Week 6

The PPD lesson was helpful. From it i learnt alot about how to make things run smoothly in a team, which is very useful for this film project. We covered Citizenship as animators, what animators are expected to do? and we came up with a set of rules on what we expected from other animators. Whether these rules will be put into practice, i dont know.
i worried about not being involved so much with story board. but i did a few rough thunbnails for old original story, thumbnails not of any use.
This week i talked to Director about what work I should be doing. He gave me a schedule and a list of everything he wants just me to have done by the deadline (nov 30th).
i did some sketches to help decided the overall style of our new enviroment (explorers house). And so i sketched a bedroom and exterior house in a simple exaggerated curved style. The director seemed to like this style but suggested i make it less exaggerated and maybe slightly distorted. For example, something in the style of the opening scene for Monsters inc.

He also designed a montage with colours that he liked and thought should be used for the explorers house at night. so i extracted these colours from the montage and made a chart of the main colours used.
The showreel i did for a previous project was a short clip showing the inside and outside of a Jam Factory. The director had seen this clip and liked my work. So he has decided that i should concerntrate on the interior and exterior of our characters house. Since Ive been assigned to work purely on the characters house, I had a look through the final thumbnails for our new story to see what the important assets are needed in the rooms. In the story, the character definately needs the following items; book self, Hanging Lamp, chair and an oven. This is why the main areas ive been asked to design are the Hallway, Lounge and Kitchen. Ive also been asked to sketch a variety of Designs for all assets in these specified areas.

More enviroment work completed for cafe de beignet of the outside cafe design.