Hi I'm Hamish. This is a documentation of my wonderful adventures as I make my way from a flailing animation student, to a powerful and successful art ninja (I hope.)
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Tuesday 8 March 2016

Final script and other stuff

Well it's been a little while since my last post so I guess it's time to make a few updates.

First off, our team has a name! We are henceforth officially 'JA HOT.'
It's an acronym of our team members' names. That sounds silly but how good is the name JA HOT? That's awesome. We're like super sexy Germans in a night club.

Ahem.

So we also have our final script. We all threw in some ideas and workshopped it into it's final form. We all had a pretty similar vision of the story so the process was very smooth. I possibly should have posted some previous versions but there's not much point now.
So here's the final script.

Script Idea

By Oscar W. Mitchell (Team Ja, Hot!)

Finalised version

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CLOSE UP OF MEDITATION TRACK ON PHONE, LOW BATTERY ON ORANGE IN

THE TOP CORNER

PERSON PUTTING IN HEADPHONES

SOOTHING MUSIC STARTS

MEDITATION VOICE OVER STARTS

VOICE OVER: Hello, welcome to this guided meditation. Find a comfortable position,

sitting or lying down.

INDIVIDUAL SITTING, UNABLE TO GET COMFORTABLE, SLIGHTLY TWITCHY

VOICE OVER: Allow yourself to enter a space of deep relaxation.

MID CLOSEUP BIRDS EYE SHOT: WATCH CHEST TAKE DEEP BREATHS AND

FACIALS RELAX AS THE BREATHING SLOWS AND THE BODY STARTS TO CALM.

SHOULDERS DROP

VOICE OVER: With your mind, slowly scan your body.

As you move from your toes up to your head, Feel your physical body being erased and

released into the universe, revealing your spiritual self.

FULL BODY SHOT: BLUE ENERGY/GLOWING LIGHT SLOWLY MOVES FROM THE

FEET UP THROUGH THE WHOLE BODY, REACHING THE CROWN OF THE HEAD.

ONCE IT REACHES THE TOP, THE LIGHT ENVELOPS THE WHOLE ROOM THEN

SLOWLY FADES OUT, ALLOWING THE SPIRIT WORLD TO SLOWLY APPEAR. GOLD

PARTICLES ARE LEFT SIMMERING IN THE BODY, AND THE ROOM SLOWLY

STARTS TO TRANSFORM IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.

VOICE OVER: Embrace the warm sensations running through your body, and drop all

preconceived ideas of what you’re hoping to expect.

THE GOLD PARTICLES START TO ELEVATE UPWARDS, TAKING A HUMAN LIKE

FORM, THE SPIRIT WORLD IS BECOMING EXTREMELY CLEAR, AND THE SOUL

STARTS OBSERVING ITS SURROUNDINGS; A PEACEFUL/MAJESTIC FOREST WITH

A LAKE IN THE MIDDLE, WITH STEPPING STONES LEADING TO AN ISLAND IN THE

CENTER. THE SKY THROUGH THE TREES HAS AN AMAZING VIEW OF THE

COSMOS, DANCING WITH COLOUR AND LIGHT.

VOICE OVER: with no earthly tethers, allow your soul to move freely on its own accord­­

SUDDENLY THE MEDITATION CUTS OFF, THE PHONE HAS DIED THE RINGING

SOUND OF TINNITUS STARTS TO BUILD

THE SPIRITS GLITCH OUT AND TURN INTO DARK SPIRITS,THE STEPPING

STONES START TO FALL AWAY AND THE PEACEFUL SETTING BECOMES DARK

AND OMINOUS

A CLOSEUP OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, SWEAT ON THE FOREHEAD.

SUDDENLY JOLTING AWAKE AND RIPPING OUT THE HEADPHONES, PANTING,

THEN CREDITS

Aaaand that's what we're gonna be working with.
I think each of us has a fairly clear idea of how it should look so when we get to storyboarding we'll see just how similar our ideas are.

Next up is the production schedule. We were told to each create a schedule to dictate who in the team does what and when during production so that we have targets to meet which should keep us on track.
I created mine as if we were doing my story just as a way to practice creating a schedule.

I chose to be the director since I wrote the story and I thought Jo would be a dependable producer. Adrian did really well with 3D last year so I chose her as head of 3D. Since there are lots of moving shots with animation compositing in my idea I gave plenty of space for roughing out the match-moved animation and also for compositing.

Of course since we're actually using Oscar's story we all made a production schedule together that we think will work for our production. Dane and Keat had us make a couple changes to hopefully make things go smoother. So here's our current schedule.
In this schedule I'm the head of 3D. There isn't a tonne of 3D in this film so I'll be handling all of that myself I'll also be doing a lot of the compositing and VFX since I'm fairly well acquainted with After Effects. We're putting a focus on sound early in the process so that we can lay it out almost like a music video where the visuals play in time with the audio and the compliment each other.

According to this schedule this week I'm working on modeling. I'll probably also be working on this for some of next week as well as helping Tea with the animatic. The 3D that I'll be working on is a 3D model of Oscar (our actor) that I will use to simulate particles which will look like a spirit leaving Oscar's body.
This is an example from 'The Ledgend of Korra' that Oscar found. To do this I'll first need to model, rig, and skin my model of Oscar, then animate it and run particle simulations using Maya fluid containers, and finally light and render it for each shot.

Because I haven't done much with simulation and dynamics in the past, I've decided that before I get too far into the modeling process I should do some tests with simulation so that I know what I'm doing. I have a bunch of Digital Tutors tutorials on the subject so I'm going through them to gain a better understanding. So I suppose that'll be my next post. Look forward to it.

Until then, au revoir.

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