Dragon's Prophecy
In a scenic little port town, the MC meets two pirates who offer something of great value. Something that could show the future and answer a few questions, but it goes wrong
Most updated video edit:
5/25 Video last edited- working on the vial simulation/water drop
Concept
Small and quiet little village on the outskirts of the boundaries of Trance. A world with magic. Magic that seems to be weakening. In the dead of the night, an exchange of information happens with one seeking answers to the realm's future.
Production Schedule
Class 17 Update
Render Status:
Class 16 Update 5/13
Class 15 Update 5/11
To Do List: Press Kit
- Film stills
- adjustments to bios and adding headshots,
-adjustments to the FAQs sheet and type that out
- finalize the design cohesiveness
To Do List: Animation
- Fight scene re-animated
Finish animating the last four scenes
Liquid simulation for the potion drops
2d animation draw over of dragon in the vial
Class 14 Update 5/6
Rough idea for animating and rendering from today until Monday. Hoping to get shots 6-8 fully rendered today so a little out of order but main template for what I need to accomplish for Class 15
Class 13 Update 5/4
Had to do some back tracking with character texturing and realigning that and then making progress on the blocked-out animations
Play blasted from maya not final lighting- animation blocked out
Class 12 Update 4/29
For next class, blocked out animation and possibly s few finalized shots... Fully rendered
Class 11 Update 4/27
Got two out of three rigs fixed and redone and will have animatic update with rough animation for Wednesday, keeping very limited movements and go from there.
Class 10
To Do List (Prioirty)
First
Fix Rigs and get them in there, blocked out animation over weekend and rendering the close-up limited movement shots
Double checking the artifacts that seems to be happening with the stone walkway texturing
Sound Design
Will have test sound design stuff by next Wednesday after I get Class 10 animatic rough to them tomorrow
Challenges/Adjustments
Busted Rigs - Maya crashed and the rig files got messed up so tried importing the rigs again and they weren't finished versions, so they didn't work properly
Personal computer crashed during rendering/wouldn't render sequences so play blasted the shots with maya software and then included stills for how they will look rendered in Arnold
To Do List for Class 10
Rough Animatic
Blocked out animation
Shot list
A few polished render shots
Rendered still frames from each shot for continuity (Feedback on lighting)
Will NOT have sound design rough yet for class 10
Jewel texture - need them to shine and play with shadows in scene
Update 4/20
Render lighting tests in progress for each scene
Texture issues occurred so a little bit of backtracking with working on the assets created - short sword, dagger, and pouch
Rigging is in final stages for all characters
Focus for class 10 - fully rendered intro shot and a get a few shots rendered and blocked out animation with lighting done for all shots.
Update 4/13
So made adjustments to shot 02, hopefully giving a little more context to the scene. Bird will caw twice while flying and instead of following the flight of the bird you see the MC acknowledge the bird and turn to look.
Did some Arnold render tests for the final images, got all character bump maps in there
Bird is mostly rigged and working on that. Will have rigs for other characters Tuesday
Update 4/08
Updated the timing of the animatic and the framing of the shots but still keeping a similar sequence for the shots.
Notes for adjustments for the animatic
The pouch drop- need to add jewels and coins spilling out of the thing when it hits the ground
Need swords and noise indicators for when the bird caws twice to signal two bad guys around
Update 4/06
Rigs are in progress, the textures on the characters need bump and a few reflectivity changes but the texture designs are finalized. Goal for this week to get the rigs connected and some blocking out and animating done by next Monday.
Sound design meeting on Monday 4/06 to go over the project specs
Update 3/30
Rough in-between edits of first two shots while waiting for character rigs and working on bird rig for class five. Will have more blocked out for class five and beginnings of animation started then. All textures finalized and finishing with assets and props
Update 3/25
Started to draft the first version of the Press Kit and worked on getting a schedule together for myself to stay on track this quarter.
Update Spring Break
Worked on Starter scene and setting. Finalizing textures for setting and characters.
Modeled the crate, textured characters and bird, textured ground and going to finish up all final adjustments before starting shot by shot and breaking it down into parts and getting the new rough edit back in there and updated.
Bird wood texture
Update Class 20
Update 3/05
Update 03/03
Made adjustments to the color and lighting in Shot 01. Added in blocking for the vial 'breaking and "drop" and reworked the pacing and timing. Sped up parts.
Had to remodel the first character over the weekend and restart the typology. Ran into an issue where his modeling wasn't symmetrical and it gave issues with the typology
Class 15
To Do List: Editing the lighting. Shot timing is about polished. Still adjusting the materials, characters and sound
Update 2/17
So, working on texture for characters and working on retypologizing still. Slow going with that but will have ready for class 15
Update 2/12
Update 2/03
Update 1/23
3 Main Characters of the animatic
Update 01/15
Update 01/12
Adjustments to the introduction, sound and music added in parts. Added in a new ending. Still making adjustments to the music for the fight scene. Stay tuned
Update 01/08
Didn't quite finish it but would like him to transform into a bird and fly away to tie in with the opening bird flying around- and or using magic of some sort and bird lands on him and they disappear using magic. Still roughing it out
Update 12/20
Update 11/23
Feedback and ideas to incorporate into the storyboards? Changes to the opening sequence so it ties in more with the bird the two pirates see it? Working on roughing it out. Storyboard drawing (below) provided by Chloe Light
Update 11/06
Update 11/04
Notes: Changing the ending so that you see the struggle of the living bad guy before he succumbs to his fatal injuries- laughing at the main character
Adding in something to the fight scene so the MC stumbles back on the magical rot/is pushed back onto it to drain his magic so that the bad guys can defeat him easily.
10/30
Update 10/28--- Disregard this version -wipe it from your mind,
Update 10/23
Update 10/21
Lighting First Pass rough idea
Update 10/16
Brute Model
MIDTERM 10/09
Update 10/06
9/30 Update
9/22 Update
9/18 Update
9/16 Update
Character Info
9/11 Updates
Animatic Rough 9/09
Inspiration
Storyboards
Setting (Rough)
Characters and Designs
Senior Project Notes
June 3rd – German expressionism and urban fantasy – interaction on a bridge
Concept. Guy meets an informant on bridge for magic spell that will show him what he wants. Asks to see her future. Gets glimpses into the future. Informant is killed so he cannot share what he saw (maybe have him get dumped into the water before potion is used???)
Hand out over the water turns so it is parallel to the ground and breaks the vial. The magic drips down and camera tracks as it falls into the water. Shows snippets of the future.
Main characters-
Bird creature- flying into the scene???? Could be a small dragon/ familiar ????
Robin/Azazael ( A) – demon guy who is receiving the information