Daily notes

the whole team started working on the ideas and scripts.

I have created a script for the project he is available on Research and documentation

After the script was created I started working on the references and mood board that is available in Research and documentation tab.

Then each of us had to create simple storyboard here is one example. the whole storyboard is available in Storyboard tab.

After simple storyboard was created then the main storyboard had to be done, so all of us had a meeting once a week to discuss the process and the ideas. So we had to come up with the one big storyboard and move to animatic after that.
The storyboard is available on Storyboard tab.

I have started to work on the animatic and I created a simple example of the door animation.

After few suggestions from a teacher, I had to change it.
done some research for the extra scenes behind the doors.




after that, I started creating animatic scene

I had to create another door scene  for the end of our animation

and that is my research 

Ater that research, I have created this short animation

I also was working on the Opening scene. that is what I was managed to do

next step was to put all the clips from our group and compose it together.  All work was uploaded on Megadrie.com
and after few days we come up with this animatic.

Unfortunately after feedback lot of scenes was not clear so we had to change the story in few places.
Here is a full feedback we had.



**************************FEEDBACK*********************************


Feedback:
Iain (from group meeting);
story needs to work without sound to get what is going on
the therapist should be in control of her own domain, overpower the general idea of the reaper being the most power person in the room.
Explore/ remove Environmental physics, make things appear unnatural to the human world
Cut all unnecessary parts, only keep what adds to the animation
Likes the character designs
If we are going to keep the doors; develop them to make sense; have multiple doors; maybe have the doors move so it confuses the reapers and explains why they opened the wrong door? or find an alternative…
Less or no voices; focus more on the gestures; which refers back to the first point
Less is more; Simplify the plot, we are not a company of animators and are making a short, within a short you only have so little time to get your point across.

Total opinion from the class feedback (including friends):
(7 people):

story:
45/70
Additional comments:
‘it relies very heavily on the dialog’

Music/ sound quality:
30/70
Additional comments:
‘louder’
‘can’t hear dialogue’

Lighting:
N/A for animatic (not many people scored it)
‘in a 2d animatic there is no lighting’

Character design:
50/70
‘characters are solid’

Editing:
39/70
‘the pacing is inconsistent, the end + beginning is too fast’

Overall animation quality:
47/70

Overall response:
47/70
‘needs refinement’
Additional thoughts and comments:

‘when the psychiatrist opens their door we see the two of them too briefly before it fades to white’
‘Increase the sound volume and itz good’
‘not a fan of the animated title’
‘music doesn’t fit + its distracting’
‘the white office lacks characted + detail, it feels sterile’
‘the audience doesn’t need to hear the whole conversation (montage?)
‘angles are very impressive’
‘when they go to psychiatrist show the doors powers to tie up in with the ending. Maybe its open at first (so you can see a different environment) and when the close it and then open, its changed.’
‘do something like hold/ use a skeleton key to change the environment?’
‘music may be too sad for what’s going on.’
‘didn’t understand much of what’s going on’
‘didn’t find the story very interesting’
‘too long black scene before footage talked’
‘I like the raging’
‘therapist do more’
‘like the voice acting’
‘why/ what is going on in the end?’
‘like the cats’
‘the therapist needs to do more, she’s a bit pointless’
‘Kid needs to be more whiney (but daaaaaaaad!)’


here is quick really raw storyboard based on our feedback






So based on our new storyboard we had to do a really simple animatic due to time we didn't have time to put more visual effects.

the feedback this time was better so we could and had to move forward with our 3D software and start rigging. and modeling.

these are the examples what I have started working on, so character design ( by one of our team member)





and I started working on the 3d model based on that design





after finishing with the character I had some props to do for our environment.



























our next step is to start animating, but now we working on our developent documentation.

Today we started animating and here are some pictures I have tried I used motion blur and in other scene motion blur is off.  Scene with motion blur tool 10 min per frame without 2,5 min per frame.





I was able to do character animation thanks to the reference that was recorded.





and here is the rough animation in Maya

Next scene was created after that sequence the scene was split in to the 3 shoots

And here is the final result

the next scene was done when father is still angry ate his son and and he is pointing at him to show therapist that he needs to " deal with this every day" 

here is the reference image from the video that was recorded by our team.





here is the final render based on our reference video