Animatic

Motion capture

For our third year project now called “Hook, Line and Stinker”, we have decided to use the university’s motion capture facility for our project. we found that motion capture would be one of the quickest ways of creating the first rough blockthrough for our project. me and freddy acted out our characters motions, so that we get to understand the characters more when we get to the final animation.  

The mo-cap system we are going to use is created by Centroid and works by having 14 infrared cameras and reflective ball suits. Jens Meisner (www.digitalstages.com) who is a freelance 3D-artist and motion capture specialist is going to help us with the capture and the initial clean-up of the mo-cap data

Concepts

Freddy and me thought it would be best to create the concepts of the main key points that are going on through out the story. We decided that it would be best if Freddy and myself would work on these. We had a good system on creating these by Freddy sketching out the designs and myself to put color and shading to them. I come up with the front title page on my own. I created this image with the use of textured images with the opacity turned down, with this effect it gave me a good combination when fitted with drawings I did on top. This gave the hook line, and stinker front cover a good look alongside the other concepts. We to get these images finished in time for the pitch in the maritime museum. 

Son Jonah and Dad Peter

Here is the design of the student (son) all coloured up. I was quite please with this design as I can defiantly see this guy working for the story as being the tall lazy animation student.

Below is the fisherman (Dad) he designed. Freddy wanted me to colour the Dad up so that he looked similar to the same way i'v coloured the son

I didn't want to make the two characters looked to similar as i wanted to keep there built completely the opposite (tall, skinny and small, stocky) but as i previously said by keeping the characteristics of the same shaped ears, nose and hair colour.

student development.

Freddy had a few drawings of the fisherman and also the merman which looked great. There was still the student left which for some reason I really wanted to design. Here below are some rough sketches I come up with.

I wasn't to happy with these designs until i come up with this rough drawing.

chosen character

I come up with this guy and decided to do side head turnaround shots to see if he would work. I showed Seb and Freddy and they said to tweak a few areas of his face so that his characteristics look similar to the fisherman. example bigger ears and square shaped nose.

Thumbnails

We decided to split up and take on some tasks we needed to complete such as nailing down the style which we are still having trouble with. Freddy decided to look more into the style, seb to do some render test of the sail on the boat and I to do the thumbnails of the story. Here below are the rough thumbnails of the story.

reenacted photos

we Decided that to help us plan out the story would to reenact what will be going on by taken snapshots of us performing the story out by getting on a boat. we thought this would be a great idea and also it would help us when it comes to the storyboards.

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Here above is the boat we took the shots on. we first had to find permission to do this by finding the guy that owns this. we had trouble finding him at first but in the end we were able to get permission. Here below are some example shots.