Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
This last post is concerning my process. Basically, I worked out all of my preplanning in my story board and animatic. Consequently I did medium quality drawings for my storyboards. This allowed my to lock down the basic designs of things. It also allowed me to establish the over al discourse of the short. I was able to establish the stye, the style of the drawings, the rendering the scene lighting and layer effects, and a color palate. I was even able to establish the layer order for the different compositional elements that would move independently f the back ground. After the drawing were complete, which took about, two weeks, I began to create the animatic. I spent about two weeks on this part as well. At this stage I worked out what type of camera movements I would have and what type of transitions I would create. I also synced the clip to the music and established the pacing / timing of the short. Once this was done, I began working on my very intricate back grounds. It took way too long to get the drawings to the same level or quality of the story boards. But I was so pleased with how they looked that I decided to keep going with it. Unfortunately, I underestimated just how much rendering and drawing had to be done for the whole project. Do to my lack of foresight, I was still drawing backgrounds one week before the projects was due. After I finally completed everything , I started to frantically try and animate everything that I had created, but there just was not enough time left to get much done. I'm not upset though, I learned how to make some very nice layouts, and I learned how t composite flash photoshop and aftereffects files together. All in all it was one of the best learning experiences that I have had here at SCAD, because I was given complete freedom to do what I wanted to do things my way. Experience is the best teacher in life. And, this experience allowed me to gauge my strengths and weaknesses. This knowledge will a tremendous help when I start my senior project. Essentially, my biggest weakness is the fact that I am never willing to sacrifice my initial overly ambitious ideas, for the sake adapting to the time constraints of the deadline. This was a huge lesson for me. I let my pride prevent me from completing my project. I just "knew" that I would get it done. Come hell or high water I was going to complete the thing on time, just as I had intended to in the first place. I have learned the hard way, that this is a dangerous attitude to have when working on a production with the stone set deadline. I have learned that I need to allow for some flexibility and adaptation in my projects, because you never know what's gonna happen, but the show must go on. I believe, I deserve a "C" for effort, because I really did spend allot of time working, but I just bit off more than I could chew with three classes. A "B" would be generous, and if we were basing things on what I learned then I'd defiantly deserve a B, but the fact remains that I did not complete the project. I advise you look at the psd. file titled erverything to see just how much work was done.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The city streets
This is the city layout. The plan is to have people walk on the side walk in the foreground and back ground as we zoom in. Here the woman dies and every thing slowly comes to a halt as time freezes and she falls in slow motion to her death.
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