Souls

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Playing with Hair tool in Maya

Difficulty?: Tedious!

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Modelling

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11061465/Gettingstarted-With-Maya#outer_page_181

Souls

With information you get as a soul in the Screening Room, you match up with the parents you want. Here you plan and determine your next life... although when you incarnate, you probably will not consciously recall that you have actually plotted out the course of your earthly lifetime.

You will be with your chosen parents continuously, during the time before the conception of your new body until the birth, and then you will be with them as their newborn baby. But at any time before birth, you can decide that you are not ready to incarnate and request that the pregnancy be terminated. The Elders can advise you on this matter, considering your own evolution, as well as the two people about to be your parents – who may not be right together as a couple. This is why human beings experience stillbirths and miscarriages.

The Survival of the Soul by Lisa Williams

Searching for inner peace in a world where the Earth and the economy seem to be screeching into apocalyptic meltdown is understandable, and finding that peace elsewhere seems the obvious answer.

Here's a Mystical Secret: Indians are no more spiritual than anyone else by Priya Shetty @ guardian.co.uk

Title

The swirls will be drawn on in the main menu. As if growing out of the text. Also just realised "Souls" needs a '.... should be "Soul's". Because it owns it's own tale.

StoryBoards

Hate that the scanner just chooses to chop bits off and make things wonky.

Plan for this week

• Redraft narrator's script
• Finish sketches and colour
• Write up critical texts and how they are relevant to my work
• Research product presentation (whether it be by DVD/Internet/TV)
• Research target audience (age/gender/thoughts/occupation/platform)
• Research budget
• Draw up title sequences and credits including font style and colour scheme
• Make presentation for next week
• Demonstrate modelling

And that's just digital media.

• Write up questionnaire for R&D
• Write up plan for project folder for R&D
• Make a storyboard for video advert/"sting"
• Location research (accomodation/travel/decor/budget/catering possibilities) 
• Find a box and set up for audience research for Friday 

R&D

• Finalise question and replan

Dissertation. Seems simple. TOTALLY not.

Colour Palettes

Character Bios

Following a guide on Wiki How (I know... not exactly reliable or accurate) I started writing my bio’s for my characters. I found it helpful as it goes, it helped me to add depth to my characters built on what I like and dislike in people. I then matched colours to personalities according to how those colours made me feel. Colours are important in my work because my characters don’t have many features.

I began with making a list of good and bad attributes about people I know. This is strictly personality, no physical features.

I then made a list of good and bad points about the appearance of individuals. What features really make me feel uncomfortable and which ones are most desirable to me. This actually didn’t come in useful due to the aforementioned lack of features that I want my characters to have. They aren’t human after all.

I then made a list of common emotions and underneath wrote what people around me do when they feel that way. For example, one of my friends plays with her hair when she is uncomfortable.

The guide said to choose a character that has a much deeper personality than what is first thought. This is my main character.

I chose the Hindi translations for words associated with the soul’s origin due to the religious nature of souls and reincarnation in Hinduism.

पानी (Paani, water) the Water soul

Paani is a loyalist. Paani is quiet and sensible however in the beginning of the film this is portrayed as being shy, indecisive and a bit of a bore. Throughout the piece you see her grow to be less frightened of the world around her, more understanding of what the aim of her existence is and also more helpful towards other characters. Her conscience becomes fully formed and the most expressions come from Paani as we see the other souls from her point of view. She furrows her eyebrows often and shakes her fists when things annoy her. She stares a lot with wide eyes and she wrings her fingers or bites her nails in periods of distress.

लाल (Laal, red) the Fire soul

Laal is the erratic and impatient member. She is almost the polar opposite to the water soul, as her origin would suggest. She is a happy character, encouraging towards others, excitable and highly adventurous. Unfortunately these traits get the fire soul into trouble with her reckless behaviour irrational choices and jokester attitude. Her constant quick pace sometimes leaves the others behind and in her shadow. She is self destructive as fire would be. She spins on the spot when she is excited or happy and she laughs a lot. She nods a lot and makes high pitched noises.

हवा (Havaa, wind) the Wind soul

Haava is the motivator or motivated. He is hard working and his main aim in his existence is to be the best at everything. He is cultural and breezes through his existence knowing the answers as his origin would suggest. He is my least favourite soul as he is highly competitive, self obsessed and vain. He blinks a lot and leaves the group to their own devices to do what he wants.

फूल (Phool, flower) the Earth soul

Phool is lazy. He is completely reliable, understanding, thoughtful and sensible however he is stagnant and does not appear to want to change his ways at all. Having said this you would rather have him as a friend than the constantly over achieving self absorbed Wind soul. His lack of work ethic leaves him at the back of the group and constantly bored, dithering around and waiting for someone to make decisions for him. He has drooped eyes and laboured movements, everything is a major effort to him.

VIDEOOOOS

The Panda Rabbit from The Panda Rabbit on Vimeo.

Studio Killers - Ode To The Bouncer from Studio Killers on Vimeo.

Sketches for "Souls"

Oh no...

I've done nothing this summer. I've brainstormed and planned but still... nothing. Apart from this. Addictive Flickr account.

Finished movs, ready for interaction

Made these using after effects and Maya. Sound are royalty free. Ready for DVD studio.

Sonic animated scene 1

Should be tracked with camera... which will happen when I go onto the next scene. But for now I have tired eyes.

Sonic Scene 1

BEDROOM SCENE 3D and 2D

I wish

I could upload my PDF of my Research and Development file. Taking pretty much everything from this blog and organising it to represent my work. It's a beautiful printed document. So beautiful that my head nearly exploded as it was birthed out of the printer.

Taking a few moments off

To look at what amazing things can be done in 2D. This is an editors pick and I just love it.

Happy Camper - Born With A Bothered Mind (featuring Bouke Zoete) from Job, Joris & Marieke on Vimeo.

Creaturee

MORE POSTS sorry again

Scans for digital media

Sorry for lots of posts.

More updates on DVD cover

This may well be my final piece (besides touching up some bad drawing)

:D

More maya,

I hate you nurbs but you make such BEAUTIFUL eyes.