Dear Diary...
I just started my very own shortfilm: "Forget-me-not". As you are always really interested in my work I'll let you know what I've done so far and keep you up to date! You know, when doing a shortfilm, it's all about the story. You don't know the story? Well, here it is:

An old storywriter falls into depression after his wife dies. The characters he created in his stories, which are interacting in reality, are trying to bring him back to life.The more the storywriter ignores his imaginary characters, the more invisible they get, until the old man finds one of his books. As soon as he starts remembering his characters, they get back their visibility. The old man realises that if the writes about his dead wife, she will life forever in his memories.


Sounds good, right? And as I have really good people collaborating with me, I think this will be a wonderful film!

Friday 28 January 2011

Rrroar!

Dear Diary...
I finished modelling the dragon! Yay! That was fun. Here he is.


For our university course I have to texture him different, he need to be a "proper" dragon with leather wings, horns and claws. Next week he will learn to move!

Tuesday 25 January 2011

The cast!

Dear Diary...
Sorry for beeing really bad in keeping you up to date. I try my best,  promise!
Last week we had our deadline for the PreProduction. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I think I finally learned "time management". Well, we'll see with the next deadline :-)
But finally I can show you how the characters look like!
Here are the main character: The old man and his wife. The dragon and the elves/fairy are half transparetn as they are "just" memories. They are his created characters.

And at the moment they are getting modelled, so exciting when your drawings become 3D!!!The wife is modelled by Ben, Lisa is modelling the fairy and Gabby is doing the elf. The old man is modelled by Dan, but he has to finish an other project, so he will start in 2 weeks. I am modelling the dragon. Thats so much fun!

Next step is to finish modelling, rig and texture the character. Do a layout-animatic and try some stylistic in 3ds Max. Well, that will be interesting, a CG "painted" animated movie?

Monday 10 January 2011

Moving pictures...

Dear Diary...
welcome to the modern world. I bet noone will really look at the Storyboard when there is an Animatic! Well, I think I wouldn't. Moving pictures are so much more interesting! I think, thats one of the reasons why I want to quit my job as a graphic designer and want to become an animator.
This is my first version of the Animatic, Critique is always welcome :-)

Due to snow...

Dear Diary...
Due to weather conditions I was not able to fight my way through the snow into University to upload my Storyboard and my Animatic. Well, the problem wasn't 10cm of snow, the problem was more that University closed due to 10cm of snow. But know everything is alright and we survived the hard and horrible winter :-)
Christmas was very nice and having a barbeque on new years eve - let 2011 begin!
But now, on to business!

My first schedule idea was to design all the characters in my story. After the design and the look of the film is done, I wanted to do the Storyboard and the Animatic. Well, that schedule was the wrong. I have 2 good Animators collaborating with me on my film, Joe is doing some animation with the dragon and Gabriele animates the scene with the elves playing on the table. And to do the pre-production for their animation, Joe and Gabby have to know how the scene looks and how long their scene is going to be. My part as director than is not to do everything in the order how I think it is right, but to give everyone their task. I'm not the only one working on this project. Storyboard and Animatic are more important than the look of the characters.  I can design the characters while Joe and Gabby are planning their parts of the animation.
So here it is, the Storyboard, the design comes later: