Gantt v4

Gantt Chart V3

Following some changes in plan and a review of our tasks we have made further changes to the Gantt Chart. We have taken out the Brother character and changed the scene slightly. We have also needed more time to prototype the demo scene and get the timing right. Having one less character to work on has enabled us to shovel some tasks around and we have now allocated time for getting the sound for the scene together, something we had previously not made time for. (Excell doc available on Google Drive for tema members to view)

Evil Hand Mood Board

The hand is going to be boney, thin and creepy. The finger nails are going to look sharp but not be very long.

First props

These are the first props I have made for the room so far. 

In our animation, the furniture will start off being a normal shape, then a few seconds in they all warp, minus the bed. I have included the normal shapes and how they will look after the warp animation 

Normal State Bedroom Moodboard

Ideas for props in the girls room, before they are warped into the nightmare style

Gantt Chart V2

 Due to absence, we do not have any final art designs at this point. However, we avoided a bottleneck in our workflow by creating a dummy scene for our animation, deciding on camera angles using this and by creating a prototype animation.

This was time well invested as we will avoid future problems with this pro-active approach and we continued working despite not having our art work.

We have updated our Gantt chart to reflect this.

(excel doc on google drive)

StoryBoard

Today we used our white box room to decide on the scales of the room and objects. We were also able to discuss camera angles and create a story board. 

Room Layout Whitebox

This is a basic layout of our room using primitives. We will use this to play around with scales and sizes of objects until we are happy with them. We will then based our final models on these dimensions. We will also use this room to make a prototype of our scene to get the timing and the camera angles right.

Further Inspiration

We are looking to use the shapes and art style of the other three artists and combine them with the colours, atmospher and style of Jhonen Vasquez's Invader Zim.

Art Inspiration

We have looked at the art styles of three different artists. We have found their styles to match the ideas we had. We want to draw inspiration from the following images.

Tim Burton

 Chuck Jones

Dr Seuss 

More Character Sketches

Character Personalities

These are some of the Characters personality traits to help our Artist come up with the final Character design. 

Risk Assessment

Rough Room Layout

Sean F designed a rough model of the room, and we discussed asset placement and dimensions.

Sean F Moodboard

Furniture Sketches 1

Here are some sketches for the furniture. The shapes are warped and twisted. Perhaps they are only this way because the small girl in our scene is scared and the room seems stranger than usual. Maybe in normal circumstances everything is straight and symmetrical. 

Character sketches 1

Some Ideas for how the characters could look in our animation. I took inspiration from several other drawings of young children and looked at a brief tutorial for tips.

Step by step drawing a cute girl

http://www.drawingcoach.com/cartoon-girl.html

Gantt Chart

This is the first Draft of our Gantt chart. We are trying to ensure that everyone has work to do at all times. We have left a week spare at the end for small touch ups if need be. 

Moodboard 1

This is one of the first moodboards for our animation. We are going for a cartoon style inspired by 3D animations such as Monster House, Paranorman and Tim Burton animations. 

We will all be working on sketches before our artist works on the final designs. 

Project Proposal

For this assignment 2 game design students and 2 animation students have been asked to team up and work on a project.

We have decided to work on a short animation featuring a little girl being abducted by a creature in her bedroom closet.

Team members are Sean E. Sean F. Liam and Nathan.