Crew Shot

Over the last term I have been helping on the 3rd year film 'I Am Dyslexic' this is the shot I have done for it so far, however it still needs a lot of work done to it as the walk cycle is a bit rough and the cleanup doesn't really match the look of the rest of the film.

Live Brief Shot

This term I have been working on a short film called 'Dreams of Daddy' and this is the first shot that i have done for it. This shot took me quite a while to do because it has three diagonal walk cycles in it and because of the boiling effect we were going for which meant i had to draw frames that i would normally have left the same as the frame before or after it. Overall I am fairly happy with the result although i think the walk cycles could use some work because they seem a bit floaty. The background is black because it was rendered with transparency so that the director could composite it onto a different background easily.

Character designs

 

These are the initial designs for the characters in my third year film pitch, After doing some research into different space suit designs, I had a go at doing some of my own. Taking inspiration from different designs both real and fictional for each one I came up with some that i liked whilst keeping the same cartoony style throughout. I then took the two from above that i liked the most and tried three different colour schemes on both and found that different colours work better on each. I prefer the orange on the top row but the blue on the bottom row. I then did some final designs for the two different characters.

Setting designs

For my third year film idea, I've been doing some setting research and designs. these are three of them. This story is set in the middle of space, somewhere between the Andromeda galaxy and Earth. despite the vast emptiness of space there is a large amount of hazards for the two astronauts to navigate, from asteroids heading strait for them and wondering satellites to the vacuum itself. Because the film is stop motion all of the backgrounds are going to be green screened out and then replaced with matte paintings like the ones below, this will fit perfectly with the cartoony style of the whole film.