Assessment 1 - 3D CGI Animation!!!

 

3D CGI Animation

Final Destination!

So this is the final part of my animation history assessment! So lets just jump right in and get stuck into the details of 3D CGI Animation! So to start CGI stands for "Computer Generated Imagery" put simply this is the best computer generated animation out there! ALmost every game these days uses 3D CGI Animation for animated cutscenes! Its not limited to just games though! More and more movies are using 3D CGI graphics for big budget scenes! The detail that can be produced with it has came so far as at times looking realistic! You ever see the Hobbit movie? Smaug....thats right that big awesome dragon was all CGI! granted with some motion capture mixed in, but lets not get into that just yet!

3D Animate Me!

So im just gonna say right off the bat, 3D CGI Animation is not quick, it is not easy but damn does it look good when its done! There are several parts to a 3D CGI Animation, starting off with a story board, basic concept designs, to making 3D models to rendering the pictures to "rigging" them so that different parts move differently, I found a great video that shows all of these steps to make a great 3D CGI Animation of your own! I will be doing this at a later stage of my course, not sure how in depth i'll be going with it but I might make a seperate post to show my own progress! Although there is tons of different software out there specificallly for 3D CGI Animation i woudl highly recommend Blender, it was the first software i used for 3D animation and its a great starting point, the UI is very easy to get used to! 

The Bad and the Great!

So i want to start with the bad here first of all, it might seem a bit daughting at first as this last animation needs alot of skill and practice to make it look great! There are several stages to this type of animation and because of the frame rate (which i will go into further later) you need to do anywhere between 12 to 24 frames per second for it too look smooth, that right there is alot of tweeking and animating if you ask me! Now if you can get through that, the great thing about this is just how amazing it will look once its completed! You can literally make your own mini movies or stories using 3D CGI Animation! you can keep the charactes and scenes youve made and reuse them by tweeking them slightly to look different! This is by far the greatest animation to date! Pixar itself has came out with some of the best 3D CGI Animation movies to date!

Tell Me That Funky History!

Now as its pretty obvious 3D CGI Animation is a pretty recent animation tecninique as its all computer generated, it has went throguh some amazing changes to get to where it is now though! So funny thing is, 3D CGI Animation is still tricking the eye and mind of everyone, by drawing (or animating) at 12 frames per second minimum, it can trick the brain into thinking that the image is moving smoothly, but most movies now run at about 24 frames per second, though i personnally have seen an animated scene in 48 FPS and wow....just wow the imagery was just so smooth and beautiful to look at, i was in awe of it! Anyways lets move on! So the early idea of 3D digital computer imagery was played about with by four funky guys called Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll, though there was another party working on it over at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, these guys were toying with the idea back in the 1960's! Almost 50 years ago! One of the biggest jumps for 3D CGI Animation was in the film Futureworld released in 1976, where a 3D CGI animated hand was used in the movie! though the animated hand itself was made in 1972 by two graduates of the university of Utah, it was still a massive leap forward! The first full length animated series was called ReBoot which was released in 1994. The following year had the release of Toy Story and the rest goes on from there! its amazing how far the animation style has come over the years though!

Some Final Examples for you!

So i talked about the first instance fo a 3D CGI animated hand in a movie yea? Well i managed to find the clip from that movie! I also got the first ep of ReBoot as well! i woudl just like to end my examples with the latest 3D CGI Aniated movie iv seen, Zootopia! by seeing all 3 of these clips i think it shows how far the amiation has come! and how far it coudl go in the future!

Final Note!

I would just like to say thanks for all the views I've gotten! it means alot that people have been looking at my pages even if it was just out of boredom! Hopefully i can wow you with some of my own animations in the future!