Animatic Our team made our first pass at an animatic this week. This is the first time our story has come to life. We will need to make adjustments and refine the flow of our animatic to be able to convey our story without any words. Although the animatic is rough, we are pleased with […]
Live Action Our team filmed a live action short and has been able to play with angles and timing. This will serve as a valuable tool and will save us a lot of time in the future. It is much easier for us to play with live footage than to try to work out timing […]
Story Revision After going through multiple iterations, we had presented a story at halves. Our team was not comfortable with the story’s ending. We also ran our script and script breakdown past Ruth Comley to try to figure out if we were in scope or if we needed to readjust. The combination of the story […]
Halves This week our team presented our progress to the ETC faculty, staff, and student body at Halves. Our presentation focused on pitching our story idea, showing our pipeline, the concept artwork, scheduling, and most importantly, the process of the year long project. We felt this was extremely important to outline what we did right, […]
Story This week we have refined our story even further and have come to a version that is closer to our a story that can go into production. The story team has rewritten this story multiple times, each time adding to the story, but with the goal of keeping or reducing the scope of the […]
Story Boards We took a big step this week in establishing rough storyboards. By finishing rough storyboards, we were able to start focusing in on art styles and music. We believe that music will really shape the tone and style of the story and will also play a vital role in our end of semester […]
Story Lock This week, our team has locked down the first draft of our story, and we will be moving onto story refinement and initial storyboards. We had the good fortune of meeting Evan, from Jib Jab, and he offered to share feedback with us as the story progresses. We plan on utilizing him as […]
