changes

When we showed our story we got som comments on some things to change. The banana peel one of them weresupposed to throw out of the car window is gone. it just don't fit with the style of the movie.We have replaced the banana peel with a hole in the ground that the car-tire drives into and the driver lose control.

We also had a discussion about the truck that they crash into at the end of the movie. Paul said we maybe couldreplace it with something more funny like an icecream truck. But in the discussion we still wanted to stay withthe truck we had.

Inspiration

I started to search for some 3d animated car films. I came over a movie that just blew my mind! I thought was perfect in so many ways. The reason I say I think it's perfect is because I can watch it again and again and talk about it alot. Which I have done with Alf and Philip, and they seemed to like it alot too!

It's about 2 years old now, but you wouldn't be able to tell! It's done by a Visual Effects company called Fxnine, and the animation itself is called Overdrive.

Chech it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiz7pfuCayM

What I love the most about this film is the camera angles and movements. They are the main focus and i love it.We have not talked much about style yet, but I am a big fan of the textures on these cars because they shineand reflect so nice. That's also the main reason I wanted the race to be during daytime! So the cars can shinebeautifully in the sunlight!

That film is very straight forward with racing. No special story or funny moments. So I guess I can say that wewant a movie like that! Only with characters and some humour;)

Starting scene inspiration:

We ended up having our starting scene in a road cross instead of the bar where the two friends would startcompeting by playing dart and have some dialog. We went away from that idea because it was too much to model really.
The road cross idea came to me through a short movie I saw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMCu8J7iCA

I really like the idea that one of them just shows up and wants to race. I think just by filming them lookingat eachother with different facial expressions is a great way to get to know the characters and their differences.The car that pulls up is superpsyched about racing while the other one is more calm and tries to ignore but can'tresist when the light turn green.

Since the first animatic I have thought about coloring all the shots. Mostly because it can be confusing to look at or recognize details.

Like the two pictures above. As you can see its the same picture. The cars have very bright colors with contrast compared to eachother. We picked these colors so you can easily see which car you are looking at. I think this is inportant because some of our shots are very fast.

The new animatic will be uploaded soon:)

Here it is- The animatic.. FIRST animatic. This is not the finished version.

Her er en "oversikt" over kladden vi hadde når vi holdt på med storyboard. Vi fikk ideene ned på papir, men fy så rotete det ble. Alle bildene har forskjellige størrelser og nr overalt som ble forandret hele tiden. Glad vi har et helt nytt et nå. Skal si det er forskjell. Føler endelig at vi har kontroll på historien og kan endelig se den for oss

work

Den siste tiden har vi jobbet mye med tegninger og storyboard spesielt. Det har blitt mange shots og ideer vi har fått ned på papir. Byttet rekkefølge, mistet oversikt og forvirring. Men det er vel en del av prosessen er det ikke?

Vi har nå fått ferdig et førsteutkast vi er fornøyd med. Og etter mange kommentarer med at det ble litt for mye i filmen, har vi valgt å ta bort barscenen og starter første scene i et veikryss. Som løste seg veldig bra. Viktig å være åpen til forslag som Paul sa. Da får man en bedre film enn man trodde man kunne fått. Vi tok det altså med til Paul som så på det og åpnet nye muligheter for hva vi kan gjøre for å forbedre det.

Er lett å forelske seg litt for mye i det man lager siden man bruker mye tid på det, men heldigvis var det ikke så veldig mye som skulle forandres på eller som skaper store problemer med det vi har.

Framover nå kommer vi til å lage mer storyboard så vi får et helt utkast ferdig som vi skal vise på framføringen som kommer på torsdag neste uke. Dette ser vi frem til.