10/12

Started modeling the frog with the new design after corrections from Kustaa.

Working on the sets toghether with Anders. Sculpting and painting

After a little chat with Anders in the evening he made it clear that he wasn't too satesfied with the situation he was in. He said that the last week for him had been really hard. He felt he was kind of left to himself doing the the job no one else wanted to to, and that he was just generally feeling a bit down since would have wanted to work more on the animatic, design and coloring of the film.

Some minutes later all four of us sat down and talked a bit. We apologized to Anders, and I must say we had been a bit naive thinking that everyone was okai with the tasks they where given. We talked about that we should be better at communicate with eachother during the rest of the production. We desided to have more meetings where we talk about what we have been doing and how we are feeling. I feel Paw Charlie Ravn, my intructor at the Danish Film School for the mid-way film, was espesially good at this, and we have something to learn from him.

We desided to meet next morning.


11/12

Group meeting. We met in the morning discussing everything we had so far. We looked at the animatic and give a lot of critiqe and suggestions, colorboards and characterdesign. Better mood today. It seeemed like the meeting 10/12 helped.

Me and Anders Working on the sets again. Mostly polish stuff. Painting bricks, putting the garden fence up, making the mailbox, e.t.c. Painting trees.


12/12

Last day before the christmas break.

Working on the sets again. Mostly painting trees. Takes a lot of time.

Presentation for the class, didn't get too much time to prepare this one unfortenatly.

Beers, and goodbye.

9/12

Meeting with Tod and Michelle.

Short group meeting, discussing Alice's colorboard.

Working on sets with Anders in the basement. Sculpting.

4/12

Did some research on a script called "anisculpt", wich allows you to deform your model while you are animating. The script should be out soon, and it seems like it's something that could make the rigging and animation process a lot easier for us.

I talket to Kustaa about rigging and modeling. He had a lot of good advices. He also had some experience with 3D-tracked, so that was really cool. We made a list of stuff to be done for Monday next week where we will have a new meeting.

We had a little group meeting and discussed the colorboard. Tod came by later and we then discussed it some more.

Watched half of a 3 hour lecture about light and colór together with Anderes and Alice.


5/12

Made a modeling reference drawing for the bear. Front and sideview.

Watched the rest of the color lecture.

Me, Alice and Peter watched the animatic and made some corrections.

Watched a couple of Tex Avery shorts with Peter and Alice.

2/12

Working on character designs again. I spent most of my time putting together a modelsheet for the frog.

We also had a discussion of wich colors to use for the characters. After a lot of testing and discussion, we finally settled on something we all liked.

I also spent some time looking through the animatic with Peter and Anders, and we went over Ander's designs ffor the moped and car.

3/12

Refining modelsheets of the frog and the bear, so that it's ready to send to Kustaa. We agreed to have a chat at 7 o'clock tomorrow and discuss how to make the rig and such.

Evening: Updating blog and drwing some sketches of the submarine.

28/11

Made a test in a 3d-tracking program called "syntheyes"
Integrated a 3d object with a live-action camera move.

29/11

Made the same test as yesterday, but this time in a program called "Boujou".
I found this program to be a bit more flexible than syntheyes, and theres also easier to find tutorials on the net for this program. I also imported the track into Maya and oriented it so could put a character on top of the track.


1/12

Meeting with Tod and Michelle

Working on character designs, refining the frog

Made a ruff 3D-model of the frog.

Wrote an e-mail to Kustaa.

Short story meeting, looked at the timing for the 2nd draft animatic.

25/11

Lecture with Robin Cooper and Florian.

Working on storyboard and character design colors.
Getting a first draft ready to show at meeting.

Meeting with Michelle and Tod.

Lecture with Tod.

24/11

Lecture with Robin Cooper.

Working on storyboard.

Small group meeting.


22/11

Working on character design and storyboard.

20/11

Working on character designs

Working a little bit on test scenes.

18/11

Tecnical research, watching some tutorials about matchmoving. (2d/3d integration)

Working on test scene. Trying to match 3d-scene with fotograph.

Walkthrough with Tod. Whole group: Talked about story and gags.

Made folder structure toghether with Peter.

Drawing storybeats, mostly gags.


19/11

Working on test scenes.

Figuring out how and when to get the materials needed for building the sets.

Walkthrough with Tod. Discussing story.

17/11

Group meeting with Michelle, Tod and Sunit.

Me and Peter went down town Viborg to shoot some reference for a test scene.

Worked on the test scene.

Worked on character design.

14/11

Short group meeting

Working on storybeats and character design.

Tod came by, and we talked about character descriptions and story.

Me and Alice timed the storybeats drawings in Premiere.

Group meeting, discussing story and character despriptions. Talket mostly about the bear character.

Anders called a shop in Copenhagen where we could by props for our sets (like trees etc). We then discussed when and how we should get it. And how much of the set design we should have ready before we bought it.

Drawing character design of the frog. Working together with Alice.

Updating blog.

Walkthrough with Tod. Talked about endings and character personalites. He also helped out with some bg design.

Drawing the new storybeats we discussed with Tod.

10 - 12/11-08

10/11

Getting settled, moving tables randomly around, hook up computers and network.

We also went downtown to by some lamps and stuff to make our workspace more cosy.



11/11

Preparation for meeting with Michelle and Tod. Drawing some designs. Collect referance and inspiration.

Metting with Michelle and Tod.

Story meeting. Came up with 5 new endings.

Drawing storybeats in the afternoon.


12/11

Pipeline lecure

Group meeting. Talked about what we want do get out of the project and what each of us want to work with etc:
Anders: Responsible for Bg's and visual look, story dev and modeling.
Peter: Rigging lead, animation lead, character design, story, modeling.
Alice: design, layout, storyboard, modeling.
Me: Directing, modeling, rigging, pipeline, rendering and composite.

Story meeting:
Came up with another five ending and additional storybeats.

Making the Elkharcaddis blogs.

Rest of the day making concept art.