First blog since Easter so it might take me a while to get back into the swing of things. I still have not posted the I-dent but I suppose that’s a bit irrelevant now.
Will kick things off by talking about this week and returning to my most favourite thing in the whole wide world, Maya; to say I found animating the ball frustrating would be a bit of an understatement, but I have gone through some of the tutorials since then and I have found those really useful so hopefully I will have more success with the other tasks in future. I’m hoping I can get my head round it, especially the modelling side of it as I think having a 3D environment to work in lends itself better to my ideas as it is easier to work out things like camera angles and lighting. I’m not overly keen on the whole 3D finish though, so I might look into how the giant was textured in Iron Giant, where cell shading was used to make the character look like it was 2D.
I found the Easter project really good fun, I did keep putting off the script though as I had never done something like that and was a bit wary of it but once I started it I really liked it. For the storyboard I really tried to bring something else to the script by tweaking the odd bit here and there and utilising what I have learned about cinematography. How successful that has been and weather or not I would be aloud to do that in a professional situation, I do not know. The script was heavily influenced by Roman Klochkov’s Administrators, (I can’t find a version of it on the internet so this is just a link to his myspace) and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I also recycled quite a lot of research that I did for a project last year, it is mostly newspaper cuttings which where really useful for getting inspiration as well as some sketches of some stuff I got given in a police station, although my script dose not deal with this police equipment the memories evoked by the sketches and the odd scribbled note, reminded me of how hard it was to get the stuff and what happened while I was there, which also served as inspiration.
Shady Joe
- Shady Joe
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3 comments:
I think what you have leaned from the script process is that the skill is not only in the idea,but in the editing. A well crafted script is punchy, to the point and focussed.
I'd quite like to look at your script. I really loved Roman Klochkov’s Administrators when we saw it at Bradford and Brazil is like totally my most favouritist film ever. Plus of course, I quite like your sence of humour and the storylines you came up with for our charecters in Motion Studies. My script is not so good, it kind of came out fully formed so I didn't do much in the way of editing. I think I'd like editing...
(Thanks for the cute fluffy comment, it made my day)
Hello Will, how are doing?
I really liked your ident, I thought it had good pace and I was impressed by your illustrations, characters and the animation.
Looking at our work en mass is quite an insight into our characters, seeing how people worked and how much effort was put in. I know you put in alot of effort, as did alot of people. You stretched your ability and tried to find out what you could achieve, whereas others I think stayed within their comfort zone. Well done Will!
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