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Storyboard...

Modelling in Maya

Added a few more details, including the eye socket and a few stray feathers, also extruded the feet. Here's a quick preview with mirrored geometry. Just a few more tweaks to neaten the polys and then it will be ready to take into z-brush for extra detail sculpting, I am hoping to put on a nice scale texture effect.

A quick update to 2012... and the first signs of it looking like a snake!

Image Planes...

Carousel Designs...

Sea-Hog

Swan and Cobra

Concept Designs

Here I wanted to get an idea of a possible camera angle, and the placing of rides and stalls, this gives a slight indication of how much detail will need to be modelled etc, as the objects furthest away will not need as much.

This shot was drawn purely for an idea for a possible camera angle. Here the sunset allows the swings to be silhouettes. I like the look of this contrast and hopefully we can incorporate it into the final film.

Continuing with looking into traditional and stereotypical fairground rides, I thought that the 'teacups' would be a nice element to include, and it has the potential to become very distorted and odd looking, to fit in with the overall theme.

These are my first initial sketches for some stereotypical rides and attractions that would be found at a Victorian style fairground. I have also added a few elements such as lights and lanterns and stylised them to fit our 'twisted feel'.

My tiny animatic...

So, another idea was to follow a rat around a fairground, avoiding different obstacles. But from his point of view... here's the very short few images put together. We didn't go with the idea in the end as we decided it wasn't  going to flow properly and would not show our modelling the best it could. Also the audience might get confused when it's being shown from this angle.

Doodles that started the project...

After meeting up with vicky we both decided that we would like to do an environmental piece, to show our modelling skills and texturing. The first idea was to have a camera pan up a tree where faries had made their home. There would be no animation, just flickers of light and fireflies. But we thought the textures would be really nice to draw for this one.

Before I knew I was working with Vicky, I drew this quick sketch for one of my ideas of following two talking carousel horses having a conversation about how traumatic some of their experiences have been whilst working on the carousel. I wanted a few gags in it, but wasn't sure of how to do it.