v-ray rendered house

first time using v-ray, its complicated, but il get used to it i hope

Mustang

old man part 2

piano part 3

Not sure if i prefer this one or the previous one.

random old man face

Z brush and Max were used, im trying... lol

piano part 2

i re made the scene for the piano i made earlier in the year so it has outdoor lighting with windows rather than a closed off room.

Kyoto lounge computer room

its the computer room of my cousins gaming lounge in manchester, i thought id model it in 3D.

room and sun

Looks better from a distance, need to work on textures.

research question + topic

question

Romantic Comedies are targeted for a more mature audience, can an animated romantic comedy create the same emotional connection with its audience, using traditional animation techniques, and therefore be as successful commercially compared to movies with real actors.

topic 

I believe that it shouldn't matter how a movie is created, whether it is a 2D cartoon or a film with real people, it is the story line and the directed techniques and elements shown within the scene that can make a movie great. This has been proven with great family movies across all styles of film making. From 'Toy Story' or 'UP' being 3D animated movies, 'The Lion King' being a hand drawn animated film, and films such as 'Forrest Gump' or 'Back to the Future' which are great family films with real actors.

This ideology however doesn't seem as present with other genre's such as Romantic Comedies, or the Horror/Thriller genre. Aside from Family/Kids animated films, it seems there is not as much of a connection to the audience with Animated films.

I would like to look at the film techniques and elements that are evident in existent 'Rom-Com's' and 'Horror/Thriller' movies and see what is used to connect with their target audiences.

I would also look at the more successful animated films and what techniques they use, what animation styles gain more attention, and what makes them so successful.

Then I would like to look into how the film elements and techniques used in the other genre's can be integrated into an animated piece.

If there are existing animated movies within these genre's then why aren't they as commercially aware, I do believe that because the animation industry, especially 3D animation, is still in its infancy and is still growing and developing with technology advancing rapidly, that the films being developed for the box office are very similar to what is expected of animated movies such as 'The Lion King', it is still in the 'comfort zone' in making movies for the same demographic, so it is a possibility that over the next 10 years, with techniques advancing in animation, that studios could start taking higher risks and developing high budget, different 'themed', animated movies.

Exhibition images

For context 3 I have to use 5 images for a fake exhibition as a sort of practice for our real exhibition, showing 5 images which show what we want to do and our strong points.
I am still unsure as to what I want to get into, but I think something in the modelling side of animation rather than the animating, so character and environment modelling either for games or film/tv.
So for the 5 images I think a strong representation of modelling and visualisation skills, well rendered and lit scenes as well as some z brush examples, to show my skills in modelling and more realistic renders.

Research project

For my research project I am going to look into animation genre and why the most successful commercial full feature films are mainly in the kids/family genre.

I want to see what makes a successful animated film and then look into successful romantic comedies and horror movies and what makes them successful commercially.

Looking at techniques in production and development, I want to see if an animated romantic film or horror film can be successful and whether it will work in the cinema like films such as shrek or toy story.

I would like to see a development in animated genre's and an expansion into more genres such as romantic comedy or horror, more adult themed animated films, because I believe people still think of animations as kids movies, I want this to change.

Live Client

I had a couple of ideas i wanted to do for the live client, both of which are now out the window because i have something else i want to do now.


my initial ideas were either, creating some sort of virtual tour etc for my cousins gaming lounge in Manchester, either in real time or with a character giving a tour.
This idea would have been OK but it would have had very little animation, and i want to incorporate and focus on animation as well.


My other idea was to approach Omid Djalili because i have contact with his daughter so thats a bit of a connection, and i would have proposed a cartoon style adaptation of some of his sketches that he does in his stand up shows.
This would also have been good as far as animation is concerned but i feel contact would have been a bit difficult.


Then today I saw the competition briefs for both YCN and DandAD and saw a few things which interested me a lot, so i thought i would go for a competition entry for the live client.


Aside from the fact that it may look like iv'e done little client research and little practice in approaching real clients, the only downside i can see with competition, is that the deadline is a month earlier than the university deadline, this doesn't mean i cant keep working on it and hand it in a month later to university too, but if i was to fully enter the competition i have till the end of March rather than end of April.


These are 3 that highly interested me from YCN.



ESPN

Develop a brand affinity campaign to inspire younger audiences to engage with ESPN on any platform.

The Feel Good Drinks Company

Get fruity, make people smile and kick start your career.

SEGA

Create a piece of communication that celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Sports Interactive, the studio creators behind the Football Manager series.