Backgrounds... from the beginning..

So after our chat with Georg the other day I realised that I was probably going to have to re draw all of our background, as they were too small and the quality when zoomed in was very poor. Also I needed to cut out each of the Elements in the shot, so that they could be on different layers. This is my first one, though it is yet to be even coloured. I am a little worried that this will set us back a little from out schedule.

Life Drawing

So Charlotte and I finally went to a life drawing session at woodlane, yesterday evening, with some fairly poor result on my part. I wasn't very happy with the work that I produced, but I am going to put up this one piece, not very happy with the final outcome, but really liked the technique that I used, Charcoal and Chalk on brown paper, using a rubber to clean up the edges.


But I do plan to continue to go from now on, practice makes perfect and all that. :)

getting a bit of perspective...

This is the City backdrop, altered using the perspective tool in photoshop to see how the taxi sits in the shot.

Taxi

this is the taxi prop for the shots in the city. I have been working on it in photoshop, and the bottom picture was used to check that the prop would fit in well with the backgrounds.

City Backgrounds...

Backgrounds

Been working on these in photshop. Layering and stealing textures from some of the earlier mood pieces.

Dissertaion Draft Feedback

So I submitted about 3000 words for the draft, and wasn't overly confident about the quality of my writing and so didnt carry on, until I had heard back from Ann, who is supervising our essays.

Although my introduction was good, I haven't referenced properly yet and as soon as I begin to look at background theory, the structure gets very messy. I thought she may say this, as I didn't quite know how to approach the structuring of the individual sections.

Also I had not numbered my pages, or included a word count.

To help with tthe structuring Ann suggested the I label each paragraph. For example, Attitudes to parents, agae and sexuality, social ideals. And make sure that each sections builds and follows on from what has been said before.

The List

We have to submit all of our pre production work next friday, and this morning we have had a tutorial with Andy, who is our 'superivising producer'. He talked us through what we would need to have ready to hand in and I thought I would list it on here so that I don't lose it!
By 11th December Design Pack

- Storyboard (current Version)
- Final Script (locked off)
- Character Designs
* Old Lady
* Old Man
* Young Woman
* Black Shadow People

- Props
* Taxi
* Bicycle

- Background Designs An Example of what the world will be like.

Over Xmas if not before.

- Character Layers in photoshop, ready to put into flash.
- Finalised Storyboard

When we start back in January.

- Start the animation Layouts.
- Each scene to have a file name.


We also will be seeing James Henry/ Henry James (I'll get it right one day) next week to tweak our story to perfection. And cannot lock the storyboard until after this.

This afternoon we will be seeing Derek to show him our design work and to get some feedback about it all.

So thats all. Excluding dissertation :)

life drawing

Here are my life drawing pieces from this term. I do intend you go to class next week as I want to expand on this little collection.

bullet point at the ready

So I have just re written the story to include the lady being dropped off at her door so that there are no question of some sort of weird one night stand innuendo. And have written up some bullet points for charlotte and I to take in just in case we get a little lost. But I think it will go ok and I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else have got planned for their projects.

Nearly time to Present..

So today Charlotte has been finishing off our now wonderful moodscape and I have been fine tuning some of the images. I've written out a rough script of what we are going to say to the crowd on friday and we'll tidy it up later once I have had a look at the old BBC pitch script to check if I have missed anything important out. Below is one of the images I have been working on today.

The WOW picture

So after a few helpful comments from Kathy, I have added some shadows to the old lady and some brake light reflection in the rain water on the road. It does make the picture seem more dramatic.

The face on the lady is actually Charlotte's drawing as we both felt that she had a kinder look to her.