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My name is Abdul Razak in good here I am a presenter here I have a show that is called on the sheet and it's gonna be airing today at 5 p.m. So make sure to catch up with that show and also I do 3d modeling and animation I think that's why I'm here. I'm a 3 artist. I'm a 3d artist and Writer and a little bit of everything inside. Mm-hmm. Yeah Now that DJ spins on something that is 3d. Does that make him a 3d artist? Well, there's 3d sound and the DJ is giving us good 3d sound So For example, what is animation? What's this 3d thing? What is a 2d? So In in graph in CGI, which is computer generated imagery There is a 3d and 2d animation 2d animation is like cartoons where you don't have 3d objects that are Shown on air or other people on the other picture now to break it down a little bit 2d is just anything like anything that's on flat surface like the white if I follow go Yes, that's that's 2d. That's 2d. This is 2d. Yeah So 2d is all about the dimensions d is dimensions So there is the length and the height for it now 3d has got the depth of it which is Length width and height so it has three of them for example if you're looking at the at a cube You see all the three perspectives upside down. That's why it's called 3d now Animation is about adding motion into a 3d object which can be a character or An object so for a character we use bonds and primitives and And to just break it down a little bit for the purpose of understanding for the viewer A 3d an amateur or a primitive is bonds like a skeleton that you've got right now So we work with joints on the primitives to make it move we use stop motion And I think you can remember when we were children we will draw an image of someone who is a Sit it down and if we want him to jump we draw on the next page an image of That's stop motion and it is an idea that was started by Walt Disney When he was establishing his animation career that stop motion now when you're animating things like a clock or anything that rotates like Cartires you would use drivers for for your animation. Yeah So in a nutshell guys Yeah, help me understand. I've seen let's start with school And this was Kitambo like for a couple of years ago five years ago, and at the time I didn't get it Now look what damn what are you going to do like what are you doing? It's really going to him as in where you went to how you could feed yourself how you're gonna live But it's caught on hasn't it? Yeah, it is. How would you say it has caught on how far or how big is it now? The 3d industry is as big as any industry you can imagine People always think that if you talk about 3d, you're talking about movies only, but 3d has gone into Advotes for example the one that was being mentioned earlier of fiber and it has also gone into advertising and Awesome Even even pictures someone who wants to give illustrations of their products will not require to to bring our Photographer to take a picture for them You will only have an animator or a 3d artist sit down and visualize your concept and Model it texture it and give it good lighting and render it for you as an image And you will not differentiate the difference between a 3d image of say a gas cooker or a Photography image of that same item as well. That's as far as it's gone. Wow. I have noticed a type of trend First of all, I am a memelode and carry book ones and soft cool arrangement of you too, but it's okay What am I looking at? What you're looking at here is our galactic fighter. It's a time-lapse where I was modeling Galactic fighter inspired by the movies that we watch like Star Wars and all things like that. So It's it's gonna move and and there are so many 3d modeling applications that you can find That's the start of it. He started with I started with a small sphere Copied it and pasted it on the other side. Is this a tutorial or is this you it is it is me entire process Yeah, the entire process is me Yeah, look at the bottom. You will see Rosaki 3d So this is the first video that I uploaded on my YouTube channel explaining how I modeled the galaxy fighter so What I'm doing currently is modeling 3d assets, which is a very important thing for our 3d artist you must have your 3d assets if you're going to do any 3d job and And when you have your 3d assets, it means you can use them in various places You can use this in our different projects, for instance if you have a car like a model of a Lamborghini or a model of a Toyota Prius You can use it on as many projects as possible because Toyota Prius is a Toyota Prius as long as you have it Abdul I am a video editor. Yeah, and I know how long Three minutes can take to edit you can take weeks or or hey weeks and weeks and mix just video editing You know motion. Yeah, so say I'm as I said in Kalyakazim in G How long do you take to do this? Do you even sleep? What else do you do with your life? How are you even presenting wait for a phone? Well, well, I say that life is an expression. It's a quote of mine. That is my mantra as well And if you like something you will just do it, you know and you never lack time You never need a schedule to do it The galactic fighter you've seen I underestimated it. I thought it was going to be a very very short project And I ended up spending four hours Wow on the first video four hours on the second and the second video And I spent about an hour modeling this gutling gun to finish up the arming process of the Of the galactic fighter so it took me a very long time And I decided to make it a time-lapse because you cannot sit down and you didn't watch a four-minute video Telling you something as technical as this. Yep. Oh, wow. Look at your door. This is so fancy Okay, where does this go after so like I told you we model assets and I mentioned the example of a tourist appraisal and If anyone would slide into my Instagram They will see a few a few objects that I've created on my computer. I made a Lamborghini model I also made a camera a DSLR camera. I Made a coffee mug and a donut with icing on top of it So all of these things that we model as a 3d artist you use it as your assets Now assets come in handy when you're going into a huge project which has tight deadlines If you have no assets it means you'll have to go online and start purchasing assets and that will be very time-consuming you might also not find what you're looking for and We have measures. Okay, so if you're modeling something you you have to understand your objects You have to understand the dynamics the different parts of it You might find someone has got a very good model of a car and you need a car in a project But when you're animating it you realize that you have triangles now If you have triangles that's gonna be very problematic when you model it It's going to start deforming when you when you animate it So you will need to understand your models so having assets is a is a very important aspect of 3d modeling I am coming through the understanding that assets is Basically template Yeah, no, no, okay. So those are tools But for assets like the galactic fighter you've seen here, that's an asset and I also modeled a coffee mug on for one as well. That's another asset Please tell me you're making money off of this because that's that in Four plus four that's eight plus one more. That's nine. Yeah, that's a whole shift of an entire that is time You're making money. Yes. Yes, actually we sell models on various sites. There is a if I could mention them There is sketch fab dot com where we sell assets Some of them are textured and some of them are not that's a flower versus I was making and also we we have a taboo squid Where we sell assets? So it's a whole community where 3d artists interact and purchase not only assets, but also textures and lighting programs for the same thing All right, so if let's say Valentine was starting Film type of situation a project and I needed a couple of graphics. Yeah, is that something in line with what you do? Yes, yes, it is definitely in line with what we do Uh, yeah, I'm doing a career to his office. I thought it way How much do you imagine he would make just go take it for four hours. I love how it was you know my son Well, so that's it. We gave him. Did you go to school for this? Did you learn or did you just it's a hobby? I started I consider myself an all-round artist because I started drawing a realistic portraits when I was five and I carried on doing it I went on to draw a to write poetry as well And I moved further into 3d modeling because I love film and I wondered how can I? showcase my art in something that people can relate to much more than just Realistic pencil portraits and so I learned myself on YouTube I like calling it a Google school of all knowledge because you go to YouTube and you learn everything you I and you and you you implement them the best thing about 3d is that you can find open source software that is free applications for you both your computer and your Android phone We'll talk about the Android phone later But for the computer you can find some Hollywood standard modeling applications like blender and they've just released their newest version Which is version 2.8 which rivals? Commercial software for Hollywood animation, so I learned by myself and I like discovering and that's why I do with my People call free time He's free. It's expensive time very expensive Can a video a blessing Kingston make a quick trend? So I'm really trying to figure out how you come into play with this because I can imagine. Okay. There's a voice over artist There's there's a maybe money and I like a script that the whole concept and everything But then there are also objects in that video that there's the people themselves You know that the little cartoon characters and now when I see this night's come into my mind It's gonna mess a Mali. There's a cup of tea and it's all quite blending in very well So this is where you come in right? Yeah with with the videos and all that now let me explain to you how the 3d animation pipeline works what happens is We have the 3d artist who start with modeling the the objects like I have done right now in all those videos You've seen and then after that there are some There is the previous or the pre-visualization of how the film is going to be and then after that The previous is for someone who knows about Filmmaking it's like What I call it this process story-boarding. So when you know, it's a lot of work. Yeah, it is it is a lot of work And that's why films cost expensive Okay, sorry So so so the pre-visualization process or what we call in brief previous is like story-boarding for traditional filmmaking So the previous shows of a series of Load very few detailed Models in their environment and then after that the voice of our actors will now start acting and and You know voicing the characters But now a 3d animator who will be adding the motions after the texturing and everything has been done in the compositing The lighting has been done The 3d animator cannot animate before the voice of our artists Speak because you know, you have to animate was following their The speech that very I mean the speed of their speech. So after you visualize them I'm just imagining so much work. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah, it is it is so much work and it is also high resource demanding but It has got to be done. It's creative and it's it's art so alternatively because the future of 3d is not only stop motion and all that is Having more cup or motion capture for instance There is this movie that has got okay, all of them actually have got motion capture Green Lantern is is one movie that did not really do a good job with 3d because They they 3d model with the suits. There's some things we don't model in as much as we can we can get good Compositing and good materials and textures and lighting for it. We'd rather have an actual suit Now they did not do a good job because The lighting you can tell there is a difference between the actual lighting and the 3d lighting that they have used on the film Anyway, what I was going to explain is motion capture. So if you've got A suit like that of Green Lantern, he will be wearing an entirely gray suits with Motion capture You see the dots, right? Yeah. Yeah, but the suits I usually see a green. Yeah, they're green some of them are gray bulging things Yes, it's good. It's good. You've watched some behind the scenes, right? Yeah, so the motion capture Markers we call them markers. They are used to help the computer to understand where the 3d hand is and where the actor's hand actually is and so the motion capture will Will do the job that a stop motion artist or an animator would have to do For three hours or a whole month on a computer Okay, I want you to give me like five movies that have impressed the socks off for you in terms of animation there is Mowgli The jungle book you've watched the jungle book everything there is 3d Wow the mud the rain the cows the lions the little boy Everything is 3d and you cannot tell wow and those are the pioneers the pioneer movies of 3d animation are like Star Wars and Scope and King that was really funny. I like this Yeah, the scope and King was really good actually but in the standards of the time It was really really good, but now it's it's not really good because Not only is it outdated, but it has the Dwayne Johnson's first looks really plastic and rubbery, but it's still a very good movie I like it because it's a pioneer in 3d modeling and animation the next one is Transformers Finally something we can connect on exactly. Oh my gosh Yeah, so there is that there is a I'll mention some movies that people will not really expect have got any 3d elements on it for instance This this film do I haven't watched that is a cool. Yeah, you should watch it. It's really fantastic. It's a Landon itself the city itself is it's on it's on it's on trails like chunk trails and it's running to words And they're fighting both of them are fighting now. He would not expect If you've watched which one is this where Dwayne Johnson played to a guide and there was this huge Gorilla and I and I and now and a crocodile and Other characters that were turned into giants and killer robots and killer characters You will not notice that these animals are actually Animated and that's a human being doing all that action It's not like the time of the time of baby's day out when they would have to train the animals and all that Yes, so Everything from hair textures and brushes and everything that's been there is all animated I have a very special place in my heart for cartoons because or cartoon movies or animated movies I don't know which one is more politically correct, but I It fascinates me How is it is it just bad planning or why is it? Some movies or some cartoons that I see that Like But there's some that you actually can spell out the words like I can see okay, why why is it such a big difference? the difference comes in from the kind of technology they used and the kind of concentration that the Artists put on how the words are being pronounced for instance right now if I say oh you'd see my lips My lips foam and alright, but then So with drawing you'd really have to draw all of that That was in the past, but these days what happens is that? Applications there are applications where you 3d model a 2d cartoon movie. I'm gonna repeat that It's really model a 2d cartoon movie In blender because I am more convinced conversant with blender you would model a whole character and You decide what's kind of textures and lighting to put in it and you convert it into a cartoon So if you convert it into a cartoon you see the drawing outline and all that But after more animating even lips have bones in animation So you have to you move the bones with regards to how letters are being pronounced, but now the motion capture technology which has been used In the recent Films that have been produced by Hollywood it realized that the oaths are always and the eyes are eyes Unlike mama like you've said in the cartoons because the motion captures The motion capture cameras on the artist's face would capture the movement of all the expressions and everything that they're pronouncing I Feel like such a good student guys. I'm understanding. I feel like immediately Yeah, are you feeling the same? I thought from Facebook at 24 channel on Twitter hashtag a social Friday now Let me tell you something because I have exclusive access But have access to stars like Abdul Razak in good. Yeah, I did one day catch him tinkering on his phone And you were I think modeling an AK 47. Yeah, talk to me about that. How can you even do it on your phone? Like I It's in my thinking that these softwares or these applications are quite heavy on any, you know, software system So It's a credit. Yeah, because I'm a son I see between Zito. You have to have you know, anything Apple But now I'm coming to learn that a I took a few months and I don't see the last one seem we can Talk to me. How is this magic happening? So Let me tell you a little bit of an emotive story. That's the AK-47 that I was modeling on that day so what happened is my computer crushed and I had to flash back to Yeah, it was it was a really devastating It did not crush actually what happened was The motherboard short-circuited which is much worse than So what happened was I was rendering on 11th second animation on my laptop and it was a A 200 500 GB internal storage for GB RAM and 3.35 gigahertz processor Okay, that is a trend of hope 11 seconds for a really Say 11 seconds, I once rendered 11 seconds for a whole month And that means that that means that when I go home, I don't shut down my computer night I let it render until morning and only shut down when I'm going to work And when I get to work if I'm doing some simple things like writing documents I will render the animations for the whole day again and shut down when I'm going home and render again 24-7. If this was translated into DJ language, you know, I just want to download and go ma Yeah, he downloaded my buffers for like some three minutes, but it buffers for 20 minutes. Exactly Actually, this was three minutes long, but it buffers for a whole year So so you asked me about how I do it on phone, right? So I started animation in 2014 I was using the ideas phone and it was an Android version 2.2 and I was using a software called Space draw and I could not model more than 1,000 vati says now vati says our corners of our of a quadrilateral or a Polygon, so that's spacer actually. So this is the first application. I used on Android and then after my computer crashed I Remembered I had to flush back to 2014 and 2016 when I moved to hundred version 4.2.2. That was Samsung Galaxy and So I decided to go back to modeling on phone because I never wanted to wait until I purchased a good computer and Strong and fast hardware for me to get back into animation. So I started modeling on different applications so I used space draw this is called sub deformer or SDF 3d and What I realized is that it's really fair on on the demand it has of the hardware because it has been made to Walk with a small round that a phone has got and also the small process others that a phone has and I can actually animate something on phone It I don't think they understand how impressive that sounds because it looks like magic and then he turns it turns it Then twist it twisted all on his phone. He's like he's playing a game, but it's not Yeah, it's a Yeah, we are sorry. I am not going to keep my laser I would like you to maybe speak to someone out there I would like that last message or the latter part of the message that Kungoja until you had the proper resources and I say that with quotes Yeah, if you had an expensive laptop or you know all these resources that maybe are not available To the people we are talking to in the audience But we'll answer to and that's that's important because I can tell you me being number one I am my my worst enemy. Let's say I'm the one keep holding me back. It's very frustrating I have to fight my every day. So how would you advise someone to? I said to study moments. I took over think just go ahead and do I want to say the tapping So I've got this other hobby apart from 3d more thing and animation which is called reading and I read several books like I'm gonna mention the last one I read which is the five-second rule by Mel Robbins She says you must have the courage to start and every time you want to start and your mind tells you You don't have this you don't have that you don't have that. Oh, are you gonna succeed? Are you gonna sustain it that is your body which is telling you not to because it has been designed to keep us safe from emotional and and physical and mental and Mental turmoil so you must have the courage to start It does not matter what you've got like the South Africa and entrepreneur says his name is Vussie Tambakwio. He says Just start. Okay, and it does not matter how what you have and what you think you're going to do What you we are right now just start and Nike also their slogan says just do it. Exactly. Hey, just do it So that's what Nike says and looking at my story. I started animating on phone I started 3d modeling on phone and I moved to computer and I started using industry standard software and then my computer crushed it was actually an apple mark like the one the DJ is using and so After it's crushed. I thought I should get a HP that 400 and that's gonna cost a whole lot and a graphic skype That goes for 10,000 shillings now that you know What are you gonna do? Yeah, are you going to buy clothes? Are you going to buy a graphic? Exactly, so are you gonna wait until you get that huge and expensive equipment? Not to mention a render farm for you to start animating and modeling stuff Or are you going to just get curious a little bit curious and Google applications that you can find an Android for free and animate stuff Gosh, okay, not any translate if you care. Who's such idea DJ DJ? Okay It's easier than it's going to be. So, in short, Transipolepone? Yeah, man. I like that. Okay, so it is to my understanding that the interview was so sweet, it ended too fast, but it's okay. Can we get you on social media? Definitely. Yeah. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at officialRazaki. I've got to spell Razaki, R-A-Z-A-K-I. At officialRazaki on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And you can also find me on YouTube. My YouTube channel is called Razaki3D, R-A-Z-A-K-I, space 3D. So that's where, this is just a snippet of what's there. So you can find application analysis for Android 3D modelling. And you can also find tutorials like these ones and time-lapse video illustrating how I model stuff. Hmm, okay. I'm so fascinated by Abdo. I don't think I've ever seen him in this kind of light. It's very interesting. Bravo. You're interesting. Thank you for coming though. Thank you for having me as well. And you. Thank you for watching, but you should not go anywhere because we are coming together to wish you a fantastic weekend in a couple of seconds. 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