Loss Framed Animatic

As I am busy modeling Lily, George agreed to help me with the Loss Framed Animatic to get it ready in time for the focus groups.So, after I completed the story boarding for the Loss Framed Animatic I handed it all the details to him.

Lilly was kind to voice over this animatic. Here is the completed animatic.

Loss-Framed Story Development

I had  a meeting with Sharon regarding my focus Group Questionnaire. I took this opportunity to show her the almost finished animatic of the loss framed film. She really liked George's drawing. He has actually done an amazing job.

I have done its narration and story-boarding. Somehow, I was not happy with the finale scene. I wanted it to not only look grand but have an impact on the audience. However, the scene that I had in my mind looked simple and not graphically or artistically exciting.

Originally Planned

I relayed it to Sharon. She came up with this brilliant idea of zooming in to the windows of the cityscape and then sketching the food chain chart that I intended to make. I think it will be a smooth transition to the next shot. Then,there was this another amazing idea of switching off the window lights would signal the end of a line of specie. I intended gradual fade out to black. However, now I would prefer the lights to switch off abruptly and then the screen would be pitch black.

Final Story-board

I have relayed the entire concept to George after the meeting. He is also happy with this. We intend to get the polished animatic ready in time for my Focus Group tentatively on this Saturday(if I get my Ethics Application approved by then). The deadline of the polished animatic is Friday according to my Production Schedule. So,everything seems to be on time at the moment. 

Rough Story-boarding for the Loss-Framed Story

I have put together some rough sketches that look fine at the moment,going with the narration. I am a bit skeptical for the last bit of narration though. It needs a bit of thinking. 

George is helping me with the animatic. 

Narration- Today, local wildlife is being squeezed into even smaller spaces as...

 Narration- man’s unfathomable need to acquire more space for himself is greater than ever before.

Narration-. Incessant cutting down of trees for urbanisation has robbed birds of their rightful homes.

Narration- According to the Common Census several species of once common birds are becoming extinct.

Narration-An ecological cascade effect of secondary specie dying because of its dependency on the first is obvious.

 If we don’t do our bit today ecosystems collapse and a higher rate of extinction of overall specie is imminent. 

Supervisor Meeting

Today,we had a meeting with Sharon. She was overall happy with the storyboard that we have put together.

Some of the things that might need a look into is for one more human involvement in the story. So,we are planning that Lilly(the owner) will be present in the garden at all times oblivious to the dog-bird fight. Maybe doing some gardening or putting up some clothes to dry. However, since that would be a challenge as putting up clothes will require excellent knowledge of ncloth. We might look into that.

Also by bringing Lilly to the garden it will save us time as we will then just need to make the exterior of the house plus it will save screen time as well.

Another issue that came to the forefront was using 2D Backgrounds with 3D Animation. Sharon told us that it will be easier for us to get things together if we did not try and merge two different animation styles. So, that is a thing that we will be discussing in our next team meeting.

Sharon liked the piece of Narration that I have made for my counterpart research film. Currently,I am working on its visual presentation and story-boarding.

For the next meeting, we are required to have polished Animatic of both the films, 3D Model of Lilly, Colour tones that we might use for the films and background styling.

According to the production schedule, and my planning we must have the Animatic ready by 21st February so that I can go ahead with my Focus Group Research.

Moodboard for story

In our last meeting with Sharon, we were asked to make a few moodboard for the animation art style that we would like to pursue. I checked and searched on Google and have come with these ideas.

Since,my research is based on the birds going extinct, after much research I squared on these three birds that  are not only beautiful but would make a good study for the character designing on Sheng's part. The first ones for each are life pictures while others are their caricatures taken from various websites.

We have been considering what form of Background Art style we might go for. So,I got together this one that might be of some help.

Story-Boarding

Discussing ideas

Lilly very efficiently has prepared a Script for the story,'A tug of Biscuit'. Just the other day,we sat and decided on the story creating a rough storyboard as well. For detailed story boarding, we all selected parts of the the story that each of us would have liked to draw.

Story-boarding..

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George took the introduction and ending part of the film,while Lilly took the first scene, Sheng took the second and I the third.Everybody had come up with the detailed parts of their story. A few pieces drawn by me..

Finally,we have put together this Animatic in Shotbox as suggested by Lilly.

Supervisor Meeting

Our concept and story have started to take some shape now. In a meeting,with Sharon,we discussed our story idea and what animation art style that we might like to pursue. Initially,we had planned for 3D Characters on 2D Backgrounds. However, I was introduced to 'pocoyo' art style where there is no background. I found this quite interesting and time-saving as we have to prepare animatics of two films. 

Lilly is directing the first film and for my research I am directing the second. However, all four of us our currently having a go at the storyboard our style. I am the Production Manager. I am new to this. I find scheduling everything on google Calender easier.However, I intend to make one on Excel too.

We all are now concentrating on Concept Art and Moodboard for the Animation Art style. Also,we plan to have a rough animatics ready by next Supervisor Meeting. 

With the Going Live and Reflection on Module Assessment there is already a lot to do. Let's see how effectively we use this time.