Narrative Final: The Cage

The Art of The Cage:

Final Crit Presentation:

Final Animation:

Narrative: After Effects Tests

Here are few tests on how the animation might look after post-production.As a group we agreed on old-movie effect and here are few tests:

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Eventually, we decided to go for something between 2 and 3. Final effects coming soon!

Narrative: Disc Design

Narrative: Environment Textured

A post that has been forgotten; environment and all textures used in the production:

Character Design: Sidekick and General Sketches

Additional sheet for the sidekick, however this version of him did not last longer and he has been fully redesigned. Too much of a hero in a sidekick, and that wasn't what I wanted:

The sidekick's new design; it still needs to be pushed further but that look of him suits the story and his purpose more than the old one:

Size comparison of characters: 

First attempt to hero's clothes design. Two examples beneath are Polish armor and soldier's clothes of historical Polish cavalry - Hussary. I will still have to work on that, but it feels like a good starting point.

Character Design: 03.12.2013

During character design classes we were split into groups that were meant to work as small studios. We were given a task to design characters for Jetpack Jones story.

Next step was to design environments: 

And then design JJ's space suit and redesign Ariana, one of the characters, by adding aquatic features:

Narrative: Animation Tests and Animatic Playblasts

1. Walk Cycle

2. Playblasts of scene that I was in charge of animating: 

Maya: UV Layout Part 1

1. The Head

2. The Throat

3. The Eyes

4. The Eyebrows

5. The Hair

Narrative: More Lighting Tests

More lighting tests from the set of Narrative project:

Character Design: Figuring out the Sidekick

After designing the villain and the hero, the time has come for the sidekick to be designed. The process took some time as I wasn't sure which way I should go, however I did know that he had to be an underwater creature.

 After not seeing any effects in random inspirations, I decided to focus on only one sea-creature at a time. First one to go was Aksolotl - an andorable creature with interesting body structure and colours.

Still unsure and unconvinced I went to seek help from Justin. After a conversation and analize of each design I got convinced that lower right design on the left sheet is good and that it should be carried on into further development. Sheet below shows few quick expression drawing that I did just to make sure I liked this guy enough to make him the sidekick.