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Portfolio Review Fall 2022
Le Fumoir Rebranding
To start this project I looked through the restaurants website and instagram to get a good understanding of what their restaurant’s “vibe” is. From what I saw they had two very different looks and aesthetics that they were going for. They had a very pinterest board-esque look during the day and at night it was much darker and classier.
I wanted my logo to show off both of those looks so I actually ended up with two logos that could be used for different occasions which you can see implemented in the instagram ads below.
Advanced Motion Graphics Demo Reel
I am not an animation person, especially in 3D, but as much as I struggled I really enjoyed this class and enjoyed the projects that you see in this demo reel.
Senior Project – “Still I Rise”
Senior Project
I am someone who is very passionate about social issues and being a part of the change to make our world more inclusive and equitable. I am a self proclaimed “crazy feminist” and I wanted to use my art to make a statement on the way women are viewed in our society.
To do this I pulled from my experiences and the experiences of those close to me about what it is like to grow up a girl. Starting with an innocent, but gendered view of the world. Almost everything is pink, there are certain objects that you are gifted that are meant for girls.
As women get older they get forced to be smaller, to fit the stereotype of a woman, to fit into a box nicely and neatly. That means make up, the clothes you wear, the way you express yourself, all so that you fit into the male gaze.
From the interviews I had with my close friends and with myself, I found a pattern. After being forced into the box for some time and experiencing trauma from the men in their lives, eventually, with a lot of hard work, we finally started a journey of self discovery and learned how to be ourselves without holding ourselves to the expectations that society puts on us.
We will still carry with us what we learned from our childhood and from our time pretending to be someone else, but now we can be authentic and eventually teach others to do the same.
I pulled from personal experience of what it is like to “grow up a girl”, but this video can really apply to anyone. Hopefully now that we are learning to be our authentic selves, we can help those around us do the same no matter who they are.
*Disclaimer* I am a cis white female and my experiences and my privilege means that my life is and will forever be very different than someone who identifies as trans, non-binary, than a person of color, etc.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Demo Reel
Advanced Motion Graphics – Soft Body
The screenshots below are the pieces of this project that are not finished rendering and will be included once they are done.
UPDATED PROJECT
I decided to stick with the simple shapes that I could find in cinema 4D (besides the coffee cup asset) and play with how the soft body works bouncing off of other simple shapes.
I decided that I wanted to use the simple shapes to represent real objects without them having to be realistic. The sphere in the video is meant to be like a drop of coffee, the spheres with the torus are donuts and sprinkles, etc. Then I used the color palette similar to dunkin donuts so that it would be recognizable and to give more context to the objects.
I found that as much as I struggled to make the soft body work for me, I like it better than rigid body because I can use soft body and just increase stiffness and structural tags to make them act more rigid. The bounce also seemed to work better with soft body than it did with rigid body.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Rigid body
There are still a few kinks that could be worked out, but I added the wine glass to make the wine bottle make more sense. And then used a plane to create a background at the end. I was okay with the end “logo” being lighter so that the wine bottle was visible, but now there is a grainy-ness to it. So I will have to revisit and find a way to fix that.
This is an incomplete video because I want to re work a couple of the “shots” that I have because they didn’t render in time or they rendered in a way that I wasn’t expecting. I have one more shot to add in to the video of a wine glass. And I would also like to go back and render the onions with more fps so that I can slow it down more.
For this project I started messing around with vegetables falling and I thought about the dramatic commercials I see for products with food objects falling in dramatic light. So I made mine with a “logo” that might be for some sort of restaurant. At the very end of the video I thought of also including the name of some sort of restaurant.
To create the pepper falling I had it resting on a cube to start and then another cube pushes it off. Both of the cubes I used compositing tags to turn off the seen on camera and any reflections and shadows they might cast. Similar, with the onions I had cubes on both sides pushing them in towards each other.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Mid Year Demo Reel
I decided to create a simple intro for my demo reel now that we know how to work with 3D text. I kept it simple because I want the rest of my work to be the focus. It is also something that I will be able to continue to edit as I play around and experiment more in Cinema 4D.
I’m excited to see what it looks like when I have more work done at the end of the semester.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Exercise 8
Since it is October and I’ve been watching a lot of “scary” movies I decided to use a quote from It. I tried to contextualize the quote “you’ll float too” by making the text look like balloons. I used a physical material that looks more like plastic and used to classic red color. Then I used a font that is meant to look like balloons.
I did not use a different camera for this because I spent so much time focusing on the movement of the text so that it would look realistic to balloons. To do this I used 3 different linear planes and had them moving in different directions. I think that the words may move a bit too fast for some people to read, but I am able to successfully read it and understand what it says. If I go back to it I will slow it down a little bit.
Looking at the completed project I wish that the font had been a bit more round because at times the font looks sharp and not very rounded and balloon like.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Exercise 7 Physical Materials
I decided to create the Balloon Dog statue by Jeff Koonz since we were using very metallic reflective materials. Then to show the reflectiveness I added the red ball. Originally I had the camera sweeping around the dog so it could get closer and show the reflections at more angles. However, what I have took about 12 hours to render and I did not have time before class to let it finish, so I will include the complete video tomorrow.
This is the material I used for the balloon dog. I messed with the reflection strength, specular and bump strength, and some of the other tabs quite a bit to make the dog look shiny and reflective once it was rendered. Because once I checked the render view it did not look reflective enough to look like the actual statue.
Advanced Motion Graphics – Exercise 6
When I was playing with shapes and materials it reminded me of those weird liminal spaces I’ve seen represented in images and in my own dreamscapes. So when I was making this, I started to create a vague environment with the shapes and textures. Some of the lights are on the floor and other on a non-existent ceiling.
The lights on the floor were created with shapes with luminescence and not shown on camera.
These are some examples of the materials I used. I included a few shapes that are transparent because it felt more ominous not being able to completely see the shape that is there the way you know something is there in the dream without being able to see it.
Hayley Buick 