This week, we confirmed the theme and ideas and started designing two scenes. As the leader, I hope everyone’s thoughts can be incorporated into our theme, so everyone has to draw some drafts to provide ideas.
My main job is to keep track of everyone’s work, assign work, summarise it, plan the general timing and flow, and then summarise each stage at the end.
I also use 3d models to assist with perspective while designing. But we don’t have anyone in our group who is particularly good at design, so we were a bit overwhelmed when it came to drawing fantasy scenes, as none of us had a very realistic idea of the word fantasy, so we sketched a lot this week and gathered everyone’s thoughts to come up with a more satisfactory scene.
I’m still getting to know the group this week, the MA animation students all draw adorable animations, but they each have their strengths and things they could improve at drawing. I’ve recognized this accurately and given them the right jobs to do.
I also thought about our production process this week, and it isn’t feasible to have 2D in charge of the backgrounds for the whole virtual scene because of time constraints. The conclusion was that 3D would do the two scenes, and 2D would draw the character animations in the scenes, so the 3D scenes and animations would have to be done as early as possible.
Fantasy Scene Design:
Draft (idea1)
(by kiki)
(by Bingxue Xiang)
(by me)
3D model testing:
(by Tingyi Huang)
But when we were ready to do it, we felt that the design wasn’t right and the result wasn’t as good as we thought it would be.
Then, when we were at a bit of a loss, our multinational collaborator brought us a sketch that caught my eye.
so we make idea2
（by KIKI）
We also used 3D assistance to create this scene
（by Tingyi Huang）
In the detail elements, I blend the group’s idea：
（by Yiyu Wang）
My draft after integrating the idea:
Next, kiki tries to match the colors to the scene:
(by kiki)
3d model testing:
(Tingyi Huang)
Final 2D scenography:
At the same time, everyone had their own sketches of characters they wanted to draw:
(by kiki)
(by Fangyuan Shao)
(by Bingxue Xiang)
(by me)
(by Jieyi An)
We also have realistic scene design and scene modelling, but this is not the part I am responsible for, so I’ll just put some pictures in a condensed form(The original version is too much of a process)
(by Jieyi An)
(by Yiyu Wang)