so i woke up this morning and disney sent me this email disney reached out to me and asked if
i could recreate a scene from their latest movie ron's gone wrong disclaimer i got hired by disney
to recreate the scene for instagram and tick tock however this youtube video is in no way sponsored
by disney or any of their affiliates stick to the end to see that result i couldn't believe my eyes
when i saw that email i was so excited about this so i thought to myself let's do this but
there is a problem my schedule was pretty tight and i also didn't have a world of
time to recreate the scene so it's going to become a race to time to recreate a fun
animation from their newest movie ron's gone wrong so without further ado let's get started
so for this video we will need a few things so we will need to record our sketch but we
will also need our prop on set to replace our robot later on so we will need to recreate the
shape and actually use it on set so we have some kind of id what we are interacting with whether
we are holding it or we want to touch it it's a good idea to get a better act on set if you have
something to put into that position so the actor can really imagine his part in this scene which
in this case it's me so here we are going to split the tasks i am going to be concentrating
on recreating this robot in 3d and meanwhile enzo is going to be making the prop yes i did
let me quickly take you through my process so first off i started by ordering these styrofoam
shapes which match the dimension of the bee bot perfectly you know we'll cover that in a minute
the goal was to stack them together paint them green and have the bee bot and that is exactly
what i did so i took a look at the trailer of wrong's gun wrong and really analyzed the robot
so we guessed the size of around 50 centimeters because you can clearly see that the b bot is
shorter than the wheel of a motorcycle and in some other locations you can get a better grasp on the
size because you can compare it to its environment so i simply created a capsule in cinema 4d
and used some primitive cubes with a boolean in order to remove the parts at its feet and
then i'm also going to invert this boolean so i have the feet separate so this model in general
is pretty easy to do and that's what i find so amazing about it the model it's so easy to create
but how they achieve to bring so much emotion and so much character to such a simple shape is
really amazing and that's truly the artistic form of animation taking a simple shape
and just giving it an entire character and this just fascinates me a lot anyway i have my basic
setup now let's take a look at what enzo is doing so here you see me with a sharp knife cutting
off some styrofoam that was sticking out of our spherical shape i wanted to glue these together
with hot glue gun but the hot glue gun we got wasn't powerful enough so i went down another
route using toothpicks and double sided tape this went well but this isn't the ideal way if you
want to daily use this prop for this one sketch recording it should be more than strong enough
in order to use this pill looking shape we have to paint it green that way we can key it out later we
used one can of the most green paint we could find and give it a nice coat we also drew some
tracking markers on it with a sharpie and that's basically it back to you all right so that looks
pretty cool we're almost there so meanwhile i'm going to be doing uv unwrapping on my models
uv unwrapping means that you're taking your 2d model and actually unwrapping it so you can start
painting on it so i just uv and wrapped this shape it's pretty easy as it is a standard shape so it
can pretty much calculate this automatically and i'm pretty satisfied with the first results that i
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video before i export my texture i'm going to paint with the brush tool a simple face on my
bead bot this is merely as a reference that i can use afterwards in adobe after effects to animate a
face upon and also to make sure that it actually gets in the right position so once i exported my
texture i'm going to import this in after effects and i'm also going to bring in my original bee bot
just to see it as a reference so i can see what animations they are using on the face because i
want to get this as close as possible so here in after effects i'm going to animate the face
this i'm going to place over that rough brush that i did in a cinema 4d to get
a reference and once you get that in position you get something like that alright so we're
almost there hopefully enzo is done with the green screen so we can start recording now wow a beebot
this is
amazing now that we finally have all our shots you can see these shots where i'm actually carrying
the bee bot unfortunately we didn't have enough time to really do all these shots nicely so i kind
of cheated my way a little bit in after effects and just use the green screen which i keyed away
and just filled it with some kind of blue and gave it some glow so it looks like the capsule of the
egg so it's a really simple setup by having something that is actually green in my hands
that procedure becomes so much easier you're actually holding something and that makes the
entire act so much better so now for my main shot how did we do this on set we recorded
this on a tripod just to keep things simple for now because again we are racing against time
so now that we've already modeled our robot and i've also created the textures in after effects
which are animated i'm going to be importing the animated textures and bring that onto my robot
i'm also going to texture my robot a little bit more and maybe add another capsule on top of my
robot with now a glass material applied to it so now it looks like you're looking through
glass and then seeing that illuminated body that yeah is actually the animation with octane this
is pretty simple you can import a texture and just calculate the animation and automatically
you're going to have an animated texture all that i have to do now is rebuild my room
roughly so i'm going to recreate the floor recreate the walls and apply
a shadow catcher to it then i'm going to create a camera and match that as close as possible to
the actual camera on set which means the exact distance from the object the exact
amount of height and also the exact amount of focal length once you've narrowed all these
things down and you've got a good-looking b-bot standing in your scene it's time to animate it
so i just used a bunch of nulls with my objects in there as parents i didn't build up
a nice rig again because i was racing against time
i just wanted to be time efficient so i animated all these different notes with all these parts of
the body inside of it so i had the body actually moving up and down i had the feet being animated
separately and the hands being animated separately and then adding that animated texture on top of
that it brings everything together and that really makes everything come to life i just try to look
at enough reference and try to do everything with a sense of time and also try to do some
studies on how animation actually works how time works or how gravity even works if something falls
how many times is it going to bounce if something is going to swing at what pace is it going to
swing to a stop these are all things that you can learn through physics and it's really interesting
to know for visual effects so school might not be as important but for these things
it kind of is a little bit but you can also figure it out on your own so whatever floats your boat
anyway that brings us to this final result i hope you enjoy it hey look what i got you whoa
andrew you you've got me one yeah it's your own b-bop this is amazing here take him
hi insert registered name i am your your your my bee bot be bot
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