Other Modelling done by me

I decided to start modelling the studio environment and kitchen bench just going off of a mixture of some of the images of building etc that Damien posted and also some I found.  This also helped me to adjust the scale of Charlie accordingly and also gave us an idea of how big the kitchen, bed and couch should be.

I made an executive decision to skew some of the elements such as doors and windows to go with the "Surreal" world Charlie is living in.

Please note:  that this colour isn't the final colour for the walls...it was only placed on model to assist in viewing.

Charlie Occlusion and Update on modelling

After chatting to Andrew he has suggested we make a few minor changes in the mesh:-

• bevel hard edges
• flatten out nose to cheek a bit more
• lose some fatness in cheeks to make look a bit older

Modelling Charlie

The modelling process started with Caryn modelling Charlie.   Being then I had decided I would like to try rigging. So we decided that perhaps I should take over the modelling so I could make sure i had enough edge loops etc in place for the rig as I was NOT going to use the set up machine program that does the rigging for you.  Previous tests of charlie using the set up machine showed that there were some bugs that were impossible to fix without a depth of understanding of the rigging process anyways, and we did not want a lot of our animating time going to fixing the rig if we could help it.  Some comparisons and some tech info in images found below. 

Technical Aspects of Down the Line

Length: 3-4mins

Genre: Surreal Drama
Medium: 3D animated short film with mixed media compositing

Concepts we hope to achieve:-

• 3D backgrounds and assests which look like line art
• Stop Motion - origami folding letters (by Erin)
• writing overlays of letters onto screen as she writes

Programs we are using:

• Maya - all 3D modelling and animation
• After Effects for special effects such as the writing overlays and colour seepage aswell as compositing
• Photoshop for texturing, concept art
• Flash - Animatic
• Protools for sound editing

In the beginning...the seed for the story

We decided that none of our story ideas would be realistic to realise in the short time frame we had. Then one night, Damien came across the above image of Erwin Madrids which inspired him to write the original script which as a group we devloped further.