Character and Narrative - Week Three

When we met up this week, we mostly agreed that the storyboard was fine, only minor alterations to specific panels had to be made, so I adjusted them accordingly. I also planned on producing an animatic over the weekend. However, I only have access to Sony Vegas, and it does not allow me to render video in h264, so I'm opting to wait until I'm next in uni to get it done. I have, however, "cut out" the panels of the storyboard, ready to be inserted into Adobe Premiere.

Shadows, reflections and compositing in Maya

Today's Maya lesson taught us how to composite a CGI animated object into live action footage by making use of convincing shadow and reflection effects. I managed to follow along quite easily this time around, and a lot of the steps made sense. Maya is still somewhat of a daunting challenge for me, but this session helped me out a lot.

Character and Narrative - Week Two

When my team and I met up again this week, we compared our storyboards and combined our ideas together. While the other two went ahead to focus on potential character designs, I made a 2nd draft of the storyboard and wrote the script.

Character and Narrative - Week One

This week was when our second year really kicked off.
After being organised into groups, we were tasked with creating a simple story idea based on what we ended up getting with story dice to turn into a short animated film (around 30 secs ~ 1 minute in length). My idea won... somehow.

I was made director of our group and decided that, after finalising the plot of the film, we get to work on creating a basic storyboard. When we next meet up, we will compare and contrast our storyboards to see which ideas we like and what we'll keep. After this is done, I will handle writing the script and a "final" storyboard will be produced which will later be turned into an animatic.