Sawdust all over my front porch.

^ This is a great reference to what I want for my roofs.

The set is very mobile! Separates into 3 parts so far.

Still not finished. Gotta make about 10 more dragonfruit plants and a few little roofs beside. Gonna do that these next few days.

under construction

... for real.

happy thanksgiving break!

Ahoy! Floating along...

Most of the critiques from the seminar were positive and a lot of people were confused about the beginning. I can understand since the animatic is pretty rough during the stop-mo parts. I also want that effect on people... I want them to be bedazzled in a confused way... later on they'll realize... or they'll just have to watch it again. :)

I've finished the rooster, all I need are it's feet T nuts. I took about 50 photos of my friend Nelson's eyes for testing Euclid and the feasibility of compositing it. I will do this once I finish building the set. It's looming over me - just like that section 2 map I had to do for while. I just have to dive in it seems to get going.

Here's what I did for seminar. Mike Patterson told me to do stills for each shot in my film to clarify my idea and make it easier for me to animate. Check it ooouuuut. Also, the music is in it!

This weeks goal:

FINISH SET

TEST SHOTS WITH EYES

REVISE ANIMATIC - ADD SHOTS/TAKE SOME OUT/MAKE COMPOSITIONS MORE CLEAR AND CONCISE

BLOCK OUT TRANSITIONS

Til Thursday.

- Rooster Armature and foamed - CHECK

- Roto Test Show - IN PROGRESS WILL BE MORE COMPLETE BY THURSDAY

- Build Real Set - NO MATERIALS :'(

- Get Materials: Super Sculpey (for more dragonfruit and the pipe), light metal and wood for the set. - NO CAR...

Ok. Today I'm biking to Home Depot so these problems will be remedied soon. Instead of metal I might spraypaint cardboard. I'll feel it out once I get there. I should be done the rooster puppet completely by tonight.

I completely a part of a shot at the oxberry last week. More progress will happen on Thursday.

GREAT PROGRESS on music! After an exchange of emails, my composer has sent me an amazing first pass at the score and once I time the animatic to it, you may hear it. It's super experimental, quirkly and I'm sure it will make the audience feel the strange uncertainty I want.

By Thursday I'll post more pictures, music, animatic and things... I just want to wrap up the things I'm doing. I'm picking up the pace...

Reworking

I'm having difficulty getting to a hardware store to get the final materials for my set. I'm thinking of biting my lip and biking it. I also need some structure. That's definitely stressing me out... the art of time management. My friend from Toronto was visiting this past weekend so I got little done, now it's time to go back to my groove. I booked the Oxberry for Friday.

Here are my specific goals for this coming week:

- Rooster Armature and foamed (at least)

- Roto Test Show

- Build Real Set (after talking to Musa tonight about it)

- Get Materials: Super Sculpey (for more dragonfruit and the pipe), light metal and wood for the set.

Here's another rough animatic of the stop-mo sections. The pipe no longer does the french horn twist (I think that was an add-in when I still thought it would be 2D). The rooster starts close to Euclid. Being pet by him and then flies away due to a fascination of the worm. Another big change is the dragonfruit that Euclid carries in the beginning, turns into the pipe.

Here it is:

In the section 2 Animatic... the first panoramic shot resembled the beginning of this (ignore everything after the cloud part):

This is how I want Euclid to transfer himself into the pipe's brain.

More Story Set-Up

Aight. So I got some more feedback about the story and I definitely need to establish a connection between the dragonfruit and the boy as well as the rooster and the boy.

I'm thinking: The boy is eating some dragonfruit and is feeding his rooster some while petting it. He lifts his pipe and it turns into an old man. His rooster flies away from his lap unexpectedly. The boy looks up and sees the worm eat his rooster. He reacts but is swept off his feet by the dragonfruit plant. He observes as the worm turns into a brain and then jumps onto the pipe. As the boy gets engulfed by the plant. As a last cry for help, he blows on the pipe. The brain lifts, lights up and explodes.

Sleepy Thoughts but Still Thoughts

My biggest challenge was finding time and also not being able to clear mistakes during paint on glass. Also, making Euclid's pants fit correctly was hard! I had to attach an extra piece to cover the crotch. My hand has many burns from hot glue gun.

The funnest part of this week was blasting music in oxberry room and finally drawing stills from section 2.

Tonight I'm talking to Musa about my mock set and building a rooster armature. Tom Sito and Trixie had great suggestions today - establish a connection between Euclid and the rooster. Also, in Section 2 include elements that could be in the pipe's brain/more dragonfruit imagery. Also, have a reaction shot at the very end of the boy when he realizes he was in a giant rooster. I will be working on transitions and mapping it out more clearly but this animatic step was necessary.