The whale

Sorry to the little pixies that come to my site, I feel ive neglected you. The animation is full pelt at the moment deadline in two weeks :S. To tide you over here is a whale from the animation. (That wasn't meant to be a terrible pun)



Their also will be some photos of me doodling away at Best Joined up.

boat sequence

Sorry this is going to be a half blogg, its 2.30 and im sleepy. But basically ive started composing the boat sequence in my animation. Full steam ahead at the moment. This animation should wrap up next week then its off to render. then to Bradford Animation festival :)

Lesley Barnes feed back

I was working back at the part time job today , sob :< href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabbitportal/2959099497/" title="Matt is making the moon by rabbit_portal, on Flickr">



Also I did a very quick test of the waves with the string and it works dandy. for real tomorrow :)yes it looks like a ball of string at the moment, trust me it will be magical. :)






the string was based on a piece by the talented magdalena bors

Navigation system

I completed the navigation system.. Im dreading how long this is going to take too render. :S

composited trees and concept drawings.

colorful trees and whale.




I bought the string today to make the ocean I hope this works :)

concept art.

Ive mostly been behind a giant pile of books today doing some more reading for my dissertation

I did manage to board the next scene for the animation :)








p.s my work is finally on the noise website

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colour pallet

Hello! today has been all about colour I have create a pallet that is based upon scrap books.






































Ive also decided to integrate a navigation system into the animation in order to add some continuity. The circles expand when the transportation hits them.














Ive also doodles up concepts for the next scene as basically they were really scrappy and I dont think anyone would understand what the hell I was trying to do.

(the blue and white ocean is going to be made from blue and white wool string.)

Ticking along...

Ive set up camp at the parents as i have too look after my little pooch for a bit (i didn't want her to go to the kennels). I have changed some aspects of the animation to fit in with the overall tones of it. The trees aren't all going to be the same color and will tie more to the scrap book feel I want it too have. Ive also made the lighting better :)

Quarter story board

Another little tease of the animation. I did a quarter render of the first part, their a few tweaks I need to do with the camera, add some more trees and push the clouds back from the lights. All in all the first part is almost done so I promise you their will be footage soon but I don't want to spoil it for you :P

on the move

Today I got the wheels moving on the building front and doing the real composite work for the animation. Below is another little tease.

composting

Today I didn't even get to leave the house Im guessing their are going to be quite a few days like this to come. Ive basically been photoshopping the buildings down and doing test composites of all the footage. At the moment Im rendering some footage. So soon their shall be a taster of all the stuff ive been working on all rolled together.

Below is a flat example of how the hills will work, except their done with real paper that will strip away.

So far so good

Bed time.

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Paper Plane story board

Today I did all the green screen shooting for the paper plane sequences I also did a test composite with the same plane, I have done five others but this one will do for now. Tomorrow is hill building time then Im going to put all the bits together for a draft which I can show at the Ayup meeting.

Sleep time..

p.s My website has got stuck down the bottom, it will be fixed by tomorrow :)

Paper Plane tests

Today was mostly about figuring things out. Mostly what kind of paper plane I want and whether I can jump from the train evaporation (see previous blog) to the plane.























































































Here is a rough composite of how it will work.

1. The end of the previous blog post

2. Several bits of paper spin off from the others

3. Folding into paper planes

4. They float through the air and start to dip as they are crumpled from the right side to the left.

5. They all form into paper balls that fall down, and because their are so many of them they will look like snow, (which goes into the next scene, which is... yes you guessed it a snowy scene :)

All in all its going to work, its just going to take a day or two to make all the different planes.

Animation booth interviews/computer tests

Ive just started the third year of my degree, so I had to stop animating for a little bit. Yesterday I managed to do another test composite of the trees and the trains, which I can safely say looks pretty sweet.

These screen shots below give you an idea of the movement that will occur, I cut the train bit by bit and stop-motioned the movement into a circle in total the process took about 4 hours or more. next its paper plane time.





oh, also their is a little video interview of me for ayup. I didnt sound as daft as I thought I would.

Matt Saunders and Eleanor Woodburn Interview


Sadly my time in the booth is over, but their is a great deal of work to be done. The animation premier will be At BAF Where you will also get to see the Mighty Studio AKA's Varmints which I am really excited about seeing :)