Pirate Animatic 3D

Due to some time issue, not all the frame were animatic in 3D. We do have a 2D animatic so overall, its ok. The 3D animatic was contributed by me, tom,lewis and dean. I then took the sound from lewis's 2D animatic and made them fit the 3D one. No major change were done between the 2D and 3D.

Here is the 3D animatic:

Pirate schedule term 1-2

Dummy schedule term1-2

Pirate Animatic

I apologise that I haven't update my blog for a while. Been busy with our deadlines for ...everything really. presentations, essays and the final hand-in. Most of the work has been done in college with the group,so there were a very good communication outside the blog.

Here if i may, with all the respect, I will show you what ive done.
I've gathered bits and pieces of 3D work from our environment artists Dean and Ashley, did some modify myself, and combined them into one piece.





Then me,tom and lewis cut down the storyboard into sections for each other to animate. The camera angle has to be a recreation from the storyboard.

Here is frame 40-41, one of the sence i've animated.
The whole thing will be uploaded on youtube lately.

Dummy Environment

Well, JB said not to post any 'copy-right' work on the blog due to copy-right issue...instead put it on his own website. But, im doing it anyway. Since we are probably not getting marked from his website.

3D Dummy Character modeling

The job was initially assigned to Dean, but he wasn't feel alright with it so I took it on.

Since at the time there were any character design yet, (neil is doing it),so i did a really quick character design to help me defining the different between the male and female dummy. I showned to JB, he liked it and gave me a go ahead.


Here's the 3D model, I took JB's half-done version( a chest) and after this is finished, i will give it to Mike Quirke to do a basic rig for the animatic.

After smooth...


Female dummy



again, this is just for animatic. a more in detailed version will be done by...either JB, Dean or me...I still need to work out Dean's timetable first.

3D Pirateship 2

This is my vision of how it could be done. The cannon was taken from JB's R&D on the cannon firing test. Lewis and Tom both liked it.

So here is the final thing (for the animatic)

With colour

with block out characters on

An Gnome Encounter!

Yesterday afternoon, while I was..like normal,wondering around, spying other groups' work, Sarah's group seems to have a little problem so ive decided to help.

After working with them for a while I realised the problem they really got is just lack of people. As a production manager in two teams I somehow felt perhaps I could do something for them, maybe not now but in time, organising some free-lancers to help them out.

But anyway, yesterday's work was about the layout design. I have been given a basic script, from there worked about my vision of the story. I'd like to put it like a 'stage', as the feeling always come to me when i read the script that it is just like a mini theater play.
SO this is what i come up with.