Environments

I have been doing some doodles of the environments and have settled on some final designs.
I want to keep this film quite simple and clean, there's one main reason for this. TIME!
time is against me!

First Shot (outside museum)




second shot (inside museum)




Rocket Console



Rocket Chairs








I have also been working on an animatic and should be done in the next few days.

sound

I've managed to score myself a sound guy. i've heard George Chitty from the sound design course is pretty good so I found him and he has agreed to do the sound for my trailer. Stoked!

original storyboards

The whole point of making a trailer is to give the audience enough of the story/visual to wet their appetite and leave them wanting more. I

i still have my original storyboards from my pitch at the beginning of the year, so i have cut them together to create the new storyboard for this trailer, i think i have included the right parts to make people want more. but this is a rough storyboard, these were my first boards for my pitch so they will need to be developed.







I think i have included the minimum, but like i said i will go on to develop this.

the rocket

i've done a few sketches and designs for the main rocket that the girl climbs into.

a couple of sources influenced me when it came to the concepts.

wallace and gromit



Despicable me



thunderbirds







man i love thunderbirds!

here are some of my sketches.









i'm not sure which design i prefer. whether i wanna go for a more realistic/stylised rocket or for a full on cartoon style.

i think the realistic style might work nicely, but i'll see when it comes to designing the rest of the environments etc.

some character work

here are the two faces i am deciding between

the one on the left being based more on my first picture i did and posted a couple of posts ago.



i think i am leaning more towards the girl on the right. I just think it looks like a slightly more polished character.

i took reference manly from Pixar's UP

i just really like the shapes they use, they make quite simple, well rounded characters.






i've done some character sheets with poses and a few face/hair variants



and here is the sheets for the other design. i split these up into individual pictures.








i am going to spend the next week or so designing some of the other components.

the A(nimation) team

i have my team!

with the majority of the 3rd years fully commited to their other projects it wasn't easy. so i have a couple 3rd years and i have called in a few favours from the 2nd years.

my team so far stands as

- Me (pre vis, director, cinemtographer, modeller, texture, animation, lighting... pretty much all things)
- Carlos C (modelling)
- Ben K (lighting)
- Ollie K (modelling)
- Nick G (animation)
- Joseph H (animation)
- Sanjay (rigging)

at the moment i am quite confident about this team and the project we are about to start. Though the lack of time, really isn't helping.

Blast Off!

right ok so you can read in my last post that i am planning on creating a trailer for my pitch from the begining of the year. i have chosen to do a trailer instead of a whole short film mainly due to the limited amount of time i have left to create something.

instead of a 3 minute short i am planning on making a trailer that will last no longer than 1 minute.
in theory this should cut some aspects of the work by two thirds.

here is the first bit of concept work i did of the little girl character which i included in my original pitch (please dont judge too much i plan on doing some refining)




i am quite excited about starting this project now, it's quite a buzz starting something new that you feel passionate about.

next thing to do is start refining character, working on some sort of storyboard and animatic.

also i need to assemble a team.