I then showed the test to Mr. Camilleri and was told to design an oil lamp on a table to be projected on the window, and then after the present is zoomed out it slowly lands on the table. I then sketched and digitised the oil lamp and table and prepared them to be exported to Adobe After Effects while I was awaiting the wrapping paper animation to be finalised from another student. Upon receiving it, I knew what I had to do since I had already done a couple of tests, but I could not do it immediately because I had to amend the pattern of the wrapping paper to fit to the height of the square present. In the same evening, I was requested to design the bow and ribbon on top of the wrapped present, which was due for the next day. After I managed to do so, I continued trying to animate the present zooming out in After Effects, but I still could not do it properly. The day after I requested some help from one of my colleagues because I could animate it. It was then that Mr. Scicluna told me that there was no need to use the oil lamp and table as they would not be visible due to the distance and short amount of time of the animation, and so to my disappointment were also removed, although I must agree that it looked much better aesthetically.
After showing the group leader my work so far, I was told that I did not need to do the wrapping paper because someone had already designed it, and therefore could not be used for the projection. This was quite frustrating as I had spent a lot of time in coming up with the final wrapping paper texture and I was not notified that it had already been done. So then I was assigned to do the animation part of the epilogue consisting of the wrapping paper being zoomed out while forming the present made of the same wrapping paper and then goes through the window in the centre with a gentle glittering light to end it all. Since I was not fluent in Adobe After Effects, I had to do a couple of tests first so as to be sure of the scaling of the wrapping paper and the timing of the whole animation.
In scene 1 & epilogue group after defining what needed to be done, I was assigned by our group member to design wallpapers for the epilogue scene and to animate the wrapping paper into a present if I could. The first thing I did was that I searched for inspirations online, being photography and illustrated wrapping paper textures. I also referred to photos taken from our visit to the Grand Master’s Palace, which of course were the main sources of inspiration. After resourcing an ample number of inspirational images I compiled a moodboard. After compiling the moodboard, I started sketching several wallpaper patterns and then moved onto digitising the best sketch with different coloured themes.
In the projection mapping project, I was placed in the scene 1 and epilogue team. In our visit to the Grand Master’s Palace, I was in charge of one of the group’s measuring of the palace façade. I was responsible for the exact measuring of the width and height of the left-hand side door, columns, gap between columns, width and height of left-hand side windows and three more windows in the centre bottom of the projected area. The first problem we encountered was while we were re-measuring the height of the door, in which there was a 40 cm variation from one another, which is a massive error. What we did to overcome this problem was that we tried to spot the highest point of the arch while keeping in mind that the ground underneath it was level. Finally after a couple of measurements, we found the most common measurement taken and figured that it was the correct measurement. After doing so, I also lent a hand to the other group which was measuring the right-hand side of the palace façade and then both groups responsible for the measuring added the measurements we took so we could see if there were any errors.
After the recording of the measurements, another group re-measured the left-hand side we measured and found that our measurement did not match with theirs, and so we measured it again and used the most common measurements. After all the measuring, we entered the Grand Master’s Palace to have a look at the several textures available, some of which were taken for granted at a glance, but during the visit I was astonished with the dense amount of textures to our disposal. On the day, Mr. Camilleri and some students also took photos of the palace façade which would eventually be needed for the exact scaling to the measurement taken.
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