XXIV. August-September

I return here to update another time this blog. During these days I took some days of summer and holidays, but I kept thinking about the project. I've drawn some proposals for my scene, my paper-cut construction. That's not easy because I have to found a good perspective for the landscape to have a good depth to put my characters or for the projection over the paper. For the moment I'm still working on it and I'll update it soon with my drawings.

For the other hand, I bought a tablet to work better and do it more easily. Is the following one:

Moreover, tomorrow I'll start two courses to learn more about the softwares I need. One of them it's about After Effects and it have a duration of 40h. The other one is about Resolume, and have a duration  of 24h. I hope to increase my knowledge during this time to apply this on my work. The center where I will impart  the courses is in MadCenter

XXIII.Final animatic of the story

For my final animatic, I've done two animatic. One of them is without any camera movement and the other is with the camera movements and with a prototype of a music.

Without camera movements:


 With camera movements:

XXII. Final storyboard

http://issuu.com/nuriaxp/docs/story

XXI. Story line

Probably these days I've not uploaded to much my blog, but I'm doing the animatic and that's a lot of work, and I prefer to upload this when are finished. However, I could upload my work, but later it's possible that improve it during the process.

For the moment I've my storyline done. I did two, and one of them is divided by scenes.

http://issuu.com/nuriaxp/docs/saint_george_legend

http://issuu.com/nuriaxp/docs/saint_george_legend.scenes

XX. Scene

During this weekend I've been working on my storyboard and thinking a bit more about my set.

How a result I've changed a bit my set. Firstly I was doing a set with three panels dividing my scene with three zones or scenes to project over every one individually. But thinking on the projector and the sizes I need to construct, my set was probably too much large for to be inside the projector's light and have a good image quality, so I had to try to found a solution to resolve that. 

After some tests I concluded I would do only one set, with only one part and it'll be less large than three panels, but more large than one. The size will have a aspect ratio like 3.1 that's more large than a 16:9 and it's like a ultra panoramic view. 

To imagine how it can be, here there are an image that illustrate it, and the size I chose is 2.75:1 (source: wikipedia)

And the follow image represents my final set, and what I'll construct with paper:

XIX. Characters ideas

Trying to define my characters I was thinking about to integrate real people with a drawing or illustrations made by me.

If I did a real people, I should to film them and then I would do a integration to the mapping. Probably I could record  the main characters like Saint George, the princess or the king with a chroma and do a post production mixing all of them with the other elements of the story made of 2D, like illustrations, photos...

Looking for ideas I found a video mapping that use a boy like a base to the projection, and they get a amazing result. So if I record some people, I would like to do something like the following video:

XVIII. References

That video could be a reference for my final project work. The style probably would be a bit different, but the idea it's more or less the same than me. However, the scene is like a real theatre, so, different than me, because I'll do it like a litter theatre.

 

Howl's Moving Castle Theatre Production from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo.