"Group Project"

Here is a picture of the character Laurie built me in Maya, I was originally going to use this for the film, but now, as things have changed, I will now use the model to help me draw in 2D - I can pose him to get a better idea of proportions and help with foreshortening (which is always a real pain).

This will also help Claire with building the model for Stop Motion - see how the feet are huge? Well thats so he doesn't fall over.

To build up Claire's hours, she is going to make the 3D (wire and wood) model, and has a segment of my film to animate (about 7 or 8 seconds). I have told her roughly what I want from the shot, but really given her free reign (because I have no idea what is possible in Stop Mo).

I also have Bron working on my film! Seeing as we are both working in 2D, we have the same processes to go through -

Animate

Ink

Scan

Colour

Edit

So, we thought that if we animate our films, we can swap over and ink-colour eachother's, and then edit our own. This is so we can both gain hours - and by the time we finish animating we are going to be sick to the back teeth of our films, so the swap means we get a break, and only have to worry about it when it comes to editing it all together.

What else do we have to do?

Theres the -

Dissertation, which we hand in after Easter, leaving 4 weeks before handing in our films.

I think we have to do a CV as part of the group project,

and probably a load of personal reviews and assess the work we do for others, and what people do for us.

We probably have to do showreels, but they cannot actually be completed without our films being done - does that mean we have to add work from the last 2 years? Will I need to make time to improve on some of that stuff?

I also dont know if I am meant to be working on Ste's showreel; originally he wanted me to animate a section, but after watching his animatic I have no idea what he would want me to do.

Hopefully these questions will be answered in the lectures to come, but I am really impatient - I like to get everything organised, because I cant plan my time when I dont know exactly what I need to do.

I (fingers crossed) will have finished animating before Easter, but I dont know how long inking and colouring will take (scanning will only take a couple of hours using one of the line testers).