End of Term Note...............

Ok so its the end of the first term now, one which has been a little unorganised and stressfull. The three films I have chosen to work on, with Junk Food being my main one, have all moved along slowly in this term of pre-production. With Junk Food it took us quite a while to come up with a finished script from ground up, respectfully with Chris's hard work on the matter. So as a group it was abit hectic for us to generate the needed work load starting close to all the presentations and essay work slowly kicking in. But I think we did okish........ aside from the unfinished animatic that is :P...........

Anja's film '1000 Cranes for Peace' came along quite well though. Again things got a little unorganised with occasional comunication problems within the group, but I think the needed work for the term was achieved. Only thing though was that Anja had to take on most of the work herself towards the last few weeks in order to really nail down the look she personally wanted, which I felt was abit unfair on her. Give me as much work for me as you want over the holidays Anja, we don't want you to kill yourself with work hehe :D

I'm not too sure what was going on with 'Glitch' though. My role in the group is to help with the Animation and any other areas in need of digital or artistic man power, so to speak. But this term not much was asked of me, in fact I ended up not having to do any work on the project other than some general helping with ideas. I did have a section of storyboarding to do, but some confusion on who was doing what happened when Natasha respectfully had to drop working for the film in order to manage other work as recomended by Mike Smith, so at some point I ended up not having to do the storboards????......... But in any matter, I think the group now has Raul working on it too now, which is great if that's the case as there was only Alex and Prince with me and Tash only helping out. Plus Alex seems to be taking more control with directing the film's production, which is another positive note because it had nobody directing it (Kanika Andrews created the idea/pitch of the film but decided she didn't want to work on it at the beggining, allowing Prince and Alex to take it on).

So with that note, its time for a holiday rest...... though probably won't get much of a rest with so much work that needs to be done. More refined concepts for Junk Food, Maya tests, blockouts, initial production on films, and not to mention dissertation research............. OMG Im getting tired just thinking about it all............... ok........... gona take the weekend off now.......... I'll be back with more posts soon, and hopefully with better work than Iv posted so far hehe......................

Junk Yard Blockout Madness!!!!...........

Iv been working on a 3D blockout of how the Junk Yard could look for the film Junk Yard using Maya. I wanted to create a general visualisation and test out some lighting etc.
BUT.........
Because I litterally used lots n' LOTS of block for the blockout of junk mounds, my pc naturally couldn't handle it when it came to rendering, my proccessor even made sounds I had never heard ANY proccessor or even PC do in my life lol. I only managed to be able to get 'Maya Software' renders of just the mounds of scrap and surrounding walls because every time I tried to do a any sort of render using Mental Ray the software would just shut down, and totally destroy my pc's memory usage. In fact, I actually had a different blockout to the one I have now but I hadn't saved it when I 1st attempted Mental Ray render (Such a AMATURE mistake!!), and as you can guess Maya just died on me.

So heres a few renders of the second blockout. As I mentioned, I couldn't test out some nice lighting, so lpease mind the crapness :P.............. also left out a few extra things on the second attempt such as cranes, etc..............

Slowness............

Ok so essays, presentations, etc. have all slowed work rate down big time, and its not like we had tons of work done for Junk Food already. But heres a couple of concepts Iv done during the period of more intelectual work hehe :P............. nothing great really though :S............

Peri Bacalari

Was looking at some of the environmental ideas I have drawn out so far, and some of them reminded me of the Peri Bacalari......... I have no idea what they are called in English context, if they even do have an English naming hehe, but the name translates to 'Fairy Chimneys'..........

They are basically pillar like natural rock structures within Turkey, where in some of them people have made homes out of years ago. I was visualising how the human population of the junk planet would have homes in the wasteland, and then these 'Fairy Chimneys' suddenly popped into my head.

So below I have some refference images for anyone................

Environmental Refference.................

Ok, soooo starting to loose abit of imagination mind power so thought Id do alittle research for ideas and inspiration on how the enviornments of Junk Food could look like. Just thought Id post these few images just to give an idea as to what Im looking at..........

Finished Storyboard Thumbnails..............

Hey people

Iv managed to finally finish off those storyboard thumbnails for 'DAY 2' of the script. Iv added them onto my earlier post too, so check it to see the complete 'DAY 2' storyboard........