galaxyrunner13

[galaxyrunner13]

week 11

week 11

This week I mostly worked on doing the body armor and coloring it in for the animals. Everything is coming out way more vibrant than I would like it to be. It's going to be alot of color to take in. What I think I'll do is lessen the colors once i get to the main characters talking and outline them in black. I wasn't going to do any black outlines during my film but now I think it might be necessary

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week 10

RI've started adding color into my animation. I'm trying to work out the timing of the sunrise and the sky gradient as it rises up. What I might end up doing is adding glow effects in final edits so i Don't have to play around with all the tools to find what I want.

I still have not figured out how I am going to attempt to animate the city in the end, right now that's a future Tierra problem. I have been working on getting the audio with my voice actors and can hopeful have their audio in by midterm review

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WEEK 9

This week I worked on the armor design on the livyatan and the megladon. I finished the armor of the livyatan and started rough animating the chase scene with the megladon. I might and a 3 frame loop of the fish opening and closing their mouths if I find have more time this upcoming week. I was struggling doin the over head of the fin going into the water so i just did a side shot. I'll work on what that angle would look like.

I still haven't gotten to sit down and record audio, my sephor is old. so I want to take COVID precautions before I set up a recording. I just got my covid test so i should be able to record next week sephors voice. I also found a singer for the background track.

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WEEK 6

This week i changed the beginning of my animatic. instead of the moth i took my groups suggestion and turn it into a shark fin. I also took Britney's advice about everything feeling really tight so i tried to scoot back the camera in every shot. I also changed up my angles for the talk between Sephor and Yatan. the timing is slightly awkward in the animatic so I need to either really focus on facial expression so it seems like they're still talking or cut back and forth between the two. I edited my script to reflect my animatic and redid my shot break down

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WEEK 5

This week i edited the end of my script and changed the timelapse of the city being built to a black screen then the city being shown.

I then decided to end with the name plate in the sand

I timed out my animatic and added audio

I'm workign on composing the score for this piece. I'm thinkin i might want lyrics so i found a singer and am looking to collaborate with them

I was at church this Sunday and on eof the deacons was talking and he is definitely the voice i envisioned for sephor, so I am going to ask him to try the voice over for him. If it doesnt work out i can look into voice actors.

I did my sequences and planned how long it would take me. It's coming out to 46 days but some of the shots i can do more than one in a day because I have alot of cycles that can be reused. I'm thinking it'll take me closer to 38 days to do this.

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WEEK 4

I finished my rough animatic this week. I was able to block out what colors i want to use in my color palete and decide what angles i want to use. The parts with the most animation, i made closeups so it can be done in enough time. i want to rework the ending with the city because i drew a blank on what a fish city looks like so i need to do more research. I also need to fix the timing of the conversasion between sephor and yatan because its way too short. i also want to add more time of yatan falling to the ground dying for dramtic effects. also the reflection in the eyes part might be way harder than i anticipated so i might change that scene up. i also need to figure out where to place the name plate on the animals, them as necklaces dont make sense. Finally, idk if i should keep the tears, because theyre underwater so tears wouldnt be possible.

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This week I did an extremely rough cut of my animatic. I got most of the camera angles that I wanted. I wanted to chose angles that casued for small and simple animation instead of showing the whole body of the characters because that would take alot of time. I blocked out what colors i want to be used for everything, but there isnt alot of detail because I didnt have the time. I want to go back in and rework the ending scene of the city. I need to research what a fish city looks like because when i got to it I drew a blank. I also need to get audio and fix the timing. the conversation between yatan and sephor is too short, sephor talks alot longer. i also want to add more time of yatan falling to the ocean floor.

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Week 2

I wrote the first draft of my script and it took alot of research. I ended up changing the era to the Pliocene Epoch because i needed a time where the ancestors of whales and a predator big enough to go to war with. I took out the friend charcter of the young whlae and replaced it with an older turtle that gives him wisdom. I have 3 main body character to work with, that i can copy paste to make it seem like alot of animals.

I saw a moth yesterday outside of athletics and it was so pretty, i wanted to add it to my film. so i have the opening shot beign this moth. I wanted to show that there was life outside the ocean. I might end with that moth but idk yet.

There's a decent amount of dialogue, that i might get rid of, but i dont know how to get my point across without it.

I decided to add armor to the megladon and the livyatan made out of coral which is gonna be cool. but i have no clue what it's going to look like yet. the city at the end is still up in the air on how i want it to look.

I worked on simplifying the body shapes of the characters to be easier to animate as scene in my sketch of the 3. I need to work more on environment because it mostly just takes place in open ocean.

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Week 1 - Story Pitch so an ant runs into a prey-mantis in the forrest who is high on his privilege and says an offensive joke about a hornet flying near by. And this prey-mantis schools him on what went down in the forrest to make things the way they are. It’s gonna be a story about the great way between land and sky which are bugs that fly and buys that crawl. In the story the ants got jealous of the butterfly queen and killed her. in retaliation the hornet king attacks the ants. thus starting the great war between land and sky. I did this as a comic originally and want to keep the same story line, it can also be continued into a serious. I want a fantastical forest feel with epic war scenes. the overall message is like when Zuko in avatar the last air-bender finds out the history he was taught isn’t what actually happened and that the fire nation isn’t all that great.

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Week 1 - Story Pitch I came up with the idea for this short after watching a PBS eon video on youtube about the triassic period. when whales die their carcass falls to the bottom of the ocean and sustains other life. the premise of the story is a whale is at war during the triassic period and is scarred of dying because he will have no legacy. I want the moment to have as much tension and emotion as bubba and forrest scene when bubba dies. when the whale goes out into war he dies in front of his friend. He falls to the bottom of ocean and the an ecosystem comes from his body. I want the animation to be more of a paint like style  to show how the rushed feeling of way. and the color pallet is going to be mostly blues and purples