Updated Pumpkin..

Andy has just helped me with my pumpkin as I struggled to put him onto my track due to his mouth being higher up than my track. Also smoothed the edges off & added a stalk.

My Pumpkin :)

Coming along okish...

Pumpkin Videos..

To hopefully help me later on. Look pretty complicated but better than nothing!

Animation Update..

Tuesday is my last seminar on animation haunted house. I have planned my cart - pumpkin shape although is hard to design on 3dsmax so may have to keep the basic square cart I have, Could perhaps have a sweet cart to go with the "trick or treat" theme. I have made a basic cart on 3dsmax which animates by moving along my track attached with a light & camera.

The scare scenes are a pumpkin in which the cart goes through his mouth on the track - his mouth moving up and down. A room with witches and sound effect of a cackle. The last scene is a graveyard in which arms come up from the grave. I need to do all these on tuesday which I am slightly worried about as it will be so complicated & I stuggle to draw a box on the software let a lone a pumpkin.

Will be pretty happy when animation is overrrrrrrr :)

Haunted House Storyboard

Had a seminar with Yelena & made a storyboard for my design:

worst person at drawing in the world.

Also had the idea to add an animating hand from the grave for a scare scene:

Pretty worried that I have all these halloween ideas & tuesday is the last animation lesson and I have to design and animate all my ideas on 3dsmax.

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Animation Lighting

Seminar about using light on 3dsmax.

Also made my cart I did want the pumpkin design & attempted many times to create one on 3dsmax but it didn't work so just stuck to a square cart. Also managed to animate it around the track.

Tried to add a camera to follow the cart but will continue with this next week which is the last week of animation in which I also have to add scare scenes and render. :(

Animation. Mardy. Depressed. Want To Quit Uni.

Yesterday we had a seminar on materials & textures ( can be seen in previous post ) but I got so wrapped up in doing that & trying to do it right I didnt even get started on my haunted house :( so now i'm feeling more behind than ever. I've done the track & plan and that's it. I went in to uni today to do some but I just find it so hard to use the software I ended up doing pretty much nothing.

I have 2 weeks left in animation, the last week will be mostly rendering & adding sound so next week is pretty much it.

Big fat fail.


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3d Textures

Right now we are learning about textures & material editor on 3dsmax. I have started with a simple box in which I have changed the texture to bricks.

Also created this window imaged box:

I Hate The Feeling..

Of dread :( which is what i'm feeling right now as I have animation later & I feel so behind & like my design is so so bad.

Tomorrow is my day off & i'm going to look at the other tasks for the other pathways on the NOW to have a good idea of what i'll be doing when I finish animation.

I also need to look at year 2 and 3 blogs to look what work they do for film / interactive.

Entrance & Cart For Haunted House..

Now I have decided on a theme for my animation I need to think of the extras such as music I will use, entrance, cart and props.

Signs at the entrance usually say "Ride not recommended for the faint of heart," "Turn back now," and "Not responsible for dying.

Most of these rides have some sort of cart that seats two or three
individuals and moves along a predefined track. The motion and speed of thecart is not particularly fast but filled with quick, jerky turns. As the cart turns, the riders view props and scenes that are intended to elicit a shriek or scream.

Ideas for my cart:

I did like the pumpkin cart idea for the theme which I have now decided on however it will be really hard to make on 3dsmax so I may have to keep to a simple square cart with space for one child. I also like the idea of a sweet which will go with the trick or treat title. The sign entering the haunted house will say "Enter If You Dare.."

Entrance:

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Finding this so so hard :( creating the floor and walls to the haunted house:

Track:

Pasaje Del Terror

When I went to blackpool we went to the Pasaje Del Terror haunted house read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasaje_Del_Terror

In which visitors walked around the house to see real people as the scares. It was really scary & I thought if I did the death/murder scene I could have some ideas from Pasaje Del Terror.

This video is really bad quality that I found but shows the possessed girl scene which was so frightening!



I could perhaps have a scare of a bed with a possessed person on it if i choose to do this theme.

I'm still undecided what theme to choose from; halloween or death! :(

Theme & Moodboard

I had the first intial idea to create my haunted house animation based for young children with the theme of halloween. The scares would be props such as witches, pumpkins and ghosts.

The track could go through the mouth of the pumpkin with flashing lights to create the idea of it looking like a candle burning.

Witches on broomsticks could be flying over head whilst the cart is moving.

Ghosts are a common theme of halloween and most children will find ghosts spooky and associate them with the theme.

The name of "Trick Or Treat" could work well.

I then however, decided that the theme of halloween may not work that well for a haunted house due to the event only happening once a year. Children do enjoy halloween but it may seem a bit of a pointless ride to have apart from in the month of october.

I then had the idea of perhaps changing the audience to an older generation such as teenagers / young adults as I could have more of a "scarier" theme such as vampires, dracula etc.

I came up with the theme of death/murder and my ride would somehow tell the story through the 3 rooms of the lead up to the murder, the death and the graveyard. When thinking about names I had "The Dead Reunion" "Death" and maybe including something and "red" which connocates with blood and danger.

I created a moodboard for both halloween and death theme as the death theme would mean creating skeletons and deathly people on 3dsmax which could be really difficult so will ask Roma and my tutor Andy which idea would work best.

Halloween Theme Moodboard:

Death/Murder Theme Moodboard:

Haunted House Track

Today we had seminar for 2 hours to plan and draw the track of the haunted house. We went to the theatre to get an idea of the size & what would work with the track and what wouldn't. Here's a model of my idea:

Animation, My Favourite! ;)

Term 2 for dp2 we now do 5 weeks of each project not 3. I'm starting with animation, boooo :(

I really stuggled with the software last term and the brief this term is so much harder!

Project title: Amusement Park Haunted Castle Ride

Task: "To design, build and animate an amusement park, terror,
haunted castle/house ride to fit into the Waverley Theatre with 2-3 scare scenes."

At your end of the module presentation: "You will be required to show your final 1 minute animation as well as evidence of your design process including mood boards, scare scenes designs, entrance, design of the cart, storyboard, photos of the model. PLUS sketch books/journal entries to evidence your research process and ideas development.

In your online journal: "Keep a weekly dairy of your progress to demonstrate your exploration and development of your design
research, ideas and process."

So basically build a haunted house animation! I decided to look on youtube at other people's work:



I will have to consider
- The Space & Track (Path) layout
- Entrance and Cart
- Scare scenes (static and animated)
- Experience of the ride (storyboard)
- Lighting & special effect

This week I will create a moodboard for this project, taking a theme,audience and name for the ride into consideration.