First versions
At the end I manage to get this done, it’s been a lot of hard work, this week was very busy, I work every day until late. Although the quality of the drawings is not that good as I want, because we had short time to do that.
Here is the complete animatic, with correct timing:
And here is the StoryBoard, with explanations: Click Here to see the Complete Storyboard
Temporary post
Well, this is a temporary post, that’s because tomorrow I will update it with final versions of full animatic and full storyboard.
Today I’ve been working so hard, and I completed the 112 draws for my storyboard, I started doing the animatic and setting the timings, but I had no time today for more.
Tomorrow I will finish it but now I’m uploading at this post the complete StoryBoard drawings (only the draws). The timings are not correct yet.
Starting Storyboard
Here it is, my complete storyline, this started two weeks ago and after developing ideas, thinking, comparing, merging and changing, this is the most accurate version by the moment, this has evolved increasingly since the first idea .The different teachers have helped me a lot to give sense to all the aspects of the plot, and they give me very good ideas. Because sometimes when you are writting you don’t realize that some things are in contradiction. Talking about the project with the others classmates has helped me too. Now with this I am starting the complete Storyboard for my Final Project. I’m proud to be creating a small Universe. Sometimes although I’m not working, new ideas come to my head, enlarging this tale world.
Paint Effects & Ncloth
Last Friday we practice Paint Effects and Ncloth. Paint Effects basically allows you to create things like hair, clouds, or different preset objects that Maya includes.
That’s a test frame of Paint Effects I’ve done:
I also practice and remeber how to do Ncloth, cause I will do clothes in my final project.
Ncloth example that I recorded:
3D Rigging, Bones & Reverse Foot
Last week we learnt how to make a basic rigging, it’s like making a skeleton for our character’s. We create all the skeleton and use AK solvers to control the movements, we also use paint selection to avoid that some moves affects for example to deform of the head.
We also practice the reverse foot technique, which conists in create a separate foot in the reverse way of a normal foot, and allows you to move the character without going under the floor, basically.
There’s a video showing what I’ve done:
Poor Youtube quality (Better on Vimeo)
Here it is, finally I finish it, it took me a lot of hours and a lot of effort, but was worth it. We have had short time to do it, so there are some things which I would improve, anyway I’m happy with the final result.
Youtube Link -> Not really good quality
Although my final project will combine 2D and 3D, this Trailer is all made in 2D.
I don’t like the downgrade that youtube make on the quality of the video, the colors look muted and the textures very blurry. That’s why I’m uploading also to Vimeo, I will update the entry with the link soon.
EDIT:
Here is the Vimeo version, which looks really well compared with the Youtube version (Put in HD!)
Animation changes and Music
This is the last version of the Animatic, I changed some animations, and I added and arranged the music (without fadings).
And this is the Storyboard: Click here to view the Storyboard
Now, with all the Animatic finished and decided, I can start doing the Trailer. Although the final project will be in 3D and 2D, this trailer would be only in 2D because I have no time to do 3D modelings. This is a planning of what I should do for the Trailer, I have to work really hard to get this done for next Monday.
I will use Photoshop, Artrage, and After Effects for animate, and Flash to frame by frame animations.
Planning:
Panel 1 – Outside House:
Paint all, create more scene for doing the Panning.
Animate Trees and flowers, wind movement. Put all into a precomp and animate the Panning.
Panel 2 – Little Girl:
Paint all, animate the wind moving flowers and draw the hand of the Girl. Animate the hand.
Emphatize depth of field with layers.
Panel 3 – Black Kinght appears:
Paint all.
Animate Little Girl at the back.
Animate the hand of the Black Knight closing (Frame by frame)
Panel 4 – Girl loking for little sister:
Paint all.
Animate Girl lloking both sides (Frame by frame)
Panel 5 – First Shot Girl:
Paint all.
Animate Girl face (mouth, eyes, eyebrows)
Zoom Out:
Animate and Paint all the scene.
Panel 6 – General shot:
Paint all.
Animate clouds, wind moving Girl’s Hair.
Draw Girl’s clothes.
Panel 7 – First Shot:
Paint all.
Animte Girl’s frown.
Panel 8 – Split screen:
Paint all.
Animate Girl running (Frame by frame).
Panel 9 – Fight:
Draw the monster. Animate his arm (frame by frame).
Animate and draw Girl jumping.
Paint all.
Animate the floor crashing.
Panel 10 – Jump:
Animate the Girl jumping (frame by frame).
Animate floor crashing and falling.
Paint all.
Panel 11 – Girl climbing:
Draw Girl, animate girl climbing.
Create and move fog in the background.
Paint all.
Panel 12 – Giant Beast:
Paint all, animte the beast destroying the mountains.
Panel 13 – Final:
Crate and animate the Final motion graphic.
I hope I get the time to do all of this things because is a lot of work and I want to do it properly.
Royalty Free Trailer music
Today I’ve found a very interesting web with Royalty Free Music! I want to put music in my Trailer, but we can’t put copyrighted music, so I was searching a few days for good Royalty Free Music, which is difficult, because there’s a lot of web’s with only short preview files, or music that is really awful.
This web contains a lot of really good free music, the unique condition is that you need to attribute correctly in your work or pay for the no-attribution license, if you don’t want to attribute the music in your credits. But that’s the only condition, you can use the music in any project, you can use it either you want to earn money with your project or not, or if you want to put in your mobile app.
Creative Commons License – Only Attribution is needed.
The web is: Incompetech – Royalty Free Music
I’m looking carefully the music for my Trailer because I think that is a very important part of the pre-production.
Blend Shapes on Maya
Yesterday we learnt how to do blend shapes, blend shape is used for animating face expressions. First you do different face modelings, like smiling, sad, etc. And then you can combine them to create different expressions or lip sync movements.
There’s a video of what I’ve done:
Timing corrections
Here is the new animatic with some corrections on the timings and some new animations.
And here is the new storyboard also with updated timing:
Negotiated Studies: Purple Eyes 
