Animation Community Project

Iam studying Multimedia Broadcasting on Electronics Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya. And now we are on holiday! I've joined MMBAnimation community, and we learn more about animation there. We have done stop motion project before. In this holiday we have a 3D Animation project called "Project Ayam" but, you can translate it with "Chicken Project".

I want share just a little about our community project. We are updating the process on MMBAnimation official blog. You can keep update with our project, but on community project we are using Bahasa Language. If you want to read it, maybe you need to translate using google translate.

Chicken Project Cover

Categories: Animation, Community, Multimedia, Open Source, Project

Install and Update Blender Via PPA Ubuntu

Blender growing so fast, we can get the update dialy, even in a matter of hours. In ubuntu we can get the update notification through Update Manager. If your repository is the default of ubuntu, you just will get the update notifications release from Blender. Not all version update there. If you want to get the newest blender, you can update or install through other PPA.

Sometimes i need to update through PPA, because the bugs from previous version is already on the PPA. So, i don't need to waiting the release from blender main site. It's the power of open source, because the development collaborative with the community.

There is step by step adding ppa for blender update via ubuntu terminal.

Categories: Blender, Tutorial, Ubuntu

Blender Render with Topology Edge

The Chicken Project with MMBAnimation Community is still running, there is i want share how to set the material with the topology edge while rendering. So, you can share your model and get comment about your model topology. Because the topology is important thing when you adding rig on the character.

Before you do this step, you must have an object on 3D view. In this post, Iam using chicken character from our community project. Called anak ayam.

Character Modeling

Categories: Animation, Blender, Tutorial

Disable Touch Wacom on Ubuntu

Yesterday, I try to draw using MyPaint and Wacom Bamboo Pen Touch. It was so hard for me, because i not used pen tablet when drawing. And my drawing is not good. But i want to learn it for basic. It was so sucks when i draw using wacom and the touch is on. The pen movement distrube by touch of my hand. It's make the cursor random moving.

I am using Ubuntu 11.10. As we know, since this version we can found GUI of wacom driver. You can type Wacom Graphic Tablet on search, and you will find the setting. It was like driver on Mac or Windows. But i can't find how to disable touch on Ubuntu driver.

Categories: Tips and Trick, Tutorial

Post Production

I've talking about pre production and production before, there is i want talking about post production. Post production is the last process of film making. There is thing must to do. Like Color correction, Compositing, Editing Video / Sequence, Sound and promotion. I just want to try explain what i know about post production.

Color Correction, this process is to match every scene. Because not every scene have same color, sometimes we need some part of scene looks bright and another scene look so glow. We can create ambient effect like romance, horror or fun with the color shceme.

Color Correction

Editing Video, combining the scene for get continuous story like on storyboard. Because we do not finish all scene sequentially. The level of every scene is not same, there is many complicated scene and there is many simply scene. We can finish simply scene faster than complicated scene include when rendering. Complicated scene need more time for rendering than simply scene. With editing video, we can arrange the scene like on storyboard and get the storyline

Editing Video

Sound, every film need sound effect. Without sound, the film is so bored and not felt. Sound is very important. If your film is bad, you can improve it on sound. Sound can create ambient effect like horror, happy, confuse, fun and other.

Visual Effect, is process adding more effect to your video. Like tsunami, flash of lighting. You can merging the greenscreen and the effect on this process. Like on Mango Project.

Promotion, is process to promote the film. It will spend half of production budget. I've read on many article about comparison of production and promotion is 40 : 60. Although a lot of free media campaign like mouth to mouth, social network, blog network and other. But the cost of promotion still high. This cost for promotion on TV, Roadshow, Touring, Poster and other.

I have opinion about the production. In the production of movie, the most time consuming process is production. Production is very much resource-consuming, therefore it is advisable to maximize the Pre Production, so that when the production can be more effective and fullest. So they can save money too. If you can timely according to the timeline is very good, Even if forced to stall for one part, it's better to buy time for longer in pre-production process.

Categories: Animation, Opinion, Project