Whiplash

Even newer blockout

Extended 'Danger Mines' c.u. shot, extended the prisoners' victory dance, added other bits an bobs.

BLOCKOUT as of 23/05/09

Okay here's the blockout as of today, pretty much all the character animation is at least blocked out, or we know how it is going to work at least. The main shot I haven't even started or thought about so far is Shot 49 in which the prisoner grabs the bandit - and I will be getting reference and starting that this weekend to then give to Kanika to do the marshalls and sheriff being bowled over.

Also, the shot at the very end in which he pulls at the bars and one starts to come loose. This is something that may be fun to film at Uni, as we have bars on the windows in the 2nd yr room.

NEW BLOCKOUT

Video Reference

In homage to Daryl's Nu-pillow rave and Al's interesting antics, here is some of our own reference that we have been using for our animation.

Where we have to go to celebrate after the film is done...

Yet again on my travels this time I have found a mexican restaurant that has plaguerised our name...Reckon we should go here after we finish the film to celebrate, it's literally up the road from college in Sidcup. Apparantly they have an 'El Bandito Burger'...sounds good!

Schedule WC 13/04/09

Okay so this is the deal, 9 weeks til 304 submission and 11 weeks til Degree Show film submission. In a good position but need to start cracking through the animation. Got the edit done today which will help us in alot of ways and save time later on. Just need that prisoner rig and then all characters can be animated. Then once we start getting animated shots we can whack them in the environments as Sam textures them, then hopefully start doing some renders to start compositing it together and finalising the film. All coming together but lets not rest on our laurels!

*!NEW!* Blockout

This is the newest blockout with the royalty free music replacing the non-royalty free tunes of before...so that allows us to use it anywhere. One little thing is that for some reason blogger and youtube drop still frames - so there are a couple of shots missing...but you get the idea...

73 days till assessable hand-in...80 till degree show hand-in...

Which equates to roughly 12 weeks...

CRUNCH TIME!...

Right...it really is crunch time now guys, just to put it into perspective..its nearly March (as of Sunday) and the film has to be done by 19th June.

That gives us 112 days...or 3 full months and 3 weeks - which sounds like a lot, but it isn't. So everyone has to pull their finger out...including me, I'm going to be coming into Uni a lot more, so if people wana join me that's great, if they wana work at home thats fine, but everyone has to come in for at least one late a week.

We need to get these characters rigged and textured, and then we gota bash out the stepped animation of the film and get it together, cos atm the old blockout is not where we are at all.

El Bandito facial inspiration

El Bandito facial inspiration from Sam's top 5 favourite disney villans...Jafar.

Prisons, water towers and other buildings..

Courtesy of Ajdin.

El Bandito

El Bandito as modelled by Adjin, then as can be seen the changes Harv made mostly, with me jus moaning non stop as to what it needs to look like. We lost the jacket (sorry Ajdin) and Harv gave him a pointy scarf, and made the hat more cowboy, we also made him much more stylised towards the initial designs, and I would say if anything its gone much further towards Tony's illustrations of EL BANDITO body-wisw and the scale of the drawing i did for reference above.

Train with default lighting

Schedule WC 19/01/09

Doing well so far, we seem to be making up extra time for later on although I'm sure when we take a gap to all do dissertations then this will even out back to normal. It's good that we are making up time though. Character modeling is ahead of schedule and that means that Sam and Kaniks have been able to move onto prop and environment modeling and Sam is also doing some character texturing. Matt and Josh seem to be moving into rigging aswell which is good. Overall we are well on target. Just think we all need to make sure we get our dissertations done in one hit and we should be all good.

Term 2 Schedule - WC 12/01

New term, new start and a new refreshed schedule! We all kinda know where we are but a meeting on the first day back would be good. We've luckily made more progress than we originally planned. With us all getting on with character modeling and Ajdin working on the train we have really made up some time. It nows means that we have a total of 12 weeks animating which I'm sure Matt will be happy about. First 3-4 weeks this term will be all modeling, texturing, rigging and lighting everything and then Matt will start animating properly at some point in there as rigging starts to finish. I'll keep updating this weekly and keep emailing it out as usual now!

Finished train model

Okay we have carriages! And the train model is finished and looks ace thanks to our friend Adjin. So next step as far we have loosely discussed is for the model to be passed on to Sam (King) to texture, and 'bingo', our main asset, and one of the most important features of the film is done.

Train Model from Adjin

Reference kanika gave Adjin, and his model - looking rather good i think, so if everyone just models their characters over xmas we're looking rather good for when we come back!

3D BLOCKOUT W/SOUND

Right you cheeky chappies, first I have to apologize to matt (clinch) for massacaring his sound design from the aniamtic, but i've ripped it apart an added some music from another short film to give more of an idea of what i imagine for the final film.

The blockout elements are about 75% done

COWABUNGA!

Notice, wilhelm screams, chicken sounds and the music beginning again subtlely at the end to suggest him escaping and it all starting again...all these must be in final thing also. I'm also not 100% sure the original premise of he's on a train going straight to prison is coming through - so I think there should be a sign in one of the shots in the background, but that's just scene dressing...

Animatic w/sound

Here's the sound for the animatic courtesy of Matt Clinch, which is going to be really nice for the pitch this friday, obviously doesn't have music, and there is to be a couple of changes, ie, the whistle! But seeing it was from the storyboards an a loose description of what's going on im really happy with it. It will also be a lovely addition to the future website to show all the parts of the pipeline.

Adding 3d blockout to animatic

Schedule WC 24/11

Everyone should know where they are this week. We should all be doing blockout animation and nothing else as far as I know. If we get this all done by next Monday then we can get it all cut into the animatic by the time we have the pitch and we could have some nice sound cut in as well hopefully. Then next week we will be getting the digital boards knocked up for the group pitch.

3D Blockout Intro Version 1

I have started blocking out some of the shots roughly in 3D and I am replacing them in the animatic to see how they are working in context with all the other shots. Modeling all these elements and animating these parts was a solid days work so it gives me and idea of what is achievable also in certain time periods. I will continue to blockout other shots in the coming weeks before the pitch. Matt, Sam and Josh are also working on other parts of the animatic and we will edit these all in together at the end of term.

Finally!

I know its been ages but my house mates mac F A I L E D so I couldn't scan it in for ages... heres the train references anyway:

3d Environments Mood Board

Some nice 3d imagery to hopefully help with people's 3d blockouts.

WC 17/11 Schedule

This weeks schedule is pretty much the same as previous weeks. Obviously everyone except Tony is blocking out and Tony is concentrating on some of his own work as well as some more illustration for the character sheets. Also everyone needs to bear in mind they need to get essays and presentations done for our other units as well as the Industry Day stuff for PPD.

Bandito Colour Strips

Schedule WC 10/11

This is the schedule for this week. This is the last week for everyone to really finish environment concepts and then we need to get on to blockouts. Tony and Matt have a couple of weeks still to finish expression and character pose drawings and then we will start making up the mood boards for the group pitch.

Field Research Trip: Chislehurst Caves

These are photos taken at Chislehurst Caves this week as research for our mines location. Got some good textures to use aswell which will act as good reference. Also very good for how to model rockfaces etc inside the mine and also adding some subtle features to the walls of the caves in 3D.

Initial Budget

This is a rough budget for our show. As you can see the final costs could be quite expensive. Doing the 360 raffle could be really good and I think doing this will raise alot of cash for us. Also doing it before Xmas might give people more incentive to win a prize. Must do this in the next 2-3 weeks ideally.

BLOCK OUT

Right, here's who's doing what as we discussed for the blockout which will be done by end of term.

SAM: Whole Mine section with train, and character models.

HARVEY: Start until mines, environments.

JOSH: From out of mines until end, prison inside and out, character models and blocking.

KANIKA: Inside of train carriages.

MATT: Character blockouts/animation.

Also anyone that wants to develop the characters in low poly form feel free ^_^

Schedule WC 03/11

This week needs to mainly focus again on concept art. We need to try and get the final characters nailed and have model sheets done by early next week ready for our maquette classes. Also start working in 3D where you can once you have a good body of concept work.

27/10 Schedule

This is the schedule for the week commencing 27/10. I have revised the work accordingly with the work achieved in the previous 2 weeks of the term. Each person has been assigned individual areas in the individual schedules. This will be updated weekly like this from now on.

This week we need to be mainly working on environment research and designs, revising the narrative and animatic, finalising the character designs and also working on style and props. Also some of you may be starting in 3D with experiments and tests.

Jamie Hewlett's music video work

Aloha, to put it succinctly...Jamie Hewlett heavily influenced Sigg Jones...Sigg Jones influenced us, therefore Jamie Hewlett is a strong point of reference for us also. This also highlights THAT other point, look how goddamn similar Sigg Jones and Russell are...they're the same character! But no one cares because they're both awesome.

Okay, we have www.elbanditofilm.com for two years, considering the popularity of calling cowboy bandits "banditos", think its the best we can get! Better than the overly long-winded elbanditoanimation.com...

New Schedule

This is a view of what the new schedule now looks like. I have extending it all the way to the end of the project including the marketing we have in mind. I have also colour coded it better to show each stage of the production more clearly. Ideally I will update the schedule weekly with the progress we have made and the new re-assessed deadlines and targets as our workflow progresses.

I will also be emailing this on a weekly basis to all group members. I feel this is very important as a producer to keep people on track with their workloads.

Presentation Board Templates

This is an image of the templates I have made up for our presentation boards. I feel it is important we have a generic look about all our work and this will in turn re-inforce our brand identity for the film. All group members will be supplied with these in A1, A2 and A3 PSD files and they can then add their own work to them to create our mood boards, character designs and environment concepts.

Contracts

Contracts are an important feature of the production to ensure everyone knows what they are assigned to do and so that they keep to their deadlines as a contracted member of the team. I have drawn up these as producer for each member of the group for our reference and there is also a sound designer version. These can be re-versioned should additional people work on our project.