Animation / Marketing
National Portfolio Day
National Portfolio Day
Target Users
High School Students
Role
Animator
Animator
Team
RIT Marketing Team
Impressions
48,078
Reach
Reach
14,271
Software
Cinema 4D, Illustrator
Project Overview
In 2019, Rochester Institute of Technology again was to host the National Portfolio Day, where students across the country would have their portfolio reviewed by different schools. The marketing team wanted to get the word out in an advertisement geared to their high-school audience, while incorporating the origami theme.
Process
Discussion
The marketing team was fine with either a 2D or 3D advertisement. I found it helpful to ask questions when my understanding wasn't clear.
The marketing team was fine with either a 2D or 3D advertisement. I found it helpful to ask questions when my understanding wasn't clear.
Game-plan
I started by looking for origami instruction books and researching how to make animating origami in Cinema 4D, the software I deliberated to be the easiest for the job.
Getting Started
After researching and fiddling around, I found the best way was to use the real origami and deconstruct it.
Book of Choice
Nicolas Terry's Drawing Origami was the most helpful because the origami represented the print media.
Nicolas Terry's Drawing Origami was the most helpful because the origami represented the print media.
Laying Out the Folds
After laying out the origami flat, I was able to go over the lines in Illustrator.
Point Level Animation
The hardest part was getting the point level animation to look believable.
Rigging
Once I folded the origami to a tiger shape, I could rig it and animate it from there.
Weighting
Weighting
But first, I had to get the weights of the joints right. The fact that I could rig it as a unit surprised me.
Stripes and All
Adding stripes really distinguished the origami from a dog. I also worked on really getting the head shape right.
Camera Angles
Camera morphs really allowed for some fun movement. Took a while to understand the best method for the flow.
Takeways
This project was really fun, yet there were some hiccups along the way. Nevertheless, I learned a lot from the process. If I were to do it again, I would do more tests, and have interstitial artifacts. I am curious to see the improvement to the walk cycle if I were to rig a copy of the tiger with more subdivisions after the folding animation.
thank you for your time
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