Avalanche!!!

See you don't need expensive equipment and a trip to a foriegn country to go snowboarding all you need is photoshop a plank of wood and some bricks.

In other news...

Jared has shown us some magic scheduling software that should knock us all into shape and keep us all on track (yeh right). Heres my version of our work schedule for the next coupla weeks, i'm intending to update it every fri and keep on top of it. Our production is appartently gonna cost just over 8 grand so im guessin im gonna have to dip into the penny jar.

Animatic

Really I did this to turn our thunmbnail storyboard into something a bit more solid and understandable so we can plan our shots properly and have a rough idea of timings.

Relativly happy with it. Forgot a couple of things about layering in premier so it didnt turn out perfect, but it does the job its supposed to do.

Those thats came before us.

Just spent a little bit looking for how we're going to achieve the spray of snow behind the board. Really like how this vid looks (the spray, ignore the ice sheet that forms after) and is kinda how i would want it to look.

http://www.digitaltutors.com/free_tutorials/video_d.php?vid=76&cat=5
And just found this really good tut on particle collisions which may be a concievable anwer, we'll have to have a play and see what we can achieve. (You have to give a email address and they mail you a password, and theres quite a few good vid tutorials on there.)

Introduction Test

We wern't sure of the timings for what we've got planned for the opening for the advert. So we went out into the carpark with Dans mobile and quickly filmed the shots and then ive just edited them together.

11 seconds is a bit steep i think but i can see anything in it than we can cut down, so i think we'll keep at it and make more of a decision at a later date.

To be done

Stuff that i think we should have got done/started by monday.

Storyboard/Animatic - done
Character design - Started, should be finished by tues/weds.
Enviroment floorplan - done
Any additional reaserch...

At the rate we're getting this done this should be easy to complete. Anything you think we should add to this or anything you think needs reworking?

Alley Stuff

Just some pics of some alleys, for the opening sequence we got in planning showing how i'm imagining the scene looking.

Beginings - and already its not working

Righty... Welcome to another term and another 6-8 weeks of massive stress, strict deadlines, a copius amount of weeping and hopefully a good deal of fun.

I'm gonna be working on the Burtons Snowboarding advert with Dan Shufflebotham. This is a bit out of context for me (and probs dan) but i think i really need to do a project with quite alot of limitations within its context, when it comes to getting a job im not going to be able to pick and choose what i do so a project and so far im finding this subject to be very limiting.
(I think i need to point out at this stage that my expieriance with winter sports consists of sledging down a dry ramp and nearly skinning my arm) So all in all this should be interesting.

I am supposed to be doing a quick test with Max atm to show tommorow but have just got home to find my laptop riddled with viruses so i gotta sort that out first (only at 8% and its found 86 viruses ((thats 10.75 viruses for every 1% of my hardrive)) Hopefully i can get that fixed and get on with it later, so in the meantime i decided to blog (look im doing it now)

Other than that we're just waiting to meet the Product design Students so we can see what they already have and what they want from us...

And ive run out of things to say...Sayonara

So Cold...