Liam Nunn, an artist and professional animator who came to do a workshop on how to use digital animation in Adobe After Effects using a rig he made an setup. He made a face of a lady which we could animate, and the whole animation would be 5-10 seconds.

This is the basic default rig/template we started with, it didn’t move, as it isn’t animated yet.

This is what it looks like in Adobe After Effects with all the keyframes to make everything move.

The small boxes on the left control what the facial features do, so we had the keyframe the small dot in the different boxes to move the corresponding’s elements for the face.

The different sections on the timeline were colour coded to help separate from what we should add key frames to and what should be left alone.

To make an element move you have to add a keyframe to where you want the action to finish on the timeline, then change the X and Y values.

To change to colour of an object, you just have to open all the collapsed folders until you find the “color” section, then click the colour box and drag it to the colour you want, and click OK.

This is what I created. I changed the colours of the features and made the animation loop by making the end frame the same as the starting frame. Overall, It lasts 9 seconds, and I used lots of key frames to make the character look in every direction possible, blink, and move. I exported it in the format H.264 and then compressed it to have a low quality, which allowed me to post it on the blog.

We completed an animation workshop with and artist and professional animator called Liam Nunn. He gave us a crash course on digital animation in Adobe After Affects. He created what he calls a “Rig” of the face and shoulders of a lady that we could easily animate. It allowed us to animate her facial movement, eyes closing and opening, mouth opening and closing, eye and eyebrow positions, nose movement etc.

Above is an example of what we started off with and the dots on the lines beneath the lady show when movement is happening corresponding with the number of seconds above the dots. Also what line the dots are on shows what movement is occurring. Animating the image is quite easy as after making one or two movements that you like, you can copy and paste again and again to repeat the movements.

Above is an example of the different movements possible and how they work. To make something move you press the little diamond button to the left of the image that is highlighted blue where you want it to happen on the timeline. When entering a keyframe you can change how much movement is occurring and when it is occurring.

Above is my final animated video. I have made her move and changed her hair colour, clothes colour and face colour. It lasts for 15 second because I have looped it. I have had to compress it into a slightly lower quality to get it onto the blog.

A community of the future will celebrate diversity, equality and inclusion and propose a new digital world; a metaverse where everyone is equal regardless of class, race, gender and age. A digital ecosystem that transcends all virtual identities into a utopia for peace, prosperity and progress.

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For our group project we decided that the main focus will be based on the community of fashion and beauty. We decided to look at two different aspects such as; digital fashion (nfts) as well as regular fashion shoots in which we will use the studio to take our photographs. We chose fashion as it has a very different impact on all ages and communities this may be because of the different sort of cultures as well as the fashion in which social media may advertise as trends.

Throughout the different decades fashion has vastly changed throughout. This has happened very quickly as you can easily see the clear difference every year. For example from the 90s to fashion in today’s current time. However in the future I believe as so do many others that fashion will not only be a tangible object it will be online items which you can purchase and store digitally. Although this is already occurring now i believe this will become a global activity and will be the new area for fashion communities.

The artist I chose to look at and get inspired by is Toby Evans. He is a NFT fashion artist who designs outfits and different skins digitally and sells them. He produces stills of his designs as well as small videos. His main focus is designing huge coats that are known as the Metajackets.

some examples of his work;

As this isn’t an actual photograph it’s quite difficult to analyse it as it’s just a design for the fashion NFT community. However Toby uses a lot of colours when it comes to designs to make his outfits stand out. He mainly focuses on winter styled outfits , such as his most famous creation the metajacket, which is a huge chromo like puffer jacket with loads of pink and green highlights. The purpose of his work is so people can buy his creations digitally and own it as an asset instead of buying it at a store.

here’s a link explaining how fashion artists like Toby find themselves in the NFT fashion community- https://vagazine.com/blog/crypto/real-life-nfts-in-fashion-and-opportunities-for-creators/

Using him as a reference will help my team when it comes to thinking of ideas for designs as we will have to create them ourselves and put them digitally on our models that we use in our photo shoots.

After we brainstormed some ideas of the different communities in the world, we decided to focus on fashion as it has such a big impact in real life and online. We think that in the future fashion will have a huge impact on the metaverse as people will probably buy outfits online and have them stored digitally instead of wearing them.

For this project we are going to design a 3 minute animated film , in this animation we want to show sustainable fashion and the impact it has on the world and digitally. For example we will photograph individuals and then digitally edit outfits over them or stich into the photographs. We want to explore loads of different editing ways such as projecting the outfits onto people or using photoshop to do it.

CONCEPT: What will the future of Jersey look like as a community in the metaverse?

What is a metaverse? The word “Metaverse” is made up of the prefix “meta” and the stem “verse”; the term is typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the internet, made up of persistent, shared, 3D virtual spaces linked into a perceived virtual universe.

3 words; online , different, digital

a sentence; a place where any community can interact with one another or buy/sell anything digitally

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