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The monkey set is finished

The crowd is modeled, rigged and textured.

The mirror images have been drawn out but not coloured in.

The Box set is finished

The other characters for the CGI are almost finished

What needs to be done.

Finish modeling the other characters, texture and rigg them

Put everything together onto one stage

Colour in the mirror images

Carry on shooting stopmotion


I have a lot to do and I'm starting to run out of time to get it finished I think that means a lot of late nights.

Song Ideas

Iv found a Phil Collins song which can be cut easily so its around a minute long. The only problem is I'll need to add in the drums myself which could be quite interesting. I'm going to try and recreate the drum solo on pots and pans but if that doesn't work I'll just recreate it on garage band or something.

Re-creating music on pots and pans failed misserably and so did using garage band. I did however find another version of Phil Collins song which was easy to cut and included the drums.

This doesn't however have a clear piano playing.

StoryBoarding

I have sketched out the storyboard. I'm going to make an animatic of it to see if it all works with the music.

I changed the story to what I had previously decided on. I thought it would be funny if my punk rocker was obsessed with Phil Collins and actually gets drugged at one of his gigs.

The storyboard isn't very clear of whats happening I tended to just draw images of the start of every scene. It makes sense and works in my head but wouldn't be very clear to anyone else.
















The animatic is very rough and I'm planning on making the fade in and fade out longer but over all I think it works. I did get rid of the section where my punk rocker kisses a photo of Phil Collins as it didn't seem to flow as well with it.

I've had to cut it up in five sections to be able to upload it to my blog






Looking at the animatic it made me realise that I will have to plan out my animation really well to be able to hit those beats (for example when the alarm clock gets turned off.

3D model of punk rocker and other characters

I modeled a general human looking person first and then I would edit it to make all the other characters. I didn't spend a lot of time on the people in the crowd as they wouldn't be a focus point and you wouldn't really be watching them.

This is my second time at trying to model something on 3Ds Max so I'm really rubbish at it, it takes me a long time to do something very simple.

After I while of trying to make facial features I gave up and decided to just make the eyebrow and nose shape separately and just group them to the rest of the body. I made the eyebrow shape out of a dougnut shape and just bent it the nose was just a squashed sphere. This took a lot less time than actually creating the shapes from the face, it also looks pretty cool.


I only gave the punk rocker, Phil Collins, the drugger and the guitarist detailed texturing. The crowd wouldn't have any close ups of them. I also didn't want them to draw attention away from the main characters, especially since the punk rocker is surronded by people and needs to stand out.

Finished set for box project

The whole set was finished the only problem I still have is that the curtain rail doesn't like to stay up for too long, I try everything, PVA, super glue, epoxy and blue tac and none of them wanted to hold it up. If I was to use this set for an actually animation I would drill little holes in the side of the wall to slot the curtain rail in place. The curtain rail is also a little too thin to support itself so if I was to re-make it I would use thicker doul to make the curtain rails.

If I had chance to re-do it I would also use a pritt stick to glue on the wall paper and floor because they went really crinkly with PVA.









I'm really impressed with the fire place I left a hole at the back of the set, which would effectively be the chimney. Theres enough room for me to me able to stick a lamp there making it look like the fire is glowing.

Changes in Punk Rocker's Room

I didn't like the wallpaper I firstly used in the punk rockers set. I chose this textured wallpaper, glued it on and painted it black. I didn't think that I would want to put images on the wall later. The images and the textured wallpaper would just look really odd. I ripped off the texture wall paper and printed off some black paper and used that instead, however the printer wasn't very consistant which made the walls look patchy.








I decided to correct this by covering the whole wall in images (posters). I thought it would be quite funny if I covered the entire wall in images of Phil Collins, to make it look like he has a serious obsession with him.

Finished Props for Box

The props I'm using are large dinner table, cutlery, plates, wine glasses and a few other things like a large plate for the half eaten turkey, wine bottle, gravy boat and a large bowl full of mash potato.
I also have other props like drawers and a cabinet full of books just to fill out the room.

I had just finished making the cutlery and plates and bowls out of clay. I got up to go wash my hands, came back turned on the TV and an advert came on about a magazine for 99p where all those items come free with it. I found that quite amusing as it took me a while to model all those things and I could have just bought them. I'm going to just keep the ones I made anyway and still use them for my box set. Even though there not as precise as the ones you would get in a magazine, I think they look quite comical.

I didn't make any presents in the end, I did try but they look really tacky so I'm just going to leave them out.

The cards look pretty cool, I just found them on google and glue them on to pieces of card.

I was a little disappointed with how the bookcase turned out it looked all eally neat and tidy but as soon as I clued the front on the plastic I used went really cloudy and made it look quite messy. It also turned out a little big as well.

I found some really cool paper from a model shop that looks like floorboards I got some for the box set and also got some for the punk rocker set.