KISHAN THAKRAR
A LEVEL ART PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO
Whilst thinking of ideas for my CGI animation, I thought about light and water, and how it is reflected. I looked at floating lanterns which reminded me of this scene from Tangled. The entire scene is lit warmly lending it to romance, at an emotive point in the movie. It was interesting to see how important storytelling was when reseraching this scene. Conveying the story is more important than showing off 3D animation skills; the animation is just a way of conveying the message, and the more elaborate and sophisticated, the more impressive it looks. This scene was done in a similar environment to Cinema 4D, however it would be industry level software with powerful computers that could handle all the rendering. For my scenes I need them to look as believable and as good a quality as this, but I have to comprimise in some areas because of my much less powerful render speeds. I still aim to make the scenes look as impressive as possible, though.
Walt Disney Studios - Artist Study
Walt Disney Studios: Tangled
Images ©Disney/Pixar
I especially like the soft glow applied to the scene, and also the depth of field, both things which I will be able to experiment with on my scene. There were little resources available to me that contained any information about how these scenes were specifically animated however I think it could make a great part of my animation. I would not have to animate characters either, as the subject will be the water. I do not like the water as much in this scene, because it was too still, and perhaps could have been more rippled.
I like the way each lantern is individual; it has its own movements and rotations. This would be acheived using Random effectors and clone tools to generate individual parameters for each lantern object, in a 3D animation environment such as Cinema 4D or Autodesk Maya.
Another feature is sub-surface scattering, without which the scene would be heavily lacking. This gives the lantern material a translucent feature, allowing light through it and thus giving the lantern effect from the candle inside.
Lantern Scene
