Story Reel

For those interested, here's the more-or-less final story reel for the film. I neglected to put it up since I wasn't happy with a few of the scenes (I'll rework them during production), but since it would be helpful to put up a rough idea of how the actual film might look like, I guess I might as well link this.





As for my progress, I'm just about done modelling the cockpit. That means I can start doing some animation with the first plane, which I'll begin during the weekend. For now I'll be spending time texturing the first plane and starting on the model for the second plane. Things are looking up.

Layout In-Progress

Well, I decided to take a break for all the 3D stuff on my film today (and also produce something showable for the next mentor meeting tomorrow), and started work on my first piece of layout material.

To save time, I'm working on a massive piece of layout, which I'll use in parts for the individual shots I have in my film. Well, I'll have several of these layouts for different shots. I'm planning on having certain shots set in different periods of the day, so this single aerial pan layout won't be enough for all of my shots. But this is pretty much the meat of what most of my shots will look like.

Keep in mind that it's still a work in progress. I'll have to add several layers of clouds, and the floating islands (which I might do in a separate file, and composite into the scene later on, I'll have to think about which method is best). Here's a closer look at the image:

Progress

So I might as well make a progress report. Maybe it'll get me motivated to work harder.

I've been slacking off a lot lately. First week back from Christmas, I was doing pretty well. But then I just fell into a slump and I really haven't been able to get anything done. I managed to finish modelling the body of the bi-plane, one of the 3D models that I lost from the incident that I mentioned in my previous post. Now I have to finish with the cockpit, but that's proving to be quite the bitch to work on. I've become so unmotivated that I've resorted to playing Flight Sim instead (actually, I'd use any excuse to play it at this point).

But a few bouts of panic attacks have got me jump starting again, I think. I did more work today than I did the past two weeks. Hopefully this momentum will continue. Anyway, here's a few pictures of the plane modelled so far.





And here's a couple of videos demoing what little animation I put into the models thus far (it'll have a little more later on).







Upcoming tasks:
-Finish modeling cockpit
-UV map
-texture
-start on the second plane