So my lecture proposed a merge with another fellow student. as her story is there, however her technical ability is lacking and we feel that I can provide that support she needs. So I decided to ask Sancha the student who I was suggested to ask to work with, and I emailed her telling her what one of our lectures told me and ask her if she would be willing join in a partnership. Once I got her respond I could tell that she was a bit nervous at frist about it but she agreed to meet up for a briefing of her film since I had not see anything it before hand, as she hardly turns up to lecturers and critiques. Anyway, so we meet up, Sancha went through her film with me, which is about five autumn type creatures, which are all based off different nuts/fruits/fugues you can find in the woods during that time of the year. There is a red berry, blackberry, mushroom, acorn, and a conker. The story is aimed at young children and is about these five creatures who like to play all day, but one day, a human comes along and picks the mushroom up and takes him away. The other characters are upset that their friend has been taken away, they deiced to pool their resources together, as each one have one of the five senses, touch, smell, sight, hearing, taste. they travel outside her home, through tall grass, and cross rivers; finding clues along the way, eventually they discover the mushroom character and rescues him.
I am a bit worried about there being five characters that need to be modeled, rigged, animated, and this did make me thing I only have two (I understand that one was a cartoony, cuddle dragon), but the fact that there are two of us, eases that concern. I have been assigned to make the mushroom, and redberry character for now, which is cool. I was also given her production bible to help me understand her film and what she wants, some concept stills and her animatic......which in all fairness is a bit poor, it is more like a story board and even then it just acceptable in my mind.
Here are some of the stills, concept and animatic that I was given from Sancha.
THIS WORK IS NOT MY CONTENT, ALL CREDIT GOES TO SANCHA PURSEY.
This Character I am modeling is called Red Berry
This Character is called Mushi Mushi, he is the only who gets stolen.
Here is the animatic that Sancha had made, this is meant to help me animated when we come to that stage and to tell the story, through visuals and audio.
THIS WORK IS NOT MY CONTENT, ALL CREDIT GOES TO SANCHA PURSEY.
I do like her designs for her characters they are rather trendy and appealing, however I have a few massive complaints about them. for a start they are way too flat and when using them as reference when modeling this can cause issues later on, another problem I have which isn't anyone's fault really, but it is that these characters do not really have a neck. and I have recently watched Lost and Found and fantastic short film from Studio A.K.A which is based off the children's novel of the same title. In the behind the scenes footage they talk about how in the oringal drawings from the book, the boy in lost and found does not have a neck and in CGI this makes it much more difficult to have the opitum amount of head movement, so they had to include a neck anyway. so I believe I will have to do the same thing and raise this point to Sancha just so that she knows to do the same when modeling the other characters.
Created by: Oliver Jeffers & Studio A.K.A
Created by: Oliver Jeffers
Created by: Oliver Jeffers & Studio A.K.A
Created by: Oliver Jeffers
As you can see that in the orginal drawings from the book, the boy has no neck but in animated adaptation they have given him a neck.
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