13:07

Maya tutorial: volume emitter: smoke


03:50

Adaptation: pitch presentation

03:48

Adaptation: Silhouettes




03:46

Research: Typewriter



01:07

Adaptation: first kand research


Here are photos of typewriters, that i took in Science museum and 'Harry Potter' shop at kings cross station 




15:19

Sketeches




14:44

Adaptation: Character influences


00:59

Maya tutorials: bomb

00:02

Maya tutorials: explosion

21:47

Maya tutorials: particles (clouds)



17:53

Collaboration with theater and film student Chloe

These are final images of a collaboration with a 3rd year Film and theater student Chloe Cooper. I worked on the environment for the model Chloe created for her minor project. It is just 3 days collaboration, but be both were pretty happy with the results.

15:40

Metamorphosis: influnece map


15:14

Metamorphosis: experiments

Just very first sketches of Gregor Samsa





21:48

Research

These are some short that were already made by other film makers











Performance adaptation of metamorphosis



21:29

Adaptation project: research

For my new project, I will adapt a novel 'The Metamorphosis' written by Franz Kafka in 1915. My main goal is to create an animated short which main concern would be character design. With this animation I want to express the main character Gregor's emotional state and behavior towards environment and  himself.


'The Metamorphosis' is a story about salesmen Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up and realized he physically transformed into an insect. Story tells how he and his family (mother, father and sister) deals with him not being able financially support his family anymore. Book deals with many psychological and philosophical situations that author himself have had experienced. 



The presentation below is a summary of my primary research. After I read book 'The Metamorphosis' and biography of author Franz Kafka, I pointed main things, that, I think ,would be relevant and very important to the story.

20:34

Drawing from character design lesson

Character Lessons
19:19

Character design: Crit presentation


13:23

Villain poses



22:21

Sidekick poses


11:46

Hero action poses



23:56

Scales of characters



23:43

Prop designs





23:22

Characters expressions





23:21

Final Character Designs

After some changes I finished my characters. Here are my final designs.



 Sidekick

Villain


Hero