Project 2 - PART ONE: Weblog journal entries

Final Project 2

1. Character 

My robot name is Jerry.

Jerry work scope is stacking up stock boxes, he works from Monday to Friday, 8a.m to 6p.m daily and he have to stack 5000 of boxes each day. His workplace is at Woodland and he lives at Tampines, which he spends 2 hours in travelling back and forth. He wake up at 5.30a.m each morning and will only reach back home at 8p.m.

This 2 weeks is the hot season week as it is Chinese New Year festival so Jerry have to work everyday from Monday to Sunday at the same timing, he do not have any off days. Today is the 8th day that Jerry had been working consecutively.

Current situtation

Is going 6p.m now, Jerry is feeling so exhausted, he is so lacked of sleep nowadays that every morning he always face challenge of waking up. All he is looking forward to, is finish stacking the 5000 boxes. The more boxes he stacked, the more tiring he feels. Each time, he has to force himself to bend down his arm and stack the boxes. This thought "How many more is left to stack..." had been going through Jerry's mind umpteen times.

2. Storyboard 

3.   Self-Critique 

I am quite happy with my final result. As everything goes according to plan even thou the process of doing it is not easy and I faced some difficulties completing it. The problem I faced are, time management, adjusting the key frames, animating the emotions of the robot and the stretch and squash technique. However, after a couple of times of trial and error and also seeking help from my classmates and teacher, I managed to do all the requirements!

The most important things to do in this project is the key-framing and animating emotions. For example, Jerry is feeling exhausted so the speed of picking up the boxes will definitely be slow as he is tired so the time frame in between before he pick up the box and when he pick up the box will be a long period of time.

As for the emotions of the robot, at the start the Joint4 is all the way facing down when he picks up the 2 boxes in front, so after he picked up the 2nd box, I adjust the Rotate X wanting to show the emotion of the robot sighing. It give the impression of looking up to sigh then look down again, as if saying that "How many more..."

Lastly, I added the stretch and squash technique to the ball to make it look more realistic. As in a real ball in will all stretch and squash when it is hitting something. Squash is used when it is hitting something and stretch is used when it bounce off.

So, that's all for my Project 2!