Dissertation

The dissertation, the single biggest halt in the production of Unhatched has now been submitted! Woo!

Despite how much time it took to create it the research behind it luckily taught me a lot about the use of sound in film, and more specifically animation. Perhaps this added knowledge will aid me with the sound in Unhatched?

Final model sheet

Here's the orthograph of the model! Clym is using it to aid him in the design for the two unnamed birds.

Establishing Shot Render Test

Here's the latest render test of the opening shot! Some things will change but I hope to get the first shot rendered by the end of the week, the fence will be added in and the background may change a tad but the colours are pretty much where I want them to be, as are the clouds.

Kofi's work on the model

Here's Kofi's model of the chick so far!

http://www.blog.heroesthemovie.com/?page_id=234

It's slowly getting there but I've outlined everything I need doing to the model. The things I need editing are mostly related to the proportions but I know we'll get there!

Nest render test

Very very very very very very early test quickly created in Maya!

The eggs are not their representative sizes.



Over the nest week I hope to have the finished opening sequence finished (not this), and I'll ensure it's as good as it can possibly be.

Edit: The quality of the shot isn't that great, I'll upload it at a higher resolution when it's further in development.

Reference "Swedbank: Under the Oak Tree"

Looks like Aardman beat us to the design! We may as well finish the project now!



Just kidding, but it's good to see a nice bit of reference.

Thanks to Dan Edgley of Polished Off fame for showing it to me!

Render tests

Here are a few quick render tests I created, it will still change.

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