Thirteenth Post
March 3, 2009
With Pre-Production coming to an end this week I need to start summing up my research for this part of the journal. With characters being reletivly simple the bulk needs to go on the general story and the environment including the house its self.
The chair was originally going to be a generic wooden chair but found that it wouldn’t have looked as fragile as I’d have wanted it to, so redecided on plastic but keeping the colours reletivly earthy to keep with the colour of a fawn that the chair’s movements will be based on. As with the other characters I wanted the chair to have some kind of physical fawn quality and so wanted it to have deer like feet. However upon speaking to my motion tutor I decided to keep the furniture as inanimate looking as possible and so am going to leave the furniture as furniture rather than making them look like their animal counterparts.
The table I have kept as it was at the beginning, I wanted it to be a glass topped table with tentacle like legs so kept them thin and long. The patterned top is still up for debate but I think I will add it just to give the table something more than just glass and chrome.
The books, I was originally going to put patterns on each, but again under advise from my motion tutor I decided to make them look like real books and have decided to make one a book on nature based tattoo design, one on natural photography and one on nature based painting and 2D work. All with titles and barcodes which will be done in Adobe Photoshop.
The environment however I wanted to make different from the initial design I built in 3DS Max, I want it to be more slanted and modern while keeping with the natural theme, sugarcube shape with a glass slant like conservatry will create more sides but make it look more like I wanted. I do need to keep with the shipping container theme which will be what the sugar cube shape of the building will be based on. The roof will be slanted in a way that it can fold up in two parts, an upper piece for the 2nd story and a lower piece for the first floor. Detail wise I wanted it to have wooden or stone cladding on certain areas such as entrances and exits as well as around the patio area.
As for the lighting, I did a few lighting tests with other pieces of work and have found a nice out door lighting style I can use for this piece as well as some closer interior lighting for later Show reel renders.
