Fantastic Voyage: Research, Design and Target Audience

I have chosen to do the reproduction cycle of Moss:

From what I have researched, listened and learnt, I have decided to design mine in a glass style, here some of my influence maps

This is my main inspiration:

I will have a black background, room like, area in which I will show the reproduction of Moss, using the glass so that we can see what's going on inside and using light to show heart beats, life. I will also use the light to help drive attention to what I want the viewer to concentrate on.

I have decided to do this for Young adults and older, an age in which I think would understand and appreciate a structure purely of symphony music, realism and lights. The moss reproduction information will not be worded but decoratively placed within the animation, though if  the animation explains enough and the words are a distraction, I will try with out.

Here is some design ideas for the shapes, colours and glass designs.

These are the designs for my sporophyte.

These are some glass designs for the Gametophyte, plain, reflective colour and solid glass. These are all not including the lighting effect.

These are from a tutorial on "How to create glass in Photoshop" these are my versions. I will make more adjustments of my own design but this is the gist of what I want to do. This will be the design for the spores. 

From these designs, I want to keep the colours of green, and incorporate reds and pinks.

Here is my story board of how my animatic will go:

Act 1: Diploid

Act 2: Meiosis

Act 3: Fertilization

Here is the script for the story board:

Moss Reproduction

 To be clearer of the beginning of Act 1, I created a short and simple prototype in Maya to explain the spin and zoom.

Animation Showreel

Soundscape: Final Animatic

Soundscape: Original SFX

Soundscape: Sonic Concept

Sonic Concept

Soundscape: Final Story Board

Soundscape: Disk Art

Sound Scape: Designer Profile

Lavender Town

Here is the original Lavender Town theme song from Pokemon Green (beta), listen for yourself,

(((NOTE))): May cause headaches and slight dizziness. (not likely death so don't worry :) )

Script to Screen: Animatic

The Magic juice from Lisa Huntley on Vimeo.

Script to Screen: Crit Presentation

Script to screen final crit presentation

Character biography

PHIL

Phil is a 10 year old boy who's father is known wide for his amazing fruit and vegetables, because of this, his family run the annual county farm show. Phil is a joyful young boy, mysterious and mischievous. He likes to figure things out and find the answer to all the questions.


FIDO

Fido is a "mid-teen" hound dog who runs alongside Phil in everything he does, they are best friends and solve all of their mysteries together.

MR WILSON.

Mr Wilson i s a mean man, one he cheats and is never happy. His facial expression never changes in regards to a smile, he'll frown differently from time to time and maybe raise an eyebrow at you. this makes his a hard person to judge, which is why Phil always finds himself snooping around him.

Concept Art: Farm yard, Phil and Mr Wilson

Script to Screen: Disk Art

Concept Art: Water Pistol

Script to Screen: Script

The Magic Juice FINAL

Film Review: La Jetee

la jetee

Character: Fido

Here is my character Fido, a hound dog and my main characters side-kick. Fido is mid-puppy stage, so he is still young looking and small but developing an adults body. He is a chirpy, happy dog, but completely reliant on his best friend, Phil.

Animation: Walk cycle

Really enjoyed doing this, though i'll admit it was hard! But once I got an understanding of the movement, i found the arms were easy to add in. I know some adjustments need to be made but I'm still proud of the results :)!

Inbtw 001 01 from Lisa Huntley on Vimeo.

Artist toolkit: Life Drawing week 5

This week we done a variety of light and dark drawings with black and white paper, I chose to use a white pencil and white chalk on my image.It took me a while to remind myself that I wasn't drawing the image, just the lighting, so I kept restarting on the same piece of paper, I think my most successful was the face and the foot. This task was 20 minutes,

These were 3 minute poses, we could chose what paper we wanted, I chose to do the light on black paper again but doing quicker strokes. I done this so that it would help me understand which line would benefit most drawn in the chalk to give the impression of what it was.

Finally I went onto white paper in which we had to draw the life model, Alan, coming up from the floor and moving towards us, I found this challenging to do in the time limit, 3 minutes per piece, as as Alan got closer, I could see more detail in each line and this was harder to incorporate in such a small amount of time. But i found this to be my most successful piece today.

Artist Toolkit: Life Drawing week 4

In this life drawing lesson, I decided to focus one the hands. These 3 minute drawings all started by drawing the hand first and going on from there. I enjoyed this method as I usually start from the shoulders and I found I was drawing more from habit/memory than observation, so by changing my starting point I felt I had to draw with more concentration.

The next images were done by rotation, the life model, Francise, moved slightly between each drawing so we could understand where each element goes when he moves from left to right or from a ball to standing up.

 

Lastly, we were given the choice to focus on anything for 20 minutes, I chose to do a time allowance of my own, I concentrated on the hands and gave myself different time slots to draw the hands. I started with 30 seconds:

 

Then 1 minute:

2 Minutes:

 

5 Minutes:

10 Minutes:

 

From this lesson I have learned not to use a 4H pencil... please excuse the poor quality pictures. I have also learned I enjoy drawing from the hands.