Leadership qualities

Leadership may differ from person to person having special qualities and motivational needs in time of need for keeping up the team spirit and finishing the job done with success.(“Leadership styles are changing, and you should too”, 2017)

In this blog i will be sharing on what it takes to be a leader either it is emotional driven or character driven we cannot deny that both play an important role in leaders behavioral stages. To simplify further an leader is a person making tougher descriptions and simplification it by an motivational speech to its co workers, Taking risk is nit the only thing a leader must know the amount of analysis the leader must for the project to be proceed are have as much importance as the reputation and handwork of the leader.

One of the best strategy that is oftnely suggested by leaders for time management issues is the 20/80 rule where 20% of the group will be responsible for 80% of the group’s success or in other words Find the top 20% in your group of network – spend 80% of your time with them.

 

(“Leadership”, 2017)

Motivation also contributes an crucial role, many examples of motivational rewards such as higher position or senior management, financial rewards also vacation holiday and business rewards as well.

“Whatever ethical plane you hold yourself to, when you are responsible for a team of people, its important to raise the bar even higher.” This is some of the lines by Tanya Prive on Forbes on 10 qualities that make a great leader, From setting the bars high to achieve an prefect result is every true leaders dream. (“Forbes Welcome”, 2017)

 

Refrences

LEADERSHIP

Your Bibliography: Leadership. (2017). Ted.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.ted.com/topics/leadership

LEADERSHIP STYLES ARE CHANGING, AND YOU SHOULD TOO

Your Bibliography: Leadership styles are changing, and you should too. (2017). YourStory.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://yourstory.com/2016/06/leadership-styles-evolution/

FORBES WELCOME

Your Bibliography: Forbes Welcome. (2017). Forbes.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2012/12/19/top-10-qualities-that-make-a-great-leader/#4e8390c47754

Interview techniques

There are many types of interview techniques that are going to be assessed depending on the type of job anyone is willing to apply. The best method would be for higher position jobs the more time consuming and more detailed answers will be assessed, whereas on an ordinary job simple meeting either by phone or face to face questioning are required to happen.

In this blog I chose this topic because of reasons how people can score best when it comes to an interview for a job. There is always room for improvement, from riddled questions to portfolio presentation and more. The main reasons why industries are having an interview for selecting the perfect candidate are they capable to handle the job, are they a team worker and are they suitable at leading this project.

By doing so questions can be unorthodox to the candidates as their answers will judge what kind of personality they are having behind the curtains. The resource that the interviewee re going to achieve are the persona background experience, work history ad etc.(“These 10 basic rules will help you prepare for your next interview and drive off any jitters.”, 2017)

Causing such time and human resource for finding the suitable candidate can be an important cause in saving a lot of money from damaging the company’s income and reputation. By keeping the standards high and expecting high qualified people to be accepted the company can expect less of default problems regarding the above problems and more. (“How to Answer the 31 Most Common Interview Questions”, 2017)

For an artist perspective the main important arsenal that are required for an interview are having good portfolio to show and work experience that contributed for creative media.

References

HOW TO ANSWER THE 31 MOST COMMON INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Your Bibliography: How to Answer the 31 Most Common Interview Questions. (2017). Themuse.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-answer-the-31-most-common-interview-questions

THESE 10 BASIC RULES WILL HELP YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR NEXT INTERVIEW AND DRIVE OFF ANY JITTERS.

Your Bibliography: These 10 basic rules will help you prepare for your next interview and drive off any jitters.. (2017). Monster Career Advice. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/ten-interviewing-rules

Copy rights and contracts

In the world of plagiarism keeping personal artwork is an important source of right in eyes of every artist. In order to avoid such problems, the project or the artwork are kept as a trade mark and patent.

In this blog I will be sharing information and ethics on how copyright impacts the rules and regulation of securing the personal work. In simple words copyright is an incentive to create new work and protect original work. Main people who own the copyright may differ from project to project, few of the owners are the creators, producers, recorders, publishers, broadcasters and even freelancers if legally specified. Not to mention employees that they have no rights of ownership and only finish the work hence they are paid for it.(“Copyright registration in UAE within 10 days only!”, 2017)

How does copyright protect? It also depends on what kind of work the person promotes but in general it protects from reproduction, sharing, performing, adapting the work by other people aside from the owners of copyright mentioned above.(“Horwath Mak Trademark International Trademark & Patent Attorneys”, 2017)

Following the rights and regulation the artist must put a trademark, phrase, symbol that represents a product or brand in their projects and art to warn its audiences about the copyright regulations. Although many of the artists have a large brand and creative business that it stands a high number of workers. In that case contracts may be advisable for a way to ensure that all team members or employees know what are their capabilities and duties within the project, it also act as a legally binding document.

Refrences

• COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IN UAE WITHIN 10 DAYS ONLY!

    Copyright registration in UAE within 10 days only!. (2017). Dubaicopyright.ae. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from http://www.dubaicopyright.ae/?gclid=Cj0KEQjww7zHBRCToPSj_c_WjZIBEiQAj8il5H1NRUBAkUUH1s2XHdXpFnTk8Ps9THV6m1pwApGL2c4aAjxE8P8HAQ

  HORWATH MAK TRADEMARK INTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK & PATENT ATTORNEYS

    Horwath Mak Trademark International Trademark & Patent Attorneys. (2017). Horwathmaktrademark.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from http://www.horwathmaktrademark.com/index.php?lng=en

Fan Collaboration

Following the previous blog about how fans can play an important role in anyone’s career especially on artists varying different stages where fans can be aid both financially and socially.

In this blog artists must take consider that fan collaboration can be subdivided into five different stages first on fan marketing the fans help you to promote by sharing the art projects among themselves and even send to new people. The next asset that brings on the table is crowdfunding, for example if the artist provides information to public that the artist is capable to make the project or art and is in need of financial aid from audiences to proceed the pipeline and finish then send it to them. Many websites such as Kickstarter and patreon are available for artists to show their work and get funded.(“Patreon”, 2017)

Other preferences such as fan approval and fan response they both share same objective where they like to have the feeling of ownership of the outcome example peter Jackson on Lord of the Rings.(Jackson, 2017)

And finally Co production can be very convenient in keeping fan markets alive by getting the fans involved such as assets and content creation, communicate production restriction and more.

And the final note on starting from scratch, the artist must be aware if the contets wouldn’t disrespect the audiences in any way possible. It can be challenging all the time to keep the pace of promoting an art where everyone likes or dislikes, in the end fan power has a huge role in creative media.

Refrences

• JACKSON, P.

   Jackson, P. (2017). Peter Jackson. IMDb. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/

• PATREON

    Patreon. (2017). Patreon. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.patreon.com/become-a-patreon-creator-invitation

  

  ANON

  Your Bibliography: (2017). Kickstarter.com. Retrieved 13 April 2017, from https://www.kickstarter.com

Social medias impact on peoples career

Social Media is user friendly when sharing news is involved, it varies from new arts to promote to new gaming software being introduced. In this blog I will be sharing how an individual artist can use social media to peoples advantage .

Initially the first step towards picking the right suitable platform is an big step because it can change,create or target certain group of audiences.For an example Linkedin platform is used by people having audiences in search of formal format whereas Instagram is used by artists sharing their work to a large group of people with simple results , mostly younger generation.

After choosing the right platform creating an account that holds the users information, it can vary from CV to projects and even accomplishments. It needs to be active and consistent enough to attract more followers in order to promote, by sending new artwork projects at least twice a week. Having an professional contexts on the portfolio can be helpful  in job reputation and fan approval. Using the brand can boost promoting the persons work especially in creative designs also sharing and influencing other projects by other people can also help.

Having trouble finding what the targeted fans want can be a hassle in order to know what they want the artist for an example have to interact and connect with its fans to know the market of the business.

In final note creating an portfolio on different social medias can also guide the artist on the number of followers and how the industry have evolved.

 

Refrences

• INSTAGRAM

   Instagram. (2017). Instagram. Retrieved 11 April 2017, from https://www.instagram.com/

  

  SIGN IN TO LINKEDIN

   Sign In to LinkedIn. (2017). Linkedin.com. Retrieved 11 April 2017, from https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login

Tank Production

The Pre production 

During this trimester we were assigned to complete an full modified tank will all the details as possible. From start going with the ww2 German tank www, 2015. (2009)., clearly showing the blueprint the full scale and size. Using this website to give me other options of blueprints for a better choice in finding an tank that can be modeled during the pipeline timeline.The-blueprints.com. (1944).

 

The body

Adding the details and texturing was the main issue but designing was first. Using basic shapes while the actual blueprint was clearly showing as an guide to model as it then clearly using the x-ray vision of the shape to see through it and finish the model.
Adding all the chains and wheels as showing to fully model the ReGerman tank with an base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Refrences

The-blueprints.com. (1944). Retrieved December 13, 2016, from https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/tanks/ww2-tanks-germany-1/

www, 2015. (2009). Jagdpanzer IV tank – WWII German tanks. Retrieved December 13, 2016, from http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/tanks/GermanTanks/jagdpanzer.html

Production Pipeline 2: Treasure Chest

As soon as one of my chest was chosen, I started modelling it as fast as possible to design the surroundings. Choosing an old vintage chest with wooden textures and rusty iron supports. The video of the chest during WW2 gave me an great reference of how to add the design in my work. Metaldetecting in The Netherlands (2016, January 15).

My wooden chest being placed in the set.

UV Mapping

The most crucial step in texturing is the UV mapping because it separates the polygons as the project wishes to be designed then adding textures, two of my examples that I have put in my work. With the help of an UVW spacing  we can fit the textures within the safe zone to prevent further hassle. Brinck, W.

Textures, C. W. (2016).  staff, W. (2009, February 11).

Distinguishing which is the wooden and which is the rusted iron parts before planing the textures in adobe Photoshop. Create anything you can imagine. Anywhere you are. (2016).

 

 

 

SCENE

After all the rendering and texture editing is done setting up the environment is important to give life to the animation, using ready made objects that my tutor given us such as the palm tree and the game board as shown in this picture gave me a lot of time to jump into animating.Using Adobe premiere software Shwedoff, Y. (2016). to give the finishing touches.

Reference

• Brinck, W. UVW-Mapping in 3DS max. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html

• Create anything you can imagine. Anywhere you are. (2016). Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.adobe.com/mena_en/products/photoshop.html

• Metaldetecting in The Netherlands (2016, January 15). Found treasure chest while metal detecting!Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd7slTmois

• Shwedoff, Y. (2016). Make visually stunning videos virtually anywhere. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.adobe.com/mena_en/products/premiere.html

• staff, W. (2009, February 11). 50 free rusted metal texture backgrounds. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/50-free-rusted-metal-texture-backgrounds/

• Textures, C. W. (2016). Wild textures. Retrieved November 10, 2016, from http://www.wildtextures.com/

 

Production Pipeline 1: Treasure chest

Designing the chest and modelling it would be the big first step in the production pipeline, not only helping my 3D modelling but time management for an better assignment that is going to be given to us later semester. Before starting drawing concept artwork of chests to give many options in choosing the final decision.

The beginning stage

Thinking about chests I have always tried to imagine an pirate theme helping with the modelling and designing using different types of franchises concept arts to deference from one such as disneys pirates of carabien.Treasure of Cortés. (2016).

Final model of the chest

Rreferencing sketch model from Blake head blogs observing and understanding the arrangement and diversity of different types of chests.

Head, B., & profile, V. my complete. (2015).

 

 

Putting my own sketches of three sided chests and about eight concepts and storyboard, getting the clear idea of how the story begins and ends.

    

Reference

• Head, B., & profile, V. my complete. (2015). Blake Head Blogs Retrieved from http://blakeheadblogs.blogspot.ae/

• Treasure of Cortés. (2016). Retrieved November 9, 2016, from http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Treasure_of_Cort%C3%A9s

 

Animation background

It all began in 1832 where phenakistoscope invented by Plato and Brussels showing continuous movement for the fist time, by the slit breaking each frame of movement to prevent it from becoming blur. Jobson, C. (2015, October 27). The following year zoetrope or well known as the wheel of life was invented to produce illusion like never before. Fig. 1 by University of California (2014, April 29)

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In 1928 the Steam boat Willie by Walt Disney using cel animation or traditional animation.Disney, V. (2011, February 11).

Was steamboat Willie the turning point?

On 1933 The movie the Lost world introducing VFX or special effects to the  hollywood. Their famous movie THE KING GONG and others had an grasp of realism and excitement like never before in the history of animation. Angus Lamont (2012, August 12).

Jumping to the 1993 where it was the start of an evolution for animation, Aadman introduced stop motion animation or claymation to the world of entertainment by using primary plastic figures as characters. Wallace & Gromit – curse of the were-rabbit.

On the following decade Photoshop Photoshop, A. (2009, August 13). was an added option to make animation more realistic and lifelike scenes till present where many of the TV animated series such as the bobs burgers Burgers, B. (2010, May 12). and the family guy Guy, F. (2009, April 17). they use the TOONBOON software Bouvier-Pelletier, M.-A. (1994). to draw an easy frame in large outcomes. Will Seymour Murphy (2015, November 1).

Reference

• Angus Lamont (2012, August 12). King Kong (1933): The lost spider pit sequence – Peter Jackson RecreationRetrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOMKnhN7ABs

• Bouvier-Pelletier, M.-A. (1994). Toon boom animation – award-winning animation & Storyboard software for professionals & amateurs. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from https://www.toonboom.com/

• Burgers, B. (2010, May 12). Bob’s burgers on Twitter. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from Twitter, https://twitter.com/BobsBurgersFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

• Disney, V. (2011, February 11). Vintage Disney on Twitter. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from Twitter, https://twitter.com/vintage_disney

• Fig. 1 by University of California (2014, April 29). The fascinating history of animation Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfH-NLo8tRk

• Guy, F. (2009, April 17). Family guy on Twitter. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from Twitter, https://twitter.com/FamilyGuyonFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

• Jobson, C. (2015, October 27). Newly Digitized “Phenakistoscope” Animations that Pre-Date GIFs by over 150 years. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from Animation, http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/10/newly-digitized-phenakistoscopes/

• Photoshop, A. (2009, August 13). Adobe Photoshop on Twitter. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from Twitter, https://twitter.com/Photoshop?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

• Wallace & Gromit – curse of the were-rabbit. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from http://www.aardman.com/work/the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit/

• Will Seymour Murphy (2015, November 1). A brief history of animation Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbpLpxi9rJY

• Was steamboat Willie the turning point? Retrieved October 20, 2016, from http://90874642.weebly.com/was-steamboat-willie-the-turning-point.html

Part two: The importance of Lightning, rendering and Composition in 3DS MAX.

Lightning

Lightning is the most important part of the pipeline, it is a family of VFX effects.Adding various palettes of shades and shades to the image making it realistic . The process will capture more quality in lifelike scenes when rendering.

The main types that contribute  are key, fill and back lights the following types of spotlight vary in the usage of the pipeline.Many types of spotlight such as:

• Target Spotlight: In this mode the light focuses on the movable object being selected.
• Free Spot: The light doesn’t have an target object creating easier use for many spotlights not cramming the page.
• Omni Lights: spreading the lightning in one direction from a single source.filling the full scenery saving time for the animators to proceed next step.
• Target Direction light: an parallel ray of light from one source, by adjusting the position or the rotation can be the source of the light in the scenery for example sunlight in an environmental model. Help. (2016, March ).

3dargondesign (2012, March 27).

Rendering 

Rendering is a process of adding shades, colors and lamination to a 2D or 3D wire frame to crate realism on the screen.2016. (2009, October ). Rendering details full effect of the scene and is different from the normal process, in complex animations rendering can create an huge impact in each pixel in each frame to give great outcome. Thus if not satisfied with timing the quality of rendering can be reduces to result in faster process. Sanders, A.-L. (2015, August 28).

Composition

Before making the production it is very important to select the best shot or the best place for the camera to show the story on at a time to avoid mistakes costing time spent on an wrong place.The better the shot selection the better the story, applying better storytelling to the audiences. There is always time to upgrade or even the idea of changing the shot to fill the obvious  missing gaps. Garvin Cook (2015, January 28).

 (From Left) jbritton. Golden section in art and architecture.and Lyon, H. (2013, December 7).

There are many  composition techniques such as triangular and diagonal, helping the designers free of options in selecting as many shots they wish. Garvin Cook (2015, January 28).

Frank Frazetta is an great example of art illustrator following this triangle composition technique in his work. FrankFrazetta.org.

Another example of 19th century french artist, Gustave Dore. 19th century realism. (2013, March 2).

Reference

• 2016. (2009, October ). What is rendering? – definition from WhatIs.Com. Retrieved October 19, 2016, from http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/rendering

• 3dargondesign (2012, March 27). 3ds max lighting tutorial Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tioy5Sgk-4

• Garvin Cook (2015, January 28). 2D animation principles 03 02 understanding shot composition Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQEIDw83pY

• Help. (2016, March ). Standard lights. Retrieved October 19, 2016, from https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/3ds-max/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU/3DSMax/files/GUID-9A77B425-BB92-4234-B28B-177BF43856EA-htm.html

• jbritton. Golden section in art and architecture. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/goldslide/jbgoldslide.htm

• Lyon, H. (2013, December 7). A baroque composition. Retrieved October 20, 2016, from http://muddycolors.blogspot.ae/2013/12/a-baroque-composition.html

• Sanders, A.-L. (2015, August 28). In Computer animation, what is rendering? Retrieved October 19, 2016, from Tech, http://animation.about.com/od/faqs/f/In-Computer-Animation-What-Is-Rendering.htm