Sunday, June 24, 2012

Fun With Story Boarding

So as I couldn't get onto maya today I went ahead and played around with some more story boarding. My initial idea from last week got changed a bit because I felt it was to much like I was trying to right a 5 minute short story rather than a piece that could be incorporated into a story as a cinematic piece. I decided to go the route of "end of game" cinematic even though the piece I am doing doesn't actually belong to a specific game and is based on the characters themselves. In this I was looking at multiple cinematic sequences from the very dramatic trailer style to simpler in game ones. I chose to draw inspiration from Final Fantasy 9's Ending Cinematic and wrote a demi-love scene. I wasn't able to think up anything epic or earth shattering for the time being and decided since I am more worried about camera than story itself for the thesis I was alright with it being more simple than having explosions and a cut every two seconds. Also, I want to take all moving cameras and try to simulate them in motion capture.