Exploration 5: Show Opening

So for the final project, we were asked to create a show opening of a show that we had came up with ourselves. For my show opening, I wanted to have a sort of 1920's feel, so I developed a sort of story revolving around the press and added a sort of noir feel with jazz music.
The first thing we were asked to do was create a logo. So for a show title I called it, 'The Headliner.' Here is the logo:

Next we needed to create an animatic to help decide on the timing. Here is my animatic:

Next we needed to create a first pass. We had two weeks to pull it together. Here is what I created:

Next we had to deal with the final touches and create a final pass. Here is what I came up with:

Overall, I am satisfied with the final product. Some things I would like to fix are the banding and flickering and my lighting. But all this I will do on my own time.

Exploration 4: Simulation

For this next project we were going to be doing something a little more experimental and fun. We were going to be creating a simulation in Cinema 4D using dynamics. Because this project is simply meant to get us to explore new territory within the software, we could literally do anything we wished.

After going through a bunch of ideas on what exactly I wanted to do I had to come up with an idea of having a glass falling through air and shattering on the ground upon impact. But to take a more practical approach to the project, I decided to make it a commercial for Bounty. I also wanted to take a more comedic approach to the project since there is never really a lot of opportunity for it. To do this I decided to make the animation extremely overdramatic with ambient opera music in the background and extrme volumetric lighting.

Here is  a first pass to the animation:

By this point I was still experimenting with my volumetric lighting and my glass texture still looked a bit like plastic. So for a second  and final pass, I wanted to try and mess a bit more with these. Here is my final render:

There are a few things I wish I could have fixed in time. The music cuts a bit weird, the glass shatter looks a little fake, my lighting is too intense and my blood droplet looks strange. But these are things I can always fix down the line. I am proud of what I accomplished with the dynamics in Cinema 4D since I had never messed with them before. I will definitely get some more practice using this part of the application though.