After asking for help from many sound art students, I learned how to make sound effects, and with their help, I dubbed my films. It was also a long process, and it took me a lot of effort to select materials
Then, finally, let’s take a look at my films. This time, I really learned a lot from my own production. I hope I can make better works next time
In the end, after I thought about it, I was going to echo the scene of the first protagonist coming on the scene. They all came and went by train, giving people a sense of cycle, making the identity of the protagonist as a western hunter more credible
The next job is rendering and dubbing, which is also my biggest headache. I don’t know much about these two parts, and I may have to ask relevant students for help
Here comes the climax of the whole film. The design of the gun drawn after the spin chess match is the most consistent with the tone of the western film, which I like very much.
In the end, I want to leave a blank for the audience to guess, so I’m not going to make an animation of who fell to the ground. I’m going to cut to the end, which makes people feel more than enough.
After the characters of both sides appear, the real climax of the plot, the collision and the progress of the story will follow, so how to arrange the plot is also a troublesome matter. The feeling of stopping and fighting in person is the inspiration for me to watch many westerns. I personally think it is very handsome.
The most difficult thing in this shot is the feeling of the wanted man grabbing the chair and getting up. I always can’t grasp it because I want to make it slow but handsome. Maybe I will spend time to modify him later
After the bland preparation and the appearance of the main character, I think my rhythm should be a little faster and lead to the following secondary characters and villains, so the thinking of these shots is even more than all the time I have spent before. I am always not satisfied with what I have done. After repeated modifications, I decided to use the left-right-left-right rotating lens to connect the appearance of these three people, giving a sense of continuity.
Of course, because it took a lot of time, these shots have also become my favorite shots. But to be honest, the addition of the female character has not added a better effect to my animation, but I do not want to remove her, so I can only do this for the time being, and will continue to improve in the future.
This week, I have been thinking about how to give the character a handsome appearance, finally open the door of the railway station with a bang, and give the wanted criminal a close-up shot of the photo, so as to clarify the relationship between the characters.
The main difficulty lies in cam_ 09. This jumping action really embarrassed me for a long time. I even took a real person photo for reference, but it was still unsatisfactory. Finally, I had to give up the idea of giving one more lens from the side and keep it in the top view, so that the lens looks more comfortable.
At this time, I began to think about how to unfold a good story, so the first shot was very important. Finally, I chose to introduce the story by switching perspectives.
These scenes look simple, but they actually refer to a lot of famous train movies, especially the first three scenes. I will adjust the scene of the first character in the back, which is not ideal at present.
The next task is to introduce the characters to the town, which is really difficult and involves many ideas.
Last week, I built the model and scene, so my task this week is to completely start the production of this project. The first step is to rig.
Thank you very much for the rigging course I learned at school. Although I did not do well enough, I managed to complete the binding of these six characters.
Next, I put them all into Maya and started the production of the first shot
The production idea here is to make an empty shot of the coming train, and shake the camera to tell the audience that the train is coming.
The next step is to make other shots
My main work this week is to find models and corresponding scenes. To be honest, I am not very good at making models, so I chose the reference of resources on this point. Under my selection, I finally built such a western town.
This scene is very consistent with my imagination. It has hills, bars, towns, churches, and trains, all of which are very pure western elements.
Next are the characters. I found six characters that are very consistent with my ideas. They are all low-poly models, which will make my work more stylized and interesting
Unfortunately, these character models are not rigged, so the next step is to bind them all and test them.
During this period, I watched many movies and TV plays to find inspiration. The most exciting thing for me is the western theme, chaos, violence, and blood, which is mixed with some aesthetic stuff. Classical music makes me unable to stop
Among them, Django Unchained, directed by Quentin, is my favourite western film. I benefited a lot from the fast rhythm, violent killing and excellent music.
What also gives me this feeling is rango, an animated film with the same western style. But compared with live-action movies, rango has a stronger sense of lens and the plot is more absurd and interesting. This deepens my idea of making a short film about western themes.
The next task is to find relevant models, modify them and rig them.
