Scene atm. 27/01/08

Hey Kanika, these are the stills i got for the storyboard. I'm going to do a 2d/ 3d animatic tonight hopefully. It won't be brilliant but it will give us something to look at and use.
I re-posted the storyboards to give you an idea of how the camera angle is working. Let me know what you think ok. :)

Schedule!!! AHHHHHH 25/01/08

HEY JEFF!! I think we were being at bit ambitious with what we wanted done by monday, however acorrding to our schedule we are right on track with what we needed to do. I think our extra time will come in rigging because I think I allocated to much time to rigging in the schedule and we can use that extra time to concerntrate on either the weighting or the animation. Also are we having the characters all one colour?

Let me know what you think!

nearly finished Pokey 25/01/08

Well Kanika, here she is...well nearly. I've really tried to run with the plasticine look- I'm going to talk to alex or jamie about how to push it even further. But i've read a few tips on forums on how we should go about it. The general response is to make it extremely organic looking i.e. smooth, no sharp edges. I've also added 'morph' to our title for bit of inspiration. lol let me know what you think of the character and we discuss is all monday- hopefully you will read this before the weekend is finished.

modelling Pocahontas 23/01/08

Here are some of the initial modelling stages of Pocahontas ( i'm thinking of shortening her name cause it's annoyingly long... Pokey will do i think)

anyhoo- here they are:

The purple ones have a slight glow to them- I'm trying to find a guide to maek them look like plasticine models, Is it the texture othe bump map??? Mayeb get fingerprints on the bump map woudl look nice. Trying to make it look really organic- hence the smooth shapes etc...

wee_eck mcglone drawings 23/01/08

These are liekly not to be used now but i thought i post them for your entertainment Kanika. may you look at the and laugh .

storyboard 23/01/08

Here are the initial storyboards at the moment- i shall try n knock u pa animatic on premiere or something. maybe even maya and have the images of plains? might be wquite interesting. get a feel for the camera angles better. anyways, i will upload it on here asap.

It's in no particular order as they were key scenes i drew to see if it would work- let me know if it works still.

Basic storyline of aniamtion: Pocahontas and willie are visiting the zoo. Pocahontas is dying to visit the apes and is annoyed when they get lost. Willie, however, seems ot be in world of his own trying to find creppy crawlies to hunt down and kill. Pocahontas is aware her brother is running around but too keen and focussed on finding the gorillas. By the time she locates it on her map, willie is no-where to be seen. CUT. Scene of Willie being caught by creppy crawlies as a consequence of torruring bugs.

When written down, it makes no sense, but i think it still appeals to our sense of humour so i like it :)

final pocahontas 23/01/08

This is the final(ish) model of pocahontas. I know shes naked- but i think it may be really cool if they were coloured purple n blue- bit more like purple and brown sort of stuff and also morph. Tell me what u think of the pics I put on blog later to see what u think... modelling clothes won't be too hard if not- but clothes look so crap when you don't animate them too.. and it will make weighting bit trickier too... have think over it as i know u have started modelling character. concentrate on the head for bit if you are thinking about it and then we come back to the body.