who's doing what?!

Here is the list who is animating which shot and some additions which were mention in the meeting:

You can download the actual version of the Animationboard here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/416727195/RoughMov_Ani_v05_smallerquality.rar

shot1_Forest: Karen
+while he sits on the tree he ruffles his feathers
+shadow of the fish accures then 2 or three jumps out of the water of the fish heading to the right

shot2_River: Gladys
+ bBird is following the shadow of the fish
+bBird should fly in the center

shot3_BirdEye: Jordi

shot5_FishCatching: Florian

shot6_ComingHome: Karen
+Storyboard changes

shot7.0_HappyKids: Emma
+Storyboard changes

shot8.0_ReadyToFeed: Karin
+Storyboard changes

shot7.1_HappyKidsZoom: Gladys
+Storyboard changes

shot8.1_ReadyToFeedCloser: Karin
+Storyboard changes

shot8.2_HappyKidsCloseUp: Florian

shot9_Impale: Anne
+ you dont have to color the iron pale i'll do that in AE

shot11_Cars: Florian


Deadline for everybodys Animation:

First : 08.09.2010 23:00h
Second: 15.09.2010 23.00h
The Color layers: 18.09.2010 23:00h

If there a first showable results please upload them to the blog so everybody can share the feeling of going foward and is motivated if he sees updates :)
It would be very great if the animations are finished earlier than these dates cause then I can already begin to work with them and try things out.

TVPaint conventions

1050 x 576 px
12,5 fps

Every bird in a seperate layer.
Every birds matte right in the layer behind.

Matte(For the color of the birds):
BigBird blue(0,0,255),  red(255,0,0) for the orange
SmallBirds green(0,255,0)

Please draw with the Black Pencil in the sketchpannel on the right handside
Size: 1.0
Power 100%

Export every shot in one folder named: shotx
In this folder for each layer one file:

Name: shotx_bBird (<---for the Bigbird ;) )
shotx_bBirdMatte (for the BigBirds Matte)

shotx_sBirdY (<--- y= every little bird seperate plz)
shotx_sBirdY (<--- for the Matte)

Format: Quicktime
Mode: RGBA
Alpha: PreMult.

Background disabled.

Look if you render in the right size: 1050 x 576

I you finished "zip" the folder and send it to flo.panzer@googlemail.com

animation meeting

For everybody. I invite the animators for a animation meeting. Cause they are all dutch i wrote it in dutch too. So tomorrow we wil meet to talk over the detail animation of the film. This evening I wil finish the rough MovStoryboard:

Hey Dames :) ,

Zoals al met jullie besproken wil ik graag met jullie een meeting houden, om de dinge voor de detaileerte animatie te regelen. Davoor dacht ik wij kunnen ons makkelijk morgen om 19:00 in de vloeibar ontmoeten en dan richting animatie lokaal gaan.
Tot dan heb ik ook de ruwe moving storyboard klaar en een ongeveer plan gemaakt, wanneer wat af moet zijn :) Voor mij is dan belangrijk wat julli van de film tot nu toe houden. Misschien hebben jullie ja ook nog ideen veranderingen of zo iets om het nog beter te kunnen maken.
Van Wendy heb ik al gehoord dat ze niet kan komen, maar dan gaa ik haar de resultaten van het gesprek gewoon vrijdag even uitleggen. Nog 21 dagen.....

Dus ik hoop jullie morgen te zien.
Tot dan.

Florian

shot 6: script for the animation

How I told you I have a little script change for shot 6 which is Karin is going to move.

First a brief list what should happend:
1. See only the backgound.
1.1 In the lower part of the shot you see the heads from the children sleeping
2. You see a shadow of a bird landing in the entrance of the cave. You dont see the fish in his beak.
3. After a short pause he turns his head so that you can see the fish in his mouth.
3.1 The bird fidget a bit in his mouth
3.2 The Big is making to steps towards the children with the fish in his beak
4. Because of this the bird in the middle turns his head


I think this should fit with the animation in shot 7_HappyKids (medium happyness) and also leeds to shot_8 (Maximum happyness :D) of the little birds

Here is the background for the rough animation:

>>> DEADLINE!

22. September 2010.

The film must be ready cause the it's shown on german local television.
My plan is to finish the rough animation storyboard begin next week to have 3 weeks of pure animation and matching background with foreground.

For this im now prepairing the backgrounds for the animations.
Marian should go on working on the music theme cause after we finished the rough animation storyboard, timing isnt not going to be changed anymore.

Karin and Gladys should finished with the rough animation scenes before saturday. So I can attach them to the backgrounds

The faster we finish te normal tasks the more we can work on the "effects" --> beter presentation on the TV for us!

critics

Yo,

i'm worrying about my critic comments cause sometimes im too hard with this. I want to say if I say so many things to you I don't want that you are going crazy about this or losing the motivation for this project. My intention is that it gonna be a great clip in the end were everybody is  proud of! Today I had another idea. If we finished this film we can also sent it to shortfilm contests if you all agree with that. One advantage is that we can work on the film also after the deadline in september to finish it very wel.

So I really appreciate that you all spent your free time to work on this and I hope you enjoy the result in the end :)

Greets

flo

New versions

Hey guys,
i thinks its better if we have for new versions new posts and not the old ones replaced. Cause we're getting confused if we add the other shots too. Thank you and keep on commenting :)

brief overview

First I wanna give you all a rough overview about the following steps we have to do to finish the film. You all have seen the moving storyboard we finished.

1 STEP:
Stan is now painting the background layers which I can merge and can animate a bit.

With the shot overview list, I'm doing yet, the animators can begin with the blocking animations (red line animations). If this is done we can merge the first backgrounds with animated bird and can test out whether there are some improvements to do (Backgrounds + Animation)

Parallel to this Marian is creating the music in the style we have in the storyboard, so we don't getting any problems with the licences. He can also design the music and sounds that are more fitting to the film.


2. STEP:
If the Backgrounds are totally ready and the birds roughly animated we can merge it together with the new music. We cut again our rough animated bird and correct for the second time the timing for the different shots. So the animators can do the right detailed animation of the outlines and work the movements out.
Also music can drop now exactly to the scenes. In this step we can also add some sounds.


3. STEP:
After we doing that, just a few only few things has to be done:

Animated bird has to be filled in with color. I have already a plan so that it fits with the backgrounds(i have to test it, when the first shot detailed animation is ready.


4. STEP:
If we have time left:

Adding effects (underwater, water, splatter, splashes, watercolor)
Adding more sounds
Maybe some background animations
Correct some backgrounds that arent totally in the watercolor style

The hole film has to be done before the 23th of september!!!
So, let's move!

If there are any question you can always contact me!

welcome to the team

Hey guys,

here it is! Our blog to communicate over the project: biotop obererft. On this page you'll find important information over developement of the film. You're invited to post your result, to ask for help or anything else but also to give critic or improvement suggestions so anybody has an overview over the project and can participate in the progress of it.

The blog language should be english cause we have a international team, hell yeah!
I hope you enjoy to be a part of it!