IN3D Project 2 PART ONE: Weblog Journal Entries

Selected Scenario to Animate:

Scenario 2

The same as for scenario 1, the robot is busy stacking boxes. However, the robot seems tired of its work, as if unfulfilled in life. The robot wants to rebel and break free! Animate how the robot attempts to rebel – or at least to break the monotony and grind of its work for a short time. For example, does it go crazy and throw boxes around, or do a robot dance, or stack the boxes in some unusual way, or what?

1. Character

Robot Name: Robox

Brief paragraph of what the robot might be thinking while doing its mechanical work:

I’m sick and tired of stacking boxes in a straight column. Why can’t the company think of other patterns to stack them? I shall do something special to kill this boredom of mine!

2. Storyboard 

1. Robox is at the starting position, ready to start picking up boxes from the conveyor belt.
2. Robox has picked up a box and returns to the initial position.
3. Robox turns to his right side.
4. Robox drops the box before coming back up and returns to the initial position.
5. Robox repeats this for 2 more times and stacks the 3 boxes in a straight column.
6. Robox whines about his boredom (shows his tiredness) and decides to stack the following 6 boxes on his left side in a triangular form.
7. Robox returns back to the initial position and expresses his happiness with his work.

Storyboard for Project 2

Reflection

For the storyboard, the key poses which are the most important are Scene 6 and 7 because these are the scenes where Robox will express his feelings and mood. Due to this, it will be very challenging to animate Robox and more time would be needed for those 2 particular scenes to be animated well.

3. Self-Critique

For the animation, it is still missing things such as the expression in Scene 6 and also realism in the motion of Robox. The only things done for the animation is the 12 boxes and a last minute work of Scene 7 where Robox shows his happiness by moving his head attachment up and down.

 

In my animation, I have anticipation for Robox where he has a gearing-up action before he goes on to pick up a box. Overall, the majority of the animation meets closely to the storyboard above. However, I felt that it can be further improved. For a start, I could make the motions more realistic by putting in more effort in the graph editor and animating the reaction/feelings/expressions of Robox. After that, I could make use of cameras to further express the feelings of Robox to make the animation more dramatic.