tutors feedback

4/10/12 

• why animation? 
• out of depth character ends up being the hero?
• Life of pi- film reference and book: strange things happening at sea.
• sea monster reference:
• moorgore- cornish monster
• crypto zooligy 
• Keep referencing 

character design

I come up with a few characters sketches by looking at the mac and cheese animation for reference to get that style we wanted.

I felt this character below was not in what we wanted because I realised his built is not in proportion of what we want for our large hard working fishing. I felt his body was to slouchy and his characteristics like his fore arms were to small.

Production Schedule

here is a production schedule that hopefully it will be manageable. we would have liked some of the areas to be a week shorter, but we agreed that some of the section would be more time consuming. 

st.ives inspiration

seb and freddy went across to penzance to get some photos of more boats and more recordings of fisherman. I thought that i would travel down to st ives to explore the small harbour front as i find st ives to be one of the most famous fishing towns around cornwall.
I come across many interesting objects such as anchors, fishing barrels and fishing nets

when coming to look off the pier and walking down to the beach i found every single boat was a fishing boat. full of bright colourful boats which were great for thinking of more ideas.

I thought it would be a good idea to pull my trousers up and get into the sea so i could jump into the boats and get the fell of what it's like to be in those cold wet crooked boats.

I stumbled across one specific boat which really interest me with it's inflatable footballs used as boat boise.

Also the fisherman i interviewed.

style for the project

for the style we have been looking into particular animations such as team fortress which has that sort of bulky characteristics to the characters.

Also we come across the animation mac and cheese which again has the smae sort of style to team fortress.

3rd year project begins

My Team consists of me freddy and seb. through the summer me and freddy brainstormed a few ideas but we didn't decide on anything yet as seb was back in norway for the summer.

the story so far we come up with is The story is about a father and son out at sea, on a trip to catch fish but more importantly reform a bond that had been torn after the parents split. The story explores the growing divide between generations as technology and popular culture draw the younger generation away from continuing family tradition.
The two characters struggle to get along, both with contrasting personalities and lifestyles.
Throughout the story, the father and captain of the boat tests his son and teaches him to be honest and hard working by threatening to sacrifice him to 'The Sea Beast'.. at first the student does not listen to his dad, claiming that the sea beast is just a made up stupid thing, but at night time suspicious noises and shadows make him become paranoid and he starts to hear strange things and becomes  nervous and paranoid to the point of breaking down. eventually the captain reveals that all the things that initially scared the student are normal and that the sea beast is just a joke to get him to do work... The student so re leaved to hear that it was a joke forgives his father but a slow zoom out of the boat reveals a large dark figure underneath the boat... they are not alone!
with this story we had come up with we thought by heading down Penryn harbour front and the boat yard would help us get the feel on the life of what it's like down those parts of cornwall.

we also wanted some sound recordings of true fisherman that have spent most of the life down the harbour for some inspiration. we managed to interview some great people that gave us a good ideas now on what we want to produce for the story. whilst down the boat yard i managed to record some sounds of the waves crashing around.

from penryn we walked down into falmouth harbour front where we come across the pier infront of the chainlocker pub which was full of fishing boats that were ideal.

2012 show reel