Episode 5: The Work load Strikes Back

Here we go again about to launch into another week!
Last few days have been spent busy working on several assignments due in the next couple of
weeks.
The Major Group Project is ticking along with a couple of great sessions with Duncan and Rob Sarkies the Writer and Director of "Two Little Boys"( 2012) and "Scarfies" (1999). We are fortunate enough to have these two great men mentoring us on this group project!
The basic sum of our last meeting resulted in the group filtering the ideas down to three working titles.

"The Bunker"
A family must go into a cryogenic sleep in order to escape an impending epidemic, the family wake to find there son isn't in his chamber. The family travel into their house and discover their son has been living out his life through the epidemic. The boy know older has got to the ultimate point of loneliness and awakened his parents from their sleep early, exposing them to the harmful environment.

"Keys"
A women has a set of keys to a door in her shop. With the turn of each key resulting in a door opening upon a different destination. Her world is tipped upside down by the discovery of a new key, one to which she has no idea as to where the door will take her....

"Pirates"
A young boy escapes his physically abusive father by entering into his imaginary alternate reality, fulled with pirates.

So from here we are all to write a brief synopsis of two of the ideas we would personally like to explore.
These will be brought back to the group on Wed and a final idea for the group short will be decided for development!

So other than that I've been working on research for 3d Character animation.
After looking at some pics and the silhouettes, I've developed my wee sage a step further changing his design and belt.

Yea so happy with how he's coming along. 

Below I'll put my prop development and some stills from my research! whoop whoop! 

And the research behind all this! 

http://www.customwalkingsticks.com/ws_fp_page2.shtml

http://www.geocities.ws/lotr_osgiliath/gandalf.html

http://www.whatsyourobsession.com/sideshow-collectibles-gandalf-the-grey-premium-format-review/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/prescott_small/5318296779/

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/571034/wizard-s-staff

http://www.lrpstore.com/Northlands-Staff--60/p--32/

http://flame22.deviantart.com/art/Gray-Wizard-s-Staff-279089716

And the Belt... 

http://www.leonineroar.com/?p=999

http://finelineleather.tumblr.com/page/5

http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.co.nz/2009/11/more-bags-pouches.html

http://www.webring.org/hub/renaissance?w=1360;rh=http%3A%2F%2Fwebspace%2Ewebring%2Ecom%2Fpeople%2Flt%2Fthorvin%2Egeo%2Fbelt_pouch%2Ehtm;rd=1

http://glapsvidur.deviantart.com/art/Viking-belt-pouch-160497826

http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?start=110&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1088&bih=488&tbm=isch&tbnid=57Ke7cP1Km6RxM:&imgrefurl=http://www.nwanime.com/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D59%26t%3D15691&docid=e0ht5M2m2hIAGM&imgurl=http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg153/MR_Williams0/Naruto%252520wire%252520album/da1cc013-e9c2-4436-8fce-8614758d802.jpg&w=600&h=502&ei=RZY3Ud_UBcmmkgWBuoGIBw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:22,s:100,i:70&iact=rc&dur=1979&page=8&tbnh=200&tbnw=240&ndsp=17&tx=158&ty=120

http://elfieguy10.deviantart.com/art/Leather-Potion-Bottles-with-Belt-Attachment-346259949

Yea so that was my prop development. next post I'll put up all the wizard/sage research I've been doing! 

So here be my clip of the week it's one of my personal favorite shorts I've ever seen. 

No animating involved but I find inspiration should come from all aspects of art. Personally this film blew me away, at first it took me a minute to see what was going on, stylish and visually stunning Weightless is truly a piece of art. A playful dance defining gravity. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfFV-FM0vs

"Weightless" by Erika Janunger