Industry Critique

We had our Industry critique today with Andrew Schneider, FX TD, Bluesky
Brien Hindman, Senior Modeler, Blue Sky and along with Myles Tanaka as the moderator.
Being the first to present, we jumped right into introductions and what our thesis was all about. After showing them some of the concept tests, our color palettes, and reference images we put the animatic on.
It looked good on the screen and the sound was really great. Once we were done with showing all that we had to it was time to face the music...
Their first suggestion was that we should break the thesis down into a schedule and then stick to that. After watching the animatic, they wondered if maybe it was too long but at the same time they felt that it may not be very ambitious (which I completely disagree to). They also felt that it did not come across so much as a trailer as much, and it felt more like the first half of a short. After watchign the trailer in class again, and speeding it up almost 3 times its speed we did decide to speed up the shots and cut down the length to almost half.

Trailer (faster)


They had some really good suggestions regarding the jabberwocky character and how we should rig it, as have different rigs depending on the shot and the framing of the shot. One of their ideas was to show off the jabberwocky more and actually see the fight between William and the Jabberwocky, which Adrian and I are considering.
Some of their other suggestions were regarding the camera and framing and this would help a great deal in heightening the tension.
As for the sound they felt it worked, and suggested that we do put in more sound FX.
One of their worries were the wings of the Jabberwocky and the idea that we were planning to use cloth for it, as suggested by them we are thinking about considering using a blend shape to have them open up.