moving...

Today i had to take the day of from my schoolproject. Reason? moving out of my apartment and for the time being got no place to live. But ill be back on the project tomorrow, but this will be the end of working home, since i have to pack my home computer down. Hopefully i will get longer days at school in the next 2 weeks. And 1 day away from the project would let me get the final push to finish it all.

jack..

Today i had to make a "usb", "jack", that Valkyrie put's in the computer. I made it look oldschool. Not sure how that would look with a androide in the near future, but hope it will give something to the movie that people watching it can relate to, like the 2 cars in the establishing shot.

Digression, resemblance!

Fast fun fact in a stressfull time.

You ever seen the resemblance between

Lionel Luthor,(Smallville.)      and             harald magnus andreassen,(chief economist.)

Author Dan Brown                            and                     Actor Ralph Fiennes,(The red dragon)

Minor problems

We are at the start at the end of the establishing shot overlooking the city. The render times has been heavy but it works. Tried to remder 1 frame today, and on a quality of aprox 1/10000 of what we like, it took 11 minutes to render it out. I guess the problem is that our particle system that erupts one of the buildings 200 times, also duplicates the big textures on the building and makes it impossible to render, or something else i have overlooked.

11 min. render time on this picture

Two days of color

Our sett this Monday and Tuesday to make the color decisions for our film, or stock if you like. We need to sort out the color as a whole in the film and each object that's in it. So the idea is to sit down infront of a computer, open Photoshop, and force the stock out of it.

Some earlier discusions made us look in the direction of a black and white movie, like Citizen Kane, but as there are few major contrasts in the coloring ofo the movie,(exept white and black,) we saw to Sin City, for more ideas, since the character The Yellow Bastard has a nice yellow color that realy shines through the black and white in the movie. The same type of stock continues through Frank Millers The Spirit and his co-producer Robert Rodriguez is also known to do new experiments to what looks good in the frame when it comes to color desicions, as seen in the movie Grindhouse, part 2 Planet Terror.

Now if NSB could just get the trains working so the rest of my group could get to school, we could start this thing, but all the trains has been incasipated until further notice.

Our movie got a name, sort of!

Two thirds of our movie is done and we were out a title, or even a thought of a title to our movie. We forced a sit down with one of my group members and started to brainstorm around the main characters, Valkyrie and Construct, and the meaning of the movie. The method was first popularized in the late 1930s by Alex Faickney Osborn in a book called Applied Imagination. Scientists has not proven it's usefulness, but as we started the flow of proposal to a title was extreme.

After we got some ideas, around the destruction of man kind,( whats happened before the movie starts,) and the death of Valkyrie in the movie, we tried to link that up to whats happened over the last 250 years since the Industrial Revolution and the way mankind is going at this rate. The theme about mankinds curiosnes being it's doom is a big hidden theme in the movie and that should be reflected in the title.

First word that we thought of was Downfall, but the meaning of the word did not comprehend totaly with our story, Definition: disgrace, ruin. So we continued searching and found the word Decay. At first it seemed like a short, blunt word with no "snap" in it. But after i saw the Definition: breaking down, collapse it could be the first draft of our movie title. Again it tells the historie about our real life now and were we are going, what happened before movie start, and what happend to Valkyrie. It's marveless=)


Heres the brainstorm chart we made

PreViz first draft