Thursday 29 November 2007

The Last Week of Term




oh no the last week and we were in trouble the essay and animatics were due but we managed to pull together a very rough animatic which went down well, and for me at least i've managed to complete my essay and presentations.

this week i have been blocking out the characters and environments.

Thursday 22 November 2007

A slow week

this week i have been trying to get my essays and presentations finished so work for the project has been slow. we have managed to finalise the story which im very pleased with, the story now feels as if it all ties in together there are no loose ends and i feel the story is a lot more finalised.

the main task for the group now is to do a new animatic to reflect the story and finish our essays on time.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Nearing the End of Term ONE!!!!

ok so we only have 2 weeks left really as the last week is hand in, i'm finding it quite hard to get everything done this week as i still have no internet at home and have two essays to hand in aswell as two presentations for the essays that i don't really understand as we have alot of work to get done and the presentation seems unnesasary.

Apart from this we have finally manage to get the style worked out for the film.

we have found a new way to do our animatic when watching the animatic for Pirates of the Carribean so we have alot to get done.

Thursday 8 November 2007

This week






I am still without internet this week but hopefully it will change soon as i have just changed to a new provider, work wise i have been working on colour concept and blocking out the environment, i have scanned in some more of my concept so enjoy

Wednesday 31 October 2007

Animatic nature of death

This week i have been working on the animatic and storyboarding, i have been mostly adding colour along with Rachel to give the animatic a first draft so we can look at the animatic and see what needs work. i have added sound to the animatic so we can start to think about sound effects and what music will work.

Friday 26 October 2007

what i've been up to this week


This week has been quite hard as my internet at home has been off now for two weeks making researching very hard i have managed to start the block out for the environment and helped james with the end of the thumbnails, today the group hope to start work on the animatic and final story boarding. I am hoping to get the final timetables done for the group and i have alrady collated a document listing the names of everyone working on the project do i can organise what they are working on and when.

Thursday 18 October 2007

A Vision of Death



Here are some examples of what i am working on at the moment, the first image is of Bob is a ghost Grim meets very early on i imagined him as a world war 1 soldier. the second image is a floor plan of the retirement home so we can begin to plan where grim will move and camera shots. i am currently working on several roles for the group so i have been jumping from project to project anyway here is some work.....

Monday 15 October 2007

I met the reaper

This week I have been ill so hav'nt managed to do as much work as i would have hoped. i am confident that my group is on schedual. i have been doing mostly concept and research for the residential home as the main environment of the film. I have tried to do some concept for the environment using the game "the Sims" to design a working concept for the building. the next stage for me after getting back on my feet is to focus on the floor plan and begin a very rough block out of the environment.

Wednesday 10 October 2007

1,2 Death is coming for You

Hello Again for this post i am going to give you a short version of the story so far as crreated by James-Dean Summerfield.

ok so the story begings in a graveyard with Death(Grim) rising from his tomb he heads for the gate for is job of reaping souls, while heading for the gate grim sees a ghost, the ghost says "hi Grim!" and grim responds with "HI Bob!".

The next scene sees grim at his target location for the day the nearby retirement home grim takes out his P.D.A to get the name of the soul he has to reap today, as he looks at the screen the P.D.A crashes and grim is unable to find the name so he decides to go inside and wait for someoe to die.

Inside the retirement home grim sits and waits, during his time at the home the resident keep having accidents but never die frustrating grim.

the final scene sees grim leaving the home and taking his frustration out on an oncoming jehovas witness to meet his quota for the day.

Tuesday 9 October 2007

My First post

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am currently working on a comedy animation Film about the Grim Reaper so dont worry about the title of the blog im not dieing!


The main core of the group consists of James-Dean Summerfield and Rachel Senior and myself as a 3d Modeller, I am very pleased to be working on this project as the story appealed to me and i have a good team to work with.


so far I have started to reseach retirement homes as it is the central location of the animation and I have also started to look at assets for the film.


I hope to post some of my research soon