Life Drawing 23.02.15

Animatic Project Final

Here is the result for the animatic project on Mary Shelley.
I ended up with the daydream idea, or, the introduction to the daydream scene.
Here Mary is sitting writing in her diary about her day and reflects over the conversation they had that evening. She falls asleep while writing and we can see lightning flashing through the windows. Some greenish cloudy/smoke appears from her diary coming from her writing. In the cloud, a face appears in the flashing of the thunderstorm, the face of professor Frankenstein.

 

Life Drawing 19.01.15

Life Drawing 03 Nov 2014

For this life drawing session we did a lot of quick poses, focusing on "the line of movement", and movement itself. The bottom one is drawing without looking at the drawingboard, which is why they're a bit funky looking.
I still need to work on placing the weight right, I do find this a bit tricky, but hopefully there will be improvement throughout the year. 

 

The Reel

After a lot of back and forth working with the people on The Reel project, it came to a point where I spent too much time on sketches and storyboard ideas that they liked, but weren't exactly how they wanted it. I started falling behind my pre-production projects and needed to catch up on them, or finish working on this storyboard.

We sorted it out with finally sitting down talking through each scene and how they wanted it, making very rough sketches and then I drew them in Photoshop. This is something we should've done weeks ago, but we're all new at this and I feel with animation I've almost only learned the hard way. So far. Or you can call it experience I guess. 

So the storyboard turned out more like a layout and concept pieces for the 3d modeller. For one of the scenes (shot 11, a broken bridge between two cliffs) they made a 3D block model of the scene and how they wanted the angle for that specific scene, since I was struggling to get the perspective how they wanted it. It was actually very helpful to just make a quick layout in Maya and then use the render view and screen shoot it. I'll probably use this 'technique' in the future.    

The Reel

First scene I've been working on for The Reel (3rd year project I'm doing storyboarding for)

The perspective was a bit off, needed to be lower and more eye-levelled than what it was on this first "sketch" (note to myself, don't need all these details and colours, it takes too much time)

So I did some changes and also added the guy who's going to jump on some rocks over the water. Here's a rough animatic of it.

First Crew Project

I've started the year with working on this 3rd project. It's going to be a showreel with different scenes showing different skills. I'm helping out with the storyboarding for one of the scenes that is set in the jungle. It's going to be a running/chasing scene with five characters, quite high pace so it's going to be a bit challenging storyboarding point of view.

For this jungle scene the guys running the project put together some people from the film course and a guy who does parkour to do some test shots. These shots will be great for references to the animator, and also useful for me with the storyboard.


Here are some pictures from the shooting.