Updated Storyline

Hey guys. Here is the updated story that we decided on -

- as camera moves around from the fridge it faces the drawer. The girl moves in front of the drawer and us.

- she opens the draw

- spoons, forks, probably a knife and spork all pop up wanting to be picked.
forks are like soldies
spoons are just over excited
knives are snooty

- spork is in middle of the line up but we (and the girl) can only just see the top of his prongs as hes too small. We can see him jumping for attention.

- forks and spoons move across him and the spork is pushed back and falls down.

- girl picks up spoon and fork and moves away.

- forks/spoons turn and laugh at spork then jump out of the drawer.

- them moving out of the way then reveales the floour pot to the spork across the room.

- BACK TO ORIGINAL STORY UNTIL HE IS CHANGED INTO A FORK

- really cocky and cool as a fork. goes over to forks.

- shadow over face as forks tower over him. his whole character suddenly changes from confident to terrified.

- forks surround him and he runs away scared.

- he asks the pot to turn him back. changes back to a spork realising that he cannot do anything to be accepted.

- lying on side board given up covered in flour.

- girl enters. all the cutlery in the sink stand to attention and want to be picked again but this time the spork doesnt bother trying to be picked. hes given up.

- girl passes the line up of cutlery who look gutted as she walks past them. she puts the spoon and fork she chose to begin with down back on the side.

- she chooses the spork who smiles.



i think these changes are really good guys. i think we are all much more excited about it now and joe if you were there the atmosphere was really good everyone was well up for it again. the changes give the story more dynamic. the viewer also changes there feelings towards the spork as he goes through different emotions which creates a better character. it also allows us to have much more fun in the animation and character of the cutlery. good work all :)

have a great christmas. keep in touch via here, texts and facebook. keep posting things you do and we'll try and have an online meeting sometime over the holidays to see where everyone is :)

Eyes

Hey guys, sorry i know you are all waiting for the eyes, I'm having a couple of problems getting it to function properly, i'll upload what I have as a placeholder eye for the moment, but needs more work. You will probably be able to see whats wrong with it for yourselves and i'll talk to you about it on monday about it.

Kitchen with everything so far

THIS IS KIND OF HOW WE ARE LOOKING AT THE MOMENT. STILL LOTS TO DO, I.E MAIN CHARACTERS!

Eyes so far

Hey guys heres an update on the eyes....

These two images are of the blend shapes, basically it means we can animate the size of the pupils by using just a slider,  so yeah, makes it easier to animate.

I used lattices to deform the back of the eyes, so it won't stick out the back of the models, the top side stays the same as before.

All thats left now is the eye lids...

Fridge

hello all. quick pic of the finished fridge with letters on it.

http://nccasymposium.bmth.ac.uk/
just so i can get on it when i can get home.
^_^

there looks to be some interesting things.

Presentation

Hey guys
I've just done a rough draft of my side of the presentation about the characters I modelled. I've put it up on box if you want to check it out. Let me know if there's anything I've missed out in it.
I've also written up a little list of things we should probably include in our presentation too about the characters and models, which you can find on the last page of the pp pres (called Spec)

omg! the excitement for this presentation is just too much...............not! (Borat quote right there!)
xx

trying out heads

Hey guys been trying out different techniques for the head and just thought id show some work in progress for one of the heads. This obv isn't the head of the girl just showing you something ive been workng on!

I plan to have this one completed by tomorow and then get cracking on the girl on the weekend and hopefully finish it this weeekend.

it takes a lot longer to do head due to contouring of the head and stuff.

loadsa love

smickles xxx

Kitchen update

Hi guys. Ive pretty much just finished the kitchen. here is a quick pic. I have also uploaded the maya files on box.net so you can import your own things into it to check for sizes and also images of the designs are on there so that you can see dimensions aswell.

Microwave

Microwave is done, though I haven't mastered the glass effect on the front yet.
Need to do other characters also.
I've uploaded the model onto box.net for you guys to check out (Y) (Y) << dual thumbs.

Hope you're all having copious amounts of fun tweaking verts just like i am :)

box.net details

Hello all. Modeling is coming along but really needs to be done asap! I'm aiming to have mine done by the end of this week so gives us a week to change around a bit.
I came up with an amazing idea :P of creating an online storage account for all the model files so that everyone can access them all.
So when people have done a model or have done most of it please can you upload the maya file online so that we can all see them and have access. It really easy and really really quick.
The details are -

website - www.box.net
email - yeeeeees@hotmail.co.uk (joe's email. 6 e's)
password - spork

Go team spork :P :)

mug = needing a face/refining with help of maya-know-how-people, otherwise it's done.
same with the tree.
(Y)

cereal boxes won't take half an hour, literally.
sink is going to be a big job, i haven't started that yet, but already today doing my mug i've got more confident on maya, which is gooooooooooooooooooooooood.

next time i'm in the workshop i'll screenshot it and put it up.

Left bit of Kitchen

Hellooo. Here are the plans for the left (fridge) side of kitchen. It has all the measurements on it in cm and is all to scale. Just so that designing the things to go on shelves and the side etc think about the size of them on the kitchen side. Theres also a screenshot of a really really quick but roughly to correct size kitchen side so you can see it in maya. Also when you have finished a design for your model can you email me and I can update the list with a tick for done design and another tick for completed model. Then we can have a really good idea of whats still to design and model. Thanks.

Peoples Jobs

Hello again. This is a list of everything that each person has been assigned to do for Thursday. It seems like a lot but if we can get it done this will be wicked :)

Sim

• Pots for shelf (2) Design = Done
  
• Cheese Grater Design = Done
  
• Bin Design = Done
  
• Kitchen Design = Done Modelled
  
• Fridge Design = Done Modelled
  

Chris

• Spork
• Spork as Fork
• Ladel
• Kettle
• Bowl (for shelf)

Joe

• Fork Design = done
• Boxes for shelf (2)
  
• Toaster Design = done
• Mugs and tree (4) Design = done Modelled
  
• Sink Design = done Modelled (90%)
• Books for shelf

Sophie

• Girl / Arm
• Pot Family (3)
• Kitchen Roll

Mike

• Spoon
• Egg timer/Clock for shelf
• Sugar Cubes
• Knives Modelled (90%)
  
• Drawer

Frit

• Pot
  
• Pizza Cutter (2) Design = Done
  
• Salt and Pepper (2) Design = Done Modelled (75%)
  
• Plant
• Microwave Design = Done Modelled
  

Designing To Do

Hey guys. As you know we haven't got much time! Here is the list me joe and frit made of things that will be animated. (this may include litterally just eyes or whole animation). Ive written whos doing what next to the bits. This is for designing only. Not necesarily for moddeling as well. We can sort that out if people want to change etc. THIS ISNT FOR EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS MODELLING, THERE IS MORE OF THAT!

• Spork Chris
  
• Fork Joe
  
• Spoon Mike
  
• Pot Sim/Frit
  
• Girl Sophie
  
• Bin Sim
  
• 7 things on shelves under pot (very simple stuff)
• Book Sophie
• Egg timer/Clock Mike
• Box(2) Joe
• Bowl Chris
• Pots(2) Sim
  
• Toaster Joe
  
• Kettle Chris
  
• Ladel Chris
  
• Pizza Cutter (2) Frit
  
• Cheese Grater Sim
  
• Mugs on tree (4) Joe
  
• Pot family (3 - child, mum, dad) Sophie
  
• Salt and Pepper Frit
  
• Sugar Cubes Mike
• Knives Mike
  

RE: Animatic

I'd say go with the fade over the hand montage, and the shot of him looking sad doesn't need to be as long.
Neither do some of the other shots either I thought, as I tried 'watching' it in my head.
And we might get away with not including the fridge and the kitchen pan in the minute parameter, like saying it's similar to the closing credit scene or something, I don't know.

But I reckon a lot of it is cutting down shot length as opposed to cutting storyline, but that is going to be a factor somehwere too.

Animatic 1

Here is the first draft of the animatic. Its good. There are parts i like and parts i dont so much. Its 1.50min tho :S so it does need some editing down. Let me know what you think.

Story Outline 2

Hello :)

Here is the latest story outline with the changes made to the ending.

Download it HERE

Kitchen Plan

Here is the kitchen plan from above.

Story Outline 1

Here are the notes i made about the story outline which we decided on so far. We really need to get the rest of them sorted asap so we can get on with it!

Download them for Word HERE

Hello

Hello all, and welcome to our Blog.

Here we can post various things like comments, sketches which you can upload, ideas etc etc.
Also we can put things like what to do next and when we are hoping on getting things done by.
Basically im hoping we can use it and it will be useful for us.
If not it didnt take that long to make!

Sim :D