2010-02-28

Have created the first Animatic for the piece. I have cut out a number of shots that slowed down the pace too much and were detrimental to the story, which in the storyboard seemed to fit but once seeing it Animatic I realise they do not. Such as shots that cross the line or birds eye shots that I thought would look cool but just take away from the story. Still a lot of work to do editing it down and trying to get the timing right. Also a little worried that the piece will make sense in the final animation. That the cross between the factory and the Elmy world will just be far to much and confusing to watch. Edit on and see what I can do!

2010-02-25

Website finished and uploaded.

www.sameolthing.com

Will keep it up to date with news and pics when I come to it. Will concentrate on the Animatic over the weekend. Hopefully have it wrapped up in another week or so.

2010-02-24

A short 7 minute video on the making of George (about 10 to 12 hours in 7 minutes)

http://vimeo.com/9679446

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjS3RCiGyOE

Creating the website right now and purchased some more web space specifically for the site. (I have moved thevicker.com and sameolthing.com to the same server and paid for another half gig of memory and bandwidth). I have blocked it all out in Photoshop which I will cut up tomorrow and hopefully have the site up by Friday.
I wanted something fairly simplistic but smart and slick in design, so opted for just a white background with black text.



I also reedited all the character bios so they follow the script better. Since the bios were developed before the script to help in character design, some things, such as it being Darren’s first day, and the plant that the Elmies live in used to be a tree outside, I have altered.

2010-02-18

Finished the voice acting sessions today with Chris Goddard. It went really well. He took on the role and applied a number of different tones to the dialogue to try and give a good variations that I can use when editing the sound down. However I think if I had a budget for the piece I would have liked to have all the actors in for a day to run through the lines one more time. To feed of one another and feel each other character. Plus would have made a great video!!!
Anyhow I am currently rendering an edit of the making of George which I will post on youtube in a few hours if it looks ok rendered. Also getting my work together for a seminar tomorrow (which I am dreading).

2010-02-14

Over the last few days I have been cutting up the storyboard for the creation of the Animatic. I decided to change the resolution to widescreen mainly since I felt it looked better, even though it will be featured on the internet I still feel the widescreen format suits. A few notable changes from the storyboard to the creation of George is the ESD badge, that I originally decided to be a triangle instead due to copyright issues, however now I decided to stick with the original square ESD badge, since I cant see ESD badges as a copy right problem. Also the pens and things in Georges pockets I decided to take out due to the size of the pocket they wouldn’t actually fit (ic an still use these on the nearest tables). Just little discrepancies and decisions that although unnoticeable in the final composition still have to be made.

Anyhow I also met Chris Goddard today and was very happy with his voice. Looking forward to the voice session on Thursday. He seems to really suit the part of Darren. Also I have been rendering short animations of my best models for my show reel. The lack of show reel is becoming more of a problem recently, and I really need to remedy it.

2010-02-12

Added more edge loops to the feet and reworked the topology around the pockets of the jacket. Here’s renders of the wire frame full, textured and close up of the face, with fixed normal map around the nose and cranium.

2010-02-11 (night)

Edited down all the sound of Dorothy playing Audrey.

First took the 6 master files of the whole session and cut them to the lines of dialogue, then edited them down further to the lines that portrayed the emotion from Audrey and the best of Dorothy. Also received a email from Craig Dukes who said I can use his recording of him playing Moonlight Sonata for the classical piece.

Craig Dukes work is at
http://www.youtube.com/LVB1770
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/craigdukes

Therefore I have asked Rida if he might be interested in composing for the ambience of the piece, tying it in with the song We all belong here. All in all at the moment everything is going well. Got to try and get a lot done on the Animatic over the weekend though.