Behind the scene stills

moon.

 

So i decided to make the party on the moon scene…  here is a style frame from it. of course the toys will be texture according to their fabric (like i did in my animation test, it is subtle but they have actually texture as fill) i am thinking maybe this is too colorful?!

Blurb

“Rat on the moon” is the story of a toy’s journey to the moon through the vivid imagination of a little girl. The story touches upon the creative vision and fantasy of children, versus the true facts of reality. It’s been made by mixing cell animation with live action. It is inspired by the childhood memories of the filmmaker.

New-new Production Schedule

week 8 – (3/23) – this week. already half gone.

saturday – take pictures for the final “pile of the toys” and start compositing. 

sunday – cell animate scene1 / scene 2/ scene3/ scene5/scene7-8 (they all have the minimalist actions)

re-edit the footage

week 9 – (3/30)

tuesday – cell animate scene 6/ scene9/scene12/scene13  (medium quality actions with loops)

thursday-cell animate scene4 – partying on the moon scene so its gonna take a while (hardcore cell animation!)

saturday- sunday – start digitizing and cleaning up the cell animation and coloring
week 10-(4/6) 

tuesday – rotoscoping for the window scenes

saturday-sunday compositing for cell animation and window scenes / meet for sound
week 11-(4/13) fine tuning
week 12-(4/20)fine tuning
week 13-(4/27) – FINAL SOUND. Your piece should look finished by the end of this week. 
week 14-(5/4)   – FINAL EDITING. You should ONLY be finetuning at this point.
week 15-(5/11) – Show goes up.

Storyboards…yes again..

 

so here are the storyboars for the sake of numbering the scenes and also having it easier for me to time and draw. the editing of the sequence is a bit changed towards the middle thats also another reason that i restoryboarded for myself. here i am gonna post the new production schedule

New Production Schedule

Hey hey,

So not everything goes as planned. I am still on schedule (almost) but i realized that i hate the animation! so i decided to reshoot it! Not everything of course but only the parts i didn’t like. So thats my plan.

 

week 8 – (3/23) – this week. already half gone. RESHOOT ANIMATION!!! 
week 9 – (3/30) during the week – clean up everything and do the background for “flying” scenes, find a “Wall” (for the hitting scene) and take pictures for compositing, 

weekend – start compositing all the elements / shoot the interior of the girls room if Liz’s apartment is available

week 10-(4/6) Finish up the compositing until the cell animation. 

week 11-(4/13) Finish up the compositing after the cell animation. Start working on sound
week 12-(4/20)Fine tuning
week 13-(4/27) – FINAL SOUND. Your piece should look finished by the end of this week. 
week 14-(5/4)   – FINAL EDITING. You should ONLY be finetuning at this point.
week 15-(5/11) – Show goes up.

 

Ahhh please kill me now, i hate the crappy animations i shoot and want to make them look nicer but having all those problems with frame rate!!!

final lookish

 

this is i believe what it is almost gonna look like when the are all composited together, i am gonna keep the toy and foreground from the pictures and composite the city view behind (which i changed a bit this past week)