havoc holiday

Rant by N Jeferies

Well to put a long story very short, this narrative project is taking much longer than anticipated to even get to the animated stage.

Todd only recently finished rigging spiderman, i have been tasked with rigging the pigeon due to todd taking a fair while to do that and on top of things we have have not been able to see what leroy has done throughout the holiday so me and todd will have to try to pick up any potential slack, even if he has done the work and not told us we'll be pressuming he hasn't and will start work on the environments.

and to top it off the snow! all in all a very "happy" holiday.

EDIT: Todd has just informed me that he got a text very recently and just forgot to tell me, in this text leroy said that he was doing some of the work its just that he had no internet. (he still could have text before then though).

Spiderman refined and Pigeon

Nathan J

The spiderman model has been refined and kept and I have modeled a pigeon which is a part of one of the gags.

Spiderman Model

Nathan J

Its taken a while to get a decent model done for the main character of our project but I think its turned out pretty well, 3 versions were created according to certain stages of the project.

the first: this was done without any decent orthographs while we were still working of the plot.

the second: this one was done with orthographs but stopped when a new style for spiderman came into play.

the third and most likely final: this is the unsmoothed version of it to see if it works.

Tod

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new Pre-viz versions according to new storyboards

Nathan J

here are the same 2 scenes emotion and swing but they are altered much more now due to a change in the storyboards.

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Pre-Viz 1+2

Nathan J

here are some pre-viz i was asked to put together for our project they're a little jumpy due to just wanting the timings and "key" poses.

pre-viz 1:

Spider-man is stood in front of the camera and is asked to portray a range of with his mask on they start off with happy and there is no real movement the director then asks for sad again there is only little movement. The more emotions that pass the angrier spider-man becomes this is visible by him "shaking" Finally the emotion anger comes up and he starts jumping around and waving his fists in the air appearing to go on a rampage and storms off stage.
Director applauds his performance for nailing the final emotion.
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.

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Pre-viz 2:

Spiderman is swinging round and something goes wrong with the green screen, you start seeing some holiday snaps instead of a big city image. The camera starts to pan out to reveal spider-man tied up by his hands to the ceiling and his feet to the floor "for the swing effect"
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.

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Script

TOD K

- From Leroy's Blog

13/11.09
Narrative Group Project
Script re-write #2

Scene 1
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 2
Spider-man is stood in front of the camera and is asked to portray a range of with his mask on they start off with happy and there is no real movement the director then asks for sad again there is only little movement. The more emotions that pass the angrier spider-man becomes this is visible by him "shaking" Finally the emotion anger comes up and he starts jumping around and waving his fists in the air appearing to go on a rampage and storms off stage.
Director applauds his performance for nailing the final emotion.
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.
Scene 3
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 4
Costume change #4 - Peter Parker is standing in the street when his spider sense goes off. He rushes into an alley to change and jumps back out wearing a... Costume change #1
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.
Scene 5
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 6
Everything is set-up for a spider-man wall climbing sequence, the sequence starts and camera rolls, then half way through the take a pigeon lands on the wall standing sideways and ruins the belief and breaks the viewers reality...
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.
Scene 7
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 8
Costume change #4 - Peter Parker is standing in the street when his spider sense goes off. He rushes into an alley to change and jumps back out wearing a... Costume change #2
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.

Scene 9
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 10
Spiderman is swinging round and something goes wrong with the green screen, you start seeing some holiday snaps instead of a big city image. The camera starts to pan out to reveal spider-man tied up by his hands to the ceiling and his feet to the floor "for the swing effect"
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.
Scene 11
Snap-Board with gag....
Scene 12
Costume change #4 - Peter Parker is standing in the street when his spider sense goes off. He rushes into an alley to change and jumps back out wearing a... Kids/shrunk spider-man costume.
Director yells "CUT!", end of scene and fade to black.
...
Roll Credits.
...
END.