2nd Animatic

This is my second attempt at my animatic, which I used for my assessment with my lecturers. We decided that it needs a totally different approach because there's far to many close ups and dissolves. I will have to try and find another way to show of the room without doing so many close up shots.

I will soon return with a new animatic after I have a re-think. ( In my assessment I had a soundtrack, but because I don't own the copyright to the music I have taken it off. The soundtrack with either be Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or Silent Night)

Bed for the Room...

To help when it comes to the modeling of the bed in the environment, I have drawn up a  model packets. They explain themselves really, soooo enjoy.

First Test Animatic...

For my animatic I have used the rough storyboard draft pictures so I can get an idea of the timing right. This is my first animatic so it still needs a lot of work, but I think it will help to get my idea across.

Rough Storyboard Draft...

This is my first rough storyboard draft, which I did using a rough block out of the environment I built on Maya. I will also be putting a much nicer and more detailed storyboard up soon, but this can help get my idea across for now. So not everything that I intend to put into my set is in this draft. I don't want to give the set away from the beginning of the film, so there will be a lot of close ups.

It starts with a pan across the window shelf, leading to another pan down the window and across the top of the bed. Next will be a shot of the bedside table moving onto a zoom in of the teddy bear which will be sitting on the bed.

It then moves onto a pan up of the chair and drip, and finally a zoom out from the bed area onto the whole ward.

Sharing the load

As part of the course we have to work on our fellow students projects as well as them working on yours. The first job I have handed out is.....dun dun dunnn concept work! I handed them over to Laura and Dave so I now get on with other work. I will hopefully putting work up soon, just watch this space!

Re-Style??

One fine night as I was working on my concepts, an idea popped into my head. It was to make the set look as if it had been done in pencil, crayon or pastel. I spoke to my lecturer Sean to see what he thought and he liked the idea and thinks it could work well. So I took one of the concepts I had done into Photoshop to play around with the effects.

The first one is far to grey, but this was the most colour I could get using the pencil effect. Though I do like the cross-hatching of the pencil, but there is not enough of it.

The second one this time is far to black. Though it does show up the colour so much better. However, I don't think I will use the pencil effect.

On this picture I used the pastel effect and it works so much better. It keeps all of the colour and is closer to what I am after.

Though I think it would be a good idea to see if the After Effects software also has this effect (or something similar) to speed up the post production.

Im still here!!

I thought it was about time I did an update as it has been a little while since I posted anything on my blog. I haven't been doing nothing all this time, I have in fact been messing around with concepts, thinking of ideas, sorting out an animatic, messing around on Maya and working on my dissertation. Which, you will be happy to know, will be appearing on my blog asap!!!
The concepts are taking so much longer then I expected so I am hoping to get them finished and out of the way so I can get on with the actual modeling.
So keep an eye out as there will be many more blogs to come!