Animatic Fixed

Yes! Fixed the animatic. Now the sound all matches up with the pictures.

Updated Animatic

EDIT: The voice in the beginning is out of syyyync. Dear god, that is so annoying. I haven't the heart to check the rest of it. BAH. Well, I'm out all weekend, so I'll fix it on Monday. For now, just use your imagination. :)

Updated animatic! Haha, Lucien has one line now instead of two, purely because of the way that it fits into the music. But I like it much better this way. Hum, hum, what else? I slowed down the beginning, which is nice, you hear more of Viola's song. I cut into her triumphant jumping, still need to work on that, throw in some close ups and stuff. And I definately still need to work on the Viola/Lucien dance, it needs to be shorter, with close ups in there to show the gradual change from charmy to controlling jerk. That way it will make more sense when she kicks him in the face.

Originally, I boarded this so that after her triumphant jumps, you see her sit down and start her music again. I like it better now, the boring movement is cut out, leaving with a nice empowered close up of her face and then having the lovely image of her playing her music on the rooftops. Woo!

So, to do:

• Still backgrounds. I am so lame.
• Shot list and the order that I plan to animate in.
• Dance fiddling.
• Picking out some basic sounds to use.

And I'm pretty sure that's all I need to do before I get into production. Awesome!

Backgrounds

Okay, this isn't a final background, just me working on the inside of Viola's appartment. I was going for art noveau, maaaybe over did it. I think that the balcony railing is a bit too much, makes it look like an Elvish treehouse from Lord of the Rings. Otherwise, I quite like it. Andi said a while ago to have different colours for the characters when they're inside the appartment, I agree, so Viola's got some different colours here.

So here's the background by itself, followed by the background with Viola in there as well and the last one also has wallpaper.





Also, here are a few pictures that I've been using for reference, I found them on good old Google. Yay.

A Wordy Update With No Pictures

James Calvert from The People's Republic of Animation http://www.thepra.com.au/ came in today to give us a lecture and have consultations with people about their films. I liked the lecture, very interesting and we got to watch animations. Yaaay. Including The Cat Piano http://www.catpianofilm.com/, which I've been wanting to see for a while now. SO GOOD.

So he liked my stuff, which was good, and gave me good advice, like to cut down the dancing bits. I was going to play with it anyway, I just kinda plonked it in so that I could do the animatic, but yeah, it needs to be shorter and he also said that I should cut in close ups and stuff and I think that's a good idea.

I also think that the first bit, where she's playing her music, should be longer. Hhhm, I should time that out again. Okay, I shall! Expect a refreshed animatic (only in the sense that I will slow down that part, I am too busy to do much else at the moment), some time next week.

Recording actors on Tuesday, yay, so I can add voices to my animatic as well. Yay. I particularly like the girl I chose for Viola, she's really nice and it was a close call between her and another girl, but I think that the one I chose reads with more expression and reads with the expression where I want it, if that makes sense. Anyway, I like her. And Alex Waller very kindly agreed to help me out with sound, so cakes all round! No, I'm serious, I'm going to give them all cupcakes instead of money. :D

Lucien Character Sheet

Changed the colours on Viola's sheet and I drew one for Lucien. I need to do more art, I should really get started on the backgrounds and work on my animatic. The break really threw me off, but at least I've finished watching all of Buffy now (SO GOOD) so at least I'm free of her thrall.

To do:

• Animatic
• Sketch out the backgrounds
• Break up, clean up and colour the backgrounds
• Record dialogue
• Find musicians or music
• Choreograph the dance bits to go with the music

I want to start production once the mid-year holidays start, if not earlier. I think I have a good chance of this. Also, my back-up plan for the music is to get copyright free stuff, something so old that it can be used for whatever, you know, Mozart or what have you. Hopefully I can find some musicians at the con, I'll put up more posters on Friday.

Arts.

Woo, more art! I haven't done as much recently, I've been concentrating more on the research, but this is nice, I've had a break through with their designs.

I modelled a bust of each of them too, but I'm too lazy to take photos and upload them just now. :P