Please help filling my questionnaire regarding 3D animation
Posted: September 20, 2011
Post subject: Please help filling my questionnaire regarding 3D animation
Post subject: Please help filling my questionnaire regarding 3D animation
Hi, everyone I'm Vivian from Limkokwing University, majoring in Animation. I'm doing my dissertation for my final project regarding "Research on how professionals and 3D artists use lights in animation films and the possible way to apply the principles in amateur animation", and would like to be helped in filling in this questionnaire 
The questionnaire includes technical questions for Maya application..
Section 1____________________________________________________________
1. What is your gender?
a. Male
b. Female
2. What is your occupation?
a. Student
b. Lecturer
c. Professionals
d. Others : .
3. Which area in 3D that you are interested at?
a. Modeling
b. Texturing
c. Animation
d. Lighting
e. Rendering
f. Compositing
g. Others : .
Section 2____________________________________________________________
1. In a short animation, what kind of theme do you like most? (you may choose 2)
a. Action
b. Comedy
c. Horror
d. Romance
e. Fantasy
2. Which one do you prefer : a full action and exciting animation moves from the beginning or a short animation which focused more on story and put afew action animation in some parts of it?
a. Full action animation from the beginning and general storyline
b. A few action animation in some parts and focused on story
3. For a short 3D animation, do you prefer human characters or non human characters?
a. Human
b. Non human
4. Which of these creatures that you think represents a shadow monster perfectly?
a. Cat
b. Wolf
c. Goat
d. Rat
e. Others : .
5. You prefers a short animation ended with :
a. General ending (its necessary to have full animation till the ending part)
b. Stylized ending (its not necessary to have animation for the ending part for example using painting to portray the ending)
6. Imagine you are in a place that is almost completely dark and you are cornered by a monster that you can barely see. You dont want to give up there. When suddenly a strange small light came near you and then ran away, will you chase for it or scared of it and stay?
a. Chase for it
b. Scared of it and stay
c. Others : ..
7. According to your experiences and knowledge, which render application that has a better use and also producing good quality outcomes?
a. Maya software
Why : ..
b. Maya Mental ray
Why :
c. Others
Why :
8. Which of the Maya Lights or other software that is the easiest to control and produces the outcome that you wanted? (you may choose 2)
Example : a. Spot light : easiest to control and good outcome
b. Directional light : easy to control and the light spreads well on the objects
a. Spot Light:
b. Directional Light:
c. Ambient Light:
d. Area Light:
e. Volume light:
f. Others : .
9. What is the best way to texture a character that is covered by fur that will be rendered by general spec computer?(You may choose 2)
a. Texture and normal maps
b. Zbrush
c. Maya fur
d. Maya plug-in for hair
e. Others :
10. In the final project I am going to make, there are scenes that the objects in that world (such as rocks and ruins) turned to black permanently at a fast rate because of the monster. Which method that you think is the easiest and fastest way to use?
a. Trace them in Adobe After Effect
b. Change the texture to black in Autodesk Maya while animating it
c. Other way : .
..
..
Thank you very much for filling this Questionnaire
Have a nice day
The questionnaire includes technical questions for Maya application..
Section 1____________________________________________________________
1. What is your gender?
a. Male
b. Female
2. What is your occupation?
a. Student
b. Lecturer
c. Professionals
d. Others : .
3. Which area in 3D that you are interested at?
a. Modeling
b. Texturing
c. Animation
d. Lighting
e. Rendering
f. Compositing
g. Others : .
Section 2____________________________________________________________
1. In a short animation, what kind of theme do you like most? (you may choose 2)
a. Action
b. Comedy
c. Horror
d. Romance
e. Fantasy
2. Which one do you prefer : a full action and exciting animation moves from the beginning or a short animation which focused more on story and put afew action animation in some parts of it?
a. Full action animation from the beginning and general storyline
b. A few action animation in some parts and focused on story
3. For a short 3D animation, do you prefer human characters or non human characters?
a. Human
b. Non human
4. Which of these creatures that you think represents a shadow monster perfectly?
a. Cat
b. Wolf
c. Goat
d. Rat
e. Others : .
5. You prefers a short animation ended with :
a. General ending (its necessary to have full animation till the ending part)
b. Stylized ending (its not necessary to have animation for the ending part for example using painting to portray the ending)
6. Imagine you are in a place that is almost completely dark and you are cornered by a monster that you can barely see. You dont want to give up there. When suddenly a strange small light came near you and then ran away, will you chase for it or scared of it and stay?
a. Chase for it
b. Scared of it and stay
c. Others : ..
7. According to your experiences and knowledge, which render application that has a better use and also producing good quality outcomes?
a. Maya software
Why : ..
b. Maya Mental ray
Why :
c. Others
Why :
8. Which of the Maya Lights or other software that is the easiest to control and produces the outcome that you wanted? (you may choose 2)
Example : a. Spot light : easiest to control and good outcome
b. Directional light : easy to control and the light spreads well on the objects
a. Spot Light:
b. Directional Light:
c. Ambient Light:
d. Area Light:
e. Volume light:
f. Others : .
9. What is the best way to texture a character that is covered by fur that will be rendered by general spec computer?(You may choose 2)
a. Texture and normal maps
b. Zbrush
c. Maya fur
d. Maya plug-in for hair
e. Others :
10. In the final project I am going to make, there are scenes that the objects in that world (such as rocks and ruins) turned to black permanently at a fast rate because of the monster. Which method that you think is the easiest and fastest way to use?
a. Trace them in Adobe After Effect
b. Change the texture to black in Autodesk Maya while animating it
c. Other way : .
..
..
Thank you very much for filling this Questionnaire
Have a nice day