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Don’t Breathe | 4.0

»Genre: hitman!au/bountyhunter!au || stalker!au ||

»Warnings: kidnapping, stalking, obsession, themes of potential Stockholm syndrome, mono-phobia, mature elements, manhandling, breakdowns, yandere (? i think ), he thinks it’s cute when she cries, eventually they fall in love, Disclaimer: I do not condone nor suggest stalking/kidnapping or anything of that nature, this is purely fiction.

»Summary: He doesn’t get shaky hands, he never forgets his gloves and he never leaves a trail. He was paid to get rid of everyone who witnessed the exchange between a gang lord and a politician, they were picked off, one by one. He found out a month later, he missed one. A young writer who attended the event where the exchange took place. He has to kill her. Can he do it?

✤ pt.1 - pt.2 - pt.2.5 - pt.3 - pt. 3.5 - pt. 4.0 - pt. 4.5 - pt. 5.0

A/n: will edit later^^ hope u enjoy💖

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The city has always held dark secrets in the shape of hopes and dreams, luring in optimistic ankle-biters, wishing to really become something. And more often than not, it works out. That dreamer gets to live the reality they’ve been waiting for, and it all seems a little too perfect.

“Can I get you anything, sir?”

“One coffee please,” Peeking up from his phone, he acknowledges the petite waitress, “no cream no sugar.”

“Coming right up,”

He’s gone over the folder a thousand times, just making sure he didn’t miss anything. As far as information on you, he’s got all he needs, now it’s a matter of finding out what you were doing in the 24 hours before you vanished. He was able to stop by the police station and talk with the detective on the case. She wasn’t much help, but she did say Suzy had been calling her twice a day, looking for updates. Jin didn’t contact her as often but he’s been waiting for updates from Yoongi instead.

“Excuse me?” He pulled from his thoughts when he sees the woman in front of him, “Hi, I’m Suzy, you’re Min Yoongi, right?” She looks a bit unsure, he figured she’s just waiting for him to respond.

“Yes, sorry,” He stands up and shakes her hand before they both take a seat, “thank you for coming so short notice.”

“Of course, a meeting was canceled this morning so I had the time,” Sitting her purse in her lap, she tries to look relaxed but the way her brows furrow, he knows she’s worried, “I hope I can help in some way,”

“How long have you known her?” He opens up a little notepad and takes out a pen.

“Six, Almost seven years now. She was an intern for a while, she’s been writing for us for all that time. Recently, I wanted her to start dabbling in field assignments as a reporter, she wasn��t too keen on the idea but she agreed.”

She glances at the notepad as he quickly jots down little notes. “What was the assignment?”

“A press conference with a lot of the controversy regarding the parties who attended. Quite a few people who attended from some news stations and outlets like that started dying off. She doesn’t really do politics, but I asked her to write an article on it because she was there. On the morning of publication, she didn’t show up to work. The publication was at 8 so I had to look for it so we could publish it. She had been working on it for weeks but it was missing from the writer's archive, it looked like it was deleted. The physical copy was gone and her computer was too. That’s when I went to her house and she was gone...”

The deep furrow in Yoongi’s eyes has her swallowing the lump in her throat.

“She went missing the day the article was supposed to be published? Am I the first person you’ve told this to?” She nods.

“Why didn’t you tell the police about this? If she went missing the exact same day the article was to be published, that information changes the case. Knowing that others who attended this conference have died, there’s a chance she was being targeted because she was there as well.”

“I- I don’t know, I just didn’t think about it, I never would have thought she’d be targeted for posting a harmless article.”

“I’m going to assume she was being targeted because of the article, it makes the most sense. Someone at that conference didn’t want this to get out and they knew she was writing the article somehow.”

If her heart could sink any lower, it’d be in her feet. She should have never had you write that article, maybe you’d still be here if she had just listened to you. “What does this mean?”

“This city is filled with crooked people in power, there’s a chance that one of them were behind this,” He closes up the notepad and takes one sip of coffee, “I’ll do a little digging and see what I can find.” He pulls his jacket on and tucks a few dollars under his cup.

“Wait,” She stops him, “what can I do to help? I feel like this is my fault, if anything bad happened to her-”

“Don’t blame yourself for this, it could have happened to anyone. Secondly, if you could give me sources on everyone one at the conference; reporters, cameramen, moderators, anyone. Someone had to have witnessed something, and I need to talk to them.”

“Okay, I’ll work on that today.”

Police, detectives, forensic scientist, all the necessary individuals required to pursue a missing person case passed through the station, on their own assignments. One of the detectives on the officers on the case, Jaemin, slips into his office to take a call.

“Hello? Mr. Lee, I’m sorry I could get to you early,”

“That’s fine, I just had a quick question. That missing persons case, you all are getting ready to drop it right? I heard there was investigation still going on,”

“Yes, unfortunately, we have an outside source working on the case and I hear he’s good. But don’t worry, Minho, I can shake him.”

“I hope so, one little reporter shouldn’t have made a big case,” He sighs, annoyed at the thought, “she’s dead, the client got what he asked for. I want this case to close as soon as possible.”

“I hear you, I’ll make sure it happens,”

“Good.”

He hangs up the phone and glances at the man across from him, waiting for the hefty check owed for his handwork on his last job. With a deep sigh, Minho picks up a pen and writes the check quickly and tucks it in an envelope before handing it to him.

“Everything okay, boss?” Jimin takes the envelope with a peachy smile.

“Kim’s last case is causing some problems- Not an error on his part of course, the target was reported missing and an investigation is happening. It was a multiple target case but there was one target that’s just fucking it all up,”

Jimin makes a thoughtful face. “A female? Young?”

“Yes, why do you ask?” Minho crooks a brows.

“He doesn’t seem like the type but I don’t know, where’s the body?”

“He doesn’t disclose that type of information, I respect his decision to do that,” Minho sighs, looking through files of other guild members to match them with clients, “I can’t imagine it’s a pretty process,”

“Well, maybe-” He pauses, finding the thought a bit humorous, “Maybe she’s not dead, y’know, just a theory,” He purses his lips, “but maybe not, his record is so clean, I doubt he’d leave a witness to tell the tale of whatever he does to them. I don’t blame him,”

“He told me that she’s dead, there’s no doubt about that.”

“Well, if he won’t disclose the body, how can you be sure? And you said he killed the other targets and there’s evidence of that, why is she the only one gone missing?” Jimin makes a nonchalant observation and Minho starts to really think about it, could Taehyung be hiding something? That’s not like him, he’s one of his best. He’s never had to doubt Taehyung, every assignment he’s been given, he’s completed without flaw. He can’t believe Taehyung would do anything to put the organization in jeopardy, he won’t believe it.

“Jimin, can you do me a favor?”

“Anything.”

The smell of blueberry pancakes tantalizes your senses, your eyes sleepily follow his movements from the fridge to the stove every few minutes. He’s making late breakfast because he said he was in the mood for some brunch. You finally get a glimpse at the tall stack of pancakes next to the griddle and you sigh, it looks so good.

A few days have gone by, and the sleeping arrangements have been different. Some nights, he’ll tell you you can sleep in the spare room and others he’ll have you sleep with him, it’s not entirely unpleasant when you’re with him. He makes you answer questions and tell him about your hopes, dreams, fears, and everything in between. Generally, he's been more lenient with you, not chaining you up so often, letting you roam around a little bit to get some exercise. Lately, he's felt more like your companion than your captor. You’re beginning to see parts of him that are so human. And you’re starting to believe that he’s not lying to you, he’s genuinely trying to protect you. It’s hard to believe that that’s where you’re head is.

He has music on, playing soft study-like songs that make you feel calm. You tried to keep from grinning, like you’d try to contain a cough in a quiet classroom. He sways to the rhythm gently, tapping his foot and flipping the fluffy breakfast treats. How he hums to the song absentmindedly, it reminds you of how Jin used to hum while studying or doing anything really. Taehyung’s voice is really nice, it’s smooth and comforting

“Y/n, come taste,” He turns and holds a fork up with a piece of pancake on it, beckoning you to come to have a bite. You go to him of course, happy to sample what you’ve been smelling for the past thirty minutes. When you come to stand by his side, eye-level with his shoulder, you wait for him to put a piece on a fork for you.

“Say ah,” He holds the fork to your mouth and as silly as you know you might look, you don’t care, you just wanna eat. Your mouth opens and your eyes go wide when it finally meets your taste-buds, “good?”

You nod, it’s as good as it smells. You wonder why you haven’t tried to cook like this for yourself before. Work seemed to consume you, you can admit that. Sometimes, a coffee would suffice as your breakfast. And at night, a drink and a burger with fries from the restaurant down the corner would satisfy you. But cooking, making something for yourself, it hasn’t happened in a while. You used to do it a lot when you first moved when you and Jin were spending a lot of time together. It’s different being by yourself, it’s sometimes easier to over-treat yourself with fast food or quick little meals from local places. Seldom do you get to enjoy a homemade meal made just for you. He’s smiling down at the two plates he’s making when you look up from your daze and for some reason, you feel shy but a little, happy?

No, stop it. You’re not supposed to feel happy, don’t allow yourself to sink further into that deceiving head-space. Into the space that makes him the source of humanity, the reminder that you’re alive. Finding yourself looking forward to seeing the light in his eyes, hearing the bass in his voice heavy on your ears. It feels good, you relish in it. Yes, you’re still trying to stay on his good side but these positive feelings, they feel too real.

“Let’s eat somewhere different today,” He gives you your plate with a cup of syrup, a fork, the works. “I think I need a change of scenery,”

You’re not sure where’s he’s planning to have this breakfast when he starts walking upstairs. For a moment, you think he’s going to his room but then he walks to the room where he’s yet to open since you’ve been here. Your stomach turns, you’ve been wondering what was behind this door.

When he opens the door, he waits for you to enter first, a smile ever so present on his face, he’s in such a good mood.

You walk inside and the size of the room alone is huge but you’re more surprised by the canvases propped against the wall. The white sheets spotted with colors and a bit bunched at the edges, it’s an art studio of some sort. Is this what he does when he’s home? There’s one canvas on a tall easel and it looks unfinished so he must’ve worked in here not too long ago.

He takes opens the French doors to the balcony and takes a seat on the floor. You do the same, holding your plate above your lap in the same way he’s holding his. The smell of the paint doesn’t bother you too much because of the fresh air, and the blueberry pancakes outweigh the smell as well. “Thank you for breakfast.” You whisper, now cutting into your three fluffy stacked pancakes, what you more interested in at the moment honestly.

“You’re welcome,” He grins to himself, “other than what I’ve been making, what do you like to eat? I’m getting groceries tomorrow,”

You don’t respond, too busy staring out the window in a daze and eating as if he weren’t there. He calls your name to get you to glance at him, just to make sure you can hear him. “Nothing,” You deadpan, “I’m okay...”

“There has to be something you want.”

“Fine,” You set your fork down, a little annoyed, “um, chocolate chip cookies, the ones with the chunks, and almond milk.” Hoping he’s satisfied with your answer, you finish the last bite of your food and continue to enjoy the view outside.

He takes your plate and sits it in on his so he can take it downstairs, leaving you to the peaceful room by yourself. You’re just now realizing how large his land is. There are other large homes nearby but they’re a fair distance away.

It’s been a while since you felt the sun on your bare skin or the soothing breeze dance past you. You’ve missed this, running in the early hours of the day when the air is just right. The first people you used to see were a handful of dedicated adults jogging, some accompanied by their dogs.

This paint room has a super tall ceiling, makes you feel like you’re in a museum. When you look at some of the paintings on the floor propped against the wall, you smile. It looks like he likes to paint faces, distinct expressions on faces. Then there are flowers, the basic artist subject. There’s a long wooden desk with paintbrushes, pens, pencils, paper, a lot of paint.

He comes back to the room, but his presence is oblivious to you for a little while, until his stumbles over a stray paintbrush and you look back at him.

He straightens up, his big eyes staring you down as he walks over to you. “Do you like to paint?”

“I’ve never really done it before, maybe when I was little but that’s about it,” You watch him open up a case and pick out a few brushes. He opens a few tubes of paint and squeezes a small amount on a pallet, then sets that down in front of you, “is that for me?”

“Mhm,” He nods. Gently taking the canvas that’s covered with a sheet from the easel, he puts it on the floor with some of the others. He opens up the closet to look for a nice-sized blank canvas for you to use. You pick up a brush and absentmindedly brush it against your skin to see how soft it is.

“Here we go,” He adjusts the canvas onto the easel, “come stand here,” He gestures to the little space directly in front of the easel and you oblige, curious.

“You want me to paint something?” You look back at him, a little confused.

“Yeah,” He stands next to you, staring at the blank canvas before looking at you, “only if you want to.”

This is probably the most interesting thing you’ve done since you got here, you figure he’s starting to trust you more. You take a moment to pick a brush, given you have little to no knowledge about this craft, you choose a random one. Not too big, not too small.

He watches you debate over which spot of paint you want to dip the brush in, you decide on blue. A dark blue with a little bit of white. At first, you try to draw a flower, something easy, but it proves to be harder than you anticipated. When you think the brush will make a nice little crescent shape for a petal, it makes an unappealing squiggle. As menial as it seems, its frustrating that it’s not coming out the way you envisioned in your mind. After about five minutes of trying to fix it, your patients get peeled down to its last layer.

“Ugh,” You withdraw your hand and just stare at the canvas, a deep frown on your face, “it’s not coming out right...”

“You have to give it a chance,” He gets up from the bar-stool he was sitting on in front of the desk, “take a step back, and think about something beautiful that little mistake could become.”

Giving up on your small brush, you squeeze a glob of paint on the pallet and exchange the brush for your fingers. He tilts his head when he sees you rub your fingers in the pallet and then drag your hands down the canvas. Coming up behind you, he tries to get a better look at what you're doing. You’ve dipped your hands in different blues and you covered the canvas completely, eyes focused.

Your hand stutters when you see his long fingers mimic the movement that you’d been doing. Being that his size nearly doubles your own, his chest is just centimeters from you. His arms comfortably reach the canvas, as if you weren’t an obstacle.

“What’re you doing...” You sigh, making gentle brushing motions alongside his, “This is my painting.”

“Oh, so you do want to do this?” His fingers stop all movement, “I didn’t think you cared that much, I’m sorry,” He pulls back, ready to wipe his hands but you grab his wrist with your paint-covered hand.

“I’m kidding,” He didn’t seem to mind getting the paint on his skin because he didn’t get upset, “you’ll probably make it look better anyway.”

It’s tearing you up. How this feels nice and how you don’t want him to stop. Just standing here, so close to him, and watching his fingers dance across the canvas, it’s torture. When your hands bump, both of you laugh and it makes a pretty burst of blue.

He dips his hand in the lightest shade on the pallet and presses it on the edges of the canvas before you let your hand fall from the art-work. It takes a minute, but he stops putting on the finishing touches and steps back to look it over.

“Hm,” He grabs two rags from the floor, giving one to you and keeping the other for his hands, “I like it.”

You try to wipe your hands clean but they still have a bluish tent. “What about this does something for you?...”

“I like capturing a moment in time, making my thoughts into something visual and tangible, it’s therapeutic.”

You stare at the painting in an attempt to see something poetic, or anything other than a bunch of blue paints smeared on a canvas. But in your futile attempt, the thought that he might think you’re enjoying this comes to mind, does he think you’re enjoying this? Giving you art supplies to keep your occupied like a little child, you shouldn’t be offended but it does feel a bit patronizing.

“That’s probably why you write, yeah?” He asks, leaning against the stool. “I’ve read all of your articles, you have a beautiful way of expressing yourself through words.”

“It doesn’t always feel that way,” You toss out an honest answer, “I wouldn’t call it therapeutic, but I do enjoy it...”

“I was hoping this room could be an outlet for you, somewhere for you to clear your mind.”

Lately you’ve been falling into theses moments of zoning out and you just feel like you’re losing your mind. But that’s when he comes behind you, wraps his arms around you and you instantly come back. And it goes like this, almost every day. He gets closer, you let him, and you start to feel more like he wants to trust you.

“What does our painting mean to you?” He shuffles you forward, getting you closer to the painting with his arms still secured around you.

“You tell me first,” You counter.

He takes a look, head tilting a bit, “It makes me think of my childhood, it wasn’t a very colorful one. I was taken from my mother as a toddler after the courts deemed her an unfit parent. She was in a bad place, had no business having a kid anyway.” He rests his head atop yours, mentally slipping into his past to reveal it to you.

“I was in foster homes until I was a teenager, went from house to house every few months. The people who'd come and take me home were either trying to get money from the state or looking for another helpless kid to work for them. I didn’t know it then but I wanted stability, I wanted someone that I could depend on but never got it. I ran away when I was a teenager and depended on my self and here I am.” You can hear a smile in his voice, but you’d dare to say it was pain out of pain.

“It’s all blue, blue can mean stability or loyalty, that’s how I see it.” He let’s his hands slide down your arms and back up to your shoulders to give them a squeeze. “Also, we made it together, so that’s special in itself. Now, your turn,”

“Um,” You purse your lips, “it’s nice...” You answer as if you didn’t know any other words, you’ve never been good with speaking anyway. You rather write paragraphs than ramble on.

“It is,” He agrees, “but how does it make you feel?”

“I don’t know,” You frown, pulling his arms off so you can walk off, “it’s just a painting.” It’s cold not having his arms around you but you reason that you need the shock.

You don’t want to start thinking deep, knowing about his past, sympathizing. You need to look like you don’t care. Does he buy it? Probably not, but sometimes he doesn’t like to force you to talk, it puts you in a foul mood and he notices.

“Just when I think you’re about to open up,” He tsks, shaking his head, “you remind me of the situation, and how you want so badly to make this uncomfortable for both of us.” His cheery mood is faded and you know you screwed this up.

You defend yourself nonetheless. “I’m not trying to make this uncomfortable for anyone, I’m already uncomfortable.”

“You’re such a liar,” He turns you to face him and steps in front of you to eliminate the space, “a bad one though.” You look up at him, trying not to let him intimidate you into backing down.

“I’m not lying.” Wow, that’s the best defense you could come up with.

“You are,” He pushes his hand through his hair, a stressed furrow in his dark brows, “I’m glad we ended up with each other, really I am. But when you act like this, I can’t say it doesn’t hurt a little,” He leans down, breathing against the apple of your cheek almost. “because I know it’s not how you really feel.”

Taking his time, he looks your face other, and this is what kills him the most. He gets so close to your face and everything in him wants you to lean in, he waits for the moment that you lean in and eliminate the space between you two.

Ding dong. You’re saved when the doorbell rings and you use this as your chance to slip away from him. He drops his head and sighs, this was bound to happen, he sort of regrets approaching you anyway. When he leaves he closes the door and leaves you wishing he was anyone else. You could hate anyone else right now.

When he checked the cameras on his phone, he was surprised to see that it was non-other than Park Jimin, what does he want? The bell rings for the second time and he rushes to silence it.

“Kim,” The man smiles, and Taehyung takes in his casual attire, meaning he was off today just like him, “I was beginning to think something happened to you,” His eyes intermediately go to Taehyung’s blue-tinted hands, “sorry to drop in unannounced like this.”

Taehyung makes an offended expression almost, he can’t hide his physical reaction to the concern, it seemed fake. “Didn’t have my phone on me, what do you need? It’s my day off,” His tone isn’t rude, but genuinely confused.

“I, uh,” Jimin rakes his mind for the story he’s supposed to tell, “my cuff-links! I left them in the bathroom that night,” His smile looks a bit too plastered, and when Taehyung doesn’t invite him in he let’s out a nervous laugh, “they’re expensive okay, rubies, can I grab’em?”

Taehyung opens the door wider so he can come in. He just hopes you have enough caution to stay hidden until Jimin leaves.

“So,” Oh no, he’s making conversation, “been doing some painting?” Jimin disappears into the small hall where the bathroom is to get his “cuff-links,” or so he says. Assuming Taehyung was hiding someone in the house, that evidence wouldn’t be in the guest bathroom. He has to stay in there a little longer, he hasn’t looked around well enough.

“I was,” He was trying to do a little more than that.

“Found’em,” He opens his hands to show the cuff-links that he planted just now, “Hey, can I get some water?”

“Sure,” Tae goes to the sink to wash his hands and Jimin leans on the large marble island, waiting patiently. Two plates. That’s the first abnormality that he notices. Two place-mats at the table and two sets on dishes in the sink, but it doesn't seem like he’s had any guest, there’s no car in the driveway.

“Y’know, I heard about that missing girl, one of your targets,” Jimin throws it out there, seeing if he’ll take the bait and give a reaction, “I bet that’s stressful.”

“It’ll blow over,” He opens the covert and takes out a glass, “how did you know she was my target?”

Damn, he shouldn’t have said that,

“You know I’m close with Minho, he mentioned it. He said it wasn’t your fault though, the investigators have an outside party helping, that’s why it’s not closing as fast. I have a little question for you,” He grins, “you don’t have to answer but Minho said it was a young girl, a writer, apart of a multiple target case, how did you do it?”

Taehyung sets the glass in front of him. “It doesn’t matter how I did it, as long as it’s done.”

“You’re as stiff as they come, Kim,” Jimin decides to lay off before Taehyung grows anymore suspicious, “I don’t do target eliminations but if I did, I would spill some details sometimes.” He takes a few gulps of water and looks at Taehyung who hasn’t stopped staring at him for the last few seconds.

“Well, thanks for the water,” He makes his way to the front door and Taehyung is more than happy to walk him out.

“You’re welcome,” He watches Jimin pass through the door and when he sees him get in his car, he closes the door with a sigh of relief.

He doesn’t go into his art studio for hours after Jimin leaves. He settles for busying himself with going over his next assignment over twenty times.

It’s getting harder and harder to keep this up, he never thought he’d get to this point. Something wasn’t right about that, Jimin isn’t his friend, and he’s never approached him like this—he knows something. When he makes his way upstairs, he tries to brush it off but here you are in his sanctuary to remind him.

“You were gone for a long time, who was that here earlier?” You mumble, barely sparing him a glance from your gaze off the balcony.

“No one you need to worry about,” He’s upset, that much you can tell, “I need you to go back to the basement for a little while, so you need to use the bathroom and eat.”

“What?” You can’t be hearing him correctly. “But why?...”

“Because I said so,” He stands in the doorway, arms crossed and posture uninterested, “let’s not have a repeat of last time,”

“But I haven’t done anything wrong...” The light drains from your eyes and anxiety pits in your stomach. “Is this because I wouldn't tell you what I felt about the painting?... Taehyung, I-”

“It’s not that.”

“Then what is it?” You walk inside and tears start to burn at your eyes instantly. You walk over to him and look to him with pleading eyes, hoping he’ll find it in his heart to change his mind. “Taehyung, I hate being down there, I’ll go to the other room, I won’t bother you...Please just don’t make me stay down there.” Tears stream down your cheeks and

“There’s an outside investigator who’s looking for you, the police are looking for you, and soon enough the man who hired me will be looking for you too. I’m trying to protect you and make you comfortable but you only like the benefits of getting close to me, you don’t actually appreciate that I’m giving you so much.” His tone is cold, no longer filled with that tinge of adoration and warmth.

“I do appreciate it!” You didn’t think he’d get so upset, you’re trying to save yourself now. “I’m sorry if I made you feel like I don’t-”

“I don’t wanna hear it,” He cuts you off, hands reaching for your arms but missing when you pull away. He grabs your arms with more than enough force and pulls you to him, and this time it hurts, “Don’t fucking pull away from me.”

“B- but,” You whine, wiping your tears as you try to comprehend why he’s acting like this all of a sudden. “Taehyung, please-”

“Shut up!” He lashes out, eyes dark and voice louder than it’s ever been before as his grip on you just tightens. “Stop whining like you’re hurting because you’ve made me feel a lot worse than this. You think I don’t notice what you’re doing? I’ve let you push and pull for as I could,” The volume in his voice seems to increase his physical size somehow and decrease your own, “but your little game isn’t fun anymore, I’m fucking sick of it now.”

“But I’m not-” You try to speak but he clamps a hand over your mouth and the horror of your worse nightmare washes over you. He’s trying to hurt you.

“Be quiet.” He walks forward until your back is pushed up against the wall, letting his hand fall from your mouth slowly so he can take your trembling wrist in his hands.

“All this time, there was so much I could have done, that I’ve wanted to do, but I’ve waited patiently...” By the way he keeps biting the inside of his cheek, it’s clear that he’s teetering on the edge of something.

“You’ve been starting to want it too and that’s why you push me away so hard, for some reason you like to deprive yourself.” He cracks a smile and looks up at you’re teary eyes, cooing at the sight of you falling apart.

“But you won’t admit that to yourself, or me. So, the best thing I can do for us is to lock you back up.” You shake your hand but he nods, a cynical glint in his gaze when you lean your head back to stop some of your tears.

“Why’re you shaking your head no? That’s what has to happen. Here’s how it’ll work; I’ll blindfold you so you don’t even have to see me and I won’t have to see those pretty eyes anymore. Maybe even gag you so I don’t have to hear your sweet little voice say another word. Then I’d have the pleasure of taking you upstairs and giving you a bath each and every day, you wouldn't want to see scary-Taehyung, right? So that blindfold will have to stay on. You’ll just have to trust that the only eyes and hands on you are my own. And every day I’d come down to feed you and you’d know that I’d make your life a living hell if you dared say one word. There would only be a hand full of sounds I would allow you to make,” He tilts his head, amazed by how much color had left your face.

“How does that sound? You wouldn’t have to be around the big scary-Taehyung anymore, is that what you want?”

Your lips tremble when you attempt to open your mouth and say something, it’s too scary. He’s scary. All this time, you’ve been waiting this out, trying so hard to stay calm and get close, but not too close. And this is the result.

“Answer me.” You shake your head, fearing the sobs that would erupt from your mouth if you spoke. But he doesn’t care, “Ah-ah, I’m not gonna treat you like a little baby just yet, answer me with your words.”

“N- no...” You push out your answer, chest heaving from trying to breathe through your cries.

“No,” He scoffs, mocking your answer, “well had you been the target for anyone other than me, that’s what would have happened to you. You either trust me, or you don’t, you can’t have it in the middle anymore.” Hands still firm on your arms and knee still anchored against you so you can’t move, it’s suffocating. “You have to choose, do you trust me or not?”

“I- I trust you...” You sniffle, nose burning red and your sight blurred from your tears.

“Ah, I don’t believe you,” He drops his hands from you, “I think you need to learn your lesson in the basement until I think you can be honest-”

“No!” You throw your arms around his waist and wail into his chest like a baby. “I- I trust you! I do, please don’t put me down there-” You hiccup, “I’m sorry, I really do trust you, I know you’re only trying to protect me, I get that now. I- I just want to stay with you, I wanna be with you.”

You want to be with him, a sentence he never thought he’d hear you say. He was just trying to scare you into revealing your true feelings but he didn’t expect you to cave that fast. He returns your affection, wrapping his arms around you gently. “Yeah, that’s what you really want?” You nod vigorously, your grip around him so tight it would take a hundred men to pull you off.

“Yes,” You look up at him, and just the quick, the Taehyung that you know is back. Those soft eyes, that gentle smile that wants nothing but to see you smile, make you happy. This is the only Taehyung you ever want to see.

He caresses your hair, pushing it back from your flushed face. The way you’re staring up at him, it makes him feel like you’re the only people in the universe and he’s swimming in a galaxy made of the stars in your eyes. He wants to eliminate that little space. But you beat him to it. You’re on your tippy-toes and that pesky little space is eliminated and he plunges face-first into the seventh heaven that is you. You have to show him and yourself that you trust him, you want to prove it. Your eyes are sealed tight and you’ve given up all control in favor of him doing as he pleases.

“Mh,” He leans down to lessen your reach and puts your hands around his neck. Breathless, his lips start to tingle and he bites down to regain a more familiar feeling. You’re so soft, just like he imagined. It’s all too much but not enough all at once.

He carried you away with loving arms, leaving all of his feelings to tip over like a bucket of paint and spill over the blue-stained sheets

* * *

“Hey boss, I went to his place this morning,” Jimin finally got the call from Minho, “did I see anything? Not really. There were two placemats at the table, two sets of dishes, it kind of looked like he had someone over but there was no one that I could see. Maybe he had someone over last night, I don’t really know,”

“Did you ask about the target?”

“I did, but he gave me a bland answer. He said it doesn’t matter how it’s done as long as it’s done, his usual, sorry I couldn’t be more of more help,” Minho thanks him for his efforts before hanging up the phone.

“I’m just so scared for her,” She plucks her third tissue from the box in front of her, “I haven’t slept in days.”

Jin drove all this way to sit with your mother, he called her and she said her husband out on business. He couldn’t imagine being alone when your child is missing, the thought alone hurt.

“It’ll be alright,” Jin sits at with your mother, who at one point he thought had a chance of being his mother-in-law. “They’re doing everything they can to find her, she’s a fighter.” He grasps her hand.

“I know,” She sighs, crumpling up the tissue and throwing it in the bin, “you came all this way, have you eaten? I feel like cooking something.”

“I wouldn’t want to make you-”

“Please, I know you have the same favorite meal as Y/n, let me make it for you.”

“Alright, thank you,” He smiles, watching her leave to the kitchen with a bit more light in her eyes. His phone buzzes in his pocket and he slips it out.

Min Yoongi: I talked to Suzy today and I can almost guarantee that her being missing is related to the handful of reporters who died at a conference she attended a few months ago. Why she was the only person that went missing makes me suspect an alternative motive. I’ll update you if anything changes.

Yoongi slips his phone back in his pocket and walks into the police station, it’s late but he hopes the cop over your case is still in. When he walks up to the front desk and asks, the receptionist points him into the direction of the person he’s looking for.

“Min,” The man smiles, extending his hand and dropping his conversation with the Sargent in front of him.

“Cha Eunwoo, so you’re the lucky guys on this case,” Yoongi has known Eunwoo since his days at the academy. He went FBI and Eunwoo went police department, both choosing paths that fit them the best in the end.

“Yeah,” He scratches the back of his neck, dismissing the guy he was talking to, “I know you’re working alongside us, a personal favor?”

“Something like that, is there somewhere we can talk privately?”

Yoongi doesn’t notice, but there’s a pair of lingering eyes that watch him and Eunwoo moves to his office.

“What’s going on?”

“I talked with the girl's supervisor today,” Yoongi walks around the desk, looking out at the pretty sunset, “I was informed that she went missing the exact same day an article of hers was supposed to be published. This article held details from the conference that have never been revealed. The article's physical and digital copies are gone. Cha, this doesn’t seem like you’re average missing persona case, there’s something bigger going on,” he rests his hands on his hips, bottom-lip tucked between his teeth. “I don’t want to tell her family that just yet, not until I’m sure.”

“You know what,” Eunwoo makes a thoughtful expression, “you could be right. There has been speculation around this case that the abduction was planned for a while now, I think for her sake we should look into that. Thank you Min, this could really change the nature of this case and it’s probably gonna get bigger, especially if we bring the parties at the conference into question.”

Jaemin was hanging outside of the hallway but runs to the restroom when he hears footsteps approach the door. When he’s sure there’s no one else in the stalls he frantically pulls out his phone and makes a call.

“Hello?”

“The case is about to blow up, the PI is onto us and I think the organization is about to be in jeopardy.”

“Damn it,” He sighs, “what do you suggest we do?”

“You have to tell Kim to reveal the body.”

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On-screen keyboard that features Bangla characters, lets you load other keyboard layouts and comes with a user-friendly interface

If your keyboard does not function, you can rely on Windows' built-in on-screen keyboard utility. However, if you need to use Bengali characters, you might want to turn to specialized software solutions, as they might provide you with quicker, more convenient results.

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AnyDesk Connect to a computer remotely, be it from the other end of the office or halfway around the world. AnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike. AnyDesk is a desktop application that lets one have remote access of a computer system, in an authenticated manner. It is a German technology now being used popularly even in India and lets co-workers or professionals connect better. AnyDesk provides independent, remote access to computers and other devices while running the host application. Discover AnyDesk - The Linux Remote Desktop App. AnyDesk provides powerful Linux-based connectivity for smooth and seamless remote access to any computer. Whether as an individual, or as a professional organization offering remote support to customers, AnyDesk is made for easy operation and solid remote connectivity.

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AnyDesk's key features include online collaboration, file sharing, access control, and personalized user interface. You can start using the program even without installing it. All you have to do is download and launch its super lightweight 1.1MB program file. Accessing your files anywhere is made easier and more secure since you don’t need to entrust your data to a cloud service.

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AnyDesk is the best option for lightweight remote access because of its incredible speed in terms of graphical performance metrics and responsiveness. Despite its small file size, the app offers key features such as chatbox for client use, file transfer, and connection to multiple hosts. Unfortunately, its limitations per compatibility put the app at a disadvantage versus its most popular competition, TeamViewer. This latter app does not only deliver fast performance but also supports a huge number of OS. Its security features are also unparalleled which includes two-factor authentication, whitelist, and blacklist of allowed/restricted users, and screen lock after minutes of inactivity. The only downside of this app is the notable difference of rates when compared to those of AnyDesk.

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The app’s key features are all indispensable and can be used for both personal and business purposes. It may take a while for you to master its unusual interface but you'll love it once you customize it according to your personal tastes. Its premium bundles undoubtedly serve all the best features from the app’s largest competitors but at a more reasonable price.

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Edit video like it’s text with this algorithm

A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text—copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.

In television and film, actors often flub small bits of otherwise flawless performances. Other times they leave out a critical word. For editors, the only solution so far is to accept the flaws or fix them with expensive reshoots.

Imagine, however, if that editor could modify video using a text transcript. Much like word processing, the editor could easily add new words, delete unwanted ones, or completely rearrange the pieces by dragging and dropping them as needed to assemble a finished video that looks almost flawless to the untrained eye.

A team of researchers created such an algorithm for editing talking-head videos—videos showing speakers from the shoulders up.

The work could be a boon for video editors and producers but does raise concerns as people increasingly question the validity of images and videos online, the researchers say. However, they propose some guidelines for using these tools that would alert viewers and performers that the video has been manipulated.

“Unfortunately, technologies like this will always attract bad actors,” says Ohad Fried, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. “But the struggle is worth it given the many creative video editing and content creation applications this enables.”

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The application uses the new transcript to extract speech motions from various video pieces and, using machine learning, convert those into a final video that appears natural to the viewer—lip-synched and all.

“Visually, it’s seamless. There’s no need to rerecord anything,” says Fried, who is first author of a paper about the research available on the pre-publication website arXiv. It will also be in the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics.

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Should an actor or performer flub a word or misspeak, the editor can simply edit the transcript and the application will assemble the right word from various words or portions of words spoken elsewhere in the video. It’s the equivalent of rewriting with video, much like a writer retypes a misspelled or unfit word. The algorithm does require at least 40 minutes of original video as input, however, so it won’t yet work with just any video sequence.

As the transcript is edited, the algorithm selects segments from elsewhere in the recorded video with motion that can be stitched to produce the new material. In their raw form these video segments would have jarring jump cuts and other visual flaws.

To make the video appear more natural, the algorithm applies intelligent smoothing to the motion parameters and renders a 3D animated version of the desired result. However, that rendered face is still far from realistic. As a final step, a machine learning technique called Neural Rendering converts the low-fidelity digital model into a photorealistic video in perfect lip-synch.

To test the capabilities of their system the researchers performed a series of complex edits including adding, removing, and changing words, as well as translations to different languages, and even created full sentences as if from whole cloth.

In a crowd-sourced study with 138 participants, the team’s edits were rated as “real” almost 60 percent of the time. The visual quality is such that it is very close to the original, but Fried said there’s plenty of room for improvement.

“The implications for movie post-production are big,” says Ayush Tewari, a student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the paper’s second author. It presents for the first time the possibility of fixing filmed dialogue without reshoots.

Is this ethical?

Nonetheless, in an era of synthesized fake videos such capabilities raise important ethical concerns, Fried adds. There are very valuable and justifiable reasons to want to edit video in this way, namely the expense and effort required to rerecord or repair such flaws in video content, or to customize existing audio-visual video content by audience. Someone might use the algorithm to fine-tune instructional videos to different languages or cultural backgrounds, for instance, or adapt children’s stories to different ages.

“This technology is really about better storytelling,” Fried says.

Fried acknowledges concerns that such a technology might be used for illicit purposes, but says the risk is worth taking. Photo-editing software went through a similar reckoning, but in the end, people want to live in a world where photo-editing software is available.

As a remedy, Fried says there are several options. One is to develop some sort of opt-in watermarking that would identify any content that had been edited and provide a full ledger of the edits. Moreover, researchers could develop better forensics such as digital or non-digital fingerprinting techniques to determine whether a video had been manipulated for ulterior purposes. In fact, this research and others like it also build the essential insights that are needed to develop better manipulation detection.

None of the solutions can fix everything, so viewers must remain skeptical and cautious, Fried says. Besides, he adds, there are already many other ways to manipulate video that are much easier to execute. He says that perhaps the most pressing matter is to raise public awareness and education on video manipulation, so people are better equipped to question and assess the veracity of synthetic content.

Fried works in the lab of Maneesh Agrawala, professor in the School of Engineering and senior author of the paper. The project began when Fried was a graduate student working with computer scientist Adam Finkelstein at Princeton University more than two years ago. Additional coauthors are from Stanford, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe Research.

Funding came from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communications, a European Research Council Consolidator Grant, Adobe Research, and the Office of the Dean for Research at Princeton University.

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Review: The Asus Tinker Board

In the years since the launch of the original Raspberry Pi we have seen the little British ARM-based board become one of the more popular single board computers in the hobbyist, maker, and hacker communities. It has retained that position despite the best efforts of other manufacturers, and we have seen a succession of competitor boards directly copying it by imitating its form factor. None of them have made a significant dent in the sales figures enjoyed by the Pi, yet they continue to appear on a regular basis.

We recently brought you news of the latest challenger in this arena, in the form of the Asus Tinker Board. This is a board that has made us sit up and take notice because unlike previous players this time we have a product from a giant of the industry. Most of us are likely to own at least one Asus product, indeed there is a good chance that you might be reading this on an Asus computer or monitor. Asus have made some very high quality hardware in their time, so perhaps this product will inherit some of that heritage. Thus it was with a sense of expectation that we ordered one of the first batch of Tinker Boards, and waited eagerly for the postman.

First Impressions

Just what you want the postman to deliver!

The packaging is as professional as you’d expect from such a large manufacturer, a small cardboard box with the Tinker Board logo on top. Open it up, and the board sits encased in an anti-static bag on a cardboard tray. Under the tray is a flimsy instruction leaflet, and a stick-on heatsink for the Tinker Board processor.

Unpacking the board it is immediately obvious that it is a faithful physical clone of the Raspberry Pi form factor. Unlike some Pi clones such as the Odroid boards it has micro SD card, camera, and LCD connectors in exactly the same places as those on the PI, and replicates all the Pi’s external connections. It’s a safe bet that this will fit inside the majority of Raspberry Pi cases. It does manage to fit in a little extra though, there is a detachable antenna connector for the onbard wireless chipset, and hidden between the LAN and USB connectors are a pair of unpopulated holes for PWM and SPD/IF audio.

The Tinker Board in all its glory.

On the board itself, aside from the Rockchip RK3288 system-on-chip, there is a Rockchip RK808 power management/clock chip, Realtek Ethernet and audio codec chips, and a Genesys USB hub chip. There is also a wireless module with that detachable antenna, handling both 802.11 and Bluetooth. On the underside are the RAM chips, and the SD card socket.

The aesthetic design is pretty noticeable, with the board featuring patterns and labels for each connector. A particularly nice touch comes with the GPIO header, its plastic is colour-coded to identify the different types of pin.

Getting started with the Tinker Board is a very similar process to doing so on the Raspberry Pi. Connect a suitably powerful micro USB charger to its power port, add an HDMI monitor and a USB keyboard and mouse combo, and you can boot an OS from a micro SD card.

A Few Potholes In The Road

At this point though, we encounter a snag. A Raspberry Pi owner is used to visiting the website, clicking on the download link, selecting an operating system image, and following the comprehensive instructions, but Asus Tinker Board users get the following instructions in their leaflet:

Download the OS image from the Tinker Board website and burn it into the micro SD card using a third-party ISO software, such as Win32DiskImager.

This all sounds extremely promising, but for one unfortunate omission. There is no Tinker Board website. That’s right, a huge multinational hardware company has produced a high quality product, and neglected to create the online component that goes with it.

For those prepared to search, there is now a section of the Asus driver download site on which you can find some downloadable resources including a pair of OS images. This was nowhere to be seen for a while after the product was available for sale, but appeared before packages started landing on doormats. Presumably someone at Asus was alerted to the dismal prospect of being panned for providing a product with no software, and that was the best they could do. We’re guessing most Hackaday readers will find no problems installing a downloaded image onto an SD card, which is handy because Asus haven’t provided any instructions. It’s probably fortunate then that the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s instructions will also work with the board.

The Tinker Board As A Desktop Computer

The most important test for a new computer.

So having probed the recesses of the Asus support system for a Debian image, our Tinker Board was brought to life. After a pretty fast boot-up sequence we were rewarded with an LXDE desktop with a couple of folders containing GPIO and WiringPi software to help get started talking to hardware. Connecting an Ethernet cable and firing up Chromium gave us a respectably quick general-purpose web browsing platform that is noticeably faster than the same experience on either the Raspberry Pi 3, or the Odroid C2.

After a few minutes use though an odd problem became apparent, corruption in anything typed. This was traced by substitution of peripherals to our bench keyboard, a vintage IBM Model M. It’s the standard input device hereabouts and has been for many years, and it and a Microsoft mouse are permanently plugged into a PS/2 to USB adapter that hangs off the bench USB hub to avoid the computer having to supply the Model M’s hefty power requirement. This combo has worked with innumerable computers of all varieties over the years, yet for some reason the Tinker Board is the first to balk at it. A substitution to a USB keyboard and mouse fixed the issue, but it points to there being something amiss with the board’s handling of USB peripherals.

The GIMP is as smooth as you’d expect it to be on your PC.

With a working keyboard then the Tinker Board makes a very capable desktop machine. When the Raspberry Pi 3 was released last year [Brian Benchoff] hailed it as the moment at which the single board computer line could boast a credible desktop computer rather than a hobbyist’s toy, but while that remains true today a regular Pi 3 desktop user will still often find themselves reminded that they are close to the limit of their device’s capabilities.

The Tinker Board really shows its extra power on the desktop. While it will never match a high-end PC workstation you can do proper work on it without feeling held back.

How About Those Pins?

It’s very nice to have a Linux desktop, but many of us are going to be more interested in the GPIO lines. Opening up the folder containing the Python GPIO library it’s obvious that it is a derivative of the RPi.GPIO library that Raspberry Pi users will be used to. Putting together a quick test script to waggle a GPIO revealed that there was no library of that name though so after a quick run through the install process to make sure that the library was in place the name was found to be ASUS.GPIO. So starting the test script with “import ASUS.GPIO as GPIO” resulted in a script that behaved exactly as you’d expect with its Pi ancestor.

The README warns that SPI, I2C, One-wire, hardware PWM, and serial functionality is not yet implemented, but suggests that we watch that space. Given the lacklustre web support for the product it’ll be interesting to see whether they follow up on that promise.

The final point from our in-use tests of the Tinker Board comes from our temperature measurements. Our trusty radiation thermometer failed to register anything over 27 Celsius from the SoC no matter how much effort we put it to. This compares very favorably with previous measurements from a Raspberry Pi with no heatsink at 44 degrees, and the Odroid C2 whose heatsink we measured at 37 degrees. Thus the supplied stick-on heatsink feels almost superfluous, and we certainly saw no point in fitting it to our test unit.

The benchmarks for this board and the Raspberry Pi 3 have been done to death elsewhere so there is little point in our rehashing them here. Suffice to say that it’s easy to believe a claim of the Tinker Board being twice as fast as its competitor. Detractors point at the RK3288 being a slightly older SoC than those at the cutting edge of the tablet market, but in this application its 1.8GHz clock speed and 2GB of memory is enough to leave the Pi 3’s 1.2GHz and 1MB behind. However this is not the whole story, because the Tinker Board’s Rockchip has a Cortex A17 32-bit-only processor while the Pi’s Cortex A53 is 64-bit capable. Thus it is possible that were the Pi running a 64-bit operating system rather than the 32-bit Raspbian the race between the two would be much closer.

One feature of the Tinker Board we were unable to test due to lack of an available monitor is high resolution performance. This board supports resolutions up to 4K.

Reasons To Buy One, And Reasons To Avoid

So after this extensive description of the Tinker Board experience, what might our verdict be?

For the hardware, the Tinker Board is certainly an impressive and very well-executed board. It’s quick, pretty to look at, and while it’s by no means the cheapest single board computer of its class, it’s not the most expensive either. Asus have amply demonstrated their expertise in producing high-quality hardware, and the result is a clone of Raspberry Pi hardware that’s much better than a real Raspberry Pi in almost every way. We’ll even forgive it for its refusal to deal with our thirty-year-old PC keyboard.

The community is the true added value in a Raspberry Pi.

But before the Asus PR department go crazy and cut-and-paste that sentence comparing it to a Pi as a ringing endorsement, there’s a snag. There is much more than hardware to a good single board computer, we have to consider the software, and the support. This board will not only be used by Linux savants, it will end up in the hands of ordinary people with an interest in computing. Some of them could even end up in the hands of youngsters, and it is for these markets that the intangible side of the purchase is more important than the physical hardware. When you buy a Raspberry Pi, in most cases you are buying it as a vehicle for Raspbian, and when you lose your way you have also bought the Raspberry Pi forums and its community who will supply you with the answers you need to get started again.

At first glance it might seem that Asus have done a good job here, after all the Debian distribution does not have the rough edges you’d find in for example the Ubuntu Mate distribution for the Odroid C2. It doesn’t come with some of the desktop software Raspbian has pre-installed, but all of that is only an apt-get away.

Unfortunately though if you too have had to find and download the distro yourself you’ll understand exactly where Asus have failed with a capital F in cloning the Raspberry Pi. It’s understood that they couldn’t instantly replicate the huge community that surrounds the Pi, but to not even bother with a website for the product beggars belief. There’s a story about hardware companies sometimes being useless when it comes to software, as demonstrated by the lousy interfaces we see on smart TV sets. But you might expect them to look at the product they are copying and at least try to understand that there is more to it than just the board. To release such a polished piece of hardware and fail to back it up with even the most basic online support offering is a mistake we’ve seen many times before. It is one that Asus should take immediate steps to remedy if they expect this board to sell to more than a few hardware enthusiasts.

So would we recommend that you buy a Tinker Board? Of course we would, it’s a fantastic piece of hardware, and as a Hackaday reader you’re likely to be able to get the most out of it. Would we suggest that you recommend it to someone else without it being backed up by a meaningful support offering? Of course not, unless you want to become that person’s personal support hotline. Tell them to buy a Raspberry Pi 3 instead. But it may not always be this way. Asus, it’s up to you to finish this journey by providing the framework users need before they they can begin to love and adore the Tinker Board.

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Task 2: Assignment - Doe

Upon reading the brief for this assignment, I already knew what my idea was going to be from the beginning. I wanted to create a deer, a doe to be more specific, gallivanting around a forest as it would in real life. From my storyboard below, I had planned to have my doe emerge from a forest to sniff some treats in a bush, but will look up startled upon hearing moving in the forest. After a period of silence, she would go back to foraging, but the noise would return, and she would gallop away.

The purpose of creating this animation was to learn how to accurately create, rig, and add controls to a quadruped model for animating, all of which I had no previous experience or knowledge in before this. By learning these techniques, I would gain a better understanding as to how an animation is created, and would make it possible to use those methods when creating other animations in the future.

In order to create my deer, I had to research some tutorials that would show me a simple way to model a quadruped. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any material relating the deer in the slightest, so I had to make use of tutorials about creating domestic quadrupeds such as cats and dogs, while also using reference images of deer I found online to help me create my model. A bank of reference images, along with the main tutorial I used is displayed below.

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Creating the Scene

I knew I wanted a low poly style scene, as my main focus was the deer itself and it wasn’t possible to create a large, realistic environment given the time constraints. To start with, I made a plane for the grass and created a basic pine tree using a combination of cylinders and boxes. The boxes were changed to Editable Polys to move the vertices into the correct shape for each branch layer. I imported my doe model to use as a size guide, so I could compare the tree to that model and make the tree a realistic height.

For lighting, I added a Daylight to the scene. By adjusting the light’s position, it will create realistic lighting based on it. For example, if the light is high and straight above the scene, it’ll give off shadows and lighting that occurs at noon. Move the light lower to the ground off to left or right and lighting and shadows will resemble those in a sunset afternoon. In the image above, you can see the horizon line where the sky ends is a bit higher than the scene.

Sunlight, mental ray, options

Rendering tab, environments, change to mr Physical sky.

To hide the horizon point and to make the landscape less flat, I created several Geo-spheres, changed their sizes to be completely different from each other, and positioned them as I’ve done in the image above. Through the material editor, I assigned four different shades of green to each geosphere, so the environment appears to more vast than what it actually is. By adding these hills, it gives the the atmosphere more depth to it. As hills aren’t perfectly rounded, I assigned Noise modifiers to all geospheres, cranking up the width, length and scale to give them a bumpy, more natural surface.

Texturing

The next step was placing a texture on the doe. Although I have previous experience of texturing an organic model, I followed a tutorial to brush up on the basics of it. (mention tutorial).

A big problem I had when unwrapping the texture of the doe was connecting the seams for each section, particularly the ears and mouth. I didn’t realise that when making the ears and mouth that I was positioning the vertices in the MeshSmooth modifier instead of the Editable Poly, which meant that the vertices in that modifier were scattered around the mesh. This issue made it very difficult to find the correct vertices for that particular seam. To fix this, I had to locate the vertices within the mesh while in the Editable Poly, and arrange them in a manner that could be clearly noticed while maintaining the same basic shape of the ear.

It was tricky creating seams around the doe’s ears as the vertices in the Editable Poly were difficult to pinpoint. So, I had to go back into the Edit Poly, pick out the vertices hidden within the mesh and position them back into the shape of ears again before creating the ear seams.

After every section was mapped out properly, I saved out the UV map to be sent to Photoshop to apply the texture.

I found a short fur texture at roughly 10MP in size to replicate the deer’s fur. To cover all the UVs without stretching the texture, I duplicated the texture that I turned into a Smart Object, duplicated it several times, and positioned them underneath the UV layer, as I’ve done above. With the same texture piled up several times, it left a lot of harsh, dark lines across the UV from the images borders. To get rid of these, I used a scatter brush with altered settings to make it look similarly to fur, and carefully painted over all harsh lines in a (layer mask) I added to some of the fur layers. I used the same technique for all the other UVs. I saved out all the UVs and PNGs, placed them into the material editor and assigned it to the model. This took a few tries at adjusting UVs in the UV editor, and repainting the texture to get it to fit just right.

Rigging

To rig my deer, the first thing to do is to build a skeleton the model can use to move its body around, just like real living things do. For this, I researched diagrams of deer skeletons as reference material to get a clear reading on how a deer skeleton works.

In the Animation tab, I used the Joint tool to recreate the deer skeleton, placing the joints according to the diagram. I also added a few extra joints for the ears so that they can be told to twitch and move just like they would in real life.

Joints (find diagram).

The next phase requires creating IK handles. IK handles (find what they do). For the front leg, I create an IK handle for the entire leg, which allows the joints to move forward and backward like an actual leg, but that was all it could do. I also made IKs to allow the knee to bend, and for the hoof and ankle to curl behind the leg like it would when it’s walking. Although everything has the flexibility to move, the ankle and hoof do not curl in the direction they’re supposed to, but that can be fixed once the controls are added later on.

A big problem that I had was that I was unsure of how to go about creating the joints for the neck, face and ears for the deer, so I had intended to add IK handles to the rest of the body, come back at a later stage and connect the neck to the body. However, the neck joint will only connect to another joint that has not been converted to an IK handle, meaning I had to go back and connect all the joints of the skeleton before going back into creating the IK handles.

Painting Weights

After binding the rigged skeleton to the mesh, some of the geometry became a bit warped when parts of the body were moved, such as the belly stretching abnormally when moving around the deer’s limbs. Another more major problem was that when bending the deer’s neck downward as it would naturally, the mesh would twist and warp into itself around the base of the neck and beneath the head. In order to fix this problem, I had to adjust both the rotate and position pivots for both joints until they became relatively untwisted. I painted weights around both the base and the height of the neck to stop it twisting inwards again.

Controls

Adding controls aren’t always necessary, but I decided to add these as, due to the size of the joints of my deer model, it would make selecting to animate later on much more difficult. These controls would make it easier for me to select the part of the body I want to move, and animate it accordingly.

I used basic circles for each control, making them slightly bigger than the body part it’s assigned to so I can see it clearer to the eye and easier to grab. To actually connect these controls to the IK handles, I snapped the pivots of each IK to the area where the most movement would be, and then snapped the pivots of the controls to that same IK. If I hadn’t fixed the pivots, my rigged movements would’nt move the way it should. For example, if the pivot for bending the knee was not in fact in the knee, then the knee would contort very badly and unnaturally.

Exporting

Exporting was a bit of an issue. Due to Maya not having Mental Ray, a renderer I need to render out my animation with, I had to export my animation back into 3DS Max again. By doing this, I had to re-adjust object sizes, recreate small objects within the scene such as the bushes due to 3Ds not recognising the shape, and I also had to add new materials to every low poly object except the geospheres and the deer, due to them being listed as lamberts from Maya, which 3Ds Max do not support.

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Animating was tricky, considering all the parts of the doe’s body I wanted to move. I had made an error throughout the course of the animation process that I hadn’t noticed until late. Somewhere along the way, I must have forgotten to freeze transformations on all controls and parts of the deer, as when I wanted to reset a limb to its neutral position at 0, it would not look as it was supposed to, and therefore I had to copy and paste numbers all over the place to make sure the animation was smooth. Also, I hadn’t realised that at the beginning of the deer’s walk cycle, the belly jumps out unnaturally at times and makes the legs appear to be popping out of their sockets at times. As I had only noticed this issue at the very end of the animation process, it was too risky to dive in and fix it when I had already animated everything else.

Rendering

The rendering was the final step. By using mental ray, and by allowing it to use the Ambient Occlusion settings, each frame was rendered twice. One frame had the entire scene rendered within it with some shadows, while the other image of the exact same frame would be in black and white except for some darker shading in parts of the body. By rendering it out this way, I would be able to bring both renders into After Effects, compile the two, and the shows in the scene would pop out much more, looking more natural.

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2. Guitar

To create the main part of the body, I created a Line from the Spline menu, and used it to draw the shape. After closing the Spline and re-positioning the vertices to give the body curvature, I (did something here), extruded top face, and capped the back of the body to make it more 3D.

Creating the neck involved a bit more work. I created a new box and converted the object to an Editable Poly to move the vertices into the correct positions. To get the right shape for the head of the guitar, I extruded out the neck a few times and positioned the new vertices according to the reference. The trickiest part was the curved wood at the back of the neck, which involved extruding out two of the polygons at the bottom of the neck, and chamfering the connecting edges down the spine of the object to a high enough value. The final touch was to have the head of the guitar slanted at an angle like in the reference material, which I did by simply selecting all the faces of the head and rotating X axis.

Creating the string tuners on the back of the guitar head required making a number of objects and combining them together. The base of the Tuner was made from a simple box, and converted it into an Editable Poly to arrange the vertices in a flatter, rhombus shape. On top of the rhombus, I placed another box, connecting two of the edges of it’s top face and lifting the new edge to create the raised surface from the reference material. For the parts that actually do the tuning when twisted, I created a basic cylinder coming from one side of the box with the raised surface, brought down the length segments of the shape to (12/8), and removed all segments along the width of the cylinder to create a clean circular face. To get the intricate shape required a series of extrusions and adjusting vertices of each segment. The final part was made from a simple box with (2) segment(s) on each face, converted to an Editable Poly and squashed the other vertices. With the complete tuner, the entire thing was duplicated five more times and positioned on back of the guitar head like the original.

Each guitar string was made from cylinders sized in accordance with the actual size of the strings from the reference material. All were extruded out, bent to follow the shape of the guitar head, and individually twisted around its corresponding tuner.

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