crafted program, 3DS Max. Like many other computer programs, they started as a simple on to build simple things and turn them to masterpieces, 3Ds Max is one of them. Not only I found that it's similar to how you started to learn photoshop...
For our third assignment, I will have to model historical buildings and set some camera angles, I don't know how much work I will have to do, but it's a requirement for me to finish within this semester. Me and a bunch of course mates went to Putrajaya for a site visit to photograph the details on the buildings like mosque and government...
In the previous week, we talk about the early days of 3D films and how they were invented. This week we continue to talk about how it more technique were surfaced. Due to the great depression, 3D slows down in the late 20's and early 30's, and it's not talked about until 1936, when Edwin Land demonstrates 3D imaging using polarized light, this...
3D movies are very common nowadays like Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, La La Land and most recently The Great Wall, 3D movies have generated new technologies and investments to make it better, like the IMAX 3D experience. The trend started recently in the early 2000s, they all seem like something relatively new, but that's not how it goes. 3D stereoscopic photography was first...
