B-Movies!

We finished all of our B-Movies today!  Yes, I know I have in no way mentioned the fact that we've been doing B-movies, and it probably goes without saying that there should have already been multiple posts detailing the descent into madness that IS B-movies, but don't worry!  It's finally time for the long-winded and uninteresting digital verbal diahorrea that is my blogging!

So this project gave us two weeks to produce a short film based on Hollywood B-movies from around the 1950s-1960s, if I'm remembering correctly.  Our group was a bit on the dodgy side though, if I have to be honest.  We initially started out with 4 members, but on the first day one member decided not to do the project for personal reasons and another member was absent.  So we had another person put into our group to try and bulk the numbers up.  Then one of our remaining original group members had to miss the final week of the project, while another member who had been absent for the initial concept returned and, honestly, communication between the four of us was iffy at best, though we got good work done when we worked together.  I think in the next project I'm going to try and take much better care to harrass my team for guidance regularly :D

It also left us a little behind on the other groups, I think, because concepts and bits and bobs that should have been finalised in the first week sort of seemed to carry over.  We spent a long time rubbing our chins over the details and I think this caused our final piece to seem a little rushed in places.  But overall I'm happy; it was nice to try something new.  Ross made some really creepy monsters that I was personally chuffed about because they're exactly what I like, and Lindsey did some badass sound design and editing.  Not to mention she did the write up, which is possibly the most boring section of the project altogether, so I took on the final script but haven't finished it yet.  (Bet you didn't see THAT coming, eh?!)  And she was the actor too... poor overworked Lindsey... sorry 'bout that. XD

So, our film short was originally going to be a full story but we decided to take the easy option and do a trailer instead.  It's supposed to be a fairly serious horror trailer, and here it is!



Now it's a bit choppy in places, yeah, but I have some ideas for possible edits I could do before final handin.   I'd like to try and see what the video looks like with rotoscoping and perhaps some manipulation of the monsters, perhaps changes to how they affect their environments.  Some more varied camera shots (close ups, anyone?) might also help to make it more dramatic.

The other groups I think did some excellent work!  I loved their animations so much, I jumped on our presentation computer on the sly and stole a copy of each group's animation.  I'm a big fan of awesome and sometimes I can't just let it slip me by, y'see.  I'll upload them a different time though, the internet is so slow it's taken ages just to load up my group's video.

Next week we have our presentations and another group project with a new group.  We have to produce 3 MTV idents that work with each other; they're going to be virtual 3D animation in a real environment... sounds interesting!

On a completely random last note, does anyone else think our monsters look like Endermen?

Hand In Reflection and a Week of Freedom!

Hello!

Well it's now Sunday following hand in.  I'm still a little concerned about the state of my work upon reflection, but not hugely so.  I mean, last year I handed in two modules and I was just absolutely sure I'd failed; I was so convinced I asked Dave ahead of time whether it would be okay to resit them.  And, wouldn't you know it, they were my strongest modules yet.  Strange how that works...

But the simple thing is, I forgot to hand in some things.  Like how about all my computer work screenshots and that... they weren't annotated very well but hey, I'd actually made some effort to record my progress and I completely forgot that entire section.  Wasted time but... I just hope my other written work was okay.  My written work is always, and has always been, pretty crappy.

Besides that, I couldn't get a print of Taln's character sheet in A3; I sent it off to the printer multiple times, got it accepted, paid for it, and yet it never actually emerged.  That or someone nabbed it accidentally.  All I got was a piddly A4 copy, and my other character sheet that was in full A3 never got mounted... *cough*IblameDave*cough*... But anyway!

I also have a few things that I handed in that because of my randomly spazzing email setup I was unable to post previously!  (That was what prompted the new blog)

So, without further ado, some of my work!



A line test I couldn't post earlier.  It shows my owl villain, Vorquan/Varquer'eel, being persued by two owl assassins.  I don't LIKE it, but I did it!

My expression sheet for Okri, my protagonist.  It hasn't actualy got ALL of the 25 expressions on there.  Two of them are missing, the 'Drunk' and 'Rage' expressions.  The drunk expression was a combination of not being able to get it right and because there's no way she could ever get drunk anyway; the Rage one I stuck in with 'Fierce' because well... there was no need for two different expressions for them.  Cats hiss when they're enraged and they hiss to look fierce.  And also when they're frightened too, but for communication's sake I just changed that one to a OAO type expression.  (And yes, that's meant to be an emote)

That aside, I don't think I actually have anything else work related to talk about other than the presentation I haven't started yet.  Just before, I had this really long winded backwards logic rant as to why I no longer needed to keep my blog entirely work-related, but I've forgotten it.

Hmm...

When Things Just Need Sorted...

Hello, I'm moving over to this blog now rather than my other one.  The multiple-google-account-thing was really causing me issues, so this should fix it!