3rds on films/games.

Alan has given us a bit of homework today, to look into 'thirds' of the film / games worlds. Heres two quick examples I have found so far.


This first example is from Final Fantasy 3. The Characters are very clearly in the 3, thirds of the screen. The character in the middle is bigger and stands out a slight bit more than the other two characters.
This next example is from Saw VI (Hmm.. 6), and doesnt really show the thirds that well but from what I can make out, top middle square has the foreground characters' head in it, the middle section of thirds. And the background character is taking up the lower right portion of the screen.


I shall look into a few more and upload at a later date. ;)

Texture Class Maya 01

Well done the texturing bit quite fast today. Was nice and simples :)

Then the camera task setting up Pitch, Rolling and Panning:

Ex - E.T.

An animation Alan showed us today, was quite funny, cool twist at the end blah blah :)

Hmm wont let me embed video but heres the link


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fce5uG18ZTI

The Uncanny.

The Uncanny, a conncept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being 'uncomfortably strange', thought up by Freud. Because the uncanny is familiar, yet strange, it usually creates a conflict within experiencing the subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to, yet repulsed by an object at the same time. This conflict often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than realise.

The Uncanny Valley

The Uncanny Valley was very clever indeed, below is the 'uncanny valley' created by Masahiro Mori. It shows how the more realistic to humans things get the more un-easy we feel about them.

The following is an example of what was said previously, this is actually a robot, Repliee Q2 Made by the japanese. To make the face of the Q2, several Japanese females were photographed and then merged together to create the perfect Japanese face.

Invasion of the body Snatchers Review.

I liked The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers as the strange characters, most of which were very 'shady' I thought most of the acting was quite funny at times as I am much more used to the newer films 1990-2009 as this is my 'time' If I had the choice of watching the film again in B&W or in colour, I would definately choose B&W as it keeps the classic look and feel. Whereas if it was in colour it would lose the feel of a classic.

A review from another source:

A quintessential, black and white B-picture, it was precisely-executed and packed with action by director Don Siegel, plus a scary musical score from
Carmen Dragon. The subtle, low-budget film (at about $420,000) is very effective in eliciting horror with slow-building tension, even though there are no
monsters (just indestructible plant-like pods), minimal special effects, no violence in the take-over of humans, and no deaths. The film had a few
preliminary titles: Sleep No More, Better Off Dead, and They Came From Another World before the final choice was made.

The theme of the cautionary,
politicized film was open to varying interpretations, including paranoia toward
the spread of a harmful ideology such as socialistic Communism, or the sweeping
mass hysteria of McCarthyism in the 1950s and blacklisting of Hollywood, the
spread of an unknown malignancy or virulent germ (read fear of annihilation by
'nuclear war'), or the numbing of our individuality and emotional psyches
through conformity and group-think. Yet its main theme was the alien (read
'Communist') dehumanization and take-over of an entire community by large seed
pods (found in basements, automobile trunks, a greenhouse, and on a pool table)
that replicated and replaced human beings. And it told of the heroic struggle of
one helpless but determined man of conscience, a small-town doctor (McCarthy),
to vainly combat and quell the deadly, indestructible threat."

^http://www.filmsite.org/inva.html^