Deadline Tomorrow

So tomorrow is the deadline...

I filmed a lot in the past week, but I still didn't get it all animated. Being stuck in a small dark studio alone for a few days drives you a bit crazy. In the end I just couldn't concentrate so I didn't want to rush shots if it meant I'd waste time and have to re-shoot them anyway. So I shot in keyframes for three or four shots, so at least the handed in film won't have any 2D animatic in.

So here's the shotlist for where my film is at for the deadline:

The dark blue is what is completed, and the light blue is where I have done it, just not to the finished standard that it should be.

I am happy considering where I was at two weeks ago, and I am very confident that I will have a good, completed animation for the Grad show in June.

Budget

Now everything is made for my film, I have a finalised budget. I spent an awful lot of money on my film, so I'm hoping it was all worth it.

Green screen compositing

I wanted to test that the green screen for the fantasy world would work. So I took a short shot and tested it in After Effects.

So before and after shots:

It seemed to work really well, and didn't take long at all. But I noticed that the tree in the back ground, which was out of focus, was a little pixilated. I thought it might have something to do with it being out of focus, so there isn't an exact line between that and the green screen so After Effects had trouble compositing out just the green screen. I will have to check with Stan the technician about this issue.

Production update

I have now started filming the Fantasy world scenes

 I spent most of my time working on shot 28. That is the 17 second long scene where, originally, she was going to run towards the camera. I realised how difficult that would be to film, and Tom Edgar suggested that I break down this shot, as lots of little cuts will add to the drama of the situation. So it now consists of 13 quick shots:

• come out from behind rock, running towards the camera
• feet running, bear foot stomping down
• running towards camera, knocked off feet
• close up of face
• getting up
• bear foot moving
• bear foot stomp
• rolling away
• close up of face
• get up and run to tree
• hiding behind tree, knocked off feet again
• getting up
• running towards the camera

most of these have been filmed, just the last two to go. I have also filmed the bird's eye view shot, so I have completed the two most difficult shots in the film. 

To film the birds eye view shot, I placed the camera on a magic arm and fixed it up high. 

I did the same to animate the giant feet.

The magic arms are so easy to use, I animated using them by loosening them slightly, moving the feet, and then tightening them back up. 

I have been adding the finished shots to the animatic as I go along, to cut down on editing time at the end.

Giant Feet

I have now made the giant feet for the fantasy world:

 These are the materials I used - pine dowel, foam and fabric.

 I wrapped the foam around the dowel and used contact glue and held together with string while the glue dried.

I then sewed the fur fabric over the foam. I added a dark brown patch on the bottom of the foot to make it match the toy bear.


And so, the finished giant bear feet:

I was really pleased with how these turned out. The resemble the toy bear feet and they squish really well with the foam inside.