Initial Ideas

Over the break I thought about my next project very briefly but didn't come up with anything important. I was playing with the idea of cartoon/anime style but on it's own I don't think this is enough to call it my 're-working' of the dojo scene. As we are working from a script, there can be no changes to the story, which means the only changes I can make are to the style, setting and characters. However, because the scene is a simulation, the choices of scene or character are endless.

My first thought was what to do with the characters. You could make them animals, robots, zombies/aliens, or humans. I'm not particularly interested in using animals, I don't want to use robots again and I don't think 2 zombies fighting would do the speed of the scene justice. Then I had the idea, what if I used humans but changed the time it is set. Long story short, my current idea is setting the scene in a western tavern with cowboys/bandits. All I can think about whilst writing this is Morpheus playing La Resa Dei Conti on the piano in the tavern. I will combine these characters and setting with styles that I find interesting and we will see what happens.

I should have put this on before I got distracted by Christmas, but here it is! Mixed feelings about it really. I know how much tie and effort went into it so when I look at it I am not disappointed. But the shadows look crap, the sound effects are pretty poor and the timing of the whole video isn't right. I think it's all down to my planning not quite being up to scratch. I could go into this in more detail but I don't think my internet connection could handle that much text being uploaded. Basically I need to make sure I plan EVERYTHING before I start modeling and animating on my next project.

On the positive side, I think it was a good introduction on character animation. I can use the skills I have gained to build on our last project of the second year. Although, the amount of work it is going to take seems quite daunting so I need to make sure I keep on top of it all.