Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The cat is out...

We decided that we had to let go of the cat if we wanted to get things done properly. I always thought we had to abandon the cat idea, but Lauren thought she could pull it off. I'm glad she came up to me and told me that she realised we just don't have enough time to manage proper animation of 2 characters (cat and the mosquito). This will give us a lot more time to focus on other things.

Since the mosquito is not needed for this semester and since we already gave up on the idea of using the armor suit, Lauren is now going to help me with set production. I have already started the attic, so she will help by modeling some of the props. We haven't decided what exactly she is going to model yet.

We are starting some serious shooting tomorrow. We have booked the green screen room and all kinds of lights, haha :) We are actually going to try a few different light setting to see which one works best. Mark Szota said it might not be a good idea to mix different types of lights, so we'll have to see how this goes.

We have made a few changes to the storyboard, which Lauren has documented. We are thinking of using particle effects on the ghost to make it disappear when the loan lady enters the attic. As I said in an earlier post, none of us knows anything about particle effects. I have started my research on that, but it has not been as easy as for the ghost effect/chroma key, not a lot of tutorials for what I want..I will need some time to find appropriate resources.

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