Second year - New animatic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-3ANZtLalg&feature=youtu.be

New animatic done, I've made a few changes, added more details with sound.

I have been ill for past few days so I couldn't make much of a progress this week. But Im glad that I got this animatics done...

Second year - New storyboard

New storyboard with a few changes.

This time no heaven scene at the end, added more at the beginning with more expression on Norman. I took out the speech of the swing so rather than him talking he only smiles instead.

Second year - Changes

Had another chat with my tutor and I have decided to cancel the idea of the heaven completely, so the story will finish with Norman flying up into the air.

It is a bit shame to take out the scenes that I was working on, but from this changes the process will be much easier and from now I only need to concentrate on the layout of the Hell. I can spend more time on props and backgrounds and possibly add more scenes to make the animation last longer.

Second year - Animatic

An animatic of my story.

Second year - Storyboard 2

I have done another storyboard with more details this time.

I have added a bit more scene into some of the part and also added more emotions on Norman and Swing.

I will need to model a swing on Maya and how to model his face... this could be the challenge for me.

Second year - Storyboard

Second year - Advice

I had a chat with my tutor about my idea, and he came across with a few advices that I can think about.

I need to think of the 'actual' location. At the moment I have the idea of children's playground but where at? It could be anywhere. For example, an old playground at the wasteland?

So... location in more depth. Firstly I thought about the oriental garden.
But swing and oriental garden? It's a little bit
mis-matching.
So Firstly I thought about changing the swing into the Koi fish.
Maybe norman becomming friends with this Koi fish? I thought it could still work with my original Idea how the fish talks in Frankenstein.
But Cons - it requires me to model and rig the fish which will be very VERY challenging since I am not the most amazing and brilliant Maya-ing person... (Is Maya-ing even a word?)

If I decided that I want to stick with the idea of swing I came across with another location which is Heaven and Hell.
Maybe the swing flyes Norman from Hell to the Heaven?

Hell and Heaven. For the Hell I got the inspiration from the old chinese drawings of Hell.
For the Heaven I have looked at the paintings, with bright blue sky with shining sunlight, thick carpet of clouds that continues forever...
SO, I thought it was interesting to use 2 locations with this. But it does requires me to model 2 different location which will also be challenging.

I think I would like to stick with my swing ideas and play around with it to see which one is the best location.

Second year - a few changes

I thought it would be more interesting if the actual 'swing' talks, rather than making (and rigging) another character.


So, here's the Mr.swing...

Second year - Storyboard (explanation)

Somehow I couldn't type anything on the previous post so here is the story.

1. Norman Sitting on the swing, looking down.

2. A random person appears and sits next to him. (Maybe a foreigner?)
    Norman says "Before you came I was all alone. It is bad to be alone"

3. A random person stands on his swing

4. Zoom in of random person's face and say "Alone... bad..." looking down

5. "Friend... Good..." looking up.

6.  He starts to swing the swing higher and higher

7. They both flyes off to the sky

Second year - Storyboard idea 1

Second year - Story ideas

When I was thinking of an ideas I wanted to make a theme first to get my mind more clear.

The theme that I was thinking of is: Lonely, Friends, Independent...

Somehow these themes came up instantly and I thought I could make an interesting emotions from these theme.
The actual story idea that I have is that the character (norman) is alone with no friends, he is always sad and miserable but one day he makes a friends and becomes happy.

My location is a children's park, so I thought maybe he could make a friend in the park? maybe another person? or the actual equipment (e.g. Talking equipment)

I wanted to stick with simple ideas with depth, so a lot of emotions (starts off with sad, then he surprises by making friends suddenly, and becomes happy)