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Lighting Test for Yeti March 1

Thesis Review No. 1

Revised Animatic

Concept Design

Material study for Yeti Hill:  Yeti needle-felted puppet composited onto watercolor and felt set.

Front-Light Back-Light Test

Green Screen Test

Puppet composited from green screen onto rough background sky.

Revised Shot-List

Revised Production Schedule

November - December:  Act 1

• Yeti March.  Orpheus plays flute to Eurydice as she dances.  Rock fall disaster.  Eurydice is missing. Orpheus goes in search of Eurydice.
• Complete choreography.  Shoot reference footage
• on-going compositing and post-production

January - February:  Act 2

• Orpheus journey through forest.  Sees Eurydice's ghost.  Follows it to a collonnade to find a cloaked figure.  He faints when he unveils it to find a yeti-like creature resembling Eurydice.
• Receive rough score from composer.
• on-going compositing and post-production

March - mid-April:  Act 3

• Orpheus comes to.  He picks up the cloak worn by the yeti-like creature.  He puts it on and begins to dance like Eurydice from Act 1.  Yeti join in and they dance together.
• Complete score and begin sound design.
• on-going compositing and post-production

Late-April 

• on-going compositing and post-production
• Re-Animate shots if needed.

May:  Post-production

• Post-Production and Sound Design/Editing
• Export film.

Set Sketches

Set Sketches

Orpheus & Eurydice's Dwelling

Dwelling Ruins, sketch 1

Dwelling Ruins, sketch 2

Materials Studies

Summer Thesis Work

Materials Studies

Studies for Orpheus, needle-felting

Studies for heads, needle-felting

Studies for dancer, needle-felting

Studies for dancer, needle-felting

Production Schedule

Color Reference

Notes

Logline: A woodland creature follows the ectoplasm trail of a lost friend past industrial landscapes and hordes of yeti ghosts up to a new realm.

Structure: Poetic narrative. Inspired by Sergei Einstein's Mexican Footage and Yuri Norstein's "Tale fo Tales".

Mixed Media: paper and stop-motion puppets, painted and constructed sets, green-screen actors in costumes.

Score: Wordless. Strange and magical like Moondog and A Magic Whistle.

Environment Studies

Critter Dwelling

Palace

Character Studies

Critters

Critter study

Yeti

Rough Storyboards

Catalysts

Theatrical and Processional

Georges Méliès- "Trip to the Moon

The Darkness, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

Kenneth Anger, "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"

Oskar Schlemmer, "Triadic Ballet"

Sergei Eisenstein, Mexican Footage, 1931

Character

Yuri Norstein, "Tale of Tales"

Yuri Norstein, "Hedgehog in the Fog"

Chrissie Macdonald

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Paulina Temmes

Oliveark

Environment

Rene Laloux, "Fantastic Planet"

Architecture

Spomenik

Movement

Automata

Automata

Background

Eyvind Earle, "Sleeping Beauty