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.

LittleBitoThesisWork

So I was working on trying to come up with some storyboards for my Camera Thesis. Sadly my original idea of using the motion capture studio as my environment seemed sort of bunk because I really didn't feel that using the idea of "the motion capture space introduction shot" really got a good cinematic feel. So instead I spoke with Brian Salisbury today about changing it to a more story line based cinematic. I like this idea better. So what I am doing now is a story based on the character I designed First semester based off Magna Carta - Crimson Stigmata. (Shes being edited some right now - face and feet and such).  This is also the character I made for Amanda to use in her MoCap work.

So now I have made a small base Storyboard that I will develop into a real storyboard sometime over the weekend so I can get serious work on putting together the camera sequence.

Kaffi Start

Working on her body and starting to put clothes over her.

Monday The 12th

Worked on the game: Adding the angel Area assets and such. Textures are not complete, still making foliage. Also the sky now has stars! (yay production value)