Adaptation B: Reflection

Overall, I feel my crit went well, and I received useful feedback. I need to put some more thought into making sure the characters capture the feelings and themes of the poems, both in their final designs and the environments around them. I very much like the idea of my final piece being a turn around of the 3D model, with a voice-over reciting one of the poems as the camera focuses on certain details.

I now need to finalise my clothing designs, and work on each characters' face so I can start building one of them in Maya as soon as possible. I also need to work on environment designs in order to begin creating concept art.

Adaptation B: Presentation

Adaptation B: Finalising Clothing Designs

Acting Class

Today in our acting class, we worked on how to make sure our movement and behaviour was clear to an audience to show a certain situation. We began by pairing off and acting out our morning routine, then gave each other feedback on how to improve, or make our actions more clear, before performing our morning routine to the whole class and seeing how well they understood what was happening. Later in the class, we had one person leave the room while another was given a situation they had to act out to the other using only actions in order for them to understand. These ranged from "your cat is stuck up a tree" to "I'm the president of an acting society and need you to sign this form to join our society". Needless to say, some of these were a little difficult to convey solely through movement, but we all got there in the end. 

It was a very fun class, and the skills we learn will be very useful when animating in the future. 

Also, thanks to Thomas for letting me take pictures of him today. 

Life Drawing

Adaptation B: Clothing Sketches - The Lilly

Life Drawing

It was nice to go back to life drawing after a long time and do some relaxed drawing. I'll definitely go to a few more sessions before the year is out.

Adaptation B: Clothing Sketches - The Sunflower

Adaptation B: Clothing Sketches - The Rose Tree

Initial clothing ideas for the Rose Tree. I want to show the Rose Tree both as "pretty", but also defensive, so I feel it's important to incorporate thorns into her design.

Feedback welcome!

Adaptation B: Initial Sketches - The Sunflower