I thought I ought to let everyone know who cares; I've started roughing out keys and testing my chosen 10% segment.
Although there is a test... it was rushed (uni was closing and janitors were kicking me out) and the line tester I picked was very keen on it's contrast (you can't see shit). So, I'll upload exciting moving pictures as soon as something good happens, promise.
The 10% I've chosen is as follows (it's not exact but this is the "section"). At the moment it stands at about 14 seconds long, which is more than double the length it needs to be to constitute 10%, and it's even longer then the same section in my animatic due to my ad lib timing:
I'm calling it Scene_02, but tbh, it might be Scene_02,03, and 04. Who knows?! i'll decide later, Peace out.
Finally! The new storyboard according to the shorter choreography has been drawn up, complete with new style decisions made in a meeting yesterday with Tricia Anderson. Tricia had the wonderful idea of having our characters not only move like pieces of cloth but also have them disappear and appear by morphing from and into cloth, when necessary. Freya and I thought it was a much more elegant and artistic way of hanging Nina at the end, let us know what you think.
Obviously we haven't yet asked Finn Anderson to tweak his music to our new timing, we should be filming with the dancers at the end of this week and i also plan to get some cloth tests filmed; So hopefully by Monday-ish i'll be more sure of the timing and will feel confident sending a more accurate animatic away to him.
Hold on to your hats everyone there's been a change of plans, Dancing Nina will now be a 2D production, traditionally animated, and will be roughly 1 minute long, or under. I (Slava) am now basically in charge of the project as Jo has dropped out of her role as director and production manager. There may be more people joining my team but for now it's just little old me.
All of these changes have come about due to the brief drastically changing over the summer and requiring everyone to specialize in 2 areas and demonstrate those specializations in at least to different productions. So far mines are Character animation and 3D Modelling- so this should showcase my character animation in my showreel, at least- I just couldn't bare to give it up when we'd all worked so hard on it already.
Anyway all I can hope for now is that it doesn't kill me and it turns out simple and beautiful.Oh, and i hope to complete the models of Nina and Death to count towards my course work and use them as 3D reference or something.
This animatic is something I quickly cut together from our old (much longer) animatic which included storyboard, I plan to re-film the dancers to have more solid reference material in the next week or so and obviously Finn's music will have to be tweaked to fit the new duration.
I'm in the process of drawing up a new storyboard based on this animatic.
