Stills from my Interactive story

The Treesprite and the Mushroom queen storyboards

they are the wrong way around so the bottom one is the first! the top is just some buttons designs.

Final Maya Storyboard

Here is my final storyboard for maya, I decided not to go with the others as this one will be more simple, and in the amount of time I have left and my non-existent skills in maya I think this is a wise decision.

I thought of the early scenes from the movie look who's talking in which there are talking sperms going for the eggs, my narrative is straight forward and simple, the sperms come after the eggs, the eggs run away, except one who stays to battle with the sperm that is lingering around her, he tries to make a few moves on her but fails and in the end she squishes him.

short but sweet, with the perfect ending! 

so far I have been working on modeling the sperm as the egg will be relatively easy, after seeking some help from a 3rd year student I finally got to grips with modeling and have managed to make a few sperm! now it's just getting to grips with animating them, although I have basic understanding as matt went through it with me, i lost track a bit taking notes, so got a bit lost, but I don't think i'll bother asking him the same thing again, he's shown me twice now but the first time i didn't take notes and it was too fast to remember anything! 

I will focus on this more next week when my Flash assignment has been finished, I don't know why they give us so many briefs! it would be so much more beneficial to our learning if we only got one at a time but less time to work on them, i'm sure we would all focus more, be under less stress and produce better results, and the teachers might find they have more time too!

Of course I understand that they are trying to give us the feel for working in a studio, but surely that would be better saved for year 2 or 3? we are still learning after all! hardly on the same level as a professional working in the industry! 

some more maya storyboards

Everyone else is prob animating by now and I still can't come up with some characters.

Maya storyboards

Some ideas for Maya, however as I am the worst person in the world at using maya, I doubt I will use any of these, I will never be able to create any of these characters in 3D, I might just settle for the ball meets the square, if I can even do that.

The Cow thing and the giant Cigerette.

Pylones Gifts Story Boards

Here are some story boards for the flash animation I am going to be making, (god help me I still can't use flash) for Pylones gifts. I thought of a Russian Doll effect, Dancing around the screen, Items being grouped into "gangs" and then competing to be the best, eating each other, diving into a basket and then the idea of them being a christmas present that explodes and adds color to the scene before hiding in the present again before being spotted by a human.

The slogan would be something along the lines of: "Pylones- Bringing Christmas to life" as I chose to look at this more from an advertising point of view.

(this is ridiculous, I have been uploading 3 small images for 20 minutes now, and this happened last time I tried to upload, it's an absolute joke, how I am supposed to keep up with my blog if I can't even upload? arrrrrrghhhhhh!!!!!curses curses curses!!!) (this is pathetic, i thought macs were better than pc's? I had this Bull**** with my pc, now the mac too!? it's been nearly half an hour now and i want to smash everything in my sight!) ah F*** this, I can't upload my F****** images, I give up! what a F***** waste of valuable time! I could have done loads of stuff instead of wasting my time on this piece of S***. I bet if i go out and leave this on like this they still won't have flippin up-loaded! I spent over a grand on this macbook WTF!!! arggggghhhh!!!!

OMG they just appeared! about F***** time!

Notes and Storyboards to accompany "how to" project