I was checking on google video if my animatic would pop up when I typed Jabberwocky Animatic (title of my animatic), and I got a whole page of videos for Jabberwocky.
Here is one I would like to share......its hilarious
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Design Production_01
Got some images together for our color palette, and made a collage out of it. I also looked into Tyquane's suggestion of the website www.colourlovers.com. Its a cool site, and very helpful. Then I researched some different sites for the meanings etc of color, and unfortunately I cannot reference wikipedia, but I got a lot of information regarding the same.
We also spoke to Christian Meija, who is now going to develop our color story boards for us. His skills at photoshop are amazing and i am really looking forward to the results. Most of our pre-production work is working out really well thanks to all the help from our classmates and friends. I have to say, we have some of the most amazing people at CADA. I hope that I am able to return the favor.
Adrian suggested the website www.colorblender.com for the color palette, and it is an amazing website, very interactive, allows you to save your color palette, and also download it as color swatches.
Following are the color palettes for William, Jabberwocky, the forest and the vorpal sword
William
Jabberwocky
Sword
Forest
We also spoke to Christian Meija, who is now going to develop our color story boards for us. His skills at photoshop are amazing and i am really looking forward to the results. Most of our pre-production work is working out really well thanks to all the help from our classmates and friends. I have to say, we have some of the most amazing people at CADA. I hope that I am able to return the favor.
Adrian suggested the website www.colorblender.com for the color palette, and it is an amazing website, very interactive, allows you to save your color palette, and also download it as color swatches.
Following are the color palettes for William, Jabberwocky, the forest and the vorpal sword
William
Jabberwocky
Sword
Forest
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Design Production
Our assignment this week is to get into the color, composition, design elements, and to create a style frame. Unfortunately I have not had time to do much except look at some images with regard to the colors of our thesis.
I also need to create a style frame with colors. Time is flying really fast and its getting more difficult to keep up with the pere-production as well as the 3 other classes. Fortunately we can use our thesis as finals for our classes. So for my lighting and rendering final assignment I will create the scene where William is holding the sword and the emblem that he has in his hand. It may not be the final sword that we go for, but as long as I get the look right I will have achieved a lot.
I sent across our animatic to Alistair Farrant, he is doing the graphics communication course at SCPS and sound is his hobby. He will be creating the music as well as doing the voice over and all the sound effects for our project. Co-ordinating is a little difficult but I am sure once everything starts rolling it will become easier.
To top it all, being the artist in the family I was emotionally blackmailed into creating a family tree for my Uncles 60th birthday, if it was not for Junie I would have probably have spent atleast 2-3 days on creating it. Thank you junie.....feel free to grab me for any kind of help you ever need.
I also need to create a style frame with colors. Time is flying really fast and its getting more difficult to keep up with the pere-production as well as the 3 other classes. Fortunately we can use our thesis as finals for our classes. So for my lighting and rendering final assignment I will create the scene where William is holding the sword and the emblem that he has in his hand. It may not be the final sword that we go for, but as long as I get the look right I will have achieved a lot.
I sent across our animatic to Alistair Farrant, he is doing the graphics communication course at SCPS and sound is his hobby. He will be creating the music as well as doing the voice over and all the sound effects for our project. Co-ordinating is a little difficult but I am sure once everything starts rolling it will become easier.
To top it all, being the artist in the family I was emotionally blackmailed into creating a family tree for my Uncles 60th birthday, if it was not for Junie I would have probably have spent atleast 2-3 days on creating it. Thank you junie.....feel free to grab me for any kind of help you ever need.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Panel Critique
We had a panel critique today with 3 professors, Michael Hosenfeld (NYU SCPS), Mike Cushny (NYU SCPS) and Brendon from SVA.
We were the first to go from our class, we got some great feed back and some tips from all of them regarding resources and tricks that we could use for our thesis. Unfortunately we did not have any sound and that was the main negative comment that they had to make. The camera and the composition is going to play a very important role in this trailer, which is something they stressed upon. Basically they got the thesis, they understood what we were trying to do and portray.
The most important thing to do now is to try and get a scratch sound going so that when we have the industry panel on the 14-15-16th of Nov we have no comments regarding that. One of the suggestions was to get this storyboard to a more finished level, with color, proper camera angles, and composition. We roped in christian to help us to make our story boards more finalised. Cidalia is going to help Adrian to define the characters and create the sketches for them as well as the props that will be shown in the trailer.
We were the first to go from our class, we got some great feed back and some tips from all of them regarding resources and tricks that we could use for our thesis. Unfortunately we did not have any sound and that was the main negative comment that they had to make. The camera and the composition is going to play a very important role in this trailer, which is something they stressed upon. Basically they got the thesis, they understood what we were trying to do and portray.
The most important thing to do now is to try and get a scratch sound going so that when we have the industry panel on the 14-15-16th of Nov we have no comments regarding that. One of the suggestions was to get this storyboard to a more finished level, with color, proper camera angles, and composition. We roped in christian to help us to make our story boards more finalised. Cidalia is going to help Adrian to define the characters and create the sketches for them as well as the props that will be shown in the trailer.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Animatic Round 2
Since our story board creation we have had a lot of input regarding our shots for the animatic an we have already gone through 2-3 versions of our animatic. Creating the animatic has given us a better insight into how we want to portray certain things, such as the tempo of the piece, the transitions we want to incorporate and ofcourse the fact that we will definitely need to have our music composed.
We don't, want the music to drive our piece it should be the other way round. The line of action is coming across wrong in some of the shots, but we will figure it out. Shooting the action will be a very crucial addition, and will allow us to understand better what we want to portray.
This is our "second" attempt at the final animatic. I'm sure we are going to change it around and make some more editing changes as we go down the way. We have some great story boards to work with and to finally see something as whole as the animatic is very exciting.
To put this together we had to dive into FCP (not one of my favourite programs). Being a PC person I struggle a little with Macs, but since the programs are the same I always manage to work around the Mac. FCP was a whole different ball game. knowing very little about FCP and how it works, it was a real task to get the animatic done exactly how we wanted to.
The result was great, and looking at all the frames together like this gave us an opportunity to understand better the timing of our whole piece. We already cut out a few shots and made them optional, and changed around the timing for some of the shots.
So here goes, see the first round of our animatic (more like 5-6th...ha).
Jabberwocky
We don't, want the music to drive our piece it should be the other way round. The line of action is coming across wrong in some of the shots, but we will figure it out. Shooting the action will be a very crucial addition, and will allow us to understand better what we want to portray.
This is our "second" attempt at the final animatic. I'm sure we are going to change it around and make some more editing changes as we go down the way. We have some great story boards to work with and to finally see something as whole as the animatic is very exciting.
To put this together we had to dive into FCP (not one of my favourite programs). Being a PC person I struggle a little with Macs, but since the programs are the same I always manage to work around the Mac. FCP was a whole different ball game. knowing very little about FCP and how it works, it was a real task to get the animatic done exactly how we wanted to.
The result was great, and looking at all the frames together like this gave us an opportunity to understand better the timing of our whole piece. We already cut out a few shots and made them optional, and changed around the timing for some of the shots.
So here goes, see the first round of our animatic (more like 5-6th...ha).
Jabberwocky
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
BAMF effect
Spoke to Adam burr again regarding another effect that we are planning. The effect was used in Xmen2 for the night crawler called the "BAMF" effect. It is a wispy smoky effect that will be a hovering cloud around the Jabberwocky. Our assignment for class today was to create a fluid animation flowing along a path and it is something that I could use for this effect. When he saw the reference Adam said that there are times when physically creating the effect in the real world is better and more realistic. Since we want this effect to almost shadow the Jabberwocky we will need to create it within Maya or contract a really skilled compositor.
For the Dynamics final I will probably re-create this effect so that I get an idea of how difficult it is an also get an idea of render times.
I went searching online for some information on this effect and discovered that you tube was full of videos of people who had already attempted this. Some good and some.......hmmmm. Some created with 3d and some used after effects and compositing to get their results.
The way I am looking to recreate this is a little differently. It is not going to be used to make a character disappear but rather it will be like a hovering effect, like a shadow, around the Jabberwocky's wings.
To understand the effect better please visit the following links, there were many but I am just posting the original and one done by someone else
XMen2 Nightcrawler
YouTube
For the Dynamics final I will probably re-create this effect so that I get an idea of how difficult it is an also get an idea of render times.
I went searching online for some information on this effect and discovered that you tube was full of videos of people who had already attempted this. Some good and some.......hmmmm. Some created with 3d and some used after effects and compositing to get their results.
The way I am looking to recreate this is a little differently. It is not going to be used to make a character disappear but rather it will be like a hovering effect, like a shadow, around the Jabberwocky's wings.
To understand the effect better please visit the following links, there were many but I am just posting the original and one done by someone else
XMen2 Nightcrawler
YouTube
Monday, October 22, 2007
Animatic Round 1
Got together with Adrian and was putting the final touches on our animatic, we don't have a sound yet but we have a sample of the kind of music that we are looking at.
On Friday, 20th OCT we met Alistair, he is the person who did the sound for Donkey Xote, and when he spoke with his English accent I could not resist asking him if he would like to do our voice over for us. He not only agreed but wants to also do our sound effects, and probably compose an original piece of celtic music for the trailer.
This is absolutely great.....once we have our animatic finished with the logos etc we can pass it on to him for the sound.
On Friday, 20th OCT we met Alistair, he is the person who did the sound for Donkey Xote, and when he spoke with his English accent I could not resist asking him if he would like to do our voice over for us. He not only agreed but wants to also do our sound effects, and probably compose an original piece of celtic music for the trailer.
This is absolutely great.....once we have our animatic finished with the logos etc we can pass it on to him for the sound.
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