Viral Marketing!

Coming down the rope animation update

I re-animated the two astronauts, one coming down the rope, and the other signaling.

Regaining Consciousness previs

Previs: Animated camera, of an the astronaut slowly getting up and regaining consciousness.

Checklist update

1: You see Mars. RENDERED

2: Spacecraft lands. RENDERED

3: Long shot of the crew walking across the surface of mars RENDERED

4: Close up of one crew members visor which reflects more of the surface RENDERED

5: We see the foot of one astronaut step on a crack in the surface, the crack then becomes bigger RENDERED

6: He calls over the rest of the crew RENDERED

7: Dialogue: Captain Shall we investigate further NOT RENDERED (needed? maybe include voiceover in previous scene however)

8: They go back to the ship to get equipment RENDERED

9: Close up of foot and ground giving way RENDERED

10: The last guy to leave for the ship falls in to the hole, with the rest of the crew in the foreground RENDERED

11: Guy struggles to get out of the hole, holding onto the sides, then suddenly disappears. (Maybe shouts out help?) RENDERED

12: Wakes up in a daze. "Huston We have a problem" NOT RENDERED

13: Rest of the crew look over the hole (camera angle, over their shoulder looking into the hole?) NOT RENDERED (not needed?)

14: Looking up at the crew standing over the hole, from inside it. RENDERED

15: The three remaining crew members argue about whether to save him or not (one doesn't want to help) NOT RENDERED (not needed?)

16: They scale down the hole (wide shot) RENDERING

17: Over the shoulder shot with flashlight (Audience see the shadow of the blob, but the astronauts don't) RENDERING

18: Invisible cut: Through the eyes of the blob, looking at the astronaut (straight after the flashlight scene) RENDERING

19: Lucid Studios appears NOT RENDERED

20: Running heavy breathing (first person) RENDERING

21: Swinging at blob and missing. NOT RENDERED

22. Hitting blob. RENDERED

23: Flamethrower on blob. NOT RENDERED

24: Title shot NOT RENDERED

25:Blob attacking the screen NOT RENDERED

Soundtrack update!

I worked more on the two sections as separate entities, timing will ofcourse be settled once we have all the scenes rendered.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/85326383d3ad365b/

Attacking the Blob and missing render update

This is a render update of the scene in which the frightened astronaut attacks the blob with a piece of metal and misses. At the moment it is a little too dark, so the lighting will have to be increased.

Animation tests update

Astronaut hitting and missing the blob update

Changes to be made, astronaut will probably hang around for a bit longer after the attack. A pole will be parented to the astronauts hand.

Character and backpack development sketches

...more Christmas responsibilities

MATT
'Making of...', do a powerpoint of all our work up to now showing our development.
Previs of the scenes we asked you to do from before.
Poster, Invisible Blob from Mars

BHARATHI
Get everyones previs, and put it together with music.
Voiceover and finalise script (e.g what the astronauts say)
Music

SIMON
Teaser
Ident: BOTH idents...

ALL
Viral marketing (video?)
Get everyones msn.
Budgetting (minor, addin up costs, poster print out etc)
Give out 'Making of...' slides
Upload own work to own blog

Futuristic-retro Spacecraft development!

We decided that in terms of an overall look of the spacecraft, the Skylon looked the most suited, as it had a sleek contemporary look but also with some of the curves seen in retro space crafts:



We began looking for some other retro looking spacecrafts that we could implement design elements from:






Looking at some of the more modern ships, they came across as boxy and more technical, so we wanted to get the right balance between modern and retro ships:




However, we soon realised that the Skylon design was too long, and came across as more of a commercial people carrier, so we wanted to play with the size more to accommodate the 4 crew members, so as to make them look like they are part of a research mission and not on holiday. As a result, we decided to implement size restricting forms from space pod concepts such as this:



In the end, we decided that the balance lied in concepts such as these flying vehicles, where they could accommodate 4 crew members whilst maintaining a compact look, this would gel well with our contemporary spacecraft that pays homage to 50s retro designs:

Monday meeting - 2:30pm

If everyone's cool with it, Simon and I are putting 2:30pm on the table for tomorrows meeting. I'll be at work from 1-2 so we can either do the meeting before 12pm or after 2:30pm.....the latter sounds much more feasible.....also, we should discuss in this meeting, how we are going to communicate over Christmas...be it blog, Skype, msn or whatever.

reupload of Music

This is just a reupload of the Music, there are two part in here, one's 'going to Mars' and the other is the montage (all one track though).

http://www.zshare.net/audio/8194129256a153c2/

First Scene render

After reviewing this scene, we have decided that the flashes used put across a 'panicky' feel as if the craft is crashing and as a result we have decided to take them out. We will also be increasing the duration of the scene.

1st Blob concept

Viral Marketing script idea

Simon: I'm here at the pre-screening of The Invisible Blob from Mars, the film should have ended so we can now get an audience reaction..."What did you think of the film?"

Matt: It was SCARY!

Simon: Are you looking forward to it's official release?

Matt: YES! I'm going to watch it again definitely, buy it on DVD, Bluray, 3D-Bluray VHS............Bharathi interrupts by coming through door

Simon: Oh! Hello, are you alright?

Bharathi: I just saw the blob....can't talk I'm sorry.

Matt: This is serious, call the ambulance, stop recording!

First 8 scenes previs

Music for walking on Mars...and Montage Music

Let me know of any changes.
zSHARE - Lucid walking on and the falling through Mars.mp3

Title and poster idea

This is really jus to get the font nailed. Let me know what you all think, but to be honest, I'm edging back towards Simon's font idea posted earlier, I think we could use that. A friend sent me this tutorial on creating a Retro Sci-Fi poster (link below), so I'll probably use that, and create another idea.

Tutorial:
http://adamlevermore.com/2010/08/19/tutorial-creating-a-retro-sci-fi-poster/

No Animatic?

Are we presenting without an animatic tomorrow? Matt, you were to do the animatic, if you've done it, could you upload it, if not could you let us know so we can work out presentation around this.