Birds

First part of an animatic that I'm doing in exchange for sound. Huzzah! :)

Animatic Time Again

Just another animatic update. Timing's still not perfect yet. I'm getting Andrew to help me out and animate a few shots. Yay! They aren't in there yet, at the moment it's all me baby.

You Guessed It, It's Another Animatic!

Another animatic? But of course! This time with chunks of real animation. Mmmm-mmmm.

Lemme see, got some advice today from a guy called Sorin who came in to look at our work. He said that the tension between Viola and Lucien in the dance needs to build up more, her just kicking him in the face to get rid of him is too easy and that there should be a shot in the dance where he is making the music with her by running the bow across her back. All good advice I think.

So! The changes will be in the next animatic, along with more animation. The close up on her back, where he lifts her and then they're on the roof (I'm a cheater, lol) I am going to instead have that as a close up on her back and him playing music with it. Then another shot to show, well gee! they're on the roof!

When she decides that she's had enough, she pulls her hands away, but doesn't break free and he pulls her hands back down again. Then she uses her leg instead, to kick him in the face. I don't want it to be to hard for her either because in a lot of ways, she is stronger. Especially her legs, both her legs and feet are physically bigger than his.

I was before thinking that maybe he could pull her closer and use her back to make music again, but this time the bow would leave red marks. The imagery would look really cool, but the idea seems too sexual to me somehow, I think that it would just look like he is sexually dominating her and that's not what my film is about. It isn't about dominance with concerns to sex, it's about control and freedom concerning creativity and just life in general.

I also need to put in some more close ups and stuff while they're dancing, but I think that it will really come across more when I actually animate it as well.

A Few Background Things

Here's the inside of her appartment. The veranda and buildings outside need fiddling with and I think that maybe the whole thing should be darker. But other than that I like it.

While she's in her appartment I want it all to be quite dark and brown, when she's outside there will be more colour. Here's the sky for outside.

Yet Another Animatic

Newest animatic! And I'm working on backgrounds and I started lipsynching the beginning in flash.

A few fade ins and outs with music that are a bit wonky, just ignore those. :P

Hhm, I think that I should have a new song start for her triumphant dance, after he gets kicked off the room. Whaaat else...the bit where she says, "I'll never get this right," needs to be a bit slower. Other than that I'm pleased with the animatic so far.

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!