Formative Assement Feedback

On Tuesday I had my formative assessment with Mike Smith. He was mainly assing concept work and contributions to Pre- Production. From my assessment, I found out that I need to submit at least 10 finished pieces of concept art with sketches and research. So far I have 3 pieces of concept which are black and white. I'm looking to do 5 pieces of enviroment concept art in colour for Pirates Produce and 2 more colour enviroment pieces for JB's Dummy story. Mike suggested to me to play with scale when doing the concept for the Dummy project. He also suggested that I look into the style of Pinocleo. The Dummy Project does not have a visual style at the moment. JB wants the look of his film to be realistic and similar to Pixar!? (can't see that happening). Louis's Pirates Produce Project is coming on well and has a very cartoony Team Fortress Style which will be apealling to his target audience of children. Mikes only problem is that Pirates Produce has almost too many people working on it.

Overall, the assessment was helpful and straight to the point which I like. I need to submit my concept work on CD by the end of term.

Office Concept 1 (Dummy)

Office Enviroment Concept for JB.

Concept 2

This concept is based on one of the shots that we will be using in the animation.

Dummy Concept Art

I've kept the concept art Black and White because we were advised to by one of our guest lecturers. The reson for this is that it emphasizes lighting and mood and stands out from a distcance. I painted this straight into Photoshop.

Reference Images for Art Shop

There are a lot of objects that are common in the reference images such as pine wooden shelves, pastel treys, and stacks of note pads and sketch books. The art shop images seem colourful during the day but our dummy scene is going to be shot at night. The main problem that I can see with the art shop enviroment, is that it may look too cluttered. There also aren't many windows inside an art shop so the scene would be made up of artificial light.

Enviroment Ideas for Dummy group

We were originally thinking of either having the setting as an art shop or a desk. I think that a desk because of the range of items and objects that people leave on a desk. A desk can also tell you a lot about the type of person that works there which could reflect onto the dummies personality.

Male Dummy

The male dummy will look something similar to these. The style will be realistic as JB wants to composite the dummies in to live action.