Animate!

After having a chat with Brendan on Tuesday I decided to rearrange my story slightly. Brendan felt that the end of my story didn't really have a conclusion and that I should add more tension in the middle. So now I have it that the picture frame is in danger of being destroyed and my character saving the frame is actually what restarts the engine. I actually like the flow of the story better like this. I still need to adjust some camera angles obviously but I'm happier with the actual narrative now.

Some slight revisions. I'm still working on it

So this is the first suuuuper rough cut of my previs. Just watching through this I can see a whole bunch of shots that need to change. I'm going to do maybe one more pass of it on monday to fix the things that I think should change and add some audio before I start getting help and/or feedback from the rest of the class. (Unless any of you are reading this and have any suggestions now =) ). The environment model I'm using in the background is not finished yet jsyk but it gives a rough idea of the setup.

So the last couple of weeks we have been working on the lip sync. We are like 80% done with it now and most of us have moved on to animation. This is one of the lip sync shots that I was working on.



And here is our previs (now with a new ending!) with our lip sync shots added.

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.