Last week in Sem A

  The work progress does not process much in these weeks. The animatic is same to the one I handed in in mid-term.

  In these weeks, I put my efford on designing the male cybory enemy, building the model of the main character (the marionnete girl) and have some new ideas on the world and plot construction.
  For the character design, I created the first draft. But I am not really satificed with it. My original idea is to make it have a feeling of "scientist". So, I persist to add a lab coat to him. But made the character look a bit clumsy and is lacking agility. So, I will make a revised version before I build the model.


  For the model part, I finished the whole model of the main character. Futher works for it will be texturing, rigging, making facial gesture and build the weapon for her.



 


 
  Besides from the model, I also do a quick test on arnorld Toon shader in Maya. I tested it with only base color and no texture map. It works, however it is far from perfect. I will do a more detail adjustment after I added on the texture maps.







For the plot, although I have not drew the new animatic, I still have some idea changes. For the the previous version of animatic, it is a 4 minute concetrated battling scene. It is lacking of contrast between different shots and scenes. It feels a bit flat and boring.

In my new idea, it is still a 3 to 4 minute trailer animtion. But the acts will mainly divined into 2.5 parts. The first part will be dynamic actions scene that the main character jumping through buildings and obsticle to arrive the battle place. This act show the body ability of the main charater and the look of the fictional city rather just fighting some robot. The 10 second footage I held in is made with the idea of this part.

Here's are some reference that inspirse my to make this part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJa2g4bLBq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cyTkPbUqo
https://youtu.be/6f_6tjMM8CQ?t=109
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFmAoyp4Neo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt0CxQI0MiU

To give more freedom to the character to jump, slide and spin around the paths. The city is aim to be a combinations of mulitple floating islands and blocks. I made a rough draft of it:



The next parts will be similar to the previous animatic where the two character met and fight. Last 0.5 part will be a short flashback which show their relationship in the past and hold the audience in suspence.

Now I am work on the new animatic. I will report my progress in the coming blogs.

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