Week 6

IN CLASS TODAY

  • Discussion: Bertolt Brecht
  • Material Channels
  • Poseable Characters with Mixamo

ASSIGNMENTS

  1. Cartier-Bresson Project: Create a sequence of 4 or more images that display human figures caught at a dramatic or meaningful moment. Check the Cartier-Bresson photos on this page for reference. 
    HOW TO DO IT (as shown in tutorial video): Go to Mixamo, sign in, select a character, apply an animation, download, import (merge) into C4D, select the correct frame to pose the figure. Try to give your sequence of images a hint of narrative or progression. To create the sequence, scrub in the timeline to a different pose from the animation, or add additional characters or animated sequences, or reposition the camera to reveal different parts of the scene. READ Tutorial Handout + READ Materials handout
  2. READ this short scientific paper about images and magical thinking:
    Implicit Voodoo
  3. WATCH video tutorials:

Links to C4D Help files on Materials, if you’d like the in-depth info:
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-OBASELIST
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-ID_MATERIALGROUP_COLOR
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-ID_MATERIALGROUP_DIFFUSION
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-ID_MATERIALGROUP_LUMINANCE
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-ID_MATERIALGROUP_REFLECTION
https://help.maxon.net/us/index.html#MMATERIAL-ID_MATERIALGROUP_NORMAL

STYLE REFERENCE –
Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) :

  • DEPTH of FIELD f/6
  • DEPTH of FIELD f/4
  • DEPTH of FIELD f/2
  • DEPTH of FIELD f/1