Was I out of my mind?!? Probably. - Creating a 3D Animation with little know-how

in #introduceyourself7 years ago (edited)

introduceyourself Kopie.jpg

Hello Steemians!

This is my first post after @geronimo introduced me to Steemit over a year ago.
I KNOW- my first blogpost took me that long!!
It's so hard to shake my bad habit of procrastinating, but I guess the most of you know what I am talking about. I even got some friends and my sister @itsnicoletv to start posting here, but you know...better late than never. °ω°

So I just thought to start off with an introduction about myself:
My name is Jessica. I love travelling, korean food, 3D, and creating some DIYs. For this time of the year it's knitting! I am half-korean, half-german, born in Mauritius and raised in Germany. Pheww! Well, I was just a kid and remember bits and pieces, but especially now, during those super cold winter days in Germany I just want to go back, lay down somewhere on the beach there and feel the warm sun on my skin. ⋟﹏⋞

mexmas.jpg

Christmasmarket in Trier

But back to reality:
I study Intermedia Design in the very historic and cute Town named Trier. I just finished my bachelor thesis and created a 3D animation scene. Originally, I wanted to create an animation short film with the looks of Pixar, Dreamsworks and aaall the other great animation studios, but due to the limited amount of time and technology and of course procrastinating, I managed to create my first ever 3D animation scene.

That's right- I decided to create an animation for my bachelor project and never ever even finished a complete animation before in my life, except some 2D animations created in Spine for a 2D Arena Brawler Game (but that's another story).
Was I out of my mind?!? Probably.
I just wanted to create, instead of being a consumer. Thats's something I heard all the time, which was annoying, because I really love storytelling in all kind of forms. Still, I was way over my head, which I am thankful for now, because I learned so much the past months.

gatorprocess.png

Creating the Main Character

I modelled 3D objects and characters before with ZBrush, 3Ds Max, Maya and Blender and then that was it. So to complete an animation, I decided to use Blender, a free and an open source software and on top of that @geronimo told me about rendering my project with the Golem Project, a decentralized market for computing power. I thought... well why not... anything, that can help me, I'll take it. In the end I used the Motion Caption Studio and Software Motive from OptiTrack for animations, Blender to modell, rigg (give the characters a skeleton), texture and basically redone the faulty animations and everything else, that had to be done with Blender. I found out about the render farm for Blender called SheepIt and 12 weeks full of sweat and tears later, I finished my 3D Animation „Charlie Lou- The Gator“

animationprocess Kopie.jpg

Animation in the making

CharliePerformance_1.png

Rendered Scene of the Animation Charlie Lou

I won't give much away of the story and situation of the scene, because I still want to complete the animation, which will be featured in another blog post soon! I am looking forward to post my work, korean recipes, travel adventures or DIYs in the future. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I am excited for starting this new journey with Steemit.

Thanks for reading!

xxx.

Sort:  

Great! Good to have you here! Enjoy steemit!

wow great entry..welcome dear

Amazing dear. Welcome and nice introduce yourself. And by the way, those animation moved me as a lady you are. Great job done. See more of your animation here on steemit.

What an awesome post, totally deserving of the payout! It's always been my dream to visit a christmas market in Germany, it looks stunning there!

You've got a new a follower in me, I can't wait to see the rest of your animation projects and DIYs! Welcome to steemit girl! And don't worry, it took me nearly 6 months to start blogging after I signed up, I get it haha

I love this introduction post!! Totally understand the whole procrastination thing - for me there is always so much that I want to do RIGHT NOW that I put things off and sometimes it takes sooo long (and much more effort) to get back to them.
You have inspired me to get my introduction post done! Starting it now ;)
Thanks for sharing, and welcome!

Hi, welcome to steemit !! I followed you , I I feel like you will have interesting posts coming up :)

Oh wow, a fellow animator from Germany. Although you seem to do it rather professionally whereas I'm doing it just for fun :)

Definitely excited to see the final piece!

PS: Germany in winter is soooo grey additionally to being cold, wish you great strength to get through :D

Hmm...."professionally"- I am trying:) Thank youuu! I'll keep you updated:)
At least it's snowing now, but it's just not my favorite season:/

Welcome to Steemit, @jellenmark! Can't wait to see the finished product :) That Saxophonist alligator looks really smooth ^^ Followed!

:D Finally^^

Hellooo welcome to Steemit :) lovely to have you here!! :)) You will enjoy Steemit!