Thursdays progress.

final Stretch now, we pitch and hand in on wednesday 6th of June, so it's all hands on deck, tightening designs, finalising scripts, tweaking animatics. We're also working on the pitch brochure, and have a plan in  mind, it should be memorable at least. I'm designing and assembling the brochure, whereas the boys are adding the written content. Images consist of various pieces of 3D and design work that we've all contributed.

Anyway, here's todays efforts.

It was brought up in class about wether to keep the watch shot, due to issues having a watch on Nicks arm all through the short, amy cause rig issues. However, I see no problem in just having the watch for the one shot. After all, cartoons are FULL of inconsistencies like this, it's part of their charm. Go and watch any episode of Ren and Stimpy, Dexters Lab, or even The Simpsons, props are always appearing and dissapearing. And since we're going for that classic, almost 2D feel, I think we could easily get away with it. Plus, I think a Large comedy watch with LATE! written on it, is an effective visual cue.

I also updated the colour script. We've added and chopped a lot of shots since the last script, and i felt the colour range needed expanding a little. Everything was a little too yellow. This version I think has more depth, and I've added the various colour cards we plan on using for key close up shots. Looking good. Anyway, I'm working on a nice post about colour scripts, which i'll finish and upload tomorrow.