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Hello bloggers and bloggers, and hi Mark. Welcome to my blog! In the exciting first week back at school, I have done a little bit of research on 16th Century architecture in order to portray a Grimms fairy tale in pictures. Unfortunately, I should've been researching 18th Century architecture as that is the time period when the fairy tale 'The Three Army Surgeons"takes place. Lesson number 1, don't take what the tutor says as truth; research the authors and the background of the story thoroughly! I used the Google Image search engine to try and find pictures of a 16th Century Inn. The assignment was to draw the main hall of the inn, but all I kept finding was pictures of the exterior. However, after researching the furniture of the time, I could imagine roughly what the interior would look like. I proceeded to draw different thumbnails of what I thought the hall would look like. After choosing my favorite, I sketched it out in A4 size and then cleaned it up on the light box. It wasn't quite the same as my thumbnail so I've learned that photocopying is a good way of staying accurate when switching from thumbnail to larger drawing. The following drawings demonstrate the process I took.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Week 6




The storyboarding is going quite well. I really enjoy visualize a script and finding interesting camera angles to tell the story. So far, while drawing, I have tried to pay attention to compositional guidelines such as rule of thirds, angles, depth, etc...

The biggest problem I am encountering is painting with a mouse: what a pain in the ass! I am waiting patiently for Mark to order us some Wacom pens so I can start using the Cintiques. Hopefully it will be soon.

Also, Mark has asked us to try and create our Animatic in Flash. Too bad our brief intro to Flash has gone to bed in the darkest part of my brain, I can't remember much about the application. A little more support from the teaching staff would've been appreciated. Thanks to Rahul who took time teaching me certain tools that were helpful during my assignment.

Last of all, I decided to be responsible for the preproduction element of our CGI group assignment. I have included some images on this.
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