tues-mer-day

today ive been focussed on a few things

a. working on a new version of the animatic...the stretch from the old version is annoying and the only way to address is to start again. At any rate, Mikes comments mean reworking some areas anyway so nevermind. I should be able to go through this quite quickly as the drawings are all cut out, scanned, layered and imported.

b. standing outside with my mac book recording sounds/wasting a lot of sellotape recording the delightful sounds that come from it. I buried the sellotape ball shortly after.

happy days....

c. been going over the characters expression sheets. Over the course of the term, i have been doodling roughs of their expressions, so now all i have to do is pick and draw refined versions of these. I've completed them for all three characters so i shall scan them tomorrow ready to make their presentation pages for the 2nd pitch.

d. Gareth's unit...going to and frow working on my presentation pages, swapping facts, typing, colouring all that jazz. Presentation work takes its time so its something Im dedicating a few hours to every night so it all looks super fantastic for friday. Im feeling quite confident about the business unit presentation...mainly because i feel so strongly for the subject i've chosen to talk about and i think it'll promote some good discussion amongst my presentation group. Heres a look at the pages so far...

Anyway...whilst standing there in the garden, I took a few shots of dusk (my slr has gone for a walk, so were back to the mobile quality) and i've found a few dusk pictures from the internet for our research for the stick back together scene:

Afternoon sunlight provides some great highlights and long shadows. The sky and trees have a fresh looking colour to them.

this leaf looks sunburnt?! love it, great colours and distress, nice contrast to the grass.

the progression to dusk...

blue starts to desaturate, elements of whiter/yellow light start to emerge.
Dusk: the sky sort of has a two tone effect, the top half more blue and the lower half a yellow/orange colour.

heres those google images that really REALLY push the colours to the extremes:

I found a few more images on google and created a quick lighting research page which provides us with a starting colour palette for our sky for the 2 times of day during our story. These colours should help us during the grading process to in terms of possible filters we'd like to use.