Started reading and knowing stuff.....

So, I've started reading my book on making short animations and made a few notes on it (which I'll be posting later when I'm done).

No new ideas, but got some thoughts on how to think up some:

• Look at life and wonder why, think what if they were different, what would the world be like then? 
• Think about yourself, your wishes, dreams, secrets, act them out using this story
• Use the news to find ideas, take one simple idea from there and expand into a story
• study people around you, see if their character can be used in a short
• Look at other peoples ideas and expand on a simple thought from those

Btw; it's a good book. Repeats itself a lot, but that helps drive in the ideas. Might not read it all but looks like it gets better. Character and location development look cool.


Random ideas for this post:

• Difficulty at an airport metal detector
• A snippet of life of a kitchen implement
• What if buildings were grown?
• An inflatable world?

A Few More Ideas.....

Few More Ideas

• Travelling through time in the same spot showing changes through the ages. Building started new and shiney and shown ageing as time passes, weeds growing, rusting, falling down.
• Anything about a guy in a suit of armour.
• Life in a Celtic Iron age, round houses, horses and carts, living off nature.

And now going to start reading the idea book finally.

Few Ideas

Yes, I've had a couple of ideas.

• An emotional factory production line robot, longing for freedom: watching its creations go out into the world. [modelling, simpler rigging, anthropomorphising a simple robot]
• A slow pan through a slow-motion war-zone. [showing of modelling and some animation. + compositing if not using all CG]
• A short architectural visualisation of a dream house, fly through. [modelling, minimal or no animation]

Not that thought out yet though, and still haven't looked at the "ideas" book. 

Idea Update - Thinking is hard.....

So... since creating this blog I have done almost no work on my major project idea. 


Buuuuut!.... I do have some ideas of what I'd like to include and definitely not want to spend the next year messing around with.


Good things: Compositing (3D and real life), as much modelling as I can fit into it, robots :) (their always fun), try making some of my own music & SFX


Evil things: Deep stories!, not too much rigging or weight painting,  actual people (hard to control and get to do exactly what you want =P )


So there we go, my idea must be just that, an idea, not a tale, story, novel, epic or anything big. Keep it nice and simple for the insanely short 2 minutes.


What I must do:
A good 4 - 5 ideas that can be written in one sentence each, I'm sure that will limit the short from getting to out of hand.

Project Production Blog

My lovely new blog for keeping all my ideas and progress throughout my final year major project. So no ideas yet but a quick read of

Ideas for the Animated Short

will fix that I hope, or at least aim me in a good direction.