This week for the weeklies

So when we found out the film got through, our feedback was to add more pauses in our animatic to create more tension and atmosphere. As well think about layouts and what shots to do and what to prioritize first, and collect and strong team to help animatic and anything else that we would like. So we have made an updated animatic, updated zebra test animation with design, animation reference, lav tests, have made contact with a music student and a musician in Ireland for our film, and i am currently working on a layout for the zebra scene in the savannah which Imogen is animating for us. i have enjoyed working on this layout learning about perspective and how to create depth and get proportion right.

Pitch

Here are some pictures from our 3rd yr pitch, we did in front of industry people. This is for our film idea that we all pitched to industry and to get their full opinion. From their response and talking to the lecturers the project was at an amber stage. This meant that we had to prove ourselves and produce an animatic to see if the story worked. After discussion about our animatic our lecturers came to a decision and put our film threw! :)

Working on layout

Examples of some of the Lav tests

Lav tests example of Tilly's mother slaps Tilly in the scene where Tilly hallucinates and the other lav is when the mother uses a paddle in a boat to rescue Tilly in the water.

Rough shot list

A screenshot showing how the shot list looks

Final Storyboard done by Eline

The Final storyboard here as you can see, showing you how we intend the animation to look in the final outcome.

Animatic

This is the animatic for mine and vickys 3rd yr film The Bird with the help of eline doing our storyboard for us. We used a variety of sound effects to help with the story telling to get an understanding of the film. Editing the animatic we used premiere pro, which was a useful software to to get an idea on timing for the animation process. Eline did the storyboard using Photoshop to do it digitally. Overall i am very pleased with the outcome so the next stage is to get a result on whether our film can go ahead from our tutor,  hopefully we will know at the end of the week.

Trip to Newquay Zoo

Today i went to the zoo for reference taking photos and videos of meerkats and birds in the way to show their movement and the way they look. Also took photos of trees and leaves to look at specific detail and of course i had to take other photos of animals.

Animatic so far....

A screenshot of our animatic so far.....

This week for The Bird........

We have been focusing on the finishing touches to the script and the storyboard with the help of Eline for the storyboard for the animatic, we have to show to see if we get the go ahead for our film. I have also been trying to get ideas for background layouts and look for music for our animatic.