First i would like to re-state the objectives of this project :
a. We are aiming to make a kick ass feature/ small episodes of a story that I have been developed and will be refined by you in the near future.
b. Provide ourselves an opportunity to practice our skills whether it's animation, illustration, story boarding, visual development, graphic design, etc... with a solid objective.
c. A chance to work with a team, have fun, learn from each other and get your name in the credit for the final product.
Okay with all that blah blah blah out of the way,
Our first meeting was really remarkable. I would like to thank you everyone for spending your valuable Saturday morning to come and join the meeting. I love the high level of participation from everyone. Your critical opinions for the story as well as direction for the production process blew my mind. Keep this up and we will kick ass.
For this week publication, I will try to come up with an appropriate summary for such a complicated story. This will be quite a challenge at this point especially when everyone still discussing about other possible ways to tell this story. On top of that, we have also agreed that this story needs more cohesiveness, a little simplification and an ending that really sell. That's a lot to do but I believe a good plan and team effort will take care of that. So forgive me if the summary doesn't meet your expectation. It will be up in the next couple days ( for now I have Raquel class midterm to take care of) so please check it out around Wednesday or Thursday.
For now, I will post some video clips of how I envision the art styles for our animation. For the flashbacks/history lesson scenes, we shall be using the style of "The Witcher 2" memories cutscenes and for the animation, we will be using the style of "How to train your dragon" the TV series, episode 1 and 2 ( the part when Gobber tells the story of the unlucky Viking and the part when he tells the story of his youth and how the Boneknapper is always after him ).
The Witcher 2:
How to train your Dragon:
Ep1: Legend of the Boneknapper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7092F4MVjVo
Ep 2: The Book of Dragons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1O02Gn_Vo8
Alright, next is the production timeline for this year and upcoming Summer:
October- Winter Break : Completed Story and Illustrations
Post Winter Break/ Pre Spring : Present story to Faculty for feedback
Spring: Visual Dept and selective Story Boarding for Summer production only (10min episode).
The team will meet every Saturday at 10am in the Art Building Room 206 ( Location may be changed ). The project is open for everyone anytime.
So basically, after we all agreed on the story, we will move on to select a very interesting part from it and focus on producing a rock solid 10 min short out of it during the summer. Then we will premier it at one of the SHM Club meetings or 14F next Fall to measure our success. After that we will move on to finish the rest of the story up.
Also, here are some photos of my hometown locations that I proposed to the group as a candidate for our main character hometown. Please let me know what you think.
Oh and special thanks to Aaron and Julio who stayed after the meeting with me to work on the project. That really mean a lot and your sketches are really AWESOME !!!
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