Farewell Munny

Exhibited at IDAS (Hongik University) Open House 2011.
Opiumblue_Media Art and Environment-Hongik 2011

Munny post-tweaking animation

Tweaked animation.

Tweaking Munny

The result of tracing the final position of 2 munnies.

AE Munny (AB) projection test

Notes:

1. Smoothness and vividness sans Maya jobs.

2. The distance between 2 munnies could be closer.

3. The projection on glow-in-the-dark munny (the red one on the right) doesn't stand out much when it's placed next to the non-glowing.

4. The animation needs some timing alternation in order for 2 munnies to look as if they are having conversations.

Maya Munny (AB) projection test

In contrast with my original animation, the colors have been completely washed out upon rendering in Maya (probably due to the lighting or color setting). I would also like to modify the models since the roughness of the polygon is not reflected well on the surfaces.

Anaglyph Munny (B)

Anaglyph Munny (A)

Although anaglyph animations might be too ambitious for me to map, I'll give it a shot.

Munny (B) mask animation final

Munny (A) mask animation final

I have added the second sequence using different color coordinations.

Troubleshooting

3 sleepless nights later, the problem was finally solved. It seems the overwrite was mainly caused by folder names that maya couldn't recognize. It still gives me warnings which makes me anxious, however, 2 animations are currently playing simultaneously as I wanted.

Maya Munny crisis

I have been facing a problem when loading 2 different munny animations in one composition. When I load one image sequence into Maya, it plays perfectly. However, when I load the second image, first one becomes overridden or goes offline.

Munny (B) projection test

Munny(A) projection test

Although there are a lot of mapping errors, I managed to project my animation on to one of the munnies using the mini projector.

Munny (B) mask animation semi-final

Munny (A) mask animation semi-final

Munny animation 3

Munny animation 2

Munny animation 1

Mask animation design 2

Mask animation design 1

I still haven't got to the animation stage, yet, these are also the parts of sequences that I will be working on.

A Japanese LED sign boards inspired animation in progress.

AE Animation 6

AE animation 5

This one looks like mylar.

AE animation 4

AE animation 3

I just realized that this one resembles that Photoshop technique...

AE animation 2

AE animation 1

I married to After Effects for 2 full days trying to get something out of it. I created quite a lot of compositions and above are parts of of them that I though it can be more developed. (Obviously, more alternations would be needed... as my brain was fully occupied with each design, they all ended up moving in similar manners.) I'm still working on mapping them into my 3D models and also another composition using Japanese characters to connect 2 munnies with some sort of visual conversations.

Munny Placement

The above is the idea of how I would place 2 Munnies.

Munny modeling part 4

Although I still have a lot of clean-up to do, I'll move on to the actual animation stage for this weekend.

Munny modeling part 3

8 hours and countless consumption of caffeinated beverages later, my first Munny model has finally completed. I believe I am no longer afraid of Maya, however, am still immensely overwhelmed by its myriad of choice functions...

Munny modeling part 2

My first attempt modeling Munny (by myself). I faced the tedium of a long journey especially when I was modeling its arm and finger.

Munny modeling part 1

Modeling by David Hall

I finally came to understand how to model Munny. (Thank you!) It would definitely take long time for me to master this but I'll try to quickly finish it up and move on to my animation.

Image plane pictures

Image by David Hall

Beautiful images for the image planes. I couldn't even get this done by myself... I still have heck of a long way to go.

Working with image planes...

I spent whole week to practice Maya and finally succeeded in importing front and side images of Munny as image planes. ( It took me ages even with help of tutorials...) The tracing stage is yet to be started. I need to speed up in order for me to finally focus on the actual animation part.

Tutorial: Working with Image Plane

A bad tracing job...

This is the aftermath of my 2-hour struggle.... I thought it was going to be less trickier since my object has almost no detail. Mask-taping and making some marks on it seem to be a great idea to get the contour correctly. Hopefully I get second ( or third... am I asking too much?) chance to practice tracing them. I have total of 2 munnies to trace, not only one....

Zipper

With help of my personal 3D Max tutor, I managed to create this zipper animation. The process was long and rather nightmarish as I am an absolute 3D novice. My next step is to create a long winding zipper that covers front part of the body of Munny, then move on to the mask and organic pattern animations in Maya. 3D Max was more than an ambitious program for me as Maya already is...

Larry

-Transformation from CT scan like loops to organic patterns.

-organic patterns would change their colors.

Andy

-Transformation from CT scan like loops to lucha masks.

-Lucha masks would change their colors.

Mega speed sketching

I tried to spent less time to sketch each Munny.

Speed sketching

Speed sketching

Pen

Pen 2

Speed sketching

3 sketches in 30 min.

More phosphorescent test

This glow in the dark Munny gives out visible glow for a short period of time after the incoming light source has been turned off. According to the mechanism of phosphorescent paints, the pigments in the doll contain fine crystals of zinc sulphide with copper added as an activator that allows the crystals to absorb light and slowly emit it over time.

Glows in the dark but...

2011 Yuri Endo

Yes, my second Munny doll glows in the dark, however, I found out that the effect doesn't last too long.