Maya Design

Here is one version of Maya... more on their way.

Here is a version of her face.

So I got started....

So I got started barely..... But here are the colors I'm using. for my First transition shot

Hey Meeting people!

Hey I know I said earlier in the week we would meet on Sunday but tomorrow is Easter! So let's not have an official meeting, but if you want to work together in the afternoon I will be in the building in the afternoon working on my portion of the BFA stuff. How is Monday for everyone?

And so rejoining us after a leave of absence....

And so rejoining us after a leave of absence.... is Luis Wong. Let us welcome him to the group giving him work to do.
So here is a revised list of what people are doing. If you already started the things that I took from you to give to Luis PLEASE TELL ME ASAP. I took minor shots that people weren't excited about or arn't working as they are and gave them to Luis. And Luis if you have any ideas to which you would like to add to this trailer tell us about it.

WHAT EVERYONE IS ASSIGNED:
Luis: the trucker shot where he drops the rosary beads(Ask Al exactly what is going on in this shot and if there is a complete character design for the trucker... it's only his torso down so it shouldn't matter much), the beating of the kid in Vegas shot in the section of flashing(The composition needs to read strong and quickly with strong values), Can you think of any more dramatic shots to add during the quick flashes? 

Dang: Starshot, hall way, one or two of the flashing shots there is a shot with her being dragged by two men and a shot of the seedy side of Vegas with kneeyon lights if you want to do those
Christy: Opening panning shot, Photos(except the star shot which will just be a cropped version of Dangs painting), Popo dying
Al: The goths robbing the guy in the hotel room(It seemed like this one would be really easy to take to finish), Maya lighting the match, Candyman pan down to club shot. Plus your probably going to have to do really quick paintovers of everyone's Maya so they feel like the same girl.
Kim: Mainly flashing shots(her on the floor, Brandon being killed, being torture after she was kidnapped), Maya falling through the buildings, the transition of her pulling the ban to the money to the fire shot
Alvyn: The whole shot from the rehab center to her getting picked up by the truck. Truck design
Christine: Rosary beads the truck driver drops, and exterior of the Berkeley house

Does everyone agree with this revised list?

one of the scenes:

hey all, posted a little clip on the server that I couldn't explain in words last night. It's in my week02 folder, labeled w/ today's date. 

Revisions on the Animatic for tonight

I still have things to fix. Like I want to make the shadow side of Ben Franklin's face on the 100 dollar bill become Maya so that in the fire shot she doesn't jump. And switching her to be black in the running scene and clearing out some of the trees, but those are minor things. And then the new part is just roughed in.
Also I think Alvyn had a different angle in mind for the shot with the truck which would probably be more effective.

But tell me what you think of the new order of things and the new transitions. I hope to do some more fixes tomorrow night. And Al told me he would work on the colorscripting part so we would know what to which parts of Skyfall to color pick from.

Notes from the Monday night meeting

NOTES FROM THE MEETING:
-Take out the graveyard shot and have a little more animation in the shot over Popo dying. Like Maya's hand tensing.
-The scene where she runs in front of the truck needs to be more dramatic.
-Flashing scenes need to have very strong values to read
-Expression on the firestarter's face needs to go from serious to angry
-Instead of the needle going into her arm try having her tightening the band
-More graphic possibilities for the flashing shots so they read. Example the shadows on the floor.
-Perhaps she slides towards the truck or running and falls in front of the truck
-Hall at the end should tilt different angles like it is twisting
-Falling photos showing happy times
-Try reordering the animatic with the Candyman to falling transition towards the end
-Introduce Nini and have a little more build up with the calm happy times
-For the forest running shot Alvyn wanted to experiment with a strobe effect as to where you can see the character when she is running

WORK AT:
300dpi
2000x3700 for regular frames, but if you have a panning shot double or triple that
Then when we enter the After Effects stage of the project we need to make all our stuff COMPOSITIONS for making the master file.
Also Alvyn reccomented the site Video Copilot for tutorials on After Effects and that we should learn to be comfortale navigating, using that programs hotkeys, and simple filters.

WHAT EVERYONE IS ASSIGNED:
Dang: Starshot, hall way, one or two of the flashing shots there is a shot with her being dragged by two men and a shot of the seedy side of Vegas with kneeyon lights if you want to do those
Christy: Opening panning shot, Photos(except the star shot which will just be a cropped version of Dangs painting), Popo dying
Al: The goths robbing the guy in the hotel room(It seemed like this one would be really easy to take to finish), Maya lighting the match, Candyman pan down to club shot, the trucker shot, Plus your probably going to have to do really quick paintovers of everyone's Maya so they feel like the same girl.
Kim: Mainly flashing shots(her on the floor, Brandon being killed, the beating, being torture after she was kidnapped), Maya falling through the buildings, the transition of her pulling the ban to the money to the fire shot
Alvyn: The whole shot from the rehab center to her getting picked up by the truck. Truck design
Christine: Rosary beads the truck driver drops, and exterior of the Berkeley house

Next meeting is at 3pm on Sunday. Post your work during the week.

stargazing scene

Here's the stargazing scene, but a WIP so far. 

Popo&Nini

Skype names:

hey guys, I'm "the_mut_cat" on Skype, I should have ok connection rt now :)

music?

hey mike, I remember you said you may be able to do our music, is it possible to get something out this week?

If we're pressed for time we might also get my brother to do it, he has some demos here: link

Hallway

Here's the hallway in the trailer when Maya run out of the hallway based on Al's trailer. I don't know if we are using it or not but I painted it...

Meeting.

Hey anyone want to do the meeting tomorrow night at like 9 with some of us meeting at the building and using Skype to connect to those who can't be here? Instead of tonight?

Transition idea

Hey I did this idea really quickly tonight. The faculty had issue with Maya actually injecting herself. Then I know Al and I had discussed that the transition to the money on fire shot wasn't working. So how I intend for this to start out with her tensing and beginning to lower the needle then the transformation begins.
It goes a little to quick in my video.

Next Meeting?

Hey guys, first off, I apologize if there are any misinterpretations about my last comment of not feeling like wanting to work on this project. I love to contribute and will do anything you ask me. I'm just not as focused and inspired about this trailer as Christy or Sparky so I don't really have an image about how this trailer would have worked out. I haven't been turning in a lot of work and I apologize for that a well but when we have the animatic. I'll work my ass off for it. Just letting you guys know so that I can take the loads of work from you when it is overwhelming.

Secondly, I spoke with Kim and she thought we should meet up on Sunday using skype to talk about our next steps of the project.

I am interpreting that the meeting would be about.

Splitting part on the animatic
Color keys for the animatic
Music
More preliminary work?

What day would be good since we have Spring Break?

Have a nice weekend everybody.

-Dang 

The pitch so far

weird

I have every intention of fixing it... right now, I'm just having trouble seeing it.

Berkeley House and Observatory Tower

Here are some of conceptual designs for the Berkeley House and Observatory Bell Tower where Popo would look through his telescope from.

Color Pallette

How about the colors used in Skyfall for our trailer. Check out the screencaps http://evanerichards.com/2013/2883

Modeling Progress

This is Soungmo.

I finished modeling work and started Texturing work for realistic looking.

bye.



 

Motel- Raped Scene

Animatic WIP

So here is the animatic so far. Still working on it, but I figured I would show what's going on with it.

Al? Kim?

hey guys, I'm putting what I have on the server for the peice of the animatic I was working on. it's a psd titled "transitionideas" and it's in my visdev folder from last week

CAFE FRASCOTI AT FOUR ON TUESDAY(TODAY)

Hey guys is everyone good with this?

Oh and after Christys boards I did some of my own for the trailer. So I will try and clean those up for the meeting tomorrow as well.

Tuesday?

It looks like no ones schedules really overlap today to meet. Can we all meet at some point on Tuesday like at 3?

roughRoughAnimatic

blogger failed to upload my rough animatic, so here's some jpgs. The animatic of this, however, turned out boring. We need to think of some creative ways we can do transitions. got inspired by http://youtu.be/T6zDfxZ4NcE but I don't know what to do now...