Planned projects (March - June)

My exams end tomorrow and then I'll have a vacation lasting nearly 3 months. Lots of time, so I have lots of projects planned. I dont think most people would bother reading this, but its a convenient way for me to document my process as well as lay out my plans for myself.

The projects I want to document about here are rather short term, meaning something I can reasonably release before school starts again. So heres a list, organized in a chronological order, according to which ones I will work on first.

1. An entry to WIRED's contest. The prize pool is not huge at 150$, but what I find really interesting is that its any medium. I don't have to use fortnite characters or whatever. I plan to use a very atmospheric song, a gloomy theme with realistic human characters, almost like a short film. The pacing will be very slow, I may even make the entire thing be just one shot, been obsessed with those lately. The final product will be around 45 seconds long. but I will be learning a TON of new things to produce this. First, reallusion character creator 4 as well as iclone 8. I'm not using metahumans because thats a pain in the ass to work with and also doesnt really work with blender. Blender human generator plugin is another thing I could use, but I dont know how high fidelity that is.  The theme will be an ocean, specifically underwater with a lot of blues and aqua.

2. Imogen heap - goodnight and go. I've had this project in mind for quite a while now, and it has been slowly evolving in my mind. coupled with the song, this project will have a gray, yet wholesome theme, almost bittersweet. i do have a very specific storyline in mind for this one, but im not going to reveal it yet. once again its going to be around a minute long, but I want to do very human animation, with realistic characters as well as facial animation. i've never worked seriously before with realistic humans or even rig animation, so this will be a huge wall I'll have to climb. this will be another slow paced video with little to no cuts, im pretty much leaving behind the "videogame editor" style, and shifting to something more film-like. Also speaking of facial animation, I'm likely buying an iphone this month just to use live link.

Those are the two projects I have a ton of ideas for, and I'm pretty much guaranteed to finish. Now for stuff that are way more in a rough state and may not ever see the light of day:

BRITPOP: britpop by ag cook. awesome song, I really want to make a virtual self style visual for it. Maybe motion graphics, 2d or 3d. wont have any characters or whatever, its just a cool little lyric video visual i might make for fun.

PRADA: prada by DBlockeurope. this will be a sequel to BUS STOP, so if course it will be very goofy, lighthearted and colorful in nature. I have quite a bit of complex ideas though, like cars morphing into things or rocket launchers coming out the hood. executing these ideas but require a bit of rigging knowledge, which I have none of. I have never rigged anything before lol, lots to learn.


Ok meet you guys again in june when I come back with more project plans. really hope these ones go well, 2024 is going to be a big year.