Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Stressing Out

It's been a few weeks since I last posted anything although there is a bunch of stuff that has been going on that I should of posted about. Hopefully in the next week or so I'll be able to update the blog. I've just been so stressed out with the amount of work that I have to do and the various things I have to figure out, that it's been kind of paralyzing in a way.

I'm doing my Gantt Chart right now and looking at all the stuff I'll need to accomplish by April 29th is kind of over whelming. I guess I'll just have to keep plugging along.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Model Boat

So a couple weeks ago I think I might of written that I went searching for model boats at hobby shops in NYC. Needless to say I didn't find any. Last week, I was searching online for model fishing boats and I found this great place HobbyLinc and they had all sorts of model fishing boats, just the kind I was looking for. So I quickly placed my order.

Well yesterday my model fishing boat came in the mail. Now I just need to put it together. If your wondering what the plan is, well here it is. I plan on putting the model fishing boat together and then photographing it. I will either print that photograph and then xerox the print and cut that out and scan that and use it for my final art. Or I will trace the photograph and make a nice line drawing of the boat. I would trace the resulting line drawing multiple times and scan them all in and do a traditional type of cell animation with them. I'm still up in the air as to which route I'm going to take. Either way I think it's important that I have this physical model boat as reference and not just photos of boats I found on the internet.

Task List

Well today I put together a task list of everything I need to do. After writing this even though there is alot of stuff on there and it's alot of work it some how made it seem more manageable and doable. So here is my task list.

Michael Moreno
Task List 11/9/08
All photos will be taken by me, unless noted.
All hand drawn elements will be be traditionally cell animated (drawn & scanned).

Elements:
Sky: still photo
Clouds: Construction paper cutout, hand drawn, scan and animate.
Birds: hand drawn
Ocean/Waves: hand painted sections(water color), scanned in & assembled in photoshop, animate.
Pier: very rough model in maya to get perspective correct, then trace, scan & animate.
Garbage Can: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Water Bottle: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, scan
Tug Boat & Garbage Barge: Still not sure all it will be depicted.
Fishing Boat: Assemble model(real actual model), Photograph & process it, print, xerox it, reduce to line drawing, scan and animate(cell animation).
Fishing Pole: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Fishing Line: draw, scan & animate
Fishing Hook: Scan, print, xerox it, scan again
Arm & Hand: Photograph, use photo as reference for hand drawing & construction paper cutouts.
Caution Cone: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Tire: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Plastic Grocery Bags: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, scan.
Jellyfish: Construction paper cutout, hand drawn, scan and animated.
Various Discarded items: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Worm: Construction paper cutout, hand drawn, scan and animated.
Ocean Floor: Purchase sand, set up lights & set, photographit, process & retouch.
Underwater Water: Blue construction paper scanned.
Bike: Photograph, process, retouch, print, xerox it, color in with markers, scan.
Crabs: Still figuring that out, but most likely will be some combination of construction paper cutouts and hand drawings.

Learn how to use fractal noise to create displacement maps and to create volumetric lighting for ocean and underwater scenes.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Visual Script

Started preparing my visual script.

Here it is: Visual Script