The major assessment for this course requires you to produce a short film to showcase the skills you’ve learned. As the following list illustrates the final project is open-ended and allows you plenty of latitude to explore areas of interest to you. It may even be possible for you to work with a partner on a jointly conceived project.
Though the project is still some way off you should be giving some thought to your possible interests. Remember that your project could take as its focus the teaching of knowledge and skills. In this way all sorts of possibilities are opened up. For example:
- You could produce a walk-through to explore a complex historical 3D environment. This could be a historical scene familiar to you from one of your classes.
- You could study the anatomy of animals or humans by modeling their skeletons.
- You could animate microscopic biological processes such as the inside of a cell.
- You could make a character (animate or inanimate) and use it to educate people about a charity or cause you care about.
These represent a few of the many options available to you. Alternatively you could just opt for the default project, animating a story written by a student in the primary division at SAS. Regardless of the your choice you will need a character to be at least part of the focus of your animation. The character can even be an inanimate object. The point is to give the viewer something to identify with.
As ideas occur to you share them with me and we can add them to the list on this page.
Visemes: A viseme is a generic facial image that can be used to describe a particular sound. A viseme is the visual equivalent of a phoneme or unit of sound in spoken language. In its simplest form, there are two distinct motions in speech:
- Open and closed motion of the jaw
- the narrow and wide motion of the lips.
They don’t necessarily occur at the same time, nor do they go all the way back and forth from one extreme to the other. The open and closed motion generally lines up with a puppet motion of the jaw, or the flow of air for almost any sound being created. The narrow and wide motions have more to do with the kind of sound being created.
