More Progress on Clean up and Color

This week I clean up and colored the following shots:

SEQ3_SC7

SEQ5_SC1

SEQ5_SC3

SEQ5_SC35

SEQ5_SC7 (Lineart)

SEQ2_SC_11 

Sequence 5, Scene 7 is the shot where Jin transforms into the green monster, and is one of the most difficult shots in the film. I will be splitting the lineart and color into two weeks. Tomorrow, the plan is to finish the lineart for the Wednesday due date.

Next week:

SEQ5_SC10 (Lineart)

SEQ5_SC7 (Color)

SEQ5_SC8

SEQ5_SC9

SEQ5_SC11

SEQ3_SC_24

Aside form Sequence 5, Scene 10 (The 360 degree fight shot), and finishing Seq5_sc7, the shots are not too daunting. The plan is to finish all the shots where the characters are interacting with their 3D environment as soon as possible so that I can animate the 3D objects before picture lock.

On the more entertaining side, here's an example of what the final is probably going to be close to looking like. the bg in the background is the most recent rendering from Dom. The lighting was kind of weird in it, so I went into photoshop and adjusted the lighting and color. What do you think? 

More Clean up and Coloring

After my CU/color experience last week, and the critique on Wednesday, I found myself really disliking the look and style of the CU/color. The lines were very thick and bold, but seemed the flatten the image. I was also having trouble going to very rough to very clean lines. I learned a lot about the actual clean up process that goes on in the professional world, and after seeing that work, every wavering/boiling line seems to bother me. There is definitely not enough time to do perfect CU, so I decided to switch to a rougher looking line.
I am a lot happier with the look of the CU/color now, but I am a little behind on my schedule now because I have to redo all of those shots for last week. Will do my best to stay on schedule.

I also got a first pass of the beginning part of the music. Aside from a few changes, it's looking pretty sweet. Harrison is an awesome composer!

check out a CU/colored shot here:

current animatic

http://vimeo.com/35183086

Starting CU and Color!

Now that I am back at school, I am on schedule to start on clean up and color! Getting set up was a bit of a hassle because of technical diffuculties trying to move my files from the mac to PC, but I think I have a handle on it now.

This past winter break, I was able to revise my rough animation so that I am completely done with that stage. After the critique last wednesday, there are a few technical, nitpicky aspects I need to consider, so I may need to tweak the rough animation a little more. I was also able to finish coloring the toy assets and the outside BG.

This week, I met up with my sound designer, Jean Tsai, and  my composer, Harrison Lee. I'm getting a much better grasp of what kind of music and sound I want, and I think my meetings with both of them went very well. I know that Bethany and Sheila do not recommend having wall to wall music, but my initial intention for the film was to create an MV. I came up with a hybrid MV style where the music would be continuous but have a strong story structure. The music would act like sound design, and the actual sound design would complement the music. I told Harrison to try and make the music very visceral so that it does not wash over the film. I'm still having my composer create some source music, just in case this plan does not work out.

I also created my first few Cleanup/colored shot! I should have approximately 8 shots completely cleaned up and colored by wednesday.