Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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.