Animatic.

Here is animatic that I promised to post some time ago. All shots was discussed by members of our group, then sketched by me on paper and put together in animatic by other in my group. Before we put all drawings together we scanned them and made some colour and lightning adjustments in Photoshop. These animatic is not the final one and I will post another one (final) next week. Quality on these film is not the best...

Back to storyboard.

The past days was practically about to go through some critic points, that was pointed out for us before winter break. One of those was that we needed some more shots in the beginning for tie a bond with Valkyrie before story begins, get more sympathy for her. Well... Discussion ended with 5 more shots and new character!

It is a sweat dirty teddy bear that Valkyrie finds before she sees Construct. It gives her more emotions.

I am done to sketch new shots so now we have to scan those in and make a new version of animatic. I feel we are so done with storyboard! :)

Here is example of one of our new shots.

I did some research, or to be honest it came unexpected... Reference on environment, the perfect one!!! 

We rented some movies and one of those was "Mutant Chronicles". Move it self was not so good, but environment is perfect for our film. All ruined buildings, cracks and lightning. Downloaded the movie so I can show it for my group on monday. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/

The part of a Mutant Chronicles from YouTube

I am a master of catastrophe!

With just my luck, the first day at school was more technical frustration! Third week in a row! 

I started the day by trying to login  my account. We got instructions, a big list of passwords, usernames but nothing worked and to be sure to destroy my creative spirit, an input to the main display (we have to each) died on me! It turned black and I can`t make any changes because I can`t se were!!!

My problems didn't stopped there thou... I am seek, got could. Train was late so I missed my bus and had to run to work. Washing-machine at work wasn't working ether and list of things can go on, but I think its funny!!! What is the odds to be so unlucky in one day, in the real life? 

I steel have my sense of irony and sarcasm so things cant be SO bad! :)

Uppdate...

Work in progress

I got Max 2008 upp and running! Tyed some modelling of Valkyrie.

Douh.....

Winter break... I thought I could do some work done these week, but no... Found out that I have some problems with 3D Max lisence and the only thing that can help me is to reinstall wondows... Snap!.... !"#¤%*&!

Welcome to the world of frustration!

Tomorrow is THE presentation and when we thought that everything is going well... we were WRONG!!!!!!

I started my day by finding out that nothing was working!!! Because of some failure on server computers went down from time to time, we could not access any software and if we could, we were not able to save any work because if we did, we could kiss program goodbye and just pray that it will be functional soon.....Doh...

I think we missed 2 hours work, with 3 people... it is 6 hours completely dead time!!!! So... we had to do something and yes, be stressed and frustrated seemed to be a damn good idea at that point!!!

It is a tools-store across the street, Jarnia, so next time I WILL buy a hammer and I WILL use it on my computer at school... It is a promise...

And weeks passes by...

Another week is almost over and we are done with 3rd draft of storyboard and first draft of animatic! Things is going forward!

I think the weeks big-laugh moment was when we timed the shots. We and our body parts was over whole classroom when we tried to act imagining that we were holding cameras. :)

I will post first draft of animatic hopefully on monday...

Weekend work...

I am trying to write some blog here at the same time as my cat giving me a lots of hairy hugs :) It seems like she is not agree that I give more attention to my computer wright now :D he he he....

As we know, Monday was the presentation. Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday was used to discuss cameras and shots in our storyboard. It was fun! I can say that we are done with planing of our storyboard, we have a sketch and now I am using my weekend to draw storyboard readable for others. 

Other members in our group is trying to find some sounds to our prewis/animatic. I found some background sounds from Tomb Rider game on my hard disc. Wonder what my group is going to say about thous....