Friday, June 29, 2012

First post

So i've been doing alot of brianstorming over the past few weeks as to what shots I should do for my final project. I've been getting plenty of feedback from family, friends, and teachers.

I'm gonna list down what I've narrowed it down to.

1. Building expolsion
A simple scene of a beautiful looking building in the distance getting attacked by multiple metallic-looking objects (I havent decided what these are yet), forcing its way through the building, causing mass destruction along the streets of it.

2. Big beast
What I had in mind for this is that a character either summons a beast, or the beast appears on its own, but its entrance is where the money shot lies. The beast will be breaking through the ground as if it was from an underground dungeon of some sort, and slams its arms onto the pavement of the ground with a loud roar.

3. Road shatter
So this would be one of my first ideas I thought of. A meteor of some sort heading straight for a city, which results in an explosion. The main shot would be of the road shattering up to the point of the boot of a car or the front view of the camera.

After consulting my amazing teachers in class today, I was given the best advice anyone's given me lately, do something that I WANT to do, and not for the sake of doing it. I believe doing something that I really want to do can really drive me and push me even further in what I want to achieve(Thanks Thibault).

And so I really like my second idea, althought im not entire sure of how everything is gonna be put together, but I have a jist of how it can be done. It's a challenge to me as well, animating the beast along with the destruction that I want to include. My main focus for the project will be on effects, but I still hope to involve lighting and comping as much as I do effects.

I'll get story boards up soon enough of how I intend to do it all, but for now I need to hunt for a decent enough model for the beast. As of now I've found a few decent one, but also a few transformer-related ones lol. Have a look!





These are just a few I found decent-looking. But i'll eventually hunt for more tomorrow :).

Alright I think that's all for now. Hopefully by the next post i'll get my storyboards up!

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Hello!

So here's my first post to make sure everything's up and running :).