animatic still shots

me and Freddy had to finish it off once and for all. By doing this Freddy got the models on maya and put them in positions in which they be for the animatic, I then took the still block images and put them onto photoshopp I then began to add the backgrounds to the individual shots. With the expressions I previously drawn out, I then had to go through every shot (273) and add each expression to the characters.

character expressions

Turnarounds

Father turnarounds

Merman turnarounds

son turnarounds

Boat design.

Here are some early on designs of the boat i created. I took the referenced images we took of old Cornish boats in st ives to let me get a better look on what to draw and to get that proper cornish look to it.

front view

side view (idea 1)

side view (idea 2)

top view 

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.