James's final film production blog

teh end

2008-05-05T03:57:00.000-07:00

so this might as well be the last entry since the film has been finished could have been better but hey its done now and was on time

2008-04-23T07:02:00.001-07:00

finaly finished the animation and lip sync so all thats left to do is...

add camera shake
sound FX
music

1000/1500 self evaluation
promo stuff (still unclear)
£50 for DVD

and 6 images for some thing

2008-04-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

pulling an all nighter to just get some parts done for the last few shots

2nd of april

2008-04-02T07:05:00.000-07:00

the light is at the end of the tunnel but i've made so many changes to keep the speed of the production going I don't think I'm all that mad about it any more

23rd

2008-03-23T03:28:00.000-07:00

so the studio is closed so all I can do is my key frames

17th

2008-03-17T05:43:00.001-07:00

yeah Ive really lost any love I've had for this I'm having to make so many cut backs its not at all what I wanted. Will I get it done? sure but it will be a waste of time

9th

2008-03-09T16:27:00.000-07:00

all the BG's I need are inked and I just need to animate them

3rd

2008-03-03T05:09:00.000-08:00

filling the blanks scene wise dissertation is pritty much done with just need to print 2 copy's and put it on a cd

28th

2008-02-28T04:10:00.000-08:00

nothing new really just plowoing ahead with back grounds... fun

24th

2008-02-24T05:57:00.000-08:00

was a bit under the weather last week plus our room was out of action for Wednesday

update

2008-02-18T04:53:00.000-08:00

nothing much going on but things are going according to plan

2008-02-04T07:22:00.001-08:00

been thinking about how i could really make this thing look 80ish and i think i might have an idea if i put it on VHS and then copy it back over i would get that drop in quality

more updates

2008-01-25T03:54:00.000-08:00

been working my way thought the back grounds I need I've tweaked the start of the action part to speed the pace up a bit and it lets me show off some BG's I've cooked up. also I'm mainly working on the end and start so that it can act as book ends for the action parts

update

2008-01-19T09:38:00.000-08:00

nothin new just working my way though the shots done 1 2 3 and 4

update time

2008-01-12T09:02:00.000-08:00

I'm basically working my way though the shots 1 is nearly done 2 is close just need to colour them

update time i thinks

2008-01-05T10:33:00.000-08:00

not much going on been doing a few back grounds that i will test the comming monday but this week is about the working life brief ive got the 1000 words down still need to make a new CV and cover sheet oh and show reel

festive message here

2007-12-23T16:32:00.000-08:00

*festive message here*

so yeah over the festive fun time i've been brain storming nothing new i've played around with my after effects settings getting a more dated look but that didn't take two mins really

17th

2007-12-16T16:16:00.000-08:00

so i've been thinking about Fridays crit and the big question was that my stuff had 2 styles it seemed one shot was very fast and fluid the other had that cheese now i had no issues with it but my tutor did and told me i should just roll with one.

the first is being very fluid and fast like the test shot of the jet flying. the second isnt its a more classic 80's look lots of little tricks and stuff. any ways i've made a poll about it

today was a tad lame

2007-12-14T12:57:00.000-08:00

my animatic was a fair but it turns out i lost my fav pencil and it wasn't cheap and my others are all too dark and i don't have the faintest idea what's happened to it its always in my pencil case

so before a go back to Bristol for the holidays I'm going to sit down and re do some parts and hope it will pass mustard i think its just the end that needs help

11th

2007-12-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

today is printing day also did colours on the humans

10th

2007-12-10T07:11:00.000-08:00

mostly working on my friends animatic and i've also made a start on colouring the humans

7th

2007-12-07T10:00:00.000-08:00

changed a few things in my paper work and such nothing new on the creative side

5th

2007-12-05T07:23:00.000-08:00

short one today i made some hi res pics of my robots for printing and edited together my storyboard for 4 or 5 revisions of the same fight sequence

4th

2007-12-04T07:00:00.000-08:00

not much to do now i've printed off my budget, summery, research and self evaluation. all i have left to do is a schedule some prints of my characters and print out a story board huzza

any ways just finished the coloured concept art of Acid Wing the generic bad guy

3rd

2007-12-03T03:52:00.001-08:00

didn't get much done over the weekend today i'm just key framing some stuff i did over the weekend

1st

2007-12-01T08:41:00.000-08:00

not much done today started the budget part of my production pack... also i got leader class Brawl coolist tank ever and all those gun noises and lights are teh win

oh and ive had to change a shot since the test was ass

2007-11-30T07:49:00.000-08:00

nothing much today just did a few BG characters and tweaked a past shot and scraped another since it looked lame (shame since it was close to being done)

29th

2007-11-29T06:02:00.001-08:00

small update today

1st OMFG I've got to have a first draft of my dissertation done next week lucky I've done 7000 of 8000-10,000 words so its not much work and all I'm doing is vomiting my knowledge of transformers and watching a lot of DVD's (hazaa for Japanese's TF shows getting put onto DVD in the UK)

2nd I've been spending today doing the little things like the 500 work self evaluation and editing my animatic so it has the new shorter fight originally it was 2 minutes now its 1:30 it will be even shorter when its done

and finally 3rd as far as i know my internet has gone down at my flat i phoned tech support they knew their was an issue and they told me they would phone me with an update by 10... its 2:06 right now and nothing... so I'm not sure if i can update this on the weekend

i was going to tag on my animatic but it was taking hours so i will have to make one in a smaller res to add

28th

2007-11-28T04:11:00.000-08:00

todays bit

Done a few sketches for the young kid looks a little older then what i had done in my animatic but i like it.
Also I'm going to tag on a WiP shot i did the animation for this one first but I've yet to try to do the back ground that will aether be made in toonboom or flash depending on my mood when i get round to it.

1st entry

2007-11-27T04:35:00.000-08:00

started this blog in order to replace my ass hat of a diary that was a giant fail and was never really used

today on the 27th I've started going over my sketches of head designs I've done for the female lead and made a general body as well as doing a few faces

heres the art I've done for the real stars DiaGoGear (while, black, red and green) and as as yet unnamed blue and purple robot not shown is Acid wing the name of the generic green unit named after in acid colour and that it turns into a jet like the others

also ive tagged on one of my tests the idea is that your seeing DGG (DiaGoGear) running to ward a generic enemy with our POV being along side DGG but at a normal ground level. I'm not sure on this look it seems a bit too polished colour wise when I'm aiming to get the look of the 80's early 90's stuff like G Gundam, transformers, getter robo etc etc but then I'm doing this mostly digitally so i knew it wasn't going to have the same feel

oh and heres some rejected designs for the robots both were up for being the lead goodie but i was informed the coloured were very much like Gurren Logan... f**k i told myself even if the shapes and general look were different the colours are still very close. the 2nd was my leading idea for some time only i felt it would be much nicer if it looked grander and have a much more simple transformation at the cost of adding some odd looking details