Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
semester review
When the preproduction started at the beginning of the year my main goal was to do a complete animation including characters. Since i culdnt get my chatacters animated last semester, this year my main objective is to do a complete character animation. Im really happy with my character designs and storyboard this time because I used ryan and marcus’s talent for them. From the beginning i wanted my boy character to be designed by ryan. I loved the unique characteristics of his sketches and i wanted that style for my character. On the other hand marcus has helped me to finalyzed my thumbnails and did the final storyboard as i wanted. I hope that i will not have the timings problem which i had last semester where most of my timings were wrong when it is animated in realtime. Basically that was the biggest problem I had to face during the production of my last project so hopefully this time it would not happen.
This time i would like to do my project according to my production plan and pipeline. Making a production bible basically helped me to catogorise and organise all the work to be done and hope to finish them step by step before the deadlines as i scheduled. I would be happy to finish modelin, rigging and texturing my characters, enviroment and all the props during the holidays then i can work from animating to post production within the next semester. With regards to my maya knowledge this semester was a special semester because now i have the knowledge to do a character animation from start to end. Untill this semester non of us had a clear knowledge of rigging a character but thanx to Jack now many of us could get a character rigged. On the otherhand darren’s visual effects class was really interesting. That was one of the subjects all of us’v been waiting for. The knowledge that i’v got from that class would definitly be helpfull for my future projects. As a 3d lover i hope to get more knowledge and experience in texturing and lighting during the next semester. Lighting and texturing were among the weaknesses in my last project so i’m looking foward to spend more time on those areas.
My inability of drawing has been effective alot during the pre prodution. When designing layouts i culdnt draw the things as i really wanted them to be so i decided to do them digitally. When it came to design the house i made a rough sketch and modeled them directly in maya. It was easy to edit in maya rather than redrawing them in paper. In the mean time i was abel to model most of the props in the kitchen and they were really helpfull to select colour schemes. I had the freedom to apply and see different colours in Maya, specially in to walls and floor inside the house to select colours for layouts. The experience was totally different than the last semester since this time its more organised and had the oppotunity to use other people’s skills and help them out when needed. I will be modeling and texturing the environment for Cara’s project which is an oppotunity for me to improve my skills and be a part of another project. I would like to thank all my teachers for their assistance and hoping to get best results at the end.
This time i would like to do my project according to my production plan and pipeline. Making a production bible basically helped me to catogorise and organise all the work to be done and hope to finish them step by step before the deadlines as i scheduled. I would be happy to finish modelin, rigging and texturing my characters, enviroment and all the props during the holidays then i can work from animating to post production within the next semester. With regards to my maya knowledge this semester was a special semester because now i have the knowledge to do a character animation from start to end. Untill this semester non of us had a clear knowledge of rigging a character but thanx to Jack now many of us could get a character rigged. On the otherhand darren’s visual effects class was really interesting. That was one of the subjects all of us’v been waiting for. The knowledge that i’v got from that class would definitly be helpfull for my future projects. As a 3d lover i hope to get more knowledge and experience in texturing and lighting during the next semester. Lighting and texturing were among the weaknesses in my last project so i’m looking foward to spend more time on those areas.
My inability of drawing has been effective alot during the pre prodution. When designing layouts i culdnt draw the things as i really wanted them to be so i decided to do them digitally. When it came to design the house i made a rough sketch and modeled them directly in maya. It was easy to edit in maya rather than redrawing them in paper. In the mean time i was abel to model most of the props in the kitchen and they were really helpfull to select colour schemes. I had the freedom to apply and see different colours in Maya, specially in to walls and floor inside the house to select colours for layouts. The experience was totally different than the last semester since this time its more organised and had the oppotunity to use other people’s skills and help them out when needed. I will be modeling and texturing the environment for Cara’s project which is an oppotunity for me to improve my skills and be a part of another project. I would like to thank all my teachers for their assistance and hoping to get best results at the end.
Anchor Script
1. INT. SUBURBAN HOME. DAY
We hear a doorbell chime. The front door of a home opens to reveal a small boy holding a fish bowl containing a fish. The bowl is two times the size of the boys head. The bowl obscures most of the boy’s body.
MOTHER
Jimmy... Where have you been?
JIMMY
He followed me home, can we keep him?
2. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Inside the fish bowl, the fish suddenly dodges into one side. A small stone sinks into frame.
We see Jimmy peering down at us through the water of the fish bowl. He holds another stone, poised to drop it.
JIMMY
(Menacingly)
Make a wish Anchor.
MUM (O/S)
(Calling)
Jimmy! Leave him alone. You are not going to kill that little one too…
We see the fish suddenly gets terrified after hearing the dialogue.
3. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Jimmy steps into the room and looks to the fish bowl, its empty! He searches the room looking for the fish.
JIMMY
(Calling)
MUM!!!
We hear a PLOP and see the fishbowl from Jimmy’s POV, but this time the little red fish is there, blinking innocently. Jimmy gets angry.
4. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Jimmy pulls a welding iron from behind his back, reaches behind his head and flips down a welders mask.
Fish’s eyes bug out of his head and he darts around his bowl desperately, turning quicker and harder with each pass. Through the water we see Jimmy approaching.
5. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
We see an open window sill. In slow motion, little Fish leaps into view. The fish jumps triumphantly over the window sill and out through the open window. This action becomes Grey scale and the pace changes to slow motion.His grin stretches from gill to gill. Then as he begins his descent, his face changes from ecstasy to terror. The colors of the scene return. Freeze frame on the fish’s face of terror.
We hear a doorbell chime. The front door of a home opens to reveal a small boy holding a fish bowl containing a fish. The bowl is two times the size of the boys head. The bowl obscures most of the boy’s body.
MOTHER
Jimmy... Where have you been?
JIMMY
He followed me home, can we keep him?
2. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Inside the fish bowl, the fish suddenly dodges into one side. A small stone sinks into frame.
We see Jimmy peering down at us through the water of the fish bowl. He holds another stone, poised to drop it.
JIMMY
(Menacingly)
Make a wish Anchor.
MUM (O/S)
(Calling)
Jimmy! Leave him alone. You are not going to kill that little one too…
We see the fish suddenly gets terrified after hearing the dialogue.
3. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Jimmy steps into the room and looks to the fish bowl, its empty! He searches the room looking for the fish.
JIMMY
(Calling)
MUM!!!
We hear a PLOP and see the fishbowl from Jimmy’s POV, but this time the little red fish is there, blinking innocently. Jimmy gets angry.
4. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Jimmy pulls a welding iron from behind his back, reaches behind his head and flips down a welders mask.
Fish’s eyes bug out of his head and he darts around his bowl desperately, turning quicker and harder with each pass. Through the water we see Jimmy approaching.
5. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
We see an open window sill. In slow motion, little Fish leaps into view. The fish jumps triumphantly over the window sill and out through the open window. This action becomes Grey scale and the pace changes to slow motion.His grin stretches from gill to gill. Then as he begins his descent, his face changes from ecstasy to terror. The colors of the scene return. Freeze frame on the fish’s face of terror.
Anchor treatment
Kavinda Rathnayake
Siy07248704
Major Animation Project
Treatment
Characters: A Boy called Jimmy and a fish called Anchor
Title: Anchor
The front door of a suburban home opens after a doorbell chime, revealing jimmy, an 8 year old boy on the front step. His mom is worried because he is late from school. He is holding a fish bowl up in front of him, comically large, certainly bigger than his head, with a little Blue Fish in it.
The fish bowl is kept on a table in their living room. We see the fish inside its bowl suddenly it dodges to one side. A small stone sinks into frame, bubbles trailing behind it. Jimmy is peering down at ‘us’, the fish bowl. He is holding another stone, poised to drop. Mom asks him to stop hurting the fish because she knows that jimmy is not going to leave the little fish alone and this is not the first fish he brought home. The little fish gets terrified, now he knows that jimmy is not going to let him live, which makes him thinking of escape.
Through the water we see the door of the bedroom open. Jimmy steps into the room and looks to the fish bowl, empty! Aghast, he looks from left to right, then to his feet turning in a circle as he does so, calls his mom. We hear a PLOP and see the fishbowl from Jimmy’s POV, but this time the little red fish is there, blinking innocently. Jimmy gets angry.
Jimmy pulls a welding iron from behind his back, reaches behind his head and flips down a welders mask. He is going to seel the top of the bowl. Fish’s eyes bug out of his head and he darts around his bowl desperately, turning quicker and harder with each pass. Through the water we see Jimmy approaching.
We look along the length of the windowsill from one corner of the window frame to the other. In slow motion, little Fish leaps into view, over the window sill and out through the open window. At the apex of his majestic, Free Willy leap for freedom, the colours fade to greyscale, and time slows down almost to a stop. As he begins his descent, reality hits; his face changes from ecstasy to terror. The colours of the scene return. Freeze frame on the fish’s face of terror.
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