Minor Project: Act One and Act Two Animatic

Act One and Act Two Animatic

This is the animatic containing both acts one and two. As before, it is incredibly rough around the edges, with huge inconsistencies all over the place, but hopefully the story is understandable. 

Minor Project: Act One Animatic

Act One Animatic

This is my rough animatic for the first act of Incompatibility. Its incredibly rough, jumping between varying degrees of quality, but hopefully it conveys the message somewhat clearly.

Adaptation: Conveyor Belt Animatic

Conveyor Belt Animatic

This is a quick animatic of one of the smaller, visual motifs throughout the animation. Its nothing particularly spectacular, but I find it quite charming, if I do say so myself!

Commission: Pre-Viz Progress- No Sound

This is the stage at which my Pre-Viz/Animatic is currently at. I've got a couple of shots to playblast and then its just a case of tidying it up and adding sound. For the moment, the narration will be provided by myself, but I will decide on a professional voice over artist soon.

Commission: Cell Cycle Animatic

This is the animatic for the Cell Division aspect of my animation. In order to make up for lost time, I'm going to combine my animatic and my CG playblasts together. This should hopefully demonstrate my idea in full, with both methods playing to their strengths. The CG pre-viz will be used to demonstrate aspects which are very heavy in regards to cinematography, whilst the 2D animatic will demonstrate the Cell Cycle and other fairly basic aspects.

Final Animatic with Titles and Music

Finally my animatic is sorted! I'm pretty happy with the end result, now I just need to recreate these effects in my pre-viz and then its simply a case of sorting out my concept artwork. Hurrah!

Final Storyboard Animatic (No Music or Titles)

Storyboard Animatic: Progress 21/2/12

This is an early draft of the first two scenes of my storyboard animatic. Only the basic sounds from the Maya animatic have been included, and a couple of shots are yet to be added, but it has given me an idea as to how much information I can put on screen within the required time. Even though the shots are very sharp, the basic story appears to be coherent (although that may simply be down to the fact that I know where everything should be anyway).
Still, things are looking good, and I should have next scene sorted by tomorrow, as well as the Maya version.

Maya Animatic: Progress on Scene One

Scene one is practically complete at this point, although it has brought up a fairly massive issue.
This scene alone is 25 seconds long, pretty much taking half of my total time simple opening the story. I need to seriously whittle this down otherwise I'll be exceeding the total length considerably. This will pretty much remove all of the humour within the first scene, but if thats what it takes to cut it down to a reasonable length, I may have to do so.
Either way, here is the (pretty much) finished scene one.

Maya Animatic: Making a Start

Seeing as I'd already got a rough storyboard of the first scene ready, I figured I'd start to put the animatic of this scene together in Maya.

Its only a few seconds long so far, and there is a section missing as I put together two separate sections using the same setup to save some effort, but still, it seems to be coming together pretty smoothly. I look forward to creating the rest of it!