3/11/2015

First playblast

30/10/2015

Setting my scene up...

27/10/2015

Rat Rig IS DONE THANK YOU KEAT

7/10/2015

4/09/2015

Video of turntable

4/09/2015

UV maps and textures are done, applied to 3D model:

23/08/2015

Character: 

23/08/2015

Prop 2:

23/08/2015

Prop 1

17/08/2015

Bad Hair Day feels bad man....

17/08/2015

Started to model Flora. Will need to plan a mouth pocket later on.

11/08/2015

Staring to model the rat puppet.

10/08/2015

Planning mesh mapping on clay sculpture.

This exercise with clay allows us to visualize our character in terms of mesh grid. The result is being able to plan our mesh with polygons with 4 angles (3 being acceptable but 4 remaining the best option).

7/08/2015

3D model of cat puppet

low poly version

smooth version

6/08/2015

Progress in modelling my first puppet prop

29/07/2015

First storyboard draft. The point of the scene is not discovering that the characters are puppets. At this point of the story it has already been established. Ratcliff and Lieutenant Percy are Flora's toy puppets. The scene starts off with the puppets on a table, they are arguing. Suddenly Flora pops behind them and they both freeze (like in Toy Story). She has her arms crossed, meaning she is not touching the puppets. She stares intensely at them, waiting for them to move again. Ratcliff is trying to hold his breath and Lieutenant Percy tries to stay in balance. Eventually though, they both fail and get busted. Flora screams I KNEW IT! while pointing her finger at them.

29/07/2015

New Ratcliff colour. In a general shot with the 3 characters, the original colour of Ratcliff might not stand out enough. The mustache is better off black but the skin colour can be played around with in order to stand out next to Flora and Lieutenant.

This is my exploration of new colours, I'm leaning towards the last one (pastel yellow)

26/07/2015

Texture tests (principally fabric)

26/07/2015

26/07/2015

Turn around for Flora and the 2 Puppets 

Flora

Ratcliff Bluestache

Lieutenant Percy

23/07/2015

"final" colours:

Balanced the colours of the puppets so they would stand out more in comparison to Flora's hair. Focus on the blue moustache of the rat puppet and the yellow eyes of the cat puppet. (not to scale)

23/07/2015

Feedback

Peers: Although my classmates like the red haired Flora the best, they think that it will stand out too much when put together with the puppets. They think Flora should be somewhat plain to reflect a good level of transparency.

Tutor: Keat suggests that Flora doesn't need to be plain. Being the heroine, it's fine if she stands out and having bright hair doesn't take away the fact that she is a poor orphan. Instead, I could balance the colours of the puppets in a way that would balance and attract the eye when the 3 characters are in the same shot.

22/07/2015

Flora colour tests:

22/07/2015

puppets simplification:

21/07/15

Summary Description:

In the 6 seconds sequence, Flora and her 2 puppets participate in a staring contest, inspired by "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 3-way stand-off scene. The scene will consist of close shots coming back and forth from Flora's eyes to the puppets' eyes. I would like the scene to finish with a general shot of Flora flabbergasted, watching her 2 puppets screaming or barking at each other. The scene takes place in a 19th century London-inspired city, in front of a toy store (that part will be done with a flat 2D background).

I'm translating the western scene from "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" to a fantasy scene set in the 19th century. The store and the accessories used will be linked to that period with outfits and architecture.

21/07/15

Simplifying design for 3D and further puppet concepts:

Flora on paper / Flora simplified
aristocrat mouse female /aristocrat mouse male /worker class mouse male
detective cat/ villain mouse front/ villain mouse side
detective dog/ policeman dog/ scientist dog

16/07/15

Visual Research for environement. 19th century shop windows

16/07/15

Visual Research for Flora and the sock puppets

16/07/15

Change of mind about the genre: Im going for fantasy. Setting would be 1800s London like city and the little girl, Flora is a poor orphan. She performs a puppet show in the street to earn a few pennies. She builds her puppets with everyday finds from the street and the design of the puppets should include accessories reminiscent of Flora's Era. She can perform in front of a toy store window shop. One day her puppets will start talking on their own. Flora hears them and picks them up. The staring contest 5 second scene (the good the bad and the ugly reference) starts then and eventually the puppets start talking again. Flora is delighted and the puppet show gains in popularity. The colours of the city are dull and dark, but when Flora and her puppets perform, an enchanting light and saturation in colours happen, the public takes great pleasure in watching, as if a spell is mesmerizing everyone. At the peak of popularity of the show, every kid in town trade their fancy toys for sock puppets and the toy store hires little Flora to perform for them.

14/07/15

Choose an iconic film sequence

my pick: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (3-way standoff)

The brief limitations:

-minimal voice over or none at all

-only 1 character

-represent a distinct genre of film

My idea around the 3-way standoff, because the restriction of the brief is to have one character playing with 2 sock puppets. This way, although there is only one character to design, the scene would actually play as if 3 distinct characters are having a staring contest.

I want to turn this intense wetsern scene into a modern family movie comedy, with the main character being a little girl playing with her puppet toys.