Week 10

SO!

 

I am now back from Vegas and it is the end of Week 10... In relation to the plan of action in the previous post, I did this much on the plane;

 

 

I'd come up with a background style that I was going to apply to the backgrounds I'd already designed and was going to keep, I had re-designed the girl character to make her more strong and have a little more character... and I'd listed a few things that I wanted to do when I got back. Needless to say I didn't get any work done while I was actually in the States.

 

Once I returned I started to think about the changes that needed to be made, and I was so confused and I have been for a long time. I have had no direction with this film and so I made a decision.

 

I'm going back to my original idea, that I loved and knew what I wanted from it.

And that is final. It is going to be moving and be simple and beautiful.

 

I did however, do a few water colour paintings of other backgrounds as I wanted to experiment with the digital animation in handpainted back grounds...

 

 

And I thought they were beautiful, you just can't get this atmosphere in Photoshop. So I also decided to hand paint my backgrounds. This is exactly what I wanted my film to look like originally!!!!!!

 

My next step was to get started on my animatic, not storyboards or concepts, as I only had 2 weeks till the deadline for the rough animatic.

(I also lost 2 days to food poisoning)

 

The animatic is coming along really well, I have filtered in little scenes that I liked from all the idea generation of the longer film idea and I'm really happy with it so far. Finally.

 

And all I had to do, was do what I originally wanted to.

 

Go figure.