Final Project, done!

I am very pleased and happy with my project. For the first time, I accomplished exactly what I pictured in the beginning. A lot of times during the creative process, things change and take different forms, which is great. However, this project aligned with my blueprints pretty accurately. I had to cut a few things of course for times sake and to preserve quality, but the final product works!

Obviously in my work I am showing off my photoshop painting in a concise and simple way. In earlier posts, I shared youtube videos of inspiration and I utilized several aesthetic elements from the videos. I am pleased with the minimalism and simplistic style.

I am also very happy to have captured key moments from the movie in title sequence form.

I'm also so surprised to have finished the project yesterday, a day early :) Its been a great project!

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Update!

I uploaded the last bit of my assets. I have also gathered all my sounds of course, but I am not posting them.

I have begun my animation, but not enough to post. However, it is coming together :)

Update!!

Pre-Production: Synopsis, Blueprints, and Assets

Pitch : I want to create a title sequence for the movie 10 Items or Less with Morgan Freeman. There are key moments of the film that will translate well into cartoon-esque scenes that I will smoothly transition from one to another. The aesthetic will be Saul Bass inspired to the extent that it will be simple, sleek and shapes will lead the transitions. Every character and prop will be silhouetted and manually painted. It will be very colorful and energetic to reflect the film's mood, and I will be using a Mariachi tune from the film.

Storyboard: This is very tentative and subject to change or various omissions.



Reference: As I researched title sequences, I found inspiration in the following videos.








Rough schedule:
Asset List

• Morgan Freeman
  
• Kumar
  
• Morgan Freeman close-up
• Paz Vega close-up
• Jonah's van
• Paz's car
• 10 Grocery items: milk, eggs, beer, bread, bananas, toilet paper, cheerios etc.
• 5 rectangles
  
• Mariachi song
• sound fx (car screeching, conveyor belt, car reving, cash register, swishes)
  

Week 1: Prepare Assets

• capture stills from movie and paint over them
• download music
• find sound fx from UT library (car screeching, conveyor belt, swishes and things)
• draw rectangles
• create credit list

Week 2: Animate

• animate scenes individually
• bring in any last, unexpected assets

Week 3: Transitions

• start figuring out and building the transitions from scene to scene
• smooth out animation

Week 4: Finalize Everything

• smooth out the project
• render!

::PREVIEW OF WORK IN PROGRESS::

PERtty PARTICLES :)

Untitled from Shayna Hill on Vimeo.

Untitled from Shayna Hill on Vimeo.

hehe, here is my attempt at greenscreen. I enjoyed the keying portion of the assignment. I had to mask out some elements, and I probably could have spent several more hours detailing it. After we learned how to use particles I thought my wand could use some :) I think the best adjustment I made to the footage that must be pointed out is I used motion tracking! The camera was really shaky and it made my scene less believeable. The motion tracking really stabilzed the whole thing. I mean I know the lighting could use work to also make the background and the foreground blend in a more believable way, but my main focus was to illustrate my understanding of keying out for greenscreen and motion tracking. So there! :)

Plans for greenscreen assignment

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I want to take the end of this clip when I throw off the cloak and cast a spell, and I kinda like the moment when I put the wand in my back pocket so I hope I can use it. I'll probably find a Harry Potter photo of Hogwarts or something to put in the background. I'm not sure yet if I want to do any motion tracking, but I think this footage could use it. Not sure if it is possible however. We will see!!! :)

Here are two pictures I'm considering for my Hogwarts scene. I think the window one will work well because I think it will be easy to make it believable.