Real train shader ideas

Initial toy train shaders

First ideas of shaders for the imp

Tasks

Recently most of the group like me haven't really done anything so today we sat down and sorted out who could do what.Unfortunately as n animating there wasn't anything for me to do at this stage int terms of animating so I had to decide what it was I wanted to do.

In the end the group decided on:

Me- collect shader ideas
Sam- collect shader ideas
Hollie-Character concepts
Erica- concept art for trains etc
Martyna- neaten up the story board

Story/ideas so far

We have had a week since the project was set. In that time we all sat down (apart from Sam) and descussed what we wanted to do.


Our idea is mostly inspired by Paul, and it is going to be based aroud a young infant/baby Imp.


To get even more of a link to Lincoln, we got the idea to focus on the extremely iratating train crossings that reside around Lincoln, causing stress and disruptin to everyones day as they seem to be always going down when you are near them and you sometimes have to wait for ages as theres often more than one train going through.


The film is going to start out as a 2d peice focusing on the average working man, in a dull environment. But then finnish by connecting the Imp with what's going on for a sence of comedic irony.


Our story is as follows:


It starts of with a train coming over the camera, then cuts to see a shot of the crossing with a crowd of people waiting, focusing on a guyin the centre. As you expect the train goes past, and the guy watches it. However it then becomes odd as the train reverses so he watches it again. Thetrain goes back and forward again. Each time it passes the guy gets more adjitated and anoyed. After the last look at the train the guys umbrella gets blown in a gust of wind and lies out of his hands and goes up through the sky until it finally fades through clouds and reveals a cheaky baby Imp playing with a lttle toy town shwing he was theone controlling the trains.


We have decided on the 2d 3d split to try and show a huge difference between worlds and also to allow everyone in the group to be able to cdo the tasts that they want to do.

Groups announced

Paul has sent out an email wit the groups for each project.


I have been assigned the Imp project which Iwas hoping for as I realy want to do some nice 3d animation with a character and thought this one would suit me, luckily Paul let me.


My team is made up of 6 of us and we are allgiven initial job titles:

2d artist Erica Rosie

Modeller Liam Kirkman

Modeller Martyna Valentaite

Animator Aaron Marsh

Compositing/ lighting Hollie Steptoe

3D generalist - Samuel Fendley

Chosen idea: Legend of the Imp (modern twist?) -

Suggested theme: Warm: Reds/ black, white, upbeat/ comedic?
I am quite happy with the mix of skills in the group, I have worked with Liam before in last years project and he was a bit lazy so I'm hoping he'l be more motivated this year. I'm not to confident about having Sam as I know he's never in, but I'll see how he gets on. Also i'm not too confident on what Martyna can do as Iv'e not realy seen allot of her work,so I look forwrd to seing how she gets on. Other than that I know my group is quite a talented group, so hopefully we can make something very nice.

We have been given a week to think up and stoyboard an idea, and as the was no specific story for the imp we ar at a slight disadvantage of having to think up a story between us fo scratch, but atleast doing it as a group will make us all happy as it's more of a mutuly agrred idea rather than having to work on one person's.