from Mrs S

High five Chris! Looking good.

From Miss D,
These pictures look very professional and give a sense of realism to the project. Keep up the good work. What colour is the car going to be- think how the colour of it could have associated connotations.

Modeling progress: 1969 Dodge Charger

This model of a 1969 Dodge Charger is one of the cars which will feature in the film as mentioned in my faceposer test. The actual model itself is now complete but I still need to apply textures (2D images applyed to the 3D geometry) and rig the model ready for animations. I hope that this will be finished in a week. Here are some images.

From Mrs S

I really like this! It's fun and really shows how much effort you're putting into this project. The lip syncing seems to be coming on well.

Tool Testing: Faceposer and Hammer

I have been testing the Faceposer and Hammer tools which will be used in the final film and I have prepared a test video which is also a youtube subscriber announcement. This video shows how faceposer can manipulate and animate an NPC in the source engine for the purposes of making a film.



Link to Dodge Charger model progress thread here.

From Mrs S

I really like what you've done. It's got your usual witty trademark! One comment though, you might want to reduce what Anonymous tells your main guy. I think there's a danger of there being too much exposition in his speeches. Try making Anonymous more enigmatic, say less and just hint at what's going on. Perhaps if you did this, the viewer would have the uncomfortable feeling that Anonymous is actually messing with the main guy's head...
Great stuff so far Chris.

Storyboard

This animated storyboard will help me to time scenes and plan camera angles and actions in the scenes.



Not all of the sound is final and there are certain camera angles that will probably be changed in the final film. There is also a mistake at 0:48 where the debris is falling from the sky instead of from a crane, this is because I drew that frame of the storyboard while I was following a slightly different script to the final version. Despite this the reaction of Thomas and the camera angles will be the same just with a crane above the buildings.

I will now commence construction on the film. I need to learn how to properly use the tools available to me to make certain scenes, this includes: Faceposer and Hammer, these tools will be used to control the virtual actors and construct the locations respectively. I will be following a number of tutorials in order to learn how to utilise the full potential of this software and I will post test videos to show my progress.