Narrative: Rendered Frames

I have rendered a few frames from my section of the animation. These give a rough idea about how the final animation will look.

 

Narrative: Pre-Viz Shots

Before rendering, I play-blasted some of the shots for the Pre-Viz, which you can see below (They're not necessarily in the right order):

Shot 1

Shot 2

 

 

Shot 3

Shot 4

Shot 5

Narrative: Poster in Maya

Poster in Maya 

I have taken the poster and have put it into Maya, by creating a UV, which can be seen below. It's quite basic as it won't be on screen for that long so there's no need to go to any major effort.

UV Layout

Narrative: Poster Design

 In our animation there is a shot where a knife hits a poster. I have designed this poster as an advert for the circus. I wanted to make it quite basic, yet colourful, which is what I think it is. I am very pleased with this as it looks like a proper poster for a circus.

 Coloured

Blank

Narrative: Fully rigged Assistant

 Using the rig skeleton that I created for the Assistant character, it is now linked to the model. I needed Alan's help as I was having trouble with the arms and neck, in particular. I have put the model into a basic pose to demonstrate the current effect of the rigs on the model. It is now ready for skinning.

Narrative: Rigging the Assistant

 For the past few days, I have been creating the skeleton rig for the Assistant character in our animation. I created this skeleton by following the rigging tutorials from last year. It has taken longer than I intended, but I'm happy that I managed to complete it successfully, without any major issues.

 

 

Narrative: Revised Animatic + Storyborard

Animatic (No Sound)

One of my jobs for my narrative group was to create the storyboard and animatic. As the first attempts didn't make the story an easy task to understand and had a few other problems, I need to fix those problems. One of the things I needed to do was to introduce the female character earlier, as it felt strange for her to appear randomly near to the end. I have introduced both characters within the same shot and they both have similar lengths of time on screen.

I had some problems thinking about an appropriate ending, however, and so I gave it a bit of an ambiguous ending, as it is open to interpretation as to whether he throws the knife on or off target. This will therefore lead to the theme of fate being answered.

Narrative: Character Design - Frederick Caro

For our narrative project, I have been designing the Father, Frederick Caro. As you can see from the images below I have done 1 design and then done some colour experiments for that design. When doing the original drawing, I wasn't happy with the face that I drew, so I drew two more, so that I could choose between the two new faces and edit the drawing on photoshop. 

I am quite happy with this design as it summaries the character's personality well, through the expression on his face and in his pose. I then did some colour experiments - obviously to see which colours work best. I like the green shirted one the most, as it has the most realistic use of tone and colour.

Colour Experiments

Drawing in Photoshop

Original Drawing

Narrative: Thumbnails - Circus (Exterior)

Below are some thumbnails of the circus for our narrative project. I tried to use a lot of bright colours and make it look like a real circus, while staying having a cartoon look. The designs are quite generic, so I need to think of more ways as to how the circus can be more unique - That is something that we will discuss as a group.

Finished thumbnails.

Plain, black and white.

Original thumbnails on paper.

Narrative: Influence Map - Father Character

For my group's narrative project, we need to design a Father. As the Father is very pushy and persuasive, I have looked at Dads from films, in particular - Frank Fitts from American Beauty being one example. Characters like him are similar to the one in our story. He's aggressive and wants his son to do what he says, and doesn't like it when he disobeys him. Like the pushy parents you see at a Sunday league football game, our Father figure needs to demonstrate how much he wants his son to do as he says. His appearance must reflect these characteristics and that is what I hope, and intend, to do.

Narrative: Rough Script

Following on from our tutorial with Alan, we have created our first script. It's only rough at the moment, but it gives a good idea how our story goes.

Knife Thrower

Crescent Moon Studios: Link to Blog + Progress so far

Below is a link to our group's blog (Myself, Julia and Lewis), please give us a follow. So far we have posted some early logo and banner designs, as well as an influence map for our animation's setting of the Circus. We are aiming to complete the full design of our blog as soon as possible. With regards to working on the actual project, we will continue to explore/discuss ideas and then begin making thumbnails.

http://crescentmoonstudios.blogspot.co.uk/