Thursday, April 25, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
in progress screening
we presented the february version of the animatic last night before a group of interested observers, colleagues and friends, who also offered their works.
it's good, doing a mid-project screening like this, because folks feel some freedom to make comments about things that can be changed, and of course it gives the creator a rare window into the piece from outside.
suggestions included:
- add the hourglass to the beginning of the film and show some ogre interaction with it in order to hint at the finite nature of time that is revealed at the end of the film (show ogre foot through hourglass as he walks by it)
- do something about the mermaid in the bucket to reveal that what we see is a costume (rather than a defunct mermaid)
- add offscreen stagehand voices, unexplained, to presage the ending
- and other comments I'll write later...
- sand falls from sky at beginning
- water colors darker to show depth, danger, and reflect the ogre's mental state
food for thought.
now to update that animatic and get the latest pencil tests in there...
it's good, doing a mid-project screening like this, because folks feel some freedom to make comments about things that can be changed, and of course it gives the creator a rare window into the piece from outside.
suggestions included:
- add the hourglass to the beginning of the film and show some ogre interaction with it in order to hint at the finite nature of time that is revealed at the end of the film (show ogre foot through hourglass as he walks by it)
- do something about the mermaid in the bucket to reveal that what we see is a costume (rather than a defunct mermaid)
- add offscreen stagehand voices, unexplained, to presage the ending
- and other comments I'll write later...
- sand falls from sky at beginning
- water colors darker to show depth, danger, and reflect the ogre's mental state
food for thought.
now to update that animatic and get the latest pencil tests in there...
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Cloud Update
Now to just finish coloring and adding a bit of a line! Should be all done and shiny by next week at the latest!!
Monday, March 25, 2013
timepost
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| stagehands |
20apr13
...is the date we are aiming for to have a rough edit ready for the full pencil test of the film. I've got two more sequences to key (plus lots of revisions, it's true).
on the plate:
- finish keys and breakdowns (chris)
- finish cloud and star sequences by 01apr13 (shannon and amanda)
- fish animated for sequence 04 (giselle)
- start character coloring in earnest (matt and TBA)
- automate background coloring (eric and matt)
- set date/goal to finish in-betweens (janelle, amanda, giselle, shannon, eric, chris)
- start wave and cloud animation tests (chris, eric, shannon)
- revise calendar to meet july deadline
IMUA fo' da mo'heads!
~ Chris Head
Cloud Progress …. Kinda :l
Still coloring some frames and deciding on line weight. Almost done!
The Close up shot is also currently being animated and about to go into color stage!
Sunday, March 24, 2013
tiny inventions
very interesting to see how Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, partners in life and in their studio, Tiny Inventions, manage to work on a project while living (temporarily) an ocean apart:
tiny inventions blog
they are very organized.
they will be coming to give a guest lecture at UArts in April. we will be very keen to hear them talk and see their work firsthand!
tiny inventions blog
they are very organized.
they will be coming to give a guest lecture at UArts in April. we will be very keen to hear them talk and see their work firsthand!
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