Saturday

Inspiration - The Tale of How

this amazing animation by the blackheart gang is a big inspiration for us. We love the visual style and mixture of 2d and 3d elements in this layered animation. We hope to draw alot of inspiration from this when making our film and have already begun to test techniques used to create these type of visuals.

Environment design blockouts; working with Vue












I've started working with E-on software's Vue 6 Infinate, a standalone 3d package for designing and rendering environments. This software is extremely powerful and yet vewry easy to use. Therefore its nice to use for environment blockouts, although its very easy to get carried away and just make things that look pretty! At this stage I am just experimenting, seeing what I can produce and it may or may not be used in teh eventual film.

Concept Work






Although I am not actually down to be doing concept work, Sal the Director, has stated that everyone's ideas are welcome in producing what he wants to be a dynamic artistic piece. We feel that if we get a general branding idea for the film, the visual style and artistic direction will develop more easily and with more definition and precision!

Research Images












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Some preliminary research material for the pre-production process. or 'Mood board'

We all love this music video for its post production and special effects. The write on effect witht the lyrics of the song is particularly interesting and may be something to consider taking inspiration from and doing a similar thing with visualising the lyrics of the poem that we are working from later on. We have also taken note of the smoke and particle effects, texturing and grading as we all really like it.