Work Placement... Week 6...

This week, whilst awaiting to hear about the feedback of our Mayfair event work, we were asked to return to the rebranding project for the company in Ibiza. In doing so, Pete asked me to look into producing more complicated particle effects with Maya, involving animating the particles to move around the shot before creating elegant objects. In particular, my concern was to figure out the best way of animating the particles to move along a path elegantly. Despite searching the internet thoroughly and referring back to Alan's Maya tutorials, i struggled to produce anything, spending a lot of time on technical issues which sacrificed the creativity, and in the end, i handed in a pitiful animation with some particles moving about, much to my own disappointment. After my unsuccessful attempt at tackling more complex particle work in Maya, Pete asked me to produce five glowing animated tattoos, that would be projected onto real dancers using motion tracking. I was allowed to use 2 flourish designs, and asked to incorporate the logo of the company into the designs. At first this seemed like a really fun and interesting project, but on the back of my unsuccessful particle work, i really struggled to produce anything of any real quality or creativeness. These first few days were a real dissapointment, and i really needed to step up the work flow and quality. Over the weekend, we we've been asked to return to the Mayfair work, taking onboard the feedback from our clients, who seem to want more of a tron influenced theme with glowing animated lines. Taking on board the feedback of my own work and possible new pieces of work, i'm going to crack on and really push myself in this last week, to compensate for a disappointing few days...