Russell Pointer Animators Blog: Digital Environment/visual studies 2010/11

Digital Environment/visual studies 2010/11

Monday 25th october 2010

Stage 1 Researching to Environment

The environment i will be researching with be with a array of mediums winch include Film, Fine Art, Animation.

The first environment i look at was going back in memory lane for me. when i was a child I was a very big fan of thomas the tank and there was one episode in particularly I remember cause of the environment is layout that make its a in my view. The episode was called the flying kipper
link to full epsode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nrp1GSyh9g&feature=related

Scene of the flying Kipper

The scene in particular is this one due to the fact it not only due to the fact that its not only a perfect representation of the sunrise in the middle of winter. It has a very over welling quietly to with the episode. Its really amazing if you where to see this shot out of context you would think that this is a full working railway on an early Winter moaning. In my view this is a testament that would can make anything with simple model or toys .

The set of the of the original Thomas the tank engine series was created by the Rev W Ardry in the year 1940 as a children book series entitled the railway series (daily motion) The book series was created in to a Tv series in 1984 by the astute business women called Britt Allcoft acquired the television rights the railway series.( youtube documentray) The was directed The lighting was dun by Terry Permane from clearwater film company. The style of animation they used was live action animation. Live action animation, this is where the animator would have a model trains with plastic face o with the eyes fitted with small annarmotronics. These are used to so that the animator would have a small remote controls still of the making on the Flying kipper s imilar to a like u uses in R.c aeroplanes ( )

Noggin The Nog

Noggin the Nog was children's program made in in 1959 the Olivia Postage and Peter Fremen Smallfilms company.

The series is bases within viking times with the noggin king of the northmen.

The art work for the film was created by Peter fremen

concepts idea and doodles

October the 26th first meeting

Group

Sam Matthrews head of art and design / modeler

Arran Dummer head technical supervisor /modeler

(me) Russell Pointer texture mapper? modeler

(This is not definite at the moment in time of its mite change)

The groups disions is to create a windmill due to the nechcail challenges to gain better experience of working in machine in maya

I will be researching in to windmill to see how they both look and operate.

Windmills have been around long before the industrial revolution. Ever since the advent of wind power in sail boats. From around 500-900A>D

The earliest known record of windmill as we know them today where from

china. The reson for this was that the earliest known documentation designs for windmills dates back to 1219 A.D by Chinese statesman Yehlu Chhu-Tshai. (http://www.telosnet.com/wind/early.html)

The first windmills where first design for grinding grain for flour. and pupping water for farming (http://www.telosnet.com/wind/early.html)

How do wind mills work?

Windmill are powered by natural wind, however natural wind is too precarious and not constant and can be too slow. so the windmill using interconnected weal starting with one main weal in a vertical position and smaller connected ones. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFcnF1yS4o4)
also having mall waits

persian.bmp (27790 bytes)

This speed up the the grind or water pumps in the mill faster with very minimal rotation of the sail of the windmill.
this is demonstrated in this clip i found on youtube

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucZGHjZ3qM&feature=channel)

Consistent of lots of weal's gears and cogs rotating sharth

Windmills in Holland

The reson why they are so many windmills was due the fact that most of it was 6 meters below see level
and is continually pumped out around 300 years ago. they where put in for the conservation of farm land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland#Geography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNlc8Jj1F-Q&feature=fvw

1st november
Primary research

I have visiting Meopham windmill the reason for this is so i could do some primary research
studying textures and how its and overall look of how windmill work.

Meopham windmill was build in was build in 1801 by James Killick wink was build by old ship timbers sold by Chatham dockyard. The windmill was build to a smock design.

reference (http://www.meopham.org/about.php?Section=Windmill)

A smock mill is a where the main body of the mill is static but only the cap winch is the is the top part of a wind in winch turns from side where ever the wind blows.

as demonstrated here

I found a very interesting diagram of the windmill of its internal structure winch I found very interesting

As you can see i have gone mad with the camera. taken picture of everything I could fine for ideas on texturing for the environment later on

I will study how how brick fade with time and dirt intersecting them

Seeing how model and grim grow and merge in to the brick lad path ment on the out side of the windmill

Studying how the aged effect happen to wood on the walls through in rain

I will be trying to studying the textures and try to implement them into
experiment

Inside the windmill

I managed to get some images inside the windmill. However I wasn't aloud to go upstair to see the internal machinery to something with due to health and safety. winch is a bit unfortunate because want much to see in the lower