Sunday 25 November 2007
Sunday 18 November 2007
Kitchen Developed
This is the developed design of my kitchen idea. our group decided to go gor a specific style. (which suits my retro designs well) we have decided that the design of our house should be very stylised by having lots of angles in its design. (which i had in my initial assets sketches anyway, i think i may have been a big influence on houses style... wink wink). But anyway, the director really liked this design so i experimented with colour to see what worked well...... Room Designs
Throughout this week i have been busy taking my original sketches from last week of assets and developed some room designs for the bedroom, living room and more kitchen designs for the house. Because Giles and Jenny are designing the exterior of the house i can just concentrate on the interior. I produced them in illustartor to give them a clean look.
Sunday 11 November 2007
First Kitchen Design
Taking the design of my assets, i developed the fridge and cooker further to create ideas fo what the kitchen could look like. Here are two examples which show different colour schemes. I think that they work really well but i will continue to produce more designs, which you can see when i post them next week...
...I know the anticipation is killing you!!!
It's all about RETRO
This week i was designing the interior of the house. Because Giles and Jenny are working on this aswell we thought it best to design the assests and rooms in different styles and have a meeting after to decide what worked best. I really like retro furniture and so i will design my rooms based on this idea. 
Saturday 10 November 2007
Sunday 4 November 2007
THE BIG CHANGE!!!!
Well....... Where do i begin! Seriously! What a week!!! Basically in a nut shell. NEARLY THE WHOLE STORY HAS CHANGED. But may i say its for the better. The news was bought to my attention at the start of the week after a meeting with the marvelous Dan Dalli (calling him marvelous was no intention of bum sucking, i do respect him highly as an animator and tutor and his opionions to are development are priceless).
It started with doubts in our group. We had our story set out but we could all feel that there was something that wasnt quite right. We were on our third scene shot breakdown and we thought it was time for some advice from the tutors. We arranged a meeting with Dan Dalli which Jono, Rob and Giles attended. Our work was pretty much slated to put it nicely. Jono quoted to me some of the things that Dan had said
"your pitch was good, but you've seemed to have gone backwards with it"
He suggested new ideas and angles to view the story, i think that Jono really benifited from the meeting as i director. Because of Jono being such a nice guy he was afraid to hurt people's feelings. and in the development of the story he was asking for everones input and wanted to make everyone happy. Dan said that only 2/3 of the peolple in the group should work on the story with Jono ultimatley having the final say. The end result was that we finally realised why we didnt feel our story was quite right was because of the initail development, there was too many ideas, too many disagreements and with all the compromising the story got lost.
BAD TIMES
So with the idea of 2/3 of the group to develop the story, with their meeting with Dan fresh in their minds, Jono, Rob and Giles went away that nite and developed a new storyline. which they told to the rest of us the next day. As the lead animator i must say i was more than releived !!!!!!!! and another !
If i was honest with myself i was a bit scared with all the work that i was goin to have to do as there was a total of five characters in the old story. I knew i had my work cut out but at this early stage i tried not to let it bother me too much. BUT NOW!!! YYAAAAYYYYY!!! I am jumping for joy. In our new story the animals have been scrapped completely and now there is only the explorer. This gives me more time to work on the animation on one character and get it spot on. With this new story it is clear that the group is revitalised and motivated again. The work load has been reduced drastically with fewer characters so this gives us more time to make our new story the best it can possibly be!.
GOOD TIMES
Basically our new story consists of the new character still running through the jungle and temple but instead of the animals controlling traps we see then explorer jumping and avoiding obsticles. But with a comical twist! These twists come aparant in the middle of the film where we see in the temple a pillar falling on our explorer. The scene cuts the the character asleep in his house with a book shelf falling on him. The story is set deep within his subconsious, where we follow his quest to locate the ancient artefact. The combination of his dream and his sleep walking habits, leads to the dustruction of his apartment.
With this new story, a new environment has been established. This is the characters house where he sleep walks in. So now designs have to be made to determine what it will look like. This job has been given to Giles, Jenny and I. Rob and Jono will work on the temple designs and ben is creating the storyboard.
It started with doubts in our group. We had our story set out but we could all feel that there was something that wasnt quite right. We were on our third scene shot breakdown and we thought it was time for some advice from the tutors. We arranged a meeting with Dan Dalli which Jono, Rob and Giles attended. Our work was pretty much slated to put it nicely. Jono quoted to me some of the things that Dan had said
"your pitch was good, but you've seemed to have gone backwards with it"
He suggested new ideas and angles to view the story, i think that Jono really benifited from the meeting as i director. Because of Jono being such a nice guy he was afraid to hurt people's feelings. and in the development of the story he was asking for everones input and wanted to make everyone happy. Dan said that only 2/3 of the peolple in the group should work on the story with Jono ultimatley having the final say. The end result was that we finally realised why we didnt feel our story was quite right was because of the initail development, there was too many ideas, too many disagreements and with all the compromising the story got lost.
BAD TIMES
So with the idea of 2/3 of the group to develop the story, with their meeting with Dan fresh in their minds, Jono, Rob and Giles went away that nite and developed a new storyline. which they told to the rest of us the next day. As the lead animator i must say i was more than releived !!!!!!!! and another !
If i was honest with myself i was a bit scared with all the work that i was goin to have to do as there was a total of five characters in the old story. I knew i had my work cut out but at this early stage i tried not to let it bother me too much. BUT NOW!!! YYAAAAYYYYY!!! I am jumping for joy. In our new story the animals have been scrapped completely and now there is only the explorer. This gives me more time to work on the animation on one character and get it spot on. With this new story it is clear that the group is revitalised and motivated again. The work load has been reduced drastically with fewer characters so this gives us more time to make our new story the best it can possibly be!.
GOOD TIMES
Basically our new story consists of the new character still running through the jungle and temple but instead of the animals controlling traps we see then explorer jumping and avoiding obsticles. But with a comical twist! These twists come aparant in the middle of the film where we see in the temple a pillar falling on our explorer. The scene cuts the the character asleep in his house with a book shelf falling on him. The story is set deep within his subconsious, where we follow his quest to locate the ancient artefact. The combination of his dream and his sleep walking habits, leads to the dustruction of his apartment.
With this new story, a new environment has been established. This is the characters house where he sleep walks in. So now designs have to be made to determine what it will look like. This job has been given to Giles, Jenny and I. Rob and Jono will work on the temple designs and ben is creating the storyboard.
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