Play of the Game- An Overwatch Animation

45 seconds of pure geekiness. This animation stars one of my favorite Chinese video game characters, Mei(美灵). Her cool nature is often hated by players of the game she stars in, Overwatch.


Overall, this animation went well. One of my main goals was to get the intro and sound lined up (not kidding, that took a good amount of editing time). I think that I could had spent more time working on the intro, where she slides around on the floor, but I was pressed for time and had redid it many times.


Remember, as Mei always says: Our world is worth fighting for!

Links and more:

Model Download by Rex Art

Overwatch Soundtrack created by Neal Acree (Source video here)

Overwatch is a game by Blizzard Entertainment (Link Here)

Go Small Bot Go!

Action scavenger hunt

Actions scavenger hunt

One of my favorite animations from the Overwatch Animated Shorts, you can see an example of a action at timestamps 2:10 and at around 6:00. The two scenes show Bastion (the robot guy) walking. These shots are even set up similar, with Bastion starting in the center of the scene and using the walking action cycle to exit the view of the camera.


The action can be seen at timestamp 0:27, where the elks (I think thats what they are) start to run away.

Conclusion

Actions are short sequences of motion. They are used in animations to shorten the amount of time that it takes to animate something, as you could, for example, make a short walk cycle and loop that multiple times throughout the animation

Animation Critique

Overall, these are the main types of messages that I got

• Outline shader highlights the movements going on
• Each hand movement has good transitions
• Creative title (A message in the sand)

Overall I think that I did well, I feel like my creative aspects (the background etc) went well. occurring to others, I am also very good at making movements flow together. I personally think that I need to tone back the scale of my projects... all while maintaining the awesome creativity and such that I have been doing for quite some time. In the future, I will have to continue the high creativity levels that I have been doing in my animations while bringing down the amount of time that I work on for each animation (A message in the sand took around 2 days worth of non-stop rendering on my slightly overpowered computer... thats a very long time for a project of this size!)

Message in the sand

Message in the sand

Reflection

Overall this turned out great! I think that I should have made the whole thing a bit less ambitious, as it took forever to render out the 1700 frames of animation (although this is a step down from what I had originally planed on doing!). I also realized that part of the reason why this took so long to render out is due to the fact that the bones made Blender slow down when it came to rendering time, as a programer i'm kinda interested!

Timing and Spacing Reel!

Its REEL!

A brief history Walt Disney Animation

Walt Disney Studios is arguably (or at least within my family) the best movie companies out there. However good their live action movies were concerned, the animations that the company has produced have been some of the most ground breaking animations out there. So please, sit back, keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times, and please enjoy our complementary popcorn as we journey into:

The History of Walt Disney Studios

Our story begins where a young Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney purchased the back side of a realty group in Los Angeles California back in 1923. There, the brothers made a series of short films (both live action and animated) that collectively were called Alice Comedies. Those short films were rather successful, as within four months of opening the small studio they decided, along with the people that they hired before hand, to move next door into a larger building. Nearly a year later, the brothers made a deposit on a piece of land in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. It was there that the team made numerous animated wonders.

The Elite Seven

Their first full length feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarf proved to be a huge success. The movie was given critical acclaim all around the world. After that, the team pumped out other great animations like Fantasia, Bambi, and Alice in Wonderland just to name a few. The company also made live-action movies, however that is for another class....