Production Diary UP725313 – ANIMATION GROUP PROJECT

WEEK 1-3

DURING THIS WEEKS WE WERE GOING TRUE THE STORY, DISCUSSING DIFFERENT IDEAS AND HOW TO APPROACH AND PRESENT THEM, AS WELL AS WRITING THE SCRIPT. EVERYONE IN THE GROUP WARE REALLY EXCITED AND HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT HOW THE STORY SHOULD DEVELOP. BY DISCUSSING THEM TOGETHER, WE AGREED ON SOME AND REJECTED OTHERS.

AS AT THE BEGINNING, THE WAY I IMAGINED IT GOING WAS MORE ABSTRACT, BEX,REECE AND LIU SUGGESTED GIVING MORE OF AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CHARACTERS SO THAT THE AUDIENCE FOLLOWS THE STORY MORE EASY, AND HAVE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY THE STORY DEVELOPS THE WAY IT DOES AT THE END. EACH ONE OF US THEN WROTE A BREAKDOWN OF THE NARRATIVE TO PRESENT HOW THEY SEE THE STORY BY ADDING SOMETHING THAT THINK IT WILL WORK WELL. SO IN A WAY ALL OF US ACTED AS DIRECTORS AS WE MADE SURE THE VISION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IN CERTAIN PARTS TRUE THE ANIMATION IS INCLUDED. ME AND REECE THEN WROTE THE SCRIPT BY THE FORMAT, REECE WROTE THE SYNOPSIS AND LIU AND BEX WHEN OUT TO TAKE PICTURES AROUND PORTSMOUTH WHICH WE CAN USE LATER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT.

THE PALACE by Robin Heap https://vimeo.com/104846650

EAGER by Allison Schulnik - https://vimeo.com/83390470

FOXED! By James Stewart - https://vimeo.com/138706287

INSPIRATION :

The Script and Synopsis

Sleep Paralysis

Synopsis.

Sleep Paralysis, a psychological thriller, tells the story of a young school boy, an

arrogant, ignorant and selfish individual, who is faced with evaluating his own life and

coming to terms with his biggest fears. After leaving school one day the young boy is followed home, where he is tormented and made a target by someone or maybe

even something that wants to give the boy a taste of his own medicine.

FADE IN:

INT. COLLEGE - LATE AFTERNOON

WIDE ANGLE LENS on a dim corridor. CAMERA slowly moves in

accompanied by the sound of the outside autumn rain.

SOUND OF BELL announcing the end of the last class

interrupts the peaceful atmosphere of the corridor.

CUT TO:

CLASSROOM DOOR slams open. A seventeen years old BOY,with a

bad attitude walks through the open door towards the CAMERA.

Dark shadow falls on his face. BOY walks through the

corridor as dark shadows(Silhouettes of CHILDREN)start to

fill the frame and the BOY is out of sight. THE SILHOUETTES

merge together until there is only black left.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. COLLEGE-LATE AFTERNOON

BOY walks out of the building pushing a BLOB (Child

Silhouette) out of his way. BLOB falls in a big puddle on

the ground.BOY just laughs and walks off. QUICK CONSECUTIVE

CUTS of him walking, pulls out tobacco,rolls a fag, lights

with match, breaths in.

CUT TO:

EXT. STREET-DUSK

PERSPECTIVE SHOT of him walking into distance down street,as

a shadow of creature appears and disappears behind him.

Sounds of stray cats and people shouting can be heard.

CUT TO:

EXT. STREET-NIGHT

The creature jumps form one building to another as the

CAMERA moves around him.Creature stops on the edge of a

building.CAMERA moves behind his back to reveal the boy

walking on the street below.

CUT TO:

INT. INSIDE BOYS BUILDING - NIGHT

BOY walks up two flights of stairs to his front door. BOY

walks past one door where the sound of a TV that is too loud

can be heard.

SHADOW OF CREATURE can be seen morphing shapes on the wall

behind the BOY.

BOY reaches front door, retrieves key from pocket, put it

into the key hole, turns in and opens the door. BOY enters

apartment and slams door behind him

Sound of dripping pipes can be heard as boy walks up stairs.

CUT TO:

INT. BOYS APARTMENT - NIGHT

BOY walks into apartment tormenting the family pet (CAT) as

he passes by it before opening door to his bedroom and

entering. BOY again slams door behind him.

CUT TO:

INT. BOY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

BOY throws down bag by the foot of his bed and lays on bed.

CUT TO:

EXT. OUTSIDE BOY’S BEDROOM WINDOW - NIGHT

Creature can be seen peering into the boys in an OVER THE

SHOULDER SHOT.

CUT TO:

INT. BOY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

CAMERA ZOOMS IN OF BOY’S FACE. SOUND OF CLOCK TICKING CAN BE

HEARD. CAMERA CUTS TO BLACK. SOUND OF CLOCK TICKING

CONTINUES.

EXTREME CLOSE UP OF BOYS EYES.CLOCK STOPS TICKING.

Boys eyes shoot open as sweat drips down his face. BOY tries

to move but is unable to.

SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS IN ROOM CAN BE HEARD.

(CONTINUED)

CHARACTER DESIGNS RESEARCH WEEK 4-5

During this period we worked on the character designsfor the monster and the creature.We all did some research. Below are the designs and research I made for the characters. We decided to go with my design for the boy, and for the creature we took my

initial design and the designs Becky made, and I combined them.

BOY mood

board

The Concept Art

During week 8-9 I was working on some concept art, along side still fixing

some bits on the animatic. So we know what colours to use.

STORYBOARD AND KEY FRAMES FOR

ANIMATIC

Week 6-7 we ware working on the storyboard and animatic. The rest of the

group did thumbnail storybords and I did the foul storyboard and animatic

as to keep the style the same.

THUMBNAILS

Week 10-12 , we went to the library to do some footage reference, which

we used for thumbnails.

Below are the thumbnails I did

I was looking at some

reference for the boys

reactions.

3d part

As at first, my idea was to do the whole film stop-motion, but over week 3-4 we decided to go with 3d, in order to be quicker, as we would have got the time to finish it. Not sure if it was quicker as we came across a lot of problem with the rig. And I personally feel quit slow animating on maya, I guess it is lack of practice.

Becky found Morpheus rig, which is a really good rig but quite advanced. There problem with it was the thong, for some reason it wasn’t working normally on Maya 2016, so we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to fix it. I read some blogs and found a way to turn his thong back in place, as well as morphing it to look as our design and model his clothing and wrapping it to the mesh.

Over the Chrismas break we ware working on getting the pre- vis done.

I also did some building models looking at my previous concept art , as well as model the backpack of the boy.

For the textures, Liuhad found some on thee internet and I painted on top of them.

Over the last week we ware refining the the animation rendering. I had a problem with the rendering, the textures on the boy’s face seemed to disappear half way true the render. So it was a small hell, so at the end I just playblasted it , for which I am sorry.

How it had to look

Overall

Overall, I think we learned quite a lot from each other over the time we

worked together. It could have been better, but we worked quite hard.

I do understand now how important team work is, how hard and fun at the

same time is.