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Tom modelling 21st March
Suit colar, tie and shirt
Starting colouring and modelling hair
UVing hands and face
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Tom Modelling cont... 20th March
After modelling the inside of the mouth i modelled the teeth and the gums
Teeth, gums and tounge done
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Animatic Feedback 8th March
Problem - Solution
Problem: Wasn’t clear which story I picked
Solution: Title card: Rhymer Tom
Title card idea:
Problem: Death motive because of ending: angel wings and stairs.
Solution: Make more definition to the ‘Fairy” character, change stair just into a door/corridor. Make the ending more obviously a CD cover.
Problem: Who is she? Fairy? works at studio?
In my idea she is a music teacher at the Studio and Music school and she is not supernatural.
Solution: I should make her more “normal” looking, eg. she should sit at the bottom of the tree not on it, she should have props with her to make obvious who she is (suggestion of a music instrument but i don”t want to take the focus away of Tom’s guitar play), she will have school papers and a teacher suitcase with her.
Problem: CD? so what time period then?
Solution: Late 80s-90s, when CDs were relevant. Add elements of that time period into the animation, eg. an old computer on Tom’s desk, clothing, etc.
My take on feedback:
I was happy that most of the story was understandable and people found it cute. Most people got the background story of Tom (family business, dad=boss) and the situation he is in. Some people didn’t get the dad=boss element because in the animatic the timing is off and it was too fast to read writings, same with leaflet and studio/music school sign. I will fix the timing and maybe have CUs of written parts.
Because I focused on Tom for most part the other character didn’t get enough identity. I have a background for Fairy: She is a music teacher in the music school and she knows about the job opportunity in her institution. She hears Tom coincidently without any supernatural elements.
I have to make her background and her character more obvious. I will make her more normal - sitting on the ground next to the tree instead of on top of the tree, she will wear teacher clothes and carry teaching papers/music sheets. Hopefully i can make her character more defined by just fixing her appearance.
I need the change the ending a bit but mostly the environment and appearance. There is an unintentional death element because of the stairs, the fade transaction and angel wings on the CD cover. I will remove the stairs, make the album cover more obvious, change the wing design and also give more time to read the CD cover.
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Planning Feedback:
1st March
70% on planning - need most work on schedule and Materials and resources
Some grammar issues - keep an eye on tenses
Should have define more my materials and resources and their relevance to my project.
Need a coulour pallet! - even the BnW (warm greys cool greys)
Test! - have to run test asap for mixing the 2D and 3D
Keep an eye on time! Make a fold out gantt chart to keep track of time.
3 weeks only to animate to make it justice!
Need to think about concept as right now it seems it is too much workload. I will think about simplifications, “trailer” style, and think about the 2 and 3d aspect.
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Character sheet - Tom
1st Draft
Character sheet Draft
Final:
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Reference pictures for Character Design
Main character inspirations:
Feast (Short Animation)
Paperman (Short Animation)
Very.co.uk Christmas advert
Sainsbury Christmas advert
Tom:
“Fairy”:
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Story Idea: First Draft
Thomas the Rhymer:
Main character: Tom – office worker and hobby song writer, guitarist
Story:
Tom is working at his boring job in an office that he hates. But during the night he grabs his guitar and goes to the park. The park is on the Eildon Hills where there is a tree with a small streetlamp, the Eildon Tree. He sits down under the tree and plays the guitar.
During his play a beautiful girl walks by him to listen to his music. He is enchanted by her but once he looks away and back she is gone.
At his work he is writing another song and thinks of the girl he saw last night but his boss interrupts him and sends him back to work. Throwing his music sheets into the bin.
Tom returns to the Eildon tree where the girl is waiting for him. She hands a piece of paper to him then dissapeares. It is an audition advertisement for musicians.......rest under development
Wanna keep some magic in it but keep it kinda in the real world and have a message with the story.
First research pictures:
Picture is from Paperman - Disney animated short
Picture is from general search among stock photos
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Chosen Story: Thomas the Rhymer
Research: Original Story
http://tam-lin.org/stories/Thomas_the_Rhymer.html
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Graded Unit 2 - Personal Project Brief
Graded Unit 2 F7FE35
Graded Unit 30% part working on by yourself.
Please chose one story from the five listed and description below. You must research the subject in detail and produce your own ‘take’ on the story. For example it could be updated to the 21st century or it could be stripped back and simplified
You must plan, storyboard and create an animatic for one of these. It can either be in 3d or 2d and must be a minimum of 30 seconds long. Ideally this should be finished 1 month before the team part of the graded unit so approximately 26th of April 2017.
Story of King David and the Stag
King David I, the son of King Malcolm Canmore and St Margaret, was a keen hunter and there was nothing that he liked better than to hunt stags in the forest of Drumsheugh. One day, in the year 1128, he prepared to go hunting but he was approached by the priest who reminded him that it was the 14th of September; Holy Rood Day.
The word 'Rood' was used as a term for the Holy Cross, and that day was considered to be a very holy one, and not a day for sport. King David ignored the rebuke of the priest and gathered together the hunters and had the horses saddled ready for the hunt.
As the party rode through the forest King David found himself separated from his friends. Suddenly, a large, fierce stag appeared from out of nowhere and knocked him from his horse. The stag lowered his mighty antlers and seemed ready to gore the king, whose lips were moving in silent prayer; he was sure that his time had come.
He seized the stag by the antlers and grappled with it, but to his amazement the antlers seemed to twist into the shape of a cross, which the king was left holding as the stag turned tail and fled through the forest. Shaken by this, the king returned back to Edinburgh Castle and the comfort and safety of his court. That night, as King David lay asleep in his bed, he dreamed that a voice spoke to him, commanding him to have an abbey built on the spot where he had wrestled with the stag. The next morning he ordered the building of Holyrood Abbey, which was said to house a fragment of the True Cross. His orders were carried out and a fine abbey was built for a community of Augustinian Cannons who flourished there for many years.
The Scottish King David I was the son of King Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret.
He lived in the 12th century and loved nothing more than deer hunting in the forests at the edge of Edinburgh.
King David encountered a white stag. White animals were magical, otherworldly creatures. In Brittany fairy women could change their shape, taking the form of white hinds. The Fairy Queen that met Thomas the Rhymer at the Eildon Tree rode a milk-white horse. The fairy hounds of the Arawn, King of Annwn, were white dogs with red ears.
The word 'rood' is a name for the Holy Cross and King David placed a Holy Rood where he had seen the white stag. 'The Dream of the Rood' is a famous poem that tells the story of Christ’s crucifixion as a dream dreamt by the wooden cross. Lines from 'The Dream of the Rood' are carved into the Ruthwell Cross.
King David’s mother, Saint Margaret, had a piece of the True Cross, known as the 'Black Rood of Scotland'.
Today, the Black Rood is lost, but you can visit Holyrood Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Chapel, and look for stone carvings of a stag with a cross between its antlers in Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Sword in the Loch
Have you heard the Scottish legends of King Arthur?
Today we think of Arthur as an English King - the ruler of Camelot and head of the Knights of the Round Table. In Scotland, tales are also told of Arthur, not Arthur as king or as a knight in shining armour, but Arthur as warrior, the leader of battles as the Britons fought for survival.
The earliest mention of Arthur appears in a poem called 'Y Gododdin'. It recounts the deeds of a war band that gathered at Din Eidyn (Edinburgh).
It is said that Arthur's Seat is a hollow hill where Merlin watches over Arthur and his sleeping knights. Or maybe Merlin gathers horses at Melrose in his cave in the Eildon Hills.
Merlin himself was a wild prophet of the Scottish Borders. He met the Holy Man Kentigern at Stobo and may lie in a grave at the Powsil Burn near Drumelzier.
Kentigern, now known as Saint Mungo, the founder of Glasgow, was the son of Thanew and nephew of the famous Sir Gawain of Lothian and Orkney. Kentigern was the grandson of King Loth and the lady Anna-Morgause. Anna-Morgause was King Arthur's half sister.
You will find Arthurian place names across Scotland. There are tales and songs of Arthur in English, Scots and Gaelic.
Thomas the Rhymer
Do you believe in fairies? The inhabitants of the Borders at the time of the Border ballads did ...
Thomas of Ercildoune lived in the Borders hundreds of years ago. One day, as he sat beneath the Eildon Tree near Melrose, he heard the tinkling of silver bells and the sound of a horse's hooves.
The beautiful Queen of Elfland rode by on a white horse. Thomas fell under her spell and journeyed deep within the hollow Eildon Hills to the 'Fairy Otherworld'. There, Thomas was given the gift of prophesy.
When he returned to the mortal world he found that he had certain gifts: he was unable to tell a lie and became known as 'True Thomas'; he could foresee the future and foretold the death of King Alexander III; some even say that Thomas became immortal and still lives gathering horses for the sleeping knights that rest deep within the hollow hills.
Nowadays people can walk up the Eildon Hills, where Thomas the Rhymer met the Fairy Queen, and visit Rhymer's Glen. Sir Walter Scott once walked the same path with the famous painter Turner. Scott collected Border ballads and tales of True Thomas.
Ossian and Tir na n-Og
Do you believe in love and magic? Here is a story where they are central themes.
The mighty hero Fionn Mac Cumhail had a son called Oisín - Ossian.
Ossian was the Fianna’s most gifted poet. His name meant 'young deer' or 'little fawn'.
Ossian was destined to marry the princess Niamh from the magical realm of Tir na n-Og.
The land of the ever young, where age was banished and pain unknown. This Isle of the Blessed had orchards of fruit trees drooping with cherries, apples, oranges and lemons.
Niamh rode a white horse across the waters from Tir na n-Og to Erin to find Ossian.
Mallie and the Trow
In the Shetland Isles the trows are strange and magical creatures. They’re capable of great kindness and also great mischief.
Mallie, a young mother, had four wee bairns to feed and a husband lost at sea.
She had reached rock bottom and needed help but no-one would help her.
Then, as the night drew in, there was a knock at the door.
It was a little man dressed in grey with a little grey hat on top of his head. He was a trow – a Shetland hill trow. Once they were Scandinavian trolls ... now they are the Shetland fairy folk - the 'grey neighbours'.
What do you do when a weird small trow appears on your doorstep in the middle of the night?
Would you invite him in and share what little you have?
Or would you slam the door shut and hide under your bed?
Thanks to Mallie’s kind heart and good nature her fortunes were about to change.
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