Long Time, No Update

Well, it's definitely been a good bit of time since my last update. Things got a little hectic with working on the summer film project at Ball State so I put the storyboards on hold. Good news on that front though: we met our animation goals with completing the main sequence by the end of summer and have just a little bit more to do when classes start up again.

Here it is the beginning of August with only a few more short weeks until classes begin anew; in these last weeks before all the busy comes back again, I'm going to try and get as much storyboarding done as possible. My goal is to have most if not all of them done before or as classes are starting and hopefully send them off to a few associates for some feedback. It's also my goal this week to have some of what I've been working on posted here on the site!

Now fingers crossed it won't be nearly as much time in between posts!

Weekend Update

One week after this blog was started and already there's more things happening with the film!

Marvin

With this film being a thesis project with limited resources, we have to pick and choose which technical hurdles to tackle straight on and which to find other solutions. Thankfully one of these issues has already been solved! Animator Josh Burton has graciously allowed us to use his wonderful Morpheus rig in the film. For those of you not familiar with Morpheus, its an awesome rig with terrific skinning and facial controls as well as the option to fully customize the physical appearance of the character. With this permission, it looks like Morpheus will be playing the part of Marvin!

Boris the Hamster

Another aspect of the film that looks to be an interesting challenge is Boris, the hamster. After speaking with a couple of my colleagues, it looks like we will definitely find a way to get him modeled and possibly even textured to have fur! It may not sound like much to some, but believe you me, it really is exciting! Of course, after modeling we still need to get him rigged...

Last but not least, we have finally started storyboarding for the film! Granted, there are only a few frames done but it is definitely progress and more than we had a week ago. Once there is a bit more of them, I'll make sure there's a smattering of them here on the blog. 

All in all, things are looking good and hopefully things only get better from here!

Up and Running

Well here goes nothing!

Basically, this site is designed to keep track of the progress (and hopefully inspire some progress to keep being made!) of the short film, "Escape." As of right now, there isn't a whole lot on the blog to be too terribly excited about. I've uploaded all of the Concept Art that I currently have. Before long I hope to have the "Crew" and "About the Film" pages updated as well.

As far as production on the overall film is going, I am about to start the storyboarding process after looking over the script a few more times, pondering different technical endeavors and how they might affect the story. I do need to make sure as well that we have permission from a couple of different parties to use assets they have created.

Here's to more posts down the road and hopefully a wonderful film in less than a year's time!