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Post by Ola Schubert on Aug 13, 2007 8:08:57 GMT -5
Hi there everyone! Summer is at an end and I have been on vacation. Right now I am at my new job, a Post production company here in Stockholm called Stopp, stands for Stockholm Post Production. www.stopp.seDuring July I have been spending a lot of time with my family, so not much has been happening here. But now I am back, again. I am quickly learning this new software, Anime Studio, right now I am animating some shorts for Stopp, I will give you some tests soon. Anime Studio is what I have been looking for all along. Now I feel confident enought to start animating bits and pieces of Nim's Journey, and I am thrilled about it. I know things have been very slow here, not much progress at all, and I hope this will change soon. But I can not promise anything. But I do promise that I will be better at posting stuff here. Hope you are well and see you around!! Ola
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Post by Ola Schubert on Aug 15, 2007 2:24:57 GMT -5
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Post by Esn on Aug 15, 2007 6:24:12 GMT -5
Oh wow... that looks pretty good!
I'll leave you to tinker with the colours, of course, though they're not so bad as they are. A little dark... The one thing I'd change (and you're probably planning on doing this) is to have some slight slow movement in the fog on the right, so that it feels alive rather than like a still-life. The longer the shot lasts, the more obvious it is that the fog should be moving, but isn't. I guess this illusion could be accomplished by having some mostly-transparent blobs of subtly textured colour moving in front of it very slowly. I think it would be very difficult to get it right. Of course, you're the man with the plan.
I'm surprised at how effective this 3D zooming is! It's actually quite good, although it's probably best not to overdo it (as I said, the longer it lasts, the less effective the illusion is - although it is still pretty good)...
By the way, what is your job at Stopp?
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Post by Ola Schubert on Aug 15, 2007 7:50:09 GMT -5
Hi there Esn! Thanks for the input on the camera move. As you said, I will do effects animation to this scene, such as moving grass and fogg. But that will be at a later stage. (: By the way, what is your job at Stopp? We are starting up a web department, so my main role here will be an animator. So that is really nice as I will also be able to develop my skills even further.
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Post by Esn on Aug 15, 2007 8:18:59 GMT -5
This is a bit of a weird idea, and is probably not practical (and would likely take too long), but I wonder if it would be possible to "stretch" the house slightly as the camera moves closer. If one were to really move closer to the house, the perspective as you move closer would make the house's edges "expand" from the centre region on all sides. That it does not do this is the reason why it starts looking a little bit unnatural after the first few seconds of the zoom. That's a little too perfectionist, possibly, but I thought I'd mention it.
Of course, it may be a bit silly for me to be mentioning these tiny things, because the story and rhythm are the real key. Judging by your previous work, though, I have confidence that you'll do a good job on them. Just out of curiosity... how do you handle doing all of these very different jobs? (scriptwriter, story-boarder, director, cinematographer, animator, artist...) Do you try to take it one task at a time, or do you somehow combine them, and think of several things at once?
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Post by Ola Schubert on Aug 15, 2007 10:23:59 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity... how do you handle doing all of these very different jobs? (scriptwriter, story-boarder, director, cinematographer, animator, artist...) Do you try to take it one task at a time, or do you somehow combine them, and think of several things at once? I am not sure that I do handle it that well. It takes quite some time to come up with all the ideas and the story. I have been working with this project for some years now and I have not even finished the story. So as a scriptwriter, I am not that effective. The storyboarding is more or less how I write the script. I sketch the story scene by scene, shaping the story as I go by. This takes a long time, to just make things fit. But when they do, it is really a great feeling. When I get stuck in the story, I start working on another chapter of the film. But the slow process is also a very good thing. When I compare the skills I had when I began this project with what I can do today, it is really a big difference!
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ploki
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Post by ploki on Aug 22, 2007 1:43:05 GMT -5
Do you mean July 2007?
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Post by Ola Schubert on Aug 22, 2007 3:16:17 GMT -5
Do you mean July 2007? Yes, I did I changed it now. Thanks! Ola
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