It's PWTM time once again - week nine of fifteen - and creative projects that began life as pipe-dreams, thumbnails and speculative conversations are marching with increasing speed toward their realisation.
Sam and Rich at Green Octopus have resolved their pre-viz and are now working closely with composer, Zack Huggett, who will produce a bespoke score mirroring the project's mash-up of east-meets-west. Go here to listen to a work-in-progress.
Elsewhere, Matt Hyland takes his toy-derived vehicle designs into Maya...
...and Ethan C's Hamelin comes more fully to life detail-by-detail.
Adam Bailey creates dynamic silhouettes for his steampunk-inspired airships...
...while Matt Haines designs another flight of fancy - the character of Icarus, the boy who flew famously too close to the sun.
Elly's weaponry, inspired by Jack Campbell's sci-fi saga, The Lost Fleet, arrive at the blueprint stage..,
... and the boys at Atom Pancakes grow ever closer to having a fully-fledged cg character prepped and ready to take centre-stage for their animated short, The Final Chapter.
The Retrofest groups continue to refine their respective visions of b-movie mayhem and genre pastiche, with Katy's striking character designs for Silver Talon Studio's Night of the Monsters impressing with their low-budget charm...
...and Ryan's lastest production drawings for Glass Key Studios' The Skeleton Key On Broadway promise neo-noir chic and a nod to Metropolis.
It's hard to believe that CGAA Year 1 are already four weeks into their second unit, which means another crit is looming. They'll be feeling the heat, their pen and tablets all of a blur, and there's lots of exciting developmental stuff on their blogs - from evocative digital paintings to innovative strategies for the envisioning of extraordinary spaces. Nat's got a bit of everything going on - thumbnails, expressive digital paintings, and a satisfyingly lo-fi, hands-on method for imagineering her depiction of William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland.
Joey's also going analogue to better understand her scene from Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, with a forest of plasticine mushrooms and a torch...
Josh
Lydia
Here, using two colour scheme design packages, Steve Payne explores the 'colours' of H.P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House - using the first to originate colour values derived from associated words, and the second further isolating the resulting palettes.
The third Spectacular Science animation commissioned by UCA and UoK, Pol Winandy's Specific Immune System, is now finished. With some J.J. Abrams-inspired lens flare and a final climatic shot so cinematic it provoked gasps of delight when I showed it recently to some CGAA second years, this is minutiae writ large - very large!
The final word...
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Rita Mae Brown
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
Frank Capra
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."
Rita Mae Brown
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