clouds

i have been looking into making clouds for the shot of the the rocket flying through the sky.

i followed an online tutorial. By using dynamics and fluids it is possible to get something very close to realistic clouds. after i made them i decided that maybe it was for this project. while everything looks quite simple and cartoony i think it would be too much of a contrast if these clouds were included.





the other thing putting me off using these types of clouds is the render time, it takes quite a while to render just one frame, i need to try and keep render time to a minimum.

I will probably end up using a matte painting or something.

Modelling

I've given Ollie my sketches of the girl for him to start modelling her.

While he does that I have started to model some of the environments.

here's a screen shot of the beginigns of the outside shot



and here is a screen of the inside of the museum



i have also started to model some of the props.

rocket chair



shuttle display



museum reception desk




starting this work it has really dawned on my how much work i have ahead of me. daunting! oh well i'm just gonna carry on and see what happens.

animatic

sorry its been a while, loads stuff going on at the moment

so here is the 2D animatic :)

Mission Control (working title) animatic - no sound from Rory Bryans on Vimeo.

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.