Getting ready for the final week of university!

It's nearly time for our final and last hand in of the year and of the course.

I can't believe it's nearly going to be time to say goodbye to Falmouth.

As I'm starting to wrap up all the work and finish up the film, I managed to find a little time to do something for me and play around on photoshop.

It's been so long since I have properly tried to paint in photoshop.

Of course out of everything though, I chose to paint boobs.

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POSTERS AGAIN!

I am actually really sorry for the spamming of posters.

I promise these are the last two.

Poster designs for TOWELS

A little break

I barely have any time these days to draw a little something for myself and just let loose so it was really good to sneak a couple hours in and simply 'play' on photoshop.

The fight scene

The fight scene of the film so far has really been bugging me.
The shots planned out so far feels too structured and almost too limited for what I want this film to be about.
I really want the scene to feel powerful, lose and dangerous. To really use the brush technique to good use and make the most of it. 

Since the characters are already strongly influenced by 1940's artists such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, I wanted to look at more 1940's artists to inspired the fight scene. From the vivid and distorted bodies in Bacon's work to the shapes and movement of Polock's and Parker's work.

Francis Bacon - Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963

Polock's work

 Roberto Matta - Invasion of the Night

Cornelia Parker - Exploding Shed

I just need to make sure to loosen up the brush strokes and allow the animation to move or grow the same way it does in traditionally painted film. 

Film update!

Most of the colouring is finally being done and there's only four more shots to be animated (exculding the fight scene).
I've personally started cleaning up the finished coloured shots and making sure the brush strokes are consistent as well as making sure the characters fit into their environments. 

I'm really worried that I am the only one so far that is doing clean ups for the film so far. Need to start recruiting colourist and training them up to help speed up the process. At the momment the shortest shots take at least the day which is not ideal. However, putting the final touches and faces on the characters takes only 2 to 3 hours to do which is a lot better than I expected.

Overall, so good so far. 

We are still on track and sticking to the scheduel far better than I had ever really expected.

Film study: Schindler's List (1993)

One of my favourite things to do in my past time, funnily enough, is to watch films and sketch out my favourite sequences.

Not really something you do with other people as they might want to lob your head off for stopping the film so frequently but it is a lot of fun. 
I'll generally watch the film once first or have watched it before and then go back to draw a scene that really stuck with me (also sometimes the opening or ending sequence). 

Just quickly sketching out the scenes and thumbnailing out what's on the screen made it a lot clearer to see what the director or cinematographer intended with each shot. 

This weekend I was watching Speilberg's Schindler's List (1993) and was particularly drawn to how dominance was portrayed in a shot. From using lighting to character positioning and camera angles. 

Because the film was done in black and white, the use of lighting was very visible and made me realise how incredibly effective it can be. Especially when it comes to shifting power/dominance from one character to another.