Video Clips

This is the Fans that are controlled by the puppet tool.

This is Angie and her walk and body movement.

This is the Paparazzi walk cycle.

This is the intro scene I worked on first

Final Project In Process

So while working on this project I have realized this is some what like... making a puzzle one piece at a time and then putting it together. I've loaded my assets into After Effects and created organized folders in hopes it will help me when putting the complete puzzle together. I am currently working with the animations for each of the characters. Many of them have moving parts or walk cycles. I'm posting a screen shot of the environment and short clips as well to show the movement of the characters I've included into the project.

these are screen shots of my characters and how they will look inside the environment. Some of the buildings hare here, i wanted to have a good picture of them together but it was becoming too wide. In this example i just separating them so you could see them better.

Asset List

Buildings:

Clubs fronts

Bright buildings

Spot lights

Hollywood sign

Star sidewalk

Palm trees

Street Signs

Characters:

Old man on golf cart

Person on Vespa

Rabid Dog

Mob of Fans

Paparazzi

Angelina Jolie

Bodyguards

Flasher

Misc.:

Helicopter

Delivery Truck

Jelly Fish

Oscars

Coffee cup

Pepper Spray

Eggs

Hollywood sign

Revisions to the Project

I have really struggled with coming up with a good concept to this project, partly because the theme is wearing thin for me. After hearing I needed to really step up the story line and the obstacles I put in alot of thought about what one person would run into in a busy and populated city. I made a list of anything dangerous that would happen in a city and pretty much redid the story line and pieced it all together. I needed more danger!

Town Design thoughts:

1. Lots of Neon Lights! I've been researching the streets of holly wood and noticed that in any big city there seems a need for bright neon lights all over the place to glamorize locations in order to attract the locals.

2. Spot lights in the backgrounds of the buildings is another set up I want to put into my comps for the towns.

3. Must have the Hollywood sign somewhere!

Structure:

Act I – Angelina Jolie is having to get ready for the Oscars which start that very night. She must find a way to get ready in time which means picking up her dress, and getting her hair done. She is running behind and decides to take to the streets to get her needs done. Along the way are a mob of fans and paparazzi that slow her down with the flashing bulbs of their cameras.

1. Blubs will blind her and cause the screen to go very dim and slow her movements, the farther away she gets from them the better she can see.

2. Fans want her autographs so inside her bag she has presigned photos she tosses at the hungry crowd.

Act II – While running from the paparazzi and fans she comes becomes involved in the dangers of the streets and obstacles she must get around in order to make it to the dress and hair shop.

1. She must run through a construction site where there are open pits in the road.

2. Dodge angry old man on a golf cart who is swinging a club.

Once she makes it to the dress shop she decides maybe she can go out the back door to get away from the paparazzi only to find there is a rabid dog she must now run from. Once she is on the streets again she meets back up with the chasing paparazzi. She is now on her way to the hair shop.

1. A aquarium delivery truck goes by dropping jelly fish on the street and in her way.

2. People on vespas try to run over over.

3. A flasher exposes himself to her.

Act III – Angelina now reaches the hair shop but a crowd of paparazzi and fans crowd the door giving her no way out so she takes to the roof and starts jumping building to building, helicopters over head try to follow her, dropping more paparazzi down to chase her. She spots a ladder leading back to the ground and slides down. Once she has reached the streets she searches in her bag for her cell phone and calls for a ride. The limo pulls up and takes her off to the oscars where body guards then help her into the building.

Calendar

Thursday, Nov. 12 - Start editing those assets! Assets! Assets! Assets!

Tuesday, Nov. 17 – Have all my assets made and complete, and organized in After Effects so they are easy to find.

Thursday, Nov. 19 – Start on animation and building the comps

Tuesday, Nov. 24 – Rough draft complete and critiqued in class.

Wednesday, Nov. 25 - Start suggested fixings to the project and tightening up areas that need it most.

Thursday, Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving!

Tuesday, Dec. 1 - Have Second draft complete, and start editing and working in sounds.

Thursday, Dec. 3 – Have another critique to cover any major issues, and suggestions on the sound improvement if needed.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 – Work on Dvd and minor issues with final project before turn in.

Thursday, Dec. 10 – Final Due.

Story Board

This is a super rough drawing of how my story will lay out for my next project. It was kind of hard to do because most of my assets are photo-based. I did the best I could to draw out the scenes even tho there will be a great deal of detail to be included in the actual piece.

Bill Plympton Movie premiere, Master Class, and Lecture

Last week was a great week! I got to see a feature premiere called Idiots and Angels by Bill Plympton. How many movies have you been to where you got to meet the creator and hear him talk about his film? It was a awesome experience and something I will remember for a long time. His master class was really inspiring as well. He talked to us about how he lives off his independent animations and how to get our own animations out in the publics eye by submitting them into film festivals. I was equally impressed with the Dog series he showed us and the drawings he did for us on stage. That night I got the icing on the cake by attending his lecture. Can you believe the guy is in his mid 60s? I sure didnt.... and he has more films he wants to do yet! I cant wait to see the newest one he is working on called "Cheatin."

Final Project Idea Redone

So I decided to change things around in my project some so that the idea that the paparazzi was still the bad guy of my topic. Instead I just turned it around where the Celebrity was the main character trying to find her way to the Awards show in time.

Genre - Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Logline – In fear of being late for the Oscars Angelina Jolie must race against the sun to get ready for her award show and make it there on time.

Synopsis - Angelina is a famous actress for many action movies but now she must race against the time to get ready for the Oscars. The paparazzi would love to take a few pictures for their tabloid magazines. Angelina must find a way to get ready for her appearance and fight off the paparazzi on her way.

Nice Examples I Found

Final Project Idea

Genre - Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Logline – In fear of losing his job at the Daily Star, Pablo the Paparazzi must do what ever it takes to get the dirt on the hottest celebrities of Hollywood.

Synopsis - Pablo is a amateur photographer of a famous tabloid called The Daily Star. His boss becoming demanding for better dirt on the celebrities of Hollywood, he threatens Pablo to get the scoop or lose his job. Pablo sets out on an adventure where he must learn his way around the dark alleys and shadowed streets to follow, spy, and stalk the prominent faces that strive to live a normal life outside of their fame and fortunes.

Visual Development

http://www.interfable.net/graphics/cityofif.jpg

http://edugamesblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/teamplay1.jpg

http://finaldownload.com/graphicsfile/screenshotimages/Daimonin_13.png

http://www.legendarytales.com/images/darkness-springs-action-rpg-2.jpg

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=s5k0ae&s=5

http://www.animetheme.com/games/psp_rpg_sc03.jpg

http://www.lumental.com/wdragon_screen_2.gif

http://img.metaboli.fr/products/Fallout2/en/screenshot4.jpg

http://img.metaboli.fr/products/Fallout1/en/screenshot4.jpg