The Pirate Ship 3D

I took the 3D pirateship's job because ...it's about the coolest job in the entire project!
So after Lewis has decided what type of ship he wants, he told me to model something based on images from his blog.
http://lewistaylor3rdyr.blogspot.com/2009/11/pirate-ship_05.html

and this is what i come up with



we then talked about the size of the ship and the missing cannon issue...which could be a problem destorying the story! so iv suggested a design that have a huge single cannon in front. Something like this :


and he and tom both said OK..give it a try.

Colour Script for Pirates

What i was looking to achieve is this...



But then I realised while doing the inking, that we haven't really got enough camera shots...so there is no point to just colour up the storyboard to make a colour script. Instead what i did was, I looked at the story and thought in terms of the scene and camera angle what's going to be in the frame, and only coloured the key frames in the storyboard.

Dummy schedule

In response to Lewis's mood board.

The directer and the art directer show us the way, and we will follow! Yarrr....
but to be critical about this...i think we need a bit more element of the supermarket. something like this..


OK,OK I KNOW it's boring. what about this then?



my point is, we have to include it! lewis! im talking to you!

Some Dummy video research

From the first day I had a animation in mind that was very relevent to JB's dummy project. I saw those 3D animation ages ago, and still trying to find if they're still on youtube.

But while searching for that one, I found this! a stop motion animation, but hey, it is very relevent and could maybe help with the story development?


and this!


oh well, there are literally hundreds of good animations about Mannequins.. I will ask dean for that paticular animation i was trying to find since he've seen it as well.

Supermarket research.

In addition to the research...again...it's the environment research, the supermarket.

Paul have already done a good job showing us his research. I've got some primary research at the local sainsburys on my phone, sadlly don't know how to transfer them to here... But anyway i went on google and here is what i got

The first thing that comes to my mind when trying to define/design the environment is the sense of scale...

Then it's the cereal aisle on the spot light because that's where the event's going to happen.

Some sexy pirate ships

Adding to the research, here is some pirate ship. I am very keen on making the style of the ship cartoony, or ish. Since the story will be based in a supermarket, the size of the ship is a key matter.

But then i quite like this toy ship, if we can find a way to make it more 'real' or 'manly'. that will be really cool...