Progress report...

Firstly; let me appologise for the lack of blogging over the last couple of weeks.
Done.
And now news on what has been developing on the 'Projected History' project. The good news is that it has the green light to go into full production. I also have had some of my fellow group members show an interest in the project; namely Oddne and Kat. This is great news.

On the developments in the technical side of things; i have been looking into what skills will be required for the animation and have compiled a list. I am going to need 3D modellers; fluid dynamics; paint effects; particle effects and behaviours, lighting, rigging and animators for the production. On the pre-production side of things i have a story-board drawn up in 'rough' to give an idea to the production staff what i am looking for; a mood board and some colour key is also en-route.

Looking at the post production i will need to do a lot of compositing as each scene is going to be made separately from the same reference and composited afterwards. We can not do any after-effects work until the film is laid down on a timeline.

Talking of timeline i am still waiting for an offer of some music from the music dept; if this does not materialise soon i will do it myself.

I have been talking to Georg about the positioning of the camera for the reference; and he has introduced me to a way of 'baking' the scene off and re-rendering it from the point of view of the projector. Basically you tell the software where the projector is going to be and the computer renders it from that view. This has given me more time to concentrate on the content,

I have experimented with some boxes.

As you can see i have just given them a powder coat of white paint. This was good for my demo in Falmouth; but i had to be careful to set up the projecor exactly the same as i had  it set up at home; also this highlighted the need for some kind of rig/clamp device to make sure the projector does not move from the render spot. Sorry not many pictures as yet; but i have been working on the techniques i am going to need to pull this off. All of which i want to gain a firm grasp of.

Dissertation stuff...

Totally worlds apart from what i am doing for my FMP (discuss, lol), is my dissertation subject. It addresses the content of digital animation and if the way that it is being used and viewed actually renders western cultural imperialism impotent. By this i mean does the nature of a more visual; multi-faceted media producing west make taking on Westernisation and western ideals less appealing.

 So far in my research i have found that there is a strong stance against violence in digital content by some of the more traditional 'first point of contact' producers (Disney); but there are other agendas at work which i will reveal at a later date....