FINAL PRESENTAION

This project has come a long way. There has been some great number of changes and moments where a lot of ideas were discarded because of its unoriginality. That being said, I really enjoyed the process of pushing myself constantly over and over again, in the hope of getting something better than what i had before.

At times I was very frustrated, annoyed and even thought about dropping my concept to make something easier, something non abstract. But then again at those moments my professor has really encouraged me to make sure I keep with the direction I had. He helped a lot in looking beyond the obstacle and looking at the bigger picture. With this in mind I have been able to complete the preproduction to my liking. I feel confident in going and animating this concept in the spring semester.

That being said, I would still like to further develop it over the summer, just to prepare myself for a whole year filled with animation.

Here is the final pitch which I presented. I had a lot better of a welcome from my professors when i pitched this concept, and i hope that this concept will be approved and that i would be able to execute it next year.

ANIMATIC AND FINAL STORYBOARD

With the sound figured out, I was both working on refining the storyboard as well making my animatic as perfect as possible. This included making a lot more frames than what I had in the storyboard. If I only include the frames from the storyboard the animatic would just look like a slide show. I want to be able to show the animation and the transitions in the animation.

Here is the animatic with the sound and some new frames form the storyboard.



For the storyboard, I included some more new frames, and here are those frames.

And this is the new storyboard.

SOUND DESIGN

Even though I was suposed to work on the animatics, I really wanted to have good audio for the animatic. I enjoy visuals with good audio. I used ProTools for the creation of the sound. I recorded the voice over using my friend Adin. Then I added about 7 tracks to complete the audio track.

Here is the audio track.

Here is a screenshot of how the track looks like in ProTools.

STORYBOARDS

Although I did not have more time to refine the style frames, since I knew the exact look I was going for, i was more concerned about refining the story and the storyboard. These are the first storyboards I created.

I wanted to created super smooth animation while the scenes transitioned form one scene to another so i focused a lot on the transitioning elements too.  The overall story is supported by the script which is going to be narrated as a voice over. So this will help tell the story a lot more easier.

I got soem feedback about the storyboard, the main problem was the problem of having too many swirling motions in the last frames. I will be thinking about how to fix these without changing the overall animation and transitions. 

Here is some of the process work: (sketches)

STYLE FRAMES

Now that I have the script figured out I am working out the style and the mood of the animation. When the animation starts, it will start off as being a dark and scary environment. But as the character progresses through the story the mood will change from the dark scary environment to a more pleasant, action driven environment.

Here are some of the style ideas which i have, created: