Week4: yer

Okie so First Concepts (better late then Never)
I am Taking inspiration from the first scene in rwby introducing the main characacter Ruby Rose.

I am wanting to use my two characters from Cross Destiny Ace and Ezaru

Few Ideas and sketches.

Ace and Ezaru Hiding in an old worn out store, only for hunters scouring the area for run away, only to discover Ace and Ezaru hiding away, this leads into a fight where They face off against the hunters.



Ace is in a corner store looking for a map to the city he is in, the store is now being robbed by the local mafia, They threaten Ace but he beats the goons off until a bigger boss with a weird weapon, blast it at ace though Ezaru swoops in to save ace.

Im not to sure by this point, and in all honestly, I can't think straight right now, I also need to draw more dragons as im a bit out of practice D:
but I think what I need to do Is a few more written concepts as to what exactly I want to do

Week4: Braindead

Ok so I found it hard to concentrate and process, what was going on but here we go,
I did lose some of the footage as I forgot to save the first version.

I got the ruff Idea on matting and layers but I think I will need to go over it several times for it to stick in my head.

I got the selection for the replacement or thing to effect a specific area, but I couldn't figure out how to animate,

Week4: This info is completly usless

Muckpuddy:
New Zealand animation company that focuses on kids cartoons, they aim to educate and create role models for the young children of new Zealand.

Barefoot Bandits

Weta Workshop:
Over 60 feature films,
Base in Wellington (been there its interesting)

meet the Feebles
Heavenly creatures
The Freighters
Lord of the Rings

Week4: Eupo

Week4: Update

Added the chest, piece and fixed the skirt, I was having a little trouble as the edges were doubled up a bit.

Week3: BIRB

so I made a wife for Korie's Mob Owl she drew last week.

Week3: BLEERRRGG

We had great progress on our project, We had set up a production line or pipeline as i think its called, which is sorting when and where. as for me, I made progress on the 3D Model,
I need to do some concept art for the locations however, I will need references of the location from Jakie first.

I was mainly smoothing out the arms and separating a few meshes, and ya know, the skirt did that.
:D 

Project Val Inspirations

Gate Box AI assistant (Main Inspo)

The virtual assistant was one of the inspirations for the story, Gatebox is designed to provide company and companionship to its owner, for people to have someone to come home to, The anime girl appearance was used as in Japan, where the product is distributed, it is a very common and friendly form of art, and much more appealing to lets say, a realistic humanoid.

The idea sparked from the idea that, an AI assistant was abandoned within an apocalyptic world. The AI was created to be of service and with no one to serve or help, what will she do.

Week3: adhd does not help in concentrating

EXPLODY BOI
after effects stuff, learned a bit, how to incorporate effects,

BOOM

Week3: Supose to be doing this

From the scenes I analysed within the show Ruby, I think I shall focus on The first scene with ruby, I was planning on using this for introducing the characters to the series however, thinking it over it will not fit the story of how I want that to go down.

I am going to be making just a random scene with my two character Ace and Ezaru. I will still be using the same scene to take inspiration from.

For me to be able to work with something like this I need to set up when and where the scene is happening within the story timeline, as Cross Destiny doesn't yet have a solid one I can be quite flexible in the type of scene I create for my two characters.

Ruff Idea:
I am planning on the scene to involve Ace and Ezaru fighting some enemies.

Week 3: Really should title these posts properly AHHAHAHAH

Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola

Jane Campion:
on of the most aclqaimed film makers from Australasia
Strong female main characters
Peel (1882) won an award
Angel at my table (1990)
The Piano (1993) Nominated for best director
Born in Wellington

Only second woman to be nominated for best director award.

Peel: I did not understand this in the slightest, WHY IS THE CHILD IN THE FRONT SEAT, as for the director stuff, honestly don't understand that either.



Sofia Coppola:
Director scree  writer and producer

Long takes
Insider

The virgin suicides (1999)
Lost in translation


Trailers I've seen:
Detective Pikachu
Frozen2
Far From Home

All the trailers for these sucsessfuly pulled in my intrest, with a pull and teasing the main story yet not selling all of the story, I think that Is one of the important things of a trailer, not giving away the plot, but showing enough to show the themes and pasing of the movie,
What type of movie is this going to be, thats what the trailers showed while only teasing the main plot.

Existential Crisis

Ok so today was the Intro for Pro tool and I WAS SO CONFUSED, Im just tired and hungry.

Though after learning and using it for a while im sure I will get use to it, I'm still stumped on how to use the damn thing at the moment, I just need to, in my own time, fuck around with it,

aort

Ok so this is out of order but here is the first round of concept art

Second round of concept art was done by fabree and consisted of coloring and re-designing a few things. I then re-drew them and messed around.

 messed around with the designs a bit

Then the final designs

3DUpdate

Ok so, I added the butt boobs and feet, I have also done the clothes but I might re-do the skir as it is acting pretty weird but im sure its nothing I can't figure out.

OH I FORGOT TO UPLOAD THE FINAL CONCEPT ART
woops Here it is along with th 3d shtuff

WIP

Not finished but ALIENS in work

Mini Update

I haven't got too much done this week (on the model) as I have forgotten a thing and don't have acsess to tutorials but once I do ill hop back on it, In class we discussed through Jaquies treatment and for the most it was good just one or two tweeks,

Cult leader

Cell

Animation Cartoon
Early cartoons

too fast for me to write,

Crusader rabbit - Saturday morning cartoon

it has a very simple animation and story style

Jay ward productions
Rocky and Bullwinkle

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Fractured Fairy Tales

Dudley Do-right of the Mountins

A lot of them used a live action host to keep costs down

Mighty mouse- around the time movies stopped showing shorts beforehand to companies bought up the rights for their cartoons on tv

Hannah Barbera:

TOM AND JERRY MY CHILDHOOD

ruff and ready

Huckleberry Hound

Flintstones

in the 70s'

Action adventure
Scooby Doo: Where are you

had to cut cost, due to previous company closing down

efficent character design

1980s:
SMURFS

Filmation:
Bluffed their way into getting The man of Steel show going
|She-Ra
He-Man

update:1

Update on the design team:
So far so good we have a final Logo, mascot is on its way. ruff drafts for the poster are being made and no progress on the powerpoints yet

As for HW:
Getting started on it soon :P

Project: V.A

Our project is gonna be about a virtual assistant in an apocalyptic world, Fabri and I are going to be focusing on the design, creation and animation of the virtual character who will be in 3d

The character is going to be drawn from or inspired by anime girls and the anime personal assistant,

https://www.kisspng.com/png-hatsune-miku-clothing-mikumikudance-hanbok-costume-1057634/
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/08/japans-anime-girl-virtual-assistant-enters-mass-production/

VE

First day

Okie so, for this term im gonna be teaming up with Jakie and Fabri for this project.

Proposal:
Written analysis
Visual development
VFX storyboards

What im wanting to achieve personally:

3d in a real life environment, also to make 2d animations look very nice


Random Inspo:
I love the idea of making a 3d character within a live action environment

another concept I would find interesting is a sort of AI character represented through a digital avatar that can blip from screen to screen place to place, or even through projection
 OF course this can either be 2d or 3d.

Something like a hologram character breaking into reality?

Existential Crisis here we go

Connect and Challenge
TED Talks:
Your personality and your brain: Scott Schwefel

Soooo.. self aware stuff.
the kind of stuff I purposely avoid because I hate talking about myself... yay....

Eghhh I don't really want to go into the whole who I am, just not comfortable with it regardless of how important it is for anything, I just don't have any interest in myself I only have eyes for the stories I make and the worlds I create.

I suppose on the colour chart thing shown in the video, I'm more of a green, introvert yadaa yadaa.. not to sure.

https://www.herrmann.com.au/what-is-whole-brain-thinking/

Focus: 
BAHAHHAHAHAHA.. I honestly can't focus to save my life my brain jumps from thought to thought like speedy gonzali on crack