The Sky Arts project is to create a 10 second clip which represents the Sky Arts channel. Sky Arts what use to be called Arts world and was owned by a private partnership but was later bought out by Sky. The Arts world was then changed to Sky Arts in 2007 and Arts world HD became Sky Arts HD.
Different Sky Arts Logos
Here are some of Sky's own adverts to promote the Sky Art's channel
This video was one of the Sky Art's adverts that got me inspired and helped me to create my idea.
My Idea
My idea is to have an old camera projector on a tripod with a film reel going through the camera spelling arts. Then have the Sky Arts logo projected on to a screen. This idea came to me when I starting watching other Sky Arts commercials they would spell arts with different objects. I then thought that I would do the same thing but something relevant to Sky Arts so I chose a camera projector because Arts can be just about anything from film, music, dancing ect.
Film Projector
The first projector was created in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the “wheel of life” or “zoopraxiscope”. This machine was invented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.
The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often known as inventing the first motion picture camera 1895. But the truth is, several other made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. Lumiere invented a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematograph, three functions covered in one invention.
The Cinematograph made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better to say that Lumiere’s invention began the motion picture era. The Lumiere brothers were no the first to project film. The Edison Company successfully demonstrated the Kinetocope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving picture. Then later on in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.
These are some of the references i used to help me with my research
This screenshot is of two film reel cases which are located on top of the film projector. This is only early stages into the modelling side of my project.
This screenshot shows the beginning of my projectors body which will hold the word Arts inside. There will also be cogs that will finish the look off to give the impression of a working projector.
This screenshot shows my the top part of my projector, which still needs more geometry added to it.
This screenshot shows the top part of the projector what is finished and ready to be textured. Inside the body of the projector the word Arts has been spelled out what will have a film reel texture added to it and to give it the animation effect as well.
In this screenshot you can see the word Arts spelled out with the cogs to help form the letters so you can see the word. The cogs are animated as well using expressions, this is to give it the final look and make it seem more real. There are still a few more stages to go through before it is finished. It needs more geometry added to the scene and also textures still need to be added to give it a more professional look.
This is screenshot shows more geometry which i have added to the scene.
In this screenshot i have finished my texturing and have only textured what you can see in the final video as well. The reason for this is because if you not going to see it in the final video there isn't any point in worrying abut how it looks. The projector screen has an image sequence of a video i made in after effects with some help from a friend. It is a very basic model and scene but when rendered it looks totally different with the lighting added to it and using mental ray.
In this screenshot you can see the film reel texture inside the body of the projector. This was probably the only problem i have come across through this whole entire project. I had to find away to get the texture the animate around the word i had made in 3d. To do this i used a polygon plane and stretched it out and then added the texture to it. Then i animated the planar mapping attribute to get the texture to move along the geometry. Once i had done that i then had a long process of taking each vertex and moving it in to the right position to spell out the word Arts inside the projector. Overall i think that it was very successful and worked really well.
Here are some screenshots of the render view and the quality of the work.
Textures used in project.
This texture was used to create the wooden floor in my scene.
This metal texture was used on the projector machine.
This is the texture i used for the film reel inside the projector
Pictures of 3d printing
This is a quick test of the animated film reel i did in Maya.
This video shows a Sky Art's film reel on a projection screen which i created in After effects with help from Russell Pointer.
When i first got this project i didn't really understand what it was asking me to do. Then when i read into it more i understood that the word Art's can mean a lot of things. Art's is anything you really want it to be from a movie to a building even music. Once i had researched into Sky Art's and the meaning of it and what the channel is about i then understood what the project was about. I looked at different Sky Art's adverts and got some ideas from there. I think that the work that i have produced is of good quality and is also a good idea. I wish i knew how to more within Maya because i feel like it would of helped me to achieve a much better quality piece of work. I didn't come across too many problems except for the film reel being animated and also trying to get the rendering time down but still keeping the quality. Overall the project has helped me to learn new things within the software Maya and get a good understand on how to break project briefs down.
This screenshot is of two film reel cases which are located on top of the film projector. This is only early stages into the modelling side of my project.
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