As promised

As promised earlier in the blog, here is my final animatic.

I will posy my final test piece in a seperate post.

Home straight

I have been working a lot recently on my test piece. I have animated it I now have to edit it and export. After this I shall add some finishing touches to my alternative mood board and double check my work to ensure I have completed everything.

The subsection to my blog discusses the development techniques used in Shrek and focusses on how the development team used real life influence to perfect the computer generated events within the film.

Animatic and alternative mood board

I have recently completed my animatic and started work on my test piece. I have decided that I am going to concentrate on the shot in which the gun is fired for my test pieces, concentrating on various methods of animating the bullet leaving the barrel as well as the smoke that follows it. Additionally I will consider the motion of the raindrops being splashed from the rim of the barrel as the bullet is fired.

(I am currently having trouble uploading my animatic and will attempt to upload it in a later post)



As well as my animatic, I have also completed my alternative mood board. Naturally my alternative mood board features bright and bold colours. The general mood is one of happiness and joy and instead of being mature the mood board has a much more carefree childish feel about it. There are various animals and sweets and other items associated with this mood. Supplementary to the use of bright and wide range of colours I have also chosen to include outside scenes and animals that represent freedom such as the butterfly.

Revised treatments and Storyboards

Below is my revised written treatment, I have shortened it by making it less specific and excluding some of the unnecessary description.

Short:

Mystery and bewilderment build up to an exciting encounter.

Long:

Cold darkness surrounds a silhouetted figure making its way through an urban nightmare. Danger lingers at every turn as the elusive answers to a puzzling mystery remain to be answered. Shadows lurk in every crevice as suspense and tension build up to an eventful encounter.

In addition to this I have finally had the chance to scan in my storyboards and therefore compiled them with the explanations typed up alongside them.

Click to enlarge.