““—*S, , a Art of 2 ee The Sor & the Crane a~_- o @ Vikki Kerslake age, Be OO, o .Part 1 Initial designs - Initial concept sketches, storyboards, initial character designs and influences.About the Prosect The minor project is part off year long project, which will be a 92:80 minute long: animated short. Inspired by Japanese art and paper craft such as traditional paper fans, the short will take place in a Japanese antique shop ~ where the paintings within the paper decora™ tions come to lif at midnight. A Capanese crane breaks out of his paper fan, to hunt fr prey, He comes across a fan with two Hoy carp swimming around, He snatches one ofthe fish - The remaining carp takes an adventure through the antique shop, exploring the different paper worlds, to rescue his love. To distin: Gaish between the paper Japanese world and the ‘real’ world, the characters will be textured. differently depending on what ‘world’ they are in. In the Paper world, the characters and enri- vonments will be designed in the traditional Japanese art style, and in the ‘real’ world, they will be designed more realisticly, The aim ofthe short is to create an animation to represent the japanese artstyle, incorporating the paper elements of japanese craft, llowing’a narrative that is also illustrative.Znfluencesinitial sketches- Aor carp ‘ a FE AP) MyKor Carp designing aS Song a ® —* wk _ we <3 2 e@Crane initial sketchesCrane - designing & pote % 4% he wyAntigue shop - concept art and sketchesAntigue thop - Finalited Concept EV tars malotelg eT fram avers ss oo bk ap Se yi He a) Ite) m UKCEDY separatorFarly storyboardsLartial seriptPart 2 Maya worle character modelling Modelling, Rigging, skinning, Uv Mapping.Modelling - The Koi Carpav mapping - Sov carpRigging - Sov Carp the koi carps spine hes been riggfed to start with as a tail. joints have since been added to the fins after this image locators to show where 1 to add the joints rt + + get aoe eT + + + | + +Skinning - Koi CarpModelling - CraneRigging - CraneCrane - rigging wings expersmentaion The Crane's wings has been a challenge However | looked into creating an attribute, controlled by using the ‘set driven key’ option in Maya. This allowed to animate the joints of the wings to a folded position, however itis unclear at this stage if this method will work well when animating,Tewturing - in the fant Lae One of the challenges of the project was translating the 2D Japanese inspired create a flat appearance makes the ‘in fan’ desi in 3D look more like the flat painting style.— des,Texturing - in the fant Koi rendered with surface shader texture: 20 koi designTeeturing - in ‘real world’ The texturing style of the animals outside of the fan worlds was in development as the project went along. This has been resolved and the ‘real world” animals have been textured in a more painterly style, as if they were objects painted in real life, and to emphasise the idea of them coming out of a painting (the fans)