Richard's Space Designs

These are Richard Butler's concept designs for the space world, done in Photoshop.

Treatment and Script by Natasha Adiletta

My contribution to Pinny Gig

I have spent the majority of my hour allowance on Bron's film, colouring in all of her 2D frames with Photoshop. I had to colour all the areas that were going to be white, bright green, because the background is white in the frames, and that will be keyed out in Shake so the Maya backgrounds can show through. Bit complicated, and we could have just coloured the backgrounds green in Photoshop, but oh well. Bron has done the same for mine, but I have very few different colours in my film, where she has 10. See Bronwyn Dowle's blog.

Animation Passes

This is the first shot from my film, from Keys to Coloured frames, to show the process and development.

1. Key frames

2. Keys and Breakdowns

3. Finished Animation

4. Inked and put through Shake

5. Photoshop colouring

6. Complete shot.

Animatic

This is the most recent animatic, as I am making changes all the time. When I edit the final film together I will use this version as reference.

Amazing!

In the last 2 weeks I have managed to tween 23 out of those 26 seconds of keys and ink another 19 seconds. That means all together I have inked 33 seconds, and have 22 ready to ink. I still have 38 to key, but I think if I have another productive weekend, then I’ve got no problems.

The Shake script is working fine, and I have given Bron a chunk of work that is ready to colour in. She said she will have all her animation done by the end of the week (11th April) and so she can start putting it into the computer and preparing it for colouring. I think she wants shading on hers though, and we had a play with Shake to see if that could do it; the results were alright, but not brilliant. She might have to play with that after it’s coloured, if there’s time.

I got my dissertation bound today! Finally, after having the library printer break yesterday. Glad its done, but I did notice a goof when I was making sure the pages were in the right order, but I think it should be ok, its just a presentation thing…
Anyway, time for me to get back on with animating. Don’t need to worry about the essay now, so just gotta get on with my film, straight ‘til the end. We hand in in 4 weeks and 6 days!