Morgan Penrose Animation 2017

When it comes to inspiration, I quite like the style of anime. The main inspiration is the music video to Shelter by Madeon. This video was animated by A-1 Studios and follows the story of a girl in her digital world. I quite like the design of the character as it portrays her innocence, having been living alone for an extended amount of time. I am going for a similar style of innocence in my character design, however design wise I am leaning more towards the Scott Pilgrim style of face. I am currently experimenting with specific eye designs and trying to find a sense of innocence to give my character. The secondary character is a fallen star. It is based off the profile picture to the right. However it will be white with a slight purple glow and will not have the top hat or tail. Ultimately the character design style will probably be similar to RWBYs style of character, As it is similar to the anime character proportions but in 3d. I will probably also look at colour scheme...

This lesson we worked on modelling a candlestick in maya. This was achieved by using a reference then using the extrude tool to match the reference with a model from a front view. After the modelling was done we assigned a copper material to the candlestick. The copper did not look like anything special until it was rendered in mental ray.

I know that my character is going to be based off one I used in the past. A character by the same name I used last year. However her clothes are going to be different, she will have a different facial structure, and her hair will be different. This was the original expression sheet for the old character. The new design will bear similarities to this old one but will also be different in rather major ways. However, this is still the same character that the new one is based off.

The Dogme 95 film movement is a Danish film movement that was based on a set of rules created in 1995. This set of rules was imposed to create a more pure sense of film free from the distractions of Hollywood style of film making. The rules of Dogme were first enforced by 4 main directors. These 4 were Lars von Trier, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Thomas Vinterberg, and Kristian Levring. The films that these 4 created were the first in this stand out movement and the first films to gain awareness in this movement. The rules of Dogme are as follows 1. Shooting must be done on location. Any props required must be able to be found on set. No artificial sets 2. The sound must come from the film. Nowhere else. 3. The camera must be hand held, no other equipment. 4. The film must be in colour, and no special lighting is to be used. 5. Optical work and filters are no to be used. 6. The film must not contain superficial action, action must take place in the film. 7. The film must take place i...

Log Line - A lonely girl living in a field gets a surprise one night when a star falls from the sky. Treatment Draft A girl named Tsukiko is looking out the window one clear night when she sees a shooting star. Much to her surprise the star lands with an audible splash in the pond out behind her house. Quickly Tsukiko runs out behind her house and notices a little ball of light inside the pond. As she lifts the ball of light out of the pond it opens its eyes revealing that it is a creature and gets scared. Quickly it flies off behind a nearby rock and peeks out afraid. Tsukiko tries to call the creature but it is unimpressed. In a hurry Tsukiko runs inside and grabs some toys off her shelf and carries them with both arms, dropping a few on the way. When she returns outside she offers one toy, the star refuses to budge. Then she tries a jack in the box, it just scares the creature more. Lastly she goes to offer a teddy bear with a top hat, but she drops it. As the top hat drops of...