Ok so our hand in date is this coming Monday, the 9th of May. Which is alright because we have FINISHED! The disc is burned. The cover is printed. Its sitting snugly in its box. The written side is just waiting for the same honour now. Well done to the whole of group 1.
And thank you every one.
This is probably the last post that you will be seeing here from me.
This is Producer Lucinda Parry... signing off.
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Last hurdle till the end!
The week is up and there is not much left to do. All the animation work has been handed to Jamie our editor ready to be masterfully stitched together. Director Ben is happy, I , producer Lucinda, am happy. The rest of the team is happy. All is well with the project. There is little left to do with it other than tie up a few lose ends and we will be ready for the hand in come the 9th of May.
Well done to everyone for a good job.
Well done to everyone for a good job.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Two week Hiatus and we're back!
Sorry about the two week hiatus of long development and progress reports on blogger. Its been a busy, crazy couple of weeks.
To fill in the gaps and patch up the big hole between each little post here is what has been going on. The animatic was completed a little over two weeks ago and so production on animation began. Each member of the group was given a specific one or two scenes to work on which were dished out when the storyboards were completed. If my notes are correct the it goes a little like this:
Director Ben will be doing the opening sequence as he is the most experienced with flash and can work with it the fastest and also the ending sequence.
Gemma is doing the 'Big speech' along with the 'cheers' shot.
Nay is working on the ball passing scene and the park bench.
Jamie has been given the YMCA and close conversation scenes to be working on.
I'm animating the 'Bruce almighty Milk running scene' where he runs past a group of people hi-5ing them and also the swooning lady.
We didn't give anything to James H. He has been asked to do some small in between shots of close ups etc.
I know that everyone has been working hard on the stuff. In subsequent meetings to the one where the animatic was finished we've all been showing each other what we've been doing. Ben is happy with the work and each individual is happy with their work.
There have been a few teething problems with flash but its mainly down to getting used to the program. Ben has used it previously and so is the most able at it and has been giving help as and when he can. This also means that he was quick to get on with the opening and closing scenes. I'm aware that the opening is almost complete and that he has begun work on the end scene, both which look really good.
There have also been a few of the littler things sorted out in the last couple of weeks. We aim to get this film finished by the 15th of April, that means animated to a good degree of quality, nice a polished, edited and burned to a disc. Nay has offered to sort out the presentation of the DVD and its case whilst I'll sort out the group portfolio. For the portfolio I've asked if everyone can give me all the group relevant work, basically everything they have done on an individual level that contributed as a whole to the group. For example we picked Jamie's design for Norman and will therefore put his original designs in the portfolio. I also want a short summary from everyone about working in the group etc.
Aside from that all there is left now is to just trek on, I'm confident that everything will be done. We're on schedule and everyone's happy.
Luicnda
To fill in the gaps and patch up the big hole between each little post here is what has been going on. The animatic was completed a little over two weeks ago and so production on animation began. Each member of the group was given a specific one or two scenes to work on which were dished out when the storyboards were completed. If my notes are correct the it goes a little like this:
Director Ben will be doing the opening sequence as he is the most experienced with flash and can work with it the fastest and also the ending sequence.
Gemma is doing the 'Big speech' along with the 'cheers' shot.
Nay is working on the ball passing scene and the park bench.
Jamie has been given the YMCA and close conversation scenes to be working on.
I'm animating the 'Bruce almighty Milk running scene' where he runs past a group of people hi-5ing them and also the swooning lady.
We didn't give anything to James H. He has been asked to do some small in between shots of close ups etc.
I know that everyone has been working hard on the stuff. In subsequent meetings to the one where the animatic was finished we've all been showing each other what we've been doing. Ben is happy with the work and each individual is happy with their work.
There have been a few teething problems with flash but its mainly down to getting used to the program. Ben has used it previously and so is the most able at it and has been giving help as and when he can. This also means that he was quick to get on with the opening and closing scenes. I'm aware that the opening is almost complete and that he has begun work on the end scene, both which look really good.
There have also been a few of the littler things sorted out in the last couple of weeks. We aim to get this film finished by the 15th of April, that means animated to a good degree of quality, nice a polished, edited and burned to a disc. Nay has offered to sort out the presentation of the DVD and its case whilst I'll sort out the group portfolio. For the portfolio I've asked if everyone can give me all the group relevant work, basically everything they have done on an individual level that contributed as a whole to the group. For example we picked Jamie's design for Norman and will therefore put his original designs in the portfolio. I also want a short summary from everyone about working in the group etc.
Aside from that all there is left now is to just trek on, I'm confident that everything will be done. We're on schedule and everyone's happy.
Luicnda
Saturday, 19 March 2011
The animation begins...
So here is phase one of the opening, though the frozen characters are by no means complete at the beginning, and colour, backgrounds and some polishing are yet to be done, I believe the animation of Norman works well.
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Research and Inspiration
Here are some of the things that the group has looked at as part of our research and development. It involves some videos and animations and also reference material.
Monkey Dust - Clive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfsjLZr-K4&feature=related
My inspiration for the design of the frozen business people:
Just add to this post as and when you need to everyone.
Lucinda
Storyboard Research
Monkey Dust - Clive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfsjLZr-K4&feature=related
My inspiration for the design of the frozen business people:
Just add to this post as and when you need to everyone.
Lucinda
Storyboard Research
Some of the inspiration for my storyboards- Gemma
Monday, 7 March 2011
On it with Youtube!
Scratch that. We now have a Vimeo account for all our video needs!
The account user name is ucathegoonies and our shiny new email that goes with this is uca0.range@gmail.com.
On this account for the time being is the animatic. More videos will follow of animation tests, key frame animation and finally polished work.
The animatics purpose at the moment is to serve as a way for our group to see how the sound fits and to understand the timings.
Lucinda
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Just keep swimming...
Pro Lucinda here.
Its the end of another week. Norman has been birthed into his world.
I say this because the storyboards were finished and the animatic started so he is sort of moving now and sort of alive. We defiantly have progressed quite far this week.
The group also filmed some reference material. We did this so that the group had something to err... refer back to and to help check movements and character interactions. Much fun was had be Ben, James H and myself. J. Hickman appeared on Monday huzzah! He's been rather ill. Which explains his absence.
Monday also saw us having a quick talk with Ron, he ok'd everything and agreed that its all going alright.
Tuesday was that acting workshop...
'Did he say ducks?'
That sums up the work shop.
I joke! I kid!
It was useful especially since a lot of our work is about establishing a distinguishable character from a mass of drone bodies.
Most other work for the week was just getting turnarounds and expressions done. A bit more program familiarisation and the like. There have been no major hitches to report, everything is running nice and smoothly.
Its the end of another week. Norman has been birthed into his world.
I say this because the storyboards were finished and the animatic started so he is sort of moving now and sort of alive. We defiantly have progressed quite far this week.
The group also filmed some reference material. We did this so that the group had something to err... refer back to and to help check movements and character interactions. Much fun was had be Ben, James H and myself. J. Hickman appeared on Monday huzzah! He's been rather ill. Which explains his absence.
Monday also saw us having a quick talk with Ron, he ok'd everything and agreed that its all going alright.
Tuesday was that acting workshop...
'Did he say ducks?'
That sums up the work shop.
I joke! I kid!
It was useful especially since a lot of our work is about establishing a distinguishable character from a mass of drone bodies.
Most other work for the week was just getting turnarounds and expressions done. A bit more program familiarisation and the like. There have been no major hitches to report, everything is running nice and smoothly.
Where it all began
Ben
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Norman.
Among these, there will be many others, but I'm hoping from these we will get other ideas. And I can draw them out.
Enjoy.
Nay.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Production Schedule
Ok everyone this is our production schedule. Work to it and maybe stay ahead?
Lucinda
The characters
Obviously at this early stage there is still time for development so these designs are not set in stone as yet.
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Flash, saviour of the universe.
On Monday and Tuesday, I, director Ben, ran the team through the basics of Flash animation. It went rather well I feel, and everyone seems pretty confident moving forward with the software. Talking through the tools of the software I used a basic animation of our character to teach the guys what in truth is a simple package. I was keen to enforce the fact that we are not using Flash for its technical capabilities and that this project is very much a hand drawn project- just hand drawn straight into the computer. As the whole team has used Adobe products before they found navigating round the workspace simple enough, and, after using After Effects and Softimage in our digital lessons, the timeline and keyframe system is relatively straightforward to everyone. Throughout the project I am happy to be 'Flash support' though I am confident that, if we can all get used to drawing with a graphic tablet, we are going to come out with a great Flash animation.
As for the decision on our final character, I took in some sketches from each 'Goonie' to compare and perhaps combine, however I was really taken by Jamie's design as it reflected the idea I had in my head from the start and was just right for our film. Everyone seems to connect with this character and we look forward to animating him.
So, for the time being, storyboards have been discussed and are still being worked on, and everyone is going to get to grips with drawing the character in Flash, creating turnarounds and facial expression sheets for reference.
As for the decision on our final character, I took in some sketches from each 'Goonie' to compare and perhaps combine, however I was really taken by Jamie's design as it reflected the idea I had in my head from the start and was just right for our film. Everyone seems to connect with this character and we look forward to animating him.
So, for the time being, storyboards have been discussed and are still being worked on, and everyone is going to get to grips with drawing the character in Flash, creating turnarounds and facial expression sheets for reference.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Getting Started
A lot was sorted out in the group meeting on Monday, roles have kind of been sorted out, although its on more of an ad hoc basis at the moment. Ideas were discussed and bounced around. Work was viewed. All in all its a good start, I think we mesh well as a group and hopefully this will be reflected in the work that we collectively produce.
A schedule is now in the works as is a script, getting these two things outs of the way should get the project up and running and off.
Most of the ideas discussed were to do with how the middle of the film will play out. The beginning and end had been mainly figure out by Ben, as it is his story and idea, the group mutually agreed that what he had come up with was good. The middle section was left purposely open to interpretation for the group by him. Nay was very on board with discussing ideas and bouncing them around.
The next point of discussion was what format the film would be presented in. Director Ben's suggestion was to use Flash as the animating tool, even though no-one with the exception of him has used the program properly before, it was agreed by the the group that we would try it like that. I am a little hesitant about using a program that isn't well know by the team but I have faith in Ben to teach us how to us it.
Gemma has been given the task of drafting the story boards, we're just waiting on a complete script so she can get on with that. We are also all creating character designs and will pick out which one we think is the best. The diplomatic approach we've taken with the art style I feel is a good move as it give the group members who don't have much to do at the moment, as we are still in the planning and discussion stages, something to do so there isn't any time wasted.
No sign of James Hickman though, I hope he hasn't fallen off the face of the earth or something, that might cause problems...
A schedule is now in the works as is a script, getting these two things outs of the way should get the project up and running and off.
Most of the ideas discussed were to do with how the middle of the film will play out. The beginning and end had been mainly figure out by Ben, as it is his story and idea, the group mutually agreed that what he had come up with was good. The middle section was left purposely open to interpretation for the group by him. Nay was very on board with discussing ideas and bouncing them around.
The next point of discussion was what format the film would be presented in. Director Ben's suggestion was to use Flash as the animating tool, even though no-one with the exception of him has used the program properly before, it was agreed by the the group that we would try it like that. I am a little hesitant about using a program that isn't well know by the team but I have faith in Ben to teach us how to us it.
Gemma has been given the task of drafting the story boards, we're just waiting on a complete script so she can get on with that. We are also all creating character designs and will pick out which one we think is the best. The diplomatic approach we've taken with the art style I feel is a good move as it give the group members who don't have much to do at the moment, as we are still in the planning and discussion stages, something to do so there isn't any time wasted.
No sign of James Hickman though, I hope he hasn't fallen off the face of the earth or something, that might cause problems...
Friday, 11 February 2011
The Beginning Of The Line
It’s the end of the first week and this is the first post of the new group blog. Hello. The directors have been decided and groups picked. I am Lucinda the producer of group one. Ben is the director, it is was his story that was given the green light. The other members that make up the group are Nay, James H, Gemma and James C.
This is Bens story in brief;
It is about a lonely man a train station. The people are all just passing by and not taking any notice of him. He observes them as they go about there business, waiting. For some reason, time stops, the man takes advantage of this. He plays with the frozen people as if they were puppets moving and posing them. He finally has friends. People he can be with. The final pose he makes is of all of them together, he takes a photo, a final memento. The time freeze breaks and everything begins moving again. The man tries to show all his new ‘friends’ the fun that they had together, but everyone just passes by.
He got his inspiration from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo which is some kind of flash mob thing that happend in Grand Central Station, New York.
This is the story that the team will be working with. Discussions will be had later on to finalise any details and smooth out the plot. Apart form that this is a good piece of narrative to work with.
On the creative level not much has happened since the groups were decided, most of it has been organising everything and everyone. No doubt this will pick up when we get things going.
GO TEAM!
This is Bens story in brief;
It is about a lonely man a train station. The people are all just passing by and not taking any notice of him. He observes them as they go about there business, waiting. For some reason, time stops, the man takes advantage of this. He plays with the frozen people as if they were puppets moving and posing them. He finally has friends. People he can be with. The final pose he makes is of all of them together, he takes a photo, a final memento. The time freeze breaks and everything begins moving again. The man tries to show all his new ‘friends’ the fun that they had together, but everyone just passes by.
He got his inspiration from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo which is some kind of flash mob thing that happend in Grand Central Station, New York.
This is the story that the team will be working with. Discussions will be had later on to finalise any details and smooth out the plot. Apart form that this is a good piece of narrative to work with.
On the creative level not much has happened since the groups were decided, most of it has been organising everything and everyone. No doubt this will pick up when we get things going.
GO TEAM!
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