I've been busy with all the animation, rendering and composting. I'm hoping to have the final render finished by tomorrow to start the soundscape.
The Flicks Film Festival is also coming up which will be the cast and crew screening as well as an audience test screening before final tweaks and submitting to festivals.
So one of the stress causes has been the epic task of creating a complete graphic novel for a life drawing assignment, so today I thought I'd break down my process for the creation of "The Hermit" a graphic novel based on a screenplay of mine.
First I took the script and worked out how to change the medium for film into a illustrated form, this wasn't too difficult as I approached it the same way I would if I had of storyboarded the film.
The main trouble was with film you have sound which can be a powerful story telling tool, so it was a process of figuring out how these aspects would play out in picture form.
So I layed out the script into pages, working out where the beats in the story and it's pivot points needed to fall so as a suspenseful shot would end at the page turn etc. Then came the thumbnails process.
After I thumbnailed it I spent a weekend photographing Steve Woller as the Hermit
Jasper Hayward as Mickey and Adam Brown as Sam.
It was a fun couple of days and I was really happy with the shoot.
From there I took the photos and layed them out in photoshop, this process took the longest
of the whole thing.
After it was all layed out, I sketched over top the photos. I made a rule I wasn't allowed to ctrl+Z
so this maintained a rough sketch look rather than a polished style.
Then I painted over top the photos and placed that layer in a masked group to give it
a water colour effect.
I was pretty happy with the final result.
So next week I'll do a break down for some of the compositing on A Quest For Knowledge.
Here is the link of the week!
I just watched this and didn't quite know what just happened but I was happy about it.
Directed by: Koji Aramaki
Mesmerizing, I loved the digital style but the organic colour palette.
Enjoy
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