WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:07.380 Welcome to knowing your subject in this video you reinforce the importance of reference material. 00:07.410 --> 00:12.750 You will see what happens when you just plough forward without consulting your reference material or 00:12.750 --> 00:14.020 not have any. 00:14.070 --> 00:17.440 Like I started to do so. 00:17.530 --> 00:18.930 Bit of background here. 00:18.930 --> 00:23.050 What happens when you're not watching me in the lectures. 00:23.280 --> 00:30.540 Okay so on the screen at the moment I plonked the Suzanne monkey in a field of grass and I thought oh 00:30.540 --> 00:37.260 that's a bit wispy so I improved upon that and made the grass look a bit more rigid but something struck 00:37.260 --> 00:38.010 me as odd. 00:38.010 --> 00:41.190 I mean it looked like very very fine grass. 00:41.190 --> 00:44.910 The fact is if grass gets bigger it gets bigger. 00:44.910 --> 00:49.160 It doesn't still retain is very thin type Strand. 00:49.350 --> 00:52.040 And I tried different aspects of it. 00:52.080 --> 00:57.250 This is a bit of a taster of what's to come in the rest of this section. 00:57.510 --> 01:02.140 So I went out and actually got some reference material to is to be quite honest. 01:02.160 --> 01:07.530 All these iterations here that I went through I did not have reference material I thought I know what 01:07.530 --> 01:11.700 grass looks like it's that green stuff outside is fine I'll get on with it. 01:11.760 --> 01:15.920 No as you can see the real grass doesn't look anything like that. 01:16.050 --> 01:19.700 First of all the colour obviously we can probably boost the saturation. 01:19.710 --> 01:25.560 This image matches the bright greenness of this one but that's what real grass looks like. 01:25.680 --> 01:33.270 That is still a bit too uniform maybe even a bit too dense in terms of how many strands of grass or 01:33.270 --> 01:36.150 how many blades of grass there are there. 01:36.270 --> 01:43.980 And I went out on a walk today and I took a picture of something in long grass to give me a better understanding 01:44.280 --> 01:46.680 about how the grass would be around it. 01:46.680 --> 01:51.090 So I cant stress enough the importance of going out and taking. 01:51.090 --> 01:57.180 These are some other pictures that I went out today and did taking as many pictures as you can to get 01:57.180 --> 02:03.600 a good idea so when youre back at the computer youre not scratching your head thinking oh what is this 02:03.600 --> 02:06.540 going to look like what what am I trying to achieve. 02:06.600 --> 02:08.540 And I really like this one here. 02:08.690 --> 02:13.750 Im actually going to probably set up my scene as close to this as possible. 02:13.800 --> 02:15.530 I do like the tree in the background. 02:15.540 --> 02:20.740 I love the grass in the foreground and going to make that little longer in our scene. 02:20.850 --> 02:24.720 And of course we got the background stuff going on there as well. 02:24.720 --> 02:29.700 Probably not going to make it that clutter to try and keep it a bit clean and clean of that scene so 02:29.700 --> 02:35.970 theres not so much going on in simple thing for that is I want to draw attention to the rabbit not the 02:35.970 --> 02:37.860 rest of the scene. 02:38.040 --> 02:44.880 Having a look at a couple of other types of grass you can see they tend to grow in tufts so we can see 02:44.880 --> 02:49.340 in the background over here that you get these tufts of grass growing up. 02:49.470 --> 02:55.870 So that would give us a clue of how to construct our grass and make sure it is more realistic. 02:55.880 --> 03:02.120 Now obviously we're not shooting for ultra realism in this scene but it's still got to be convincing. 03:02.520 --> 03:06.890 And here's what long grass looks like at the blades get much much thicker. 03:07.020 --> 03:12.870 And of course because they're longer and bigger they are heavier and they flop over more. 03:12.870 --> 03:16.520 So really big grass does not stick up in the air vertically. 03:16.620 --> 03:20.350 Weeks might do that when it's got a really thick stem. 03:20.670 --> 03:25.390 But the normal grass that are Bunny's going to be sat in does not do that. 03:25.470 --> 03:29.100 So it's very important to focus on reference material. 03:30.670 --> 03:37.510 So bearing that in mind we've got a bit of further planning to do just so I know that you guys are actually 03:37.510 --> 03:42.450 thinking about this fully and not just going at it at a whim. 03:42.460 --> 03:47.990 So there are going to be three or four main items in our scene three or four main objects. 03:48.130 --> 03:50.020 Do you know what they are. 03:50.380 --> 03:56.060 How important are they to the scene and do you actually know what they look like. 03:56.850 --> 04:01.360 So pause a video now and try and go in answer these questions. 04:04.360 --> 04:04.950 OK guys. 04:04.960 --> 04:05.900 Welcome back. 04:06.100 --> 04:09.140 Well looking at our scene itself. 04:09.190 --> 04:10.180 Do you know what they are. 04:10.180 --> 04:12.130 Well let's see we've got the bunny. 04:12.220 --> 04:16.660 That's going to be the main focal point of what we're going to be working on. 04:16.720 --> 04:22.550 Then we've got where the bunny's immediate environment which is going to be the grass. 04:22.940 --> 04:23.590 Okay. 04:23.820 --> 04:26.030 Next we're going to have a background object. 04:26.070 --> 04:28.170 We're going to have a tree in our scene. 04:28.330 --> 04:36.730 Now depending on how we actually set our scene up the tree is obviously less important than the grass 04:36.730 --> 04:41.420 that the bunny sitting on and the grass is less important than the actual subject of the whole thing. 04:41.560 --> 04:46.480 The bunny itself and then of course you got the far background. 04:46.540 --> 04:53.140 If we have just this grass and tree in isolation there's going to be a background something in the distance 04:53.370 --> 04:56.120 so that it's not going to be just a boring scene. 04:56.200 --> 04:58.900 And of course do you actually know what they look like. 04:59.050 --> 05:06.310 Well if not make sure you've got reference material with you whether that means you've got a phone with 05:06.310 --> 05:07.020 the images. 05:07.020 --> 05:13.230 I mean for all of my images that I need for this course in a folder that I can reference all the time. 05:13.270 --> 05:19.390 If I go out and take photos like I did day I make sure I store them in a specific folder so I've got 05:19.900 --> 05:21.700 exciting things on my computer. 05:21.700 --> 05:28.860 I have a folder named grass which in all intents and purposes is boring to show your family and friends. 05:29.050 --> 05:33.390 But it's very useful when you need it for reference material. 05:33.400 --> 05:38.890 So guys I hope you've got a good sense of where we're going with this project what we're going to be 05:38.890 --> 05:40.040 focussed on. 05:40.090 --> 05:47.950 And if you found some exciting photos if you've been out and about or you've found something very interesting 05:48.220 --> 05:53.260 on Google perhaps something you want to incorporate in your Seen it be great to see that do share anything 05:53.500 --> 05:56.420 exciting you find in the discussions. 05:56.530 --> 05:58.950 And I will see you in the next lecture.