2nd Hand Test

Second Hand Test

I didn't like the initial rotoscoped hand test as it turned out very jerky and had an unwanted flow on effect to the turbulent displacement so I re-filmed painting my hand black and my arm in white and luma keyed out everything but the hand, the animation is a lot smoother bar a few touch ups I will address when re-filming, just need to paint my whole arm white. I'm a lot happier with the outcome.

With the turbulent displacement and some highlighted shadows so it won't get lost when viewed directly in front of the monsters black body.

Background Test

Backgrounds
I took the concept artwork painting from Pat seen below

and put it into after effects using 3D space a camera, tint and animating the values of a ramp effect created a dusk to night sequence (thanks Darren). I really like the texture of the paint and canvas showing through into the final image as I wanted to steer clear of a wholly computer generated look.

This will be used at the start of scene 1 to portray the emotion of the film, beginning happy and changing to more sombre/slightly darker before she gets hit by the car. 

Another Monster Test

Did another monster test yesterday, his look is defiantly getting there

Monster Test

Animatic, Backgrounds and Rotoscoping

Animatic

Iv started creating an animatic from my thumbnails, as filming the rough through with Pip has been pushed back till this w.e I want to be as prepaired for it as I can be for it. The animatic has helped narrow down on shot duration/selection and just in general with getting my vision for the film clearer in my head and being able to show it to people for advice/suggestions.

Backgrounds & Car

2 mates have agreed to do some concept work for backgrounds and the car, I'm hoping to find somthing I'm happy with as it would take a load of work of me and so far I havnt been happy with my attempts to creates them anyways.

Giving people direction has helped me narrow down on the core of what I want from the backgrounds this has seen me take alot of reference from alice in wonderland (1951). I really like the use of colour, dark greens with small bright flowers.

Some Reference Images from Alice in Wonderland

Rotoscope TEST

I rotoscoped some footage of Jacks hands to be substituted in as hands for the monster, I'm not sold on the look of it as the form of the hands jerk larger to smaller back and forth. So I plan on re-filming the same action setting it up to green screen the footage instead and see how that looks.

Rotoscope Test

Also the displacment mapping that I apply in after effects needs to be toned down quite a bit as the fingers need to be visible enough so the hands actually look like hands. And i have just started to attack how to differentiate the hands from the monsters body as it is black on black.

Rotoscope Test with Displacment