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Lighting a Scene in Maya

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Building a Scene in Maya

Science Fact or Cinematic Fiction

Science, or physics, is not even close to my favorite subject, but taking this class gives me hope that even I can understand physics by watching animations or movie films. One of my favorite hobbies is to go watch movies at the theater. Watching it in the theater instead at home gives it a different vibe to the film. The genre I usually like to watch is, comedy, mystery and action, I just love saying, “Wow that was amazing!” after each mystery or action film. Technology has risen in the last decade and what film creators can do with computer graphic is amazing, it is count-less “wows” from people flying from earth to the universe, creating a wonder world no one has ever been to and many more. The most popular film this year, Alice and Wonderland was count-less “wow” in my part with the computer graphics. Tim Burton and his crew made such an amazing set and characters with the computer graphics that audiences didn't even know they we’re looking at one.



I get in to the movie story so much that during action scene such as Fast and the Furious I don’t even realize that physics is involved or better yet directors and creators make the movie so realistic that I believe that it can even happen in real life. Although in Marvel movies I realize that most of the action is fiction and can’t happen in real life, such as Spiderman, crossing over buildings with spider webs, and Iron man and his Iron suite being able to fly in a very fast speed, Hulk being able to lift his 2,000 pound weight just by pushing off from earth ground not giving it an earthquake. In Looney Tunes physics go straight out the door, we have mouse’s and birds running up to a blink of an eye, cats and coyote’s falling from a cliff and walking perfectly normal after that. “As long as you don't look down, you don’t fall” are Looney Tunes laws of physics.



To begin, I chose three films I though it can relate to jumps, and falls that are bending the laws of physics. “Bleach Memories of Nobody”, Looney Tunes, “Speedy Gonzales vs. Sylvester”, and “Detective Conan Tengoku e No Countdown (Countdown to Heaven.)” In “Bleach Memories of Nobody”, Ichigo Kurosaki, (the main character) after he accidentally obtains the power of a Soul Reaper—a Japanese death personification similar to the Grim Reaper, finds “Blanks” in the city he lives in. Not knowing what they are he tries to perform a “soul burial” but fails. The white ghost looking “Blanks” are harmful yet un-wanted. While Ichigo and his partner Rukia tries to figure a way to get rid of the “Blanks” a slight wind blows and they start attacking Ichigo and Rukia, an un-known tornado comes along with an un-known girl who jumps and steps in to the battlefield. Senna the un-known girl jumps nearly three stories high weighing only about 100pounds. In order for her to do this,
According to Dr. Garcia’s Power point, if I put the equation it becomes, Jump magnification = 30 ft/ 1ft, which equals to 30 jump magnification. Senna is about 100 pounds so; multiply 100 x 30 = 3,000 push force. For a girl that small, that is too much of a push force, also she only takes about 2 frames to crouch yet jumps over 30 feet, which is physically impossible because the graph shows that she can only jump 1 1/3. While Senna is up in the air trying to “Bankai” Ichigo tries to stop her, while both teensagers are up in the air, Senna steps on Ichigo’s face and kicks him down to the ground. Ichigo has more mass than, Senna so her pushing off of him wouldn't push Ichigo off to the ground.



Going on to Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester’s adventure, one of my favorite shows back in elementary school. Back than I didn't realize that there are any physics involved and never thought that it was weird that a cat or a coyote can fall from the sky and land with out dying. Now that I watch it at age 22, it’s still entertaining but I have come to realize that there is a lot of physics that has been bent. The episode I chose is Speedy Gonzales vs. Sylvester, Sylvester tends to jump very high without a crouch, and falls either straight down or a miles away. Because Sylvester is a cat and not a bouncing ball this doesn’t make sense. People or object needs to bend or crouch down before they lift them selves up. Even when somebody scares you we don’t jump with out a small crouch. Sylvester jumps straight up and comes straight back down most of the time sometimes he ends up somewhere else. The parabolic arc is not in the right places, and so if he where to jump that high and come back down with an arc; he probably would miss the well.




Now to the last film I chose, which is “Detective Conan Tengoku e No Countdown” a famous Japanese mystery anime that has ran for over 10 years. Watching this anime all my life was thrilling and as a child I have been scared to watch the scenes where it’s pitch back and yet we only see the killers eyes. This is the 5th movie that came out since 1997 at the climax of this movie, the 5 kids are stuck up on the 75th floor, the bottom floors are burning and there are bomb everywhere. The only way to get out of there is to drive the showcase Mustang through the window and fly over 50 meters and land on to the building next door.
In order for them to do this, according to Ai Haibara, the distance between the two buildings is about 50 meters; the building the kids are on the 75th floor and the building next door have 69 floors, leaving about 20 meters in difference of height. They need to fly over 60 meters because they are higher up in the air. While Ai gave out the calculation; t=√2s⁄g; t=time, g=gravity with is calculated 9.80665 m/sec, s=distance of fall at 20m. The time equals out to 2.02, the kids only have 2 seconds to get to the other side in velocity they need at least 108km/h. According to Conan, the room is small enough to go up to 50 to 60km/h but by opening the trunk, it creates an air opening so that when they start the car and speed at the same time as the explosion it becomes the accelerator and pushes the car over to the building next door.
Simply the equation works, although timing it the right time as the explosion, is nearly impossible; better yet they are only 1st graders. Driving a 3,400-pound car, going through a glass window and jumping over 60 meters is nearly impossible.



Than while the car is moving, Ai falls out, Mitsuhiko takes her hand but the glass sculpture is in the way that she would crash in to it and could injure her self very badly. Conan takes Ayumi’s motorcycle helmet and by using his power-enhancing kick shoes he kicks the helmet in mid-air while the car is jumping over 60meters at 108km/h and breaks the glass sculpture. This is impossible as well, if your going 108km/h which is about 67m/h and a child about 60 pounds jumps on the top of the front window and throws the helmet and kicks it hard enough to break a glass sculpture is physically incorrect. This can occur only in film as cinematic fiction.



Many films don’t have a science as a fact because we see it as entertainment and not reality. Creators try to make the physics close to our real life as possible but if everything went according to the ways our world goes, what’s the fun in that? “Bleach Memories of Nobody”, “Sylvester vs. Speedy Gonzales”, and “Detective Conan Tengoku e No Countdown” all are realistic in ways that some can relate to but after all it is a cartoon and physics are suppose to be bent.

Outline of the Second Term Paper

I. Introduction – Three films I chose out to do this essay:

a. Bleach Memories of Nobody: the jumps Senna makes while fighting
b. Looney Tunes: Speedy Gonzalas and Sylvester: Sylvesters jump, when he is
surprised by Speedy
c. Detective Conan Tengoku E No Count Down (Count down to Heaven): How the Mustang
jumps to a 69 story building from a 75 story building with the distance of 60
meters.
d. Thesis


II. Bleach Memories of Nobody: the jumps Senna makes while fighting
a. With our giving a push Senna jumps higher than any buildings and
creating wind.
b. Explaining the film and backing it up with the theory


III. Looney Tunes: Speedy Gonzalas and Sylvester:
a. Sylvester jumps when he is surprised by Speedy Gonzalas.
b. Explaining the film and backing it up with the theory

IV. Detective Conan “Count Down to Heaven”:
a. While a little boy driving a mustang from a show case in a 75 story high
building with a distance of 60 meters.
b. Explaining the film and backing it up with the theory

V. Conclusion
a. Restate thesis

Stop-Motion Character Animation

Because I didn't have a tripod in handy, I put my useful text books on a stool and stabilized it so that my camera would sit still. I placed me coffee maker in it's usual spot and started to photograph it. At the beginning I had a hard time trying to make it look like the plug was moving by itself but managed to do so with a wooden skewer and a black thread. The coffee maker was easy to move around, I just moved it inch by inch.

Mid-Semester Survey

"This is to certify that I completed the anonymous mid-semester survey for Art/Physics 123 and am requesting the five points of extra credit.

As a student at San Jose State, I understand the university's Academic Integrity Policy (http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/catalog/rec-2083.html)."

Reverse Video Reference of Walking

The Laws of Physics in an Animation Universe

Kiki’s Delivery Service





Hayao Miyazaki is a famously known Japanese Animation Director and producer who have won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards for one of his famous animation, Princess Momonoke. Miyazaki is the Japanese version of Walt Disney and Kiki’s Delivery Service, was the fourth theatrically released film from studio Ghibli; It is also the second feature film that Miyazaki directed but did not originally write himself. Miyazaki’s 5th creation: “Majyo no Takkyubin” also known as “Kiki’s Delivery Service” shows audiences the present world, but with a Witch being in the existence. In “Kiki’s Delivery Service” the law of physics are mostly similar to our world only in one condition, a Witch being in existence and being able to fly on a broom. While mostly everything is the same as our world, In Kiki’s world, the laws of physics are bent in such ways so that it would be funny for the young audiences to watch. The movie is about a 13year old witch Kiki living in a rural village but has to leave for her witch training and live by herself for one year in a different village or city she finds.
In this paper I would like to talk about how Miyazaki bended the law of physics in order for the cartoon to be funny and serious. While Kiki and some of the other witches are able to fly on a broomstick, everyone else are using either bicycles, car, or just by feet as transportations, but that doesn't make it easier for Kiki to travel around. In an early scene when Kiki decides to depart her village to begin her Witch-training, she gives all her focus and energy to the broom her mother gave her. Kiki still a novice witch, has trouble controlling her newly inherited broom, and ricochets off of three of the trees in her front yard. This being said, I would like to talk about the bending of the law of physics. While Kiki an ordinary 13year old girl, probably only weighs about 100 pounds or even less is thrown around the trees with out falling off from her broom. In this case, because she has magical powers, she can hold on to the broom, but for an 13year old girl to keep her self up and balance on a broom that weighs less than her is simply impossible. In our world we don’t have gravity power where people can fly with out any equipment. The trees aren’t flexible enough to have Kiki pounce around, if this were in real life she probably would have gone through the trees giving her some sort of injury or scratch from the branches. At one point when Kiki finds the city Koriko, that she wants to stay at, she comes down from an high point to give everyone a good impression but fails. Instead she ends up causing traffic and almost a huge accident. While she goes through the tunnel, Kiki didn't recognize the tour bus coming her way, so she freaks out and tumbles across almost hitting a Volkswagen Beatle, taxis, and couple other classic cars. She doesn't get hurt at all and does some acrobatic moves to dodge her way through. While she is only going 5 miles per hour, the cars are going much faster, she wouldn’t be able to dodge all those cars that quickly in a short time span. After, she ends up going straight through the crowd of people, which moves, out of her way so she can pass by. While she is going 20mph, it seems as if no one was either hurt, or was flown out to the streets. If this were to happen, with a car passing by 20mph, some one would have definitely been injured, another bending the law of physics.
During the beginning of the movie, Kiki’s father who probably weighs only about 130 pounds comes home with camping gear on the roof of his car. Approximately weighing 200 pounds and when Kiki tells him that she is going to depart that night, he rushes to make phone calls, but for some reason his feet gets caught on the rope that was hanging and he nearly falls but doesn’t. Instead the 200-pound gear falls from the roof of the car without breaking the Father’s ankle. This is impossible to do, either his ankle should have been severely injured or he would have fallen face down first. Yet he was managed to tiptoe with out falling face down. This was made to be funny that someone trips over a rope, and like in class, we have had couple examples from Wile. E Coyote making his attempts to capture the Road Runner.
Half way the movie, Kiki’s friend Tombo is obsessed with aviation he is a member of a club building a human-powered aircraft. He first meets Kiki when she made her grand entrance to Koriko and helps her when the police catch her of causing huge traffic. Tombo shows Kiki his experiment of his propelled bicycle. They take a trip down to the beach to go see the airship. The propelled bicycle it’s self is a bended law of physics. As said in class, “internal propulsion is not possible because the impulse gained from one reaction is lost due to another internal action” so if the propel was behind the bike it would have worked better than having it up front. Also while Kiki and Tombo are taking a joy ride on Tombo’s propel bike, a car comes along their way and nearly hits them. They dodge it somehow by jumping over the car; two teenagers on a bike cannot do that although they were able to do that probably because Kiki has her magic. After, two cars come towards their way and they have no choice but to get off the road, they are in mid air for about nine seconds. Then the propel comes off and the two land on ground. Later the propel comes falling slowly to the ground. I have posted a clip below.






At the climax of the movie, a strong summer wind hits the Koriko city and the cables that were connecting the airship and the ground loosened. Many people were trying to prevent it from flying away. According to Tolliver Airship, a normal airship is about 250-foot long, about 40 feet high and 41 feet wide. In the movie thousands of people where trying to pull this aircraft filled with helium down. It’s like a huge balloon, just like in the Pixar movie UP. The airship being upside down and floating towards the city has Tombo hanging on a rope. This 13year old boy doesn't look like he can even lift him up but he manages to hold tight. The balloon also carries a police car that ends up falling after Tombo falls on the car, but the bumper of the police car manages to stay giving Tombo a place to stand. While the airship is drifting towards the tower clock, Kiki is trying to save Tombo in the air. After the bumper falls, the only thing Tombo has is to grab on to is the rope. While Kiki is trying to save him, Tombo looses his strength and ends up falling rather quickly, but Kiki catches him in mid air, by holding the broomstick with one hand and catching Tombo with the other.
There is no way that a 13-year-old girl can catch a 13-year-old boy in the mid air. They are the same height and almost the same weight. Either one or both of their shoulders would have been dislocated or Tombo could have died. But both were safe and landed on the ground safely. The tip of the airship hit the clock tower while the tail part started to collapse and landed on a residential apartment complex. There were several people in the cockpit, which probably added the more weight to the airship to collapse.
In this movie Miyazaki made gravity almost the same as our world. The only difference was the existence of a witch who needed to go train in order to become a full-fledged witch. Miyazaki has bended many of the laws of physics in order to make this a serious but funny movie as possible. We know that trees aren’t trampolines that will bounce us around. Nor we are not able to pull a 200-pound camping gear with one leg with out breaking it. The propel would have made a better purpose if it was behind the bike, instead of in front of the bike, and a 13 year-old girl cannot grab someone in mid-air with out dislocating her shoulder.

Outline of 1st Term Paper

Kiki’s Delivery Service

I. Introduction
• Witch being able to fly on a broom
• The use of gravity shown, very close to reality
• Trips and falls
• Thesis

II. Jumping off the walls
• Not possible to do while on a broom stick
• Pressure of the kick

III. Movie's defiance of laws of gravity
• While falling off from the air balloon, the broom can’t hold two 13year olds weight
• Slowing of the fall
• Falling of the air balloon

IV. Rope Pull
• Kiki’s father tripping over rope
• Father’s fall

V. Conclusion
• Summary
• Reiterate Thesis

Stop Motion Animation of Falling.

I had a origami ball that was given to me as a gift. I used this and rolled in on my counter top. While making it look like its rolling I held my digital camera still high in the air and shot the different frames.

Video analysis of path of action

Tracker video analysis of falling

This was a hassle putting it up! It came out to be so small. I hope this is ok.

Video Reference

Dropping a tennis ball from 4ft high in 15 frames per second.

Mini-Portfolio

This is a video I made couple semesters ago in my APSC class.









All of my art work is back at home and I don't have the time to retrieve it so I am posting some of my favorite works from other people.






http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/2009/11/movie-trailer-alice-in-wonderland.html


is where I got this image. It's one of my favorites and I am pretty sure most people can't wait for Tim Burton's version. I am one of them.



This is one of my favorite characters "Moomin" a famous comic written by Tove Jansson,from Finland.
I found this illustration on http://www.myspace.com/monamibianca



My Profile: I was born in Kobe Japan, but was raised in Monterey Cali for 18years and moved to San Jose 2years ago for school. I am fluent in both Japanese and English. I am a Public relations major I'm still unaware of why I chose that major because I love art and not public speaking. I have been taking different kids of art classes through out my middle school and high school years such as; photography, ceramics, design, figure drawing, paint, video and more. I never like to stick to one thing. I am currently taking this class for a upper GE and taking 100W, English, and PR 192 (which is a case studies class) I currently work at a Japanese restaurant called Gochi.

The First Post

Hi everyone welcome to my blog. I am excited to take this course and learn new things.!!!!