We finished doing most of the shots of our previs before showing it to Brendan and Phil for feedback and advice. Brendan gave us some really great tips for improving the composition of out shots and made sure that we were using the rule of thirds and not putting characters on the centre line. Phil said that the humour of our piece was still coming across even in the previs which is good, he gave us a few tips about how to add the ending onto what we already have. We have started to do the revisions that have been suggested and we should be done with this new version by Wedensday and we will be able to show Axis the week after.
Today we had a second skype call with Axis and they seemed really positive about our new idea. Based on their feedback we refined our animatic even further, cutting some unnecessary dialogue and characters to make the story tighter, and this is the finished result.
(images by Andrea, audio by Stathis, editing by me & Krish)
We have cut the pigs out of the story as they weren't really adding anything and having three groups of characters was confusing the conflict, some of their dialogue has been cut and some has been given to one of the trolls. We are also changing a few of the shots to reuse cameras more as in the original version we were cutting around a lot, (i think we counted like 30 different camera angles? too many anyway), this will probably also give it more of a Jeremy Kyle look as they tend to use maybe 5 cameras all the time.
Next steps are to produce some concept art of our environment to show the look and feel of the animation and to decide on the design for the characters.
We have cut the pigs out of the story as they weren't really adding anything and having three groups of characters was confusing the conflict, some of their dialogue has been cut and some has been given to one of the trolls. We are also changing a few of the shots to reuse cameras more as in the original version we were cutting around a lot, (i think we counted like 30 different camera angles? too many anyway), this will probably also give it more of a Jeremy Kyle look as they tend to use maybe 5 cameras all the time.
Next steps are to produce some concept art of our environment to show the look and feel of the animation and to decide on the design for the characters.
