Monday, 16 February 2009

Pre- viz Part Of Unit - End Sequence Car Crash Of Fast And The Furious

This video shows the pre-viz animation of the scene with out the surroundings.

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Navigation - Development Of Maya Storyboards

After reading phils notes and looking at Athier Mousawi , i decided to add into my storyboard arrows to show where the camera will move throught out the scene or weather it will be static. I think this will help when I turn it into an animatic storyboard.


Maya Storyboard

I decide to have maka a storyboard made from scenes I had created in maya becuase I want to see how it would look in colour and have a go at working the camera's into different angles. Also I want to see how each environment looked behind the focus of the scene as in the drawn storyboards I did not look at backgrounds. I think this has help me achieve better views of my scenes and gave me ideas of the backgrounds for each scene.

Analysis Of Styles Of Storyboarding

Athier Mousawi

Athier Mousawi unlike the other storyboard artists, does very simple sketches but not so little effort that you can't identify everything though. Athier does not uses shading he just uses black and white and most of the sketches are line drawings. Athier uses notes to tell the actions of what is going on in that scene e.g handing the bloke a piece of paper. Mousawi also uses arrows which identify where the camera is going to move through out this scene or if no arrows are present then it will be a static camera. I think Athier uses this style so he can make many storyboards to give across the most info to the producer about what is happening .

Thursday, 12 February 2009

Analysis Of Styles Of Storyboarding

The Company Owen Arts

Owen Arts uses quite a characaturistic style in their work with definative lines and also some slight exaggeration. Unlike most initial storyboard artists, this company uses colur in their work and i think it works successfully as it gives the storyboard a more unrealistic quality which if u add together all the other aspects - i think this is what they were trying to achieve. Also they do not use the typical filmic 16:9 ratio and i think this would detract because this storyboard has a more simplistic style with no over complicated views and block colour.


Analysis Of Styles Of Storyboarding

Steve Simmons

His storyboarding technique is very graphic and it feels as if it should be a comic book. It is very graphic as he uses as much detail in the foreground as he does in the background which shows he considers every aspect of the frame. Each frame in his storyboard is like a piece of art. He uses alot of shades to indicate where the light sources are coming from and where they reach. Throughout his frames i can see he likes to create alot of perspective to capture alot of the surrounding to give us information to guide us along the story.














Navigation - Development Of Ideas

I have done very little to develop this idea except but it in to 16:9 and change the perspective of
one or two frames