Practicing Animating

I started practicing some animation using the moom rig from highend3d.com, as our characters are not completly rigged i thought i'd get a tiny bit of animation under my belt, this represent something similar to what the old woman Mrs Allan will need to do, because she will be climbing a high chair and she is really short, she will be struggling. However with this video we can see that he lifts his leg up almost immedietly and as Mrs Allan is short and old she will not be able to lift her leg that high. When i get the Mrs Allan rig i will be trying to do anther video of trying to climb the chair.

Dissertation Fun woooo!!!

I did quiest a bit of research this week for my dissertation, i recently purchased a couples of books based on my topics, so for most of the weekend i will be reading alot. I'll also do some prop modelling, while Des and Ross continue to work on the characters.

New and Final Animatic

As the animatic was not completed, it was essential we had a final and complete animatic for our film so we know what will be happening. I took the liberty of doing the animatic myself, but using some of the sketches from the previous animatic Des made. I made the aniamtic following the upgraded story, i discussed with the group just before christmas.

Here is the animatic i did:



Madame Allan's Usual Full Animatic from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.

Cristianoooo Ronaldooooo Animation

I was bored and i really wanted to do some animation, so i thought i'd try and immitate my favourite footballer cristiano ronaldo.

Cristiano ronaldo imitation from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.

Field Trip

Did alot research today about the cafe which we can incorporate into our desings. I went around my local highstreet that seems to have alot of cafe shop, so i decided to take some pics. I have emailed Ross all the good parts of my research as i appointed him to do some desings for the cafe.

Group Meeting discussing how to improve

We went into uni 2day as our group and discuss what we will be doing over the hols. Over the weekend me and a friend of mine got together and we rewrote the story keeping the same principles about a Mrs Allan and her doughnuts. The group seemed to like it as the sotry sounds much better, Dan being the tutor that was available at the time seemed to like it although there were some slight bit which needed improving but the group liked it and seemed uplifted. We have set a date to when the modeled characters should be finished byt which is the 18th Dec. I will be working on alot of the pre production stuff like thumbnails. shot by shot, and Block out. Also i will be doing some practice animation and some animation for Adam during the rest of the hols.

Summative

Summative,

I feel was a complete disaster, i mean it clearly shows we were behind schedule as our animatic was not complete. Alot of this will be pinned down to me and resort to e getting a lower grade as i am the director. I know things have not been going well as i find hard to please the tutors with my story. Alot of my time was spent re writting the sotry and therefore you can tell that the film has still alot of work to do. However we learnt our lesson now meaning that we have to work our asses off during the christmas hols. We as group decided we may need to start again form the beginning.

I talked to Dan about this, and clearly he can see that we are all completly demotivated. However Despite the story being the key issue to the downfall, i have appointed Des And Ross to model the chosen charaters.

Summative Presentaion is near

Yeah summative is close, and we still have not finish the animatic, its taking longer then we thought, ive been re working the story again and it feels like nothing is going right, however ross and desmond are doing a good job on the animatic, ive been there looking and giving advice how i want certian shots portrayed.

Rough thumnails of the new ending, after our talk with Jared

New Ideas part 2

We spoke to Jared and he has been giving us helpful tips on what to research for the time era for our cafe. Its been very productive and we came up with a new idea for the ending. i will be spending my time in re writting the story again adding the new bits and see what the others the group think. i also finished my 3d blockout of how in tend the cafe to look like so the group has an idea of my vision. we will also be using my block out for a 3d camera anmatic so we get the sense of timing of how long each camera shot will be.

A child is born

My Character design for the kid

Lets do some acting

I decided to get the team more motivated, that we should do a video animatic of us acting to portray how the film will be like in sense show how the characters will behave. It was fun day, we all seemed to enjoy the acting experience, we each ate some doughnuts, which we thought was valuable research lol.

Ideas for the Cafe shop

I started making a rough version of what i think the cafe should look like, as i am not much of an artist, i decided to model it, because it was easier to communicate to the group what my thoughts are.

Our Group Schedule

Me and Desmond came up with the group schedule for the whole year which we obviously intend to follow. We have given ourselves more time to animate and for rendering because we know that its a long winded process, As my specialist is animation i intended we have and extra 2 weeks to do animation on the schedule but then i realise i would need to finish early so i can finest the animation and get the sound and music right because that will be trickey.

New ideas

lately things have been going up and down, for example things are going well and then we get distracted, that could be mainly my fault as i have not been being a good director, and my personal life have been taking over. However i have started to change all that and getting back on target. I have been desinging the child character that will be in our film.

Formative

Today we had our formative, i think it went ok, however im starting to feel a tad bit demotivated due to my story being very common, so i feel like i need to change the story and try and make it unique however it means we wasted so much time. But despite how i feel i thought it would be good if we could film some of the scenes so we can get the idea of how it may look obviously it was fun as i think it made the devloping of the story more fun, therefore trying to help motivate others as everyone seems like they give up. since we did some filming today, with the footage i got i will put them in some sort of order however we did not finish filming yet. From looking at the videos i think we may need top re shoot it all and this time as professional basis.

Our Logo And Our Chosen characters

Today i recieved the logo from Adam Smith, which i must say looks amazing, i am really happy with it, so thanks alot Adam. I also chose which characters will be using for the film, i decided to choose Ross's designs because visually they look really stunning and has very uniques style compare to all the characters in other group films. Ross is our visual artists so it was logical to stick with his designs because he is very good and what things should look like, he is quiet the perfectionist, which is good and is something i admire in his work.

re enhancing the story.

After our talk with Jared and Dan during thursday and friday, we have discussed possible ways of making the sotry more entertaining to the audience, and due to our conversation i have decided to re write certain bits of the story. Also from our discussion we have another to very minor character to introduce, the cafe working guy and a little kid. so my task this weekend is to re write the bits of the story. We did start thumnailing for our previous version of the story and decided that something will need to change however its still looking good i think.

Wunderland Project Animation Test

The Run Cycle i did for Adam's film project Theres a war in Wunderland. This is a test anaimtion of one of his rigs. I did this run cycle over the weekend for him, he seemed quiet happy once i showed him in college, i decided to make the box com apart because i felt it brought more life to the character because they are simply just blocks.

Recieved Some More Chracter Designs From Ross Wilkinson and Jenny Morgan

Today i received some character designs from Ross Wilkinson and Jenny Morgan, they are all really good, i will be choose which characters ill be using for the film tomorrow, because i will need to think about all the designs in which i think will be good for the film.

My Logo design

Our cafe shop need a logo, like every other coffee shop, so i did these, however i asked Ross and Des what they think and they didnt seem to like it. I got Adam Smith to design a logo for us after mine where turn down. As Adam has done a lot of grpahics work he seemed like the logical person to ask for help when designing a logo.

More Attempt At SomeConcept

My attempt at designing the exterior of the shop.

Recieved Some Character Designs From James Lawrance

Woo, i have recieved some character designs from James Lawrance, They look really good, i'am quiet happy with the design of the old man however the old woman, i am not too shore about. However i did say that i will not decide on the characters until everyone who agreed to do some character design for me gives me there designs.

My Attempt at concept

Here is my attempt at concept i have been working, its to show the character desingers what i am looking for. The tree in the background was done by Ross, but everything else is mine.

Building Research

Building research.

Fashion

We disscussed some more about the story and decided what sort of era we are looking at. As the characters are old we wanted to set there fashion and clothing during the 1930's-1960's, we also thought it would be good to have the cafe interior set in the 1930's but have in a contemporary era, so it gives the incentives of the chracters wanting to go there as it reminds them of there era. I did some research on the fashion in the library today so we can get a feel of what sort of clothes our charater should wear. I've been looking at the french vogue books from 1930's to 1960's, below is a couple of images i put together. This should help Ross, James and Jenny to design the characters.

Week 1

Today discussed our reserach findings and worked on the story, to get my team members invovlement into the story. I appointed Ross, James and Jenny to design some characters for the film, because i am not very good at desinging characters, however i gave them characteristics in which the characters should appear for example the old woman needs to be very short and large and the old man need to be tall and thin.

Frist Day (Week 1)

Today as a group we met up and discussed our research, which we will be doing and we rewrote part of the story. As a group we seem to have very similar ideas which mean we are working well together at the mo, but this is just the beginning who know what it will turn out like towards the end of the project, fingers cross we still stay friends.

Team doughnut

Picture made by Caspar

I think its essetial i introduce my team (team doughnut), who i will be working with throughout this final year of this course, hopefully we can create a successful film together.



From right to left Desmond Walsh, Me (Ashley Reemul) and Ross Wilkinson

The Chosen One

Today was the result of the chosen 16 stories, and believe it or not mine was one of those 16. We then had to assemble into groups for the film which we intend to work on. I obviously stuck to mine because its something i want to do despite what the tutors said about "its a common story", i am going for a character animation piece not a script writting or story writting. I also offered my character animation skills and knowledge to Adam Smith and Kyle Elliot, So i will be maybe working on their film during the animation stages.