So after all the sticking the pillars slanted and setting up the lighting, camera and set. I decided that i didn't like it...
So i changed all the pillars round straight and i decided to animate all of them instead of one.
Here's a few pics to show how i did it and the finished thing :)
- took me ages!!!!!!
Last part of filming was in the studio, we booked equipment and the studio with matt and got the aye ok. he helped us too bless him :)
Tim helped us with lighting green screens cause he's done it before and is good at it. He's not in our group but thats just tim, a nice guy :)
So the last filming we had to do was the scene where Odin shouted a chant and the man. From the beginning we knew that we wanted Luca to dress up as Odin cause we know he likes that sorta thing also we knew it would look cool. Over christmas he worked on making the costume but he couldn't make it all in time so we all chipped in to rent one for the day. He made the cool bits thought like the helmet, eyepatch and accessories, he even grew his beard cause i asked him too haha... thats dedication right there.
here's some pics from setting up the set to filming it...
andy and i on Monday bought some green material to cover the chair with which eventually changed into a table because you could see Luca's legs through it.
Luca half post Odin :p
Hard at work yo :P
Tim with his experties :)
Set Up - lights, green screen - almost ready to go.
Positioning Luca. We had to get the lighting right an obis make it look good and remember the rule of thirds!
me taking the position off Luca so he could have a look.
Go Odin! Luca ready to go!
yeahhhhhh. I really like the costume Luca made, was really well done.
here's a video of the chat we did. It sounds really good. I took i on my iPod i dunno if its cause i took it off that or not but it sounds like its echoing, sounds awesome. I hope thats what it sounds like in the actual video.
We also shot the last few scenes of andy, the scene after the chant where his voice is so loud it creates wind... I used andy's hairdryer to crate the wind it was fun :)
For the second poem Andy and i did the filming on a Monday. We went around leeds with a sheet of paper that we'd wrote ideas down on as to what is beautiful in leeds. We asked the question what do people walk past and not see the beauty of everyday things anymore?
(oh yeah, over christmas too we randomly filmed pretty things we came across, i got a few good sunsets in there)
At the beginning of the storyboarding i had an idea to do time lapses and spilt screen so when we went out we thought of busy places such as the top of brigitte and took out a HD camera and a tripod. We set up the equipment and seen as it had just been pouring it down with rain the sun had come and just after and was really pretty. So we sat on one of the soaking wet benches and filming people walking by for 15mins getting a nice long shot of all down brigitte and the sun in the background. We also got a great shot of the clouds going past and a plane went by too... I sneakily filmed in the train station one day too with my iPod.... sorry mike! - it was a good time lapse though :)
Andy had a good idea to zoom into something so much that you can't tell what it is then slowly zoom out revealing it so we put that in it too. If i'm being honest the second poem wasn't as organised as the first but andy and i did the best we could for filming and i think we did pretty well.
Here's a few of some of the best clips i liked from the day of filming and the vids i got of filming over christmas.
here's two vid's form my iPod i got over christmas. nice sunsets :)
We arranged one tuesday to go out filming at ilkley moor with everything ready in hand, andy's storyboard, my pillars and book, the camera equipment etc we were ready to go. So we set off and amazingly didn't get that lost at all. We arrived there and put on our jackets and set up the equipment.
Andy was starring in this one while Luca was filming and myself and Vay had the storyboard and were directing. I think we made a good team. We all listened to each other and put in ideas of what shots and camera angles may fit in well.
I hadn't been to ilkley moor in a while and i'd completely forgotten what it looked like, it was perfect for our film. Really pretty for shots in our 2nd film and it suited our first films storyboard great.
as you can see really pretty scenery. We took a few shots of the landscape and inside the quarry itself for the second poem. originally we didn't plan to but whilsit we were doing the first one we just thought of it.
here's a picture of the storyboard compared to the moors as you can see they really fit each other.
I took this pic to show where andy would be walking through. We got some shots of him looking up and around at the stones to show how tall and intimidating they once would have been.
Overall we had a successful day out. we got all the shots we needed for the first poem apart from green screen shots and we even got sound. dropping a couple of rocks on the ground and walking through the snow for effect. We were well organised and prepared, i think we did a pretty good job.
So, to make my video better I'm gonna photoshop a tunnel into the actual shot, i'm gonna try create one in illustrator and photoshop based off a new roadrunner cartoon.
I remember watching the old roadrunner cartoons and loving them, i found this new roadrunner clip off youtube. Comparing it to the old one you can see how much animation has changed and come along.
The face, colours and landscape are more appealing, everything seems more life like, more real.
Here's an old clip of roadrunner, where he catches him! :O!
and heres the new 3D animated cartoons
i also picked these next two clips to focus on the tunnels, to see how there illustrated and placed into the shots. They always seem to be placed on the right hand side of the camera shot, which mine is too.
(skip to 1min 50secs for the tunnel scene)
see below another vid i found of the painted on portable hole, where coyote paints on a tunnel and roadrunner runs down it. It made me think because my video is humorous anyway why not add a cartoon feel to it. The whole point of it is to be funny and silly so why not?
here's one of the clips i'll need to edit in the tunnel and i'll do this through the entire video.
I've used this screenshot to measure the position and height the tunnel should be.
i found this one which was way too small
then this one where the lorry was in the way a little bit
this one was perfect so i screen shotted it and dragged it into photoshop where i positioned it correct and the height and everything.
i noticed then that Chris looked as if he was looking down the tunnel the wrong way or the tunnel was the wrong way around for the direction of the track and dolly track so i flipped the image.
i put the two next to each other to show the difference, as you can see it looks much better and like it fits.
heres after finished flip and height and length adjustments.
What i'm going to do now is base mine off this and create a new tunnel in illustrator then place it into the shots.
I found this video on youtube its a long as way of doing it if you want smaller pics though and to fit more than two on it would work fine but because i want two big ones i found a better way of how to do it below.
below click on the link and skip to 3.05
they talk unfunny rubbish for 3 minutes.
blogger wouldn't let me upload it for some reason.
Here's my finished story board after matt said to add in like the pig hopping and stuff and camera
angles i add some more scenes into it. It gives it a much better idea of what it will look like at the end. I will definitely add more camera angles into my animation whilst I'm doing it on maya i've taken screen shots as I've gone along of some of the ideas for these camera angles. Using close up's, long shot's etc... I'm pleased with the final outcome of my storyboard, it really came in handy and theres no way i could of done the animation without it. It's made me realise even more that the preparations are just as important as the actual thing and they make your overall work better.
The pillars took me a while to build i wanted to be able to do it in the first go, so i did a few tests, took a few pictures, thought about the camera angles, the focus etc...
there was a lot to take into consideration.
Making The Pillars -
The pillars were a pain in the ass, at first we were going to make them 3D by building up squares silly us...
But then i thought, circles! - yeah thats better. So i started to make the circle pillars with temple like tops and tea bagged them like the book to make them blend in and look all old. At first we were gonna put some sort of symbol onto the tops of the pillars like the symbols in the book i'd drawn, but when it got to it and i set one of them up i decided that they looked better without them. Here's a pic of the pillars finished -
Here's the pillar mock up's -
Set Up -
I used a black sheet to cover up the surroundings then Luca can edit the animation in one of the shots. I got a lamp for the lighting and shadows. I put the lamp up top from a birds eye view so it would show every shadow from all the pillars, I think it worked pretty well. I set up all the pillars so they'd look like they were rising from angles and so it looked better than them rising just plain straight up.
I found this vid great and I'm sure it could be very useful but i've been sat her
So first i looked at how to stop motion with an SLR - a youtube video i found of getting the best shutter speed and aperture. Here's the vid below...
I found this vid interesting and it would have been helpful if i was better at photography...
:/ I sat for 30 minutes trying to get it to focus properly and because he has a totally different camera to me i couldn't find where the buttons were he was saying! So tomorrow I'm gonna ask Matt to show me cause I'm crap.
At this point i figured out that zooming out to the fullest was the best way to keep things in focus so i just put the camera really close and took a few practise shots.
Here's what i came out with, i thought of the different camera angles i could use or change to throughout the stop motion.
I wanted to check if it would look good cutting the paper down, if it would actually look like a rising pillar.... and it did!
looked pretty good :)
So here's my test of the pillar rising.
From it i figured out that i need a tripod for the proper thing cause even though i tried you can totally tell that i moved loads taking each shot.
I made these mood boards to help me with my colours and environment
i took pics form my iPod for the images below from the actual game i really like the backgrounds there simple and pretty, defo gonna use one on an image plain i think. I tried to add in some blocks to that i created in maya but they looked out of place and silly so i kept it simple and went back to just using a few image plains. I also made a green floor with merged images in photoshop.
so helpful tips here from a guy who raises his eyebrows a hell of a lot. Any who i found the last one the most useful when he talks about not wasting time drawing the background all the time - just do it once - we still know where the character is. unless they go through a door or something obis, then change it.
this second tutorial really helped me with thinking about storyboarding camera angles and how id portray the ideas down on paper. Remembering the rule of thirds and camera shots i've learned from the last module really helped me in this one to get a better understanding of where to place the camera and what to do with it.
Here's my first mock up storyboard i came up with.
I'm gonna work on it some more add some camera angles in there, show how the characters enter and where they move.
Now for the colouring and texturing - after i was shown this a few more times its actually really simple and easy I chose to stick with the colours of my angry bird toys because when i put textures on them they looked stupid and out of place. I found that they looked better cartoony cause lets face it there angry birds. no point putting bait of texture on them when it ain't suppose to be there.
heres some pics below of the proper characters and colours...
heres my first go :) I'm pleased with what I've made in such a short amount of time.
I really like the sizes I've kept to cause it fits in with the story and animation. I wish i woulda added nostrils on my pig though!
