storybeats written & visual

These are my first drafts of my storybeats,

Opposite Storybeats

1. Henry walks onto screen happy and minding his own business
2. Something in the grass catches his attention
3. a glowing object stuck in the ground Henry bends over to have a closer look
4. Henry curiously but cautiously pokes the object
5. the object makes a pleasant “ding noise” this makes henry really happy
6. He grabs the object
7. and pulls with all his strength but the object just stretches and refuses to budge
8. henry slips and falls back he gets up rather sad but still adiment that he wants the object
9. he limbers up
10. “ “
11. he grabs the object again this time standing up and with both hands for more grip and leverage
12. He pulls again with all his strength
13. theres a snapping noise as the camera is flicked away
14. as the camera spins you can see someone else has been pulled out from the other end of the object
15. the camera lands on the ground as henry is staring at someone right infront of him
16. close up as they look into each others eyes as they are both identical apart from the slight different colours of their skin/eyes
17. henry says hi to his other self but his opposite responds with by
18. henry is very saddened and walks off dropping his glowing object to the ground and his opposite walks away smiling to himself both showing increasing sadness, happyness.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

model update #2

So yeah although Henry might not be modeled to perfection quite yet we still had to move onto rigging our character this week (week#5)

so yeah here he is all rigged...

I also decided just to see how my topolgy is behaving so far by crudely skinning it in a different maya file so here it is.

As you can see the fingers and legs arnt bending to well neitherr is the arm pit, but atleast i know now that these ares need more topolgy so that they dont lose there shape when I bend them...

model update

Hello,

I have been very bad at updating my blogs lately, thats not to say i havnt been doing anything just been rather forgetful anyways so far Henry is looking like this...

So yeah as you can see hes getting there, however still alot to be done have forgotten how you do eyelids and general layout of the face but i tried my best from tutorials on youtube and from what i could remember.

next up rigging...

model progress

just thought i should give you an update of how my models going...

Week #4 day #1

So heres the beginnings of my model aka Henry.. using the topology research has helped me out alot with modeling however i have run into trouble with the stomach if i cant find a way to solve it i will have to go in and ask the lecturer.

Anyways....

My pitch is tomorrow and for the first time I actually appear to have a fair amount of things to show for this year of which i think is of a good standard this early on, just hoping the 4th year agrees. Have the remainder of the week off so hopefully I will have the model finished (excusing a few geometry errors that can be fixed later on) ready for rigging next monday.

topology research #2

Well here are my topology sketches for Henry  just as a reference when modelling him which will begin soon. I had a chat with Lynn earlier this week and she approved my drawing to model so theres nothing holding me back. Looking forward to this havnt modeled a character to animate in a while now.

Back Story

hello, I decided to make a more in depth back story to help me explain henry more to myself and more importantly anyone who watches the short. So here it is...

Back story

Henry is a young human race called Sapasapians who live on a planet called Sapa. Sapasapians are a highly intelligant race that can live naturaly far longer than us because of this there brains take longer to develop, at the age of 13 henry has more in common with our 3-5 year olds than a human teenager.

Henry, is a happy playful Sapman toddler who is very friendly towards everyone and everything he meets apart from broccoli he despises that stuff.

In his spare time he enjoys collecting items that he finds lying about, mainly shiny or glowing items which he keeps in a small box he carries on his person. However he has been taught that some items should be left untouched he feels the rule doesnt imply to himself especialy if the item is shiny glowy or generally pleasant looking.

more research photos

more movies and books that have an interesting take on clones/other dimensions that i felt helped.

although most of them have a more consequences due to paradox's rather than a basic light hearted approach although I suspect thats due to mine is only 30 seconds long instead of the 2hours or 500+ pages of movie/book.

Alternative characters and more sketches

week#3 day#3

I havn't made a post in a while been busy with other modules but thought i should update what I have done for this week.

Alternative Characters

here you can see the various different drawings for who to play in Opposite i do like them all some of them I may keep for a separate project however they all helped in understanding my final drawing.

my character as he is now, i feel the more i draw him the more it will help when it comes to modelling (which will begin this week) i decided to practice drawing his hands aswell as i feel they are my main weakness when it comes to drawing. practice makes perfect.

Before i gooooooo

just another sketch of henry for you.

Opposite Character Profile

Name: Henry

Age: 13

Personality: Quiet Caring Imaginative and very Curious

Back Story: Henry comes from a planet far away from our own and his species of mankind have an expected life of 560 years making the similarity of age to us like what we are to dogs, because of this at the age of 13 he has more in common with our toddlers than a human 13 year old.

Likes: games, sweets, cars, toys, colourful and sparkly things.

Dislikes: school, vegetables, aggression

thats it for today al hopefully be starting modelling this week so expect to see that being uploaded within the week, along with more sketches and hopefully this clay model too also be uploading more research photos aswell.

Topology research

For my research i studied and looked at a rig on www.creativecrash.com called andy, this rig worked well and looked clean and tidy.

I looked over this model alot so that I could plan out how to model my character and i hope this will help :D.

next: i shall be posting a character profile and some more research pictures that helped in creating "Opposite" i am also hoping to buy some modelling clay to model my character soon and shall post up pics of that if all goes well.