*theres the possibility to add to dimensionality to the 2d section but that can happen after the film is actually complete.

Animatic 3

Small timing changes, a few added renders and crude sound.

Animatic 4 Fully Rendered

The text at the end is placeholder for timing, the color will be changed.

Sound notes

Two things that I for sure know about, the cube sounds dont match the texture of the material so I need to change that. there isnt a vortex sound for the dimensional tear yet, still no sure what would be best for that.

The plan is to finish all animation this week, experiment with some sound stuff while everything renders, and then edit the final cut next week giving me an extra week to go back if need be.

WE HAVE PROGRESS!!

Cameras finalized, churrning through Renders Aiming to finish early

“Green blocks” an interactive art piece

Render woes

Render settings:

• 262 frames ~3hrs
• Each frame rendered between 30-40 seconds using CPU rendering
• noise reduction within after effects applied to give final video result

Things to consider going forward

• Gpu rendering was fast but produces so much noise unless the sampling is increaded to a number not viable for a semester film (30-40 AA samples) 5 mins per frame… not reasonable same thing happens with cpu to get a noise free 1080p image
• subsurface will probably need to be turned to zero. Not sure if it adds much to the material, and it certainly makes the render take longer
• closer camera angles seem to take longer to render than shots that are further away (again assuming this is the subsurface aspect thats causing that?)
• If I can figure out better render settings, or just expect it to take forever, my computer can handle it, but for this specific one, I had to split the load between two computers remotely
• gpu denoising using isnt temporally consistent, and cpu denoising takes so long to apply to each frame it would be quicker to just up the sampling and live with the 4-6 hr render
• turn off volumetric shadows? volume samples are at 5 right now I imagin that also has a big effect considering its a skydome light

Updated Animatic

• Updated shots 040, 050, 070, 110
• Need to reanimate shot 070 with updated rig
• 2D shots 080 and 100 need to be keyed
• Add spinning cylinder ending shot 100

Animatic but 3D ooooh, ahhhhh…. ehhh ok.

The acting beats in the middle when the sphere is supposed to act confused, and sad doesnt read, re vist the acting choices there, also consider not having the camera move and keep the camera on the right side of the cone.

Partner Animatics

I edited Sahana’s

Just changed the intro shot and let the branch transformation shot, do double duty as an establishing shot

Preproduction Continues

Rigging continues, dynamic pivot not working as intented, may have to brute force the animation…

Character Lineup

Texturing Is Interesting

Plan to finish the rest of the rigs in the comming days and start full force on 3d anim next week 2d anim keys are slowly coming together

the prekend is going to be pretty packed, becuase I need to make up for lost time

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Movement Test

Render Test

Stills

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Mood Board

Production management

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Glow treatment had too many plot holes, and wasn’t a very fun idea. Time to find a new story.

Idea: Distill a concept into is most basic components then go from there. I took the idea of friendship, didnt like where that was going, then took the idea of different worlds interacting, which turned into DIMENSIONS. and now I’ve simplified it into oblivion literally, we have, a cube, and a sphere in a white void, with the addition of a tear in their universe, that reveals a step down in dimensions, so we travel from 3D to 2D, in both story, and visual style.

Logline: A cube and sphere have their pecerption of reality changed, after encountering unusual holes in their world

TREATMENT

Working title: Hole.

A sphere and cube walk aimlessly across a white expanse, a void of existence. The cube disappears [off screen] and reapeares shaken to its core, after being tossed out of the ground. The sphere goes to see if the cube is okay, and is sucked into the same hole, where its pulled from the 3rd dimension into the 2nd dimension. The circle’s reality is distorted. It’s pulled apart by lines examining it, before being tossed out. Left shuttering in shock of what it had experienced… [jump cut to show the expanse of the void, roll credits].

[As credits roll on left] a new cube walks by and is sucked into the hole… a moment pases, and its thrown back out again

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Story Beats:

1. Sphere and cube moving through white void
2. Cube falls into hole behind sphere
3. Cube comes out of hole grey. Sphere goes back to see what happened to cube
4. Sphere sucked into hole
5. Lines examine sphere (represented by a circle since it’s the 2nd dimension). This would be the breakdown of the sphere
6. Sphere rejected by lines put back into 3D world
7. New cube comes in and falls into another hole

CHARACTERS

ENVIORNMENT AND STYLE

SOUND

EQUIPMENT

Animation:

• Autodesk Maya
• Rough Animator
• Procreate (2d effects, consider multi export degredation)

Rendering:

• Personal computer: Ryzen 7 3700, RTX 2060, GTX 1050 ti, 32Gb ram
• YellowDog render solution: [last resort]

Editing:

• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Premier Pro
• Adobe alternatives (pray, you can try iMovie… plz no)

Sound:

• Condenser Mic (scratch sound, foley)
• Field recorder (to be bought)
• Adobe Audition
• alternative to Audition (Audacity)

Things To Consider

Moving textures may require some effort to get working in arnold, gpu rendering may help ease rendertimes, dont bank on it though

Sound recording may also be an issue, no music at all unless its premade which is a gamble timing and theme wise. Finding foley sounds online is a little easier, reach out to Dave Sluberski since you aren’t in his class yet, and maybe Olivia Wolfman, consider enlisting the help of someone who can be oncampus? might be too much work to manage…

TAKE BREAKS

STORY TREATMENT DRAFT:

Working title: Glow

Logline: : After being separated from its family, an organism is captured by an astronaut for study, It needs to convince the astronaut to bring it home.

An astronaut on a routine collection scouting searches for an organism for capture, searching through rocks as they go along.

Turning over a rock to see the organism they were looking for. Three fly out, with one lagging behind, two of them are fast enough to escape into the nearby cave they stare at it in awe then snap back to reality to grasp the containment device. The organism flies away to try to escape but rocket girl manages to close the device around it and capture it. The organism continues to push against the glass and tries to break free.

She picks it after going back to the returner pod which shows other slots filled with containers, there is one spot left. She pulls out the device looks at it and sees the organism scared, and saddened, pathetically pushing on the glass trying to go join the others in the cave. Seeing this the rocket girl considers that there is only one more space to fill, she opens the containment device and lets out the organism; she goes back to closing the return pod.

The organism glowing an inviting blue hover into frame lighting the side of her face. She turns to shoe it away, but the glow continues. It hovers away and waits for her to follow. Curious as she is, she goes on to follow it, interested in what it had to offer. The reach the cave entrance and the organism is reunited with its other two glows. Rocket girl stands in the cave and watches their reunion.

The organism comes over to thank rocket girl and hovers in front of her, the other two floats up into the ceiling. Rocket girl reaches out to touch the glow, as she does the cave lights up with more orbs this time glowing red… she does a take, of shock confusion and betrayal, the organism tuns red as rocket girl turns her attention back on it. All the other red glows descend from the cave walls and swarm.

Cut to black.

Title

Credits