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PROJECT#2

Ten is my best friend during my whole high school year, however, the biggest difference between us, he is a soccer lover while I like basketball. So the funny thing happens, every noon and during our sports class, he will play basketball with me while after school every day, I would be his defender for him to practice his soccer skills. In my memories, he loves soccer more than any other thing at that time. We had not met since we went to different universities, however, because of covid, we both went back to China and we spent another 1 year together. At odd weeks we play basketball and at even weeks we play soccer. This great reunion made me memorize the happy times we had during high school. One most iconic milestone is he didn't know how to do a bicycle kick, but he really would like to learn it because Zlatan Ibrahimovic is his favorite player (who is famous for his bicycle kick skills). So I helped him practicing this move for almost a month and finally, he can do it smoothly. Now he is back in Canada while I will still stay in China for 2021, and I really want to replicate his bicycle kick in the virtual world and show him as a present for our friendship. And I hope we can play soccer together soon.


THE PROCESS

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HEDI SLIMANE
&HIS DEsign

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Character
Design

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Finding the animation in Mixamo

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Changing to
Arnold Material

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Scene BuiLding
& Positioning

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Animating
the ball

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Using DIsplay window to "lock" the ball
so as to animate the goal

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ANIMATING each edge

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SET HDRI, RENDER &
MAKING TO A VIDEO

Future Improvements:

1. I forgot to bounce the ball when it falls to the ground, so I need to add this up.

2. Because of time constraints, I only did a small portion of the goal net mechanism, which looks a bit odd, so I could make the area bigger

3. I could add some grass to the ground to make the scene more realistic.

10.14.2021

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