Update so Far

This is the model as it stands for now! still alot to do! hair/eyes/inside of mouth/ belt/ buttons

Time To model

i have to be honest and say that i have not bee very successfull when it has come to keeping on track with the timetable set out for us by desmond and ash! It would seem according to this timetsable that i am a month behind with modeling considering i should have been finished around the 17th of december. Its full speed ahead if im to regain some ground! Here is a copy of the timetable.

Issues of money!

I am having to do alot of overtime at the moment in order to fund myself for the second term! this is having a very big effect on the amount of work i am producing at the moment! this is something i can honestly say i didnt compensate for within my timetable! lets hope it doesnt distract me to much! I will try and Have the old lady modelled to a point within this next week or so.

Templates!

With the term over we are now gonna go full steam with the modeling. I have produced two templates for the two main characters.

Essays

For the next week or so i shall be focusing on getting both the esays done as well as helping Desmond with a majority of the drawings within the animatic.

Thumbnails the sequel

Desmond started to producing the animatic a while back, but we felt after reviewing the thumbnails we originally had, to go away and re draw and layout scenes we felt were not strong enough. here are the new thumbnails, as they stand now, but they still might need alot of tweaking
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The new colour boards

Here are the colours boards i produced for some of the main scenes within our animation.

Time for Some thumbnailing

Heres the thumbnails weve been working on so we may move on and produce a very professional animatic! it took alot longer than exapected, and that was most probably as i was left alone to produce the thumbnails. there are parts that need improving on, but for the time being these will be more than good enough.

Conceptual stuff

forgot to add the pictures, woops

Begining the thumbnails

After finally coming up with a structured story, with character designs etc, we are now ready to move on and visually develop the idea. We will start story boarding at some point this week, and aim to have it finnished within a week or two.

2007 - A doughnut odyssey

The team has been working very hard on a script, and everything that accompanies it! For this week we hope to have an understandable and proffessional script that will accompany our technical abilities! we have had the luck of knowing someone on a broadcasting course who has been kind enough to offer his skills in this department.

Every cloud has a silver lining!

Well it would seem that my idea was not picked by the tutors! this was quite a dissapointment to me and a suprisingly large amount of people who came up to me afterwards and said they wanted to work on my idea! but it was not picked and so the show must go on! I have chosen to work on ashes project called 'cafe le doughnut'! this is as i feel with the limited amount of environment and character modelling i will be able to produce some fantastic models to accompany this very animated piece!

How bitching is pitching!

have finally got to pitch my idea! i was suprisingly nervous to begin with but got into the swing of things after a while! the response from the class was in my opinion excellent, i had alot of feedback and alot of people seemed interested, even coming up to me afterwards asking a tonne of questions! the tutors seemed to think the idea had allready been milked, but i have never seen any animation, or live action for that matter with signs that are alive, i even ravaged the internet for anything that could even resemble my idea and there was nothing, so i think that the tutors are a bit confused!
Below are the images i used to present my pitch....

The begining of a new - the pitching process!

After spending a majority of my summer break working at framestore CFC i didnt have as much time as i would have liked to work on my pitching! however i dont feel that what i have produced is lacking, and should hold its own when i come to pitching the idea.