Permanent Flux

All Done!

2007-05-14T16:10:00.000Z

The trailers all done.
A big thank you to Tess Beightons for the music, this helped alot!
http://www.tess.beightons.net/

So here is the trailer:

Rendering = 100% complete

2007-05-09T13:57:00.000Z

Have just finished all the rendering for the animation, the next task is to put it all together with the titles and sounds.

Test Render

2007-04-29T22:19:00.000Z

Just finished rendering out the alleyway scene for my trailer.
So here is a little test of the rendered scene.

Final complete idea

2007-04-25T11:22:00.000Z

I have decided that I will produce a cinema film trailer for a film based on my own ideas.
The initial idea was to use an existing film, but I was having problems picking a good non film noir film to use, so I have decided to use my own ideas.
The idea is based upon a standard 1950's film noir film, a classic detective film, with the detective saving a girl.
I have modeled two quite complex sense to use in the trailer, the detective office and a alley as well as two of the three characters that I will use in this small trailer.

Both of these scenes will be used twice, the office for one where the detective is telling the audience a little about himself as well as a more intimate scene with the female character.
The alley way will be used for two action shots, one where the detective is being chased by a car and one where the female charters is hanging off a building.

Renders

2007-04-15T11:02:00.000Z

Although Not complete, here are a few renders of scenes:

This shows some realistic smoke, that I will use on the office scene:

Wrong order...

2007-04-03T20:49:00.000Z

I know that I am doing this in the wrong order, but I have already designed one of the scene for my animation and I have not even got the story sorted yet. But I can explain...

Whatever film I chose to create this film noir trailer on, it is going to have that old 1950's look to it, so like quite a lot of those films, they have a dark alleyway shot, so this is what I have been modeling.

Plesentvile Trailer

2007-03-30T13:47:00.000Z

Existing film

2007-03-30T12:53:00.000Z

Instead of using my own story, I have decided to use an existing one.
As of yet I don't know what film this will be, but I will be putting my own spin on it. So for example, a female character could be male and with a different name or the setting could be completely different.

I have decided to do it this way so that I can focus on the animation, the animation is the project, not the story.

Pleasantville

2007-03-30T12:43:00.000Z

"Fantastical writer Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an auspicious directorial debut with this inspired and oddly touching comedy about two 90s kids (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon) thrust into the black-and-white TV world of Pleasantville, a Leave It to Beaver-style sitcom complete with picket fences, corner malt shop and warm chocolate chip cookies. When a somewhat unusual remote control (provided by repairman Don Knotts) transports them from the jaded real world to G-rated TV land, Maguire and Witherspoon are forced to play along as Bud and Mary Sue, the obedient children of George and Betty Parker (William H Macy and Joan Allen). Maguire, an obsessive Pleasantville devotee, understands the need for not toppling the natural balance of things; Witherspoon, on the other hand, starts shaking the town up, most notably when she takes football stud Skip (Paul Walker) up to Lover's Lane for some modern-day fun and games. Soon enough, Pleasantville's teens are discovering sex along with--gasp!--rock & roll, free thinking and soul-changing Technicolour. Filled with delightful and shrewd details about sitcom life (no toilets, no double beds, only two streets in the town), Pleasantville is a joy to watch, not only for its comedy but for the groundbreaking visual effects and astonishing production design as the town gradually transforms from crisp black and white to glorious colour. Ross does tip his hand a bit about halfway through the film, obscuring the movie's basic message of the unpredictability of life with overloaded and obvious symbolism, as the black-and-white denizens of the town gang up on the "coloureds" and impose rules of conduct to keep their strait-laced town laced up. Still, the characterizations from the phenomenal cast--especially repressed housewife Allen and soda-shop owner Jeff Daniels, doing some of their best work ever--will keep you emotionally invested in the film's outcome and waiting to see Pleasantville in all its final Technicolor glory. "

- Amazon.co.uk

Its not realy the story of this film that I am looking at, but the way that it looks. The way that the film is mainly in black and white but more and more of the picture become in colour.

A good idea for my trailer may be to have certain main items/characters in colour?

Examples

2007-03-30T11:48:00.000Z

I have started thinking about film examples of film noir, and these of what I have come up with:
Renaissance
Blade Runner
Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Sin City
Crash
Dark city

And a friend recommended The Maltese Falcon.

Also the computer game Max Payne.

Quick Idea

2007-03-29T14:54:00.000Z

About the filters, If done in black and white, I would always have one character that appears in colour of using the effect that I shown in the previous post. For example, the girl in the red coat in Shindlers List.

Final Idea, time running out!

2007-03-29T14:26:00.000Z

Realy wanting to do more with 3D, with the possiability of wanting to do this alot more in the future, I wanted to do a 3D animation.
An animation by itself fits into the breif/title, Permanent Flux, as a animation is always moving.

I would quite like to do my own adaption on a 1950/60's film noir genera. This would be done in 3D, textured in colour. It wouldnt be until the post render stgage that I will apll a filter inorder to turn the animation back and white. Although I inital say that it will be black and white, I may use an effect like this one below:

Before I decide, I will have to do some test whith these filters as well as more research into the film noir genera to see what filter effects they use.

Like I said, the animation will be designed in clour, even if then a black and white filfter is added, this will be so that it will look as real as possiable, with the different colour shades.