Random Note

Although the group blog pages all say 'posted by Daniel Cripps' they were posted together by the whole group!

Final sound

Here is the sound for our animation! It's just the sound because we dont want to show our final render just yet....

Floor Plans

We drew out floor plans so we knew what furniture would be placed where in our rooms.

The above is Anna-Marie's for the ballroom and study. The final piece differs slightly from this image. The curtains, picture frames and candles on the fireplace were all axed in the making due to time running out and that they wouldn't matter much as the camera would hardly show the spaces they would be in in the final piece.

Elisha's room plan. Everything in this image stayed exactly the same.

Storyboard Scene Inspiration

The scene in our storyboard where two voodoo dolls land on top of each other and get pinned together through the rectum, was mainly inspired by two photographs we found when casually browsing the web.

We were repulsively inspired by the certain smugness of this gentlemans face and thought it would be fitting for this particular erotic scene.

We were repulsively inspired by the certain in-denial-ness of this gentlemans face and thought it would be fitting for this particular erotic scene.

Storyboards

We did a group storyboard and took it in turns to draw the different shots. We kept the sketches rough and quick so that we didnt waste time when we could be modelling etc, but were still legible.

Production Schedual

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Backstory and Script

We created a back story so we knew what objects to create in our environment and give them a purpose. The story also allowed us to be quite elaborate with our design.

Quick summery: A trapped soul in a gargoyle roams an abandoned house in search of its former body.

Back story: Four non conventional artists (ourselves) were exiled from a Stepford Wives/ Edward Scissorhands style society for being too controversial. They built a house, overlooking the town, where they were free to behave how they wished. Three of the housemates lived happily until they reached an old age where they were ready to die, and completed the suicide pact they had always planned. The fourth member of the group, believed she was a princess and locked herself away in a tower, waiting for her prince charming to come and rescue her. He didn't. Our poor princess wasted away with a broken heart. Many years later, just like in the ancient prophecy, (you know the one!) when the moon and the sun, in the sky together hung, a gargoyle woke up with the princess' spirit inside of it, and so the tale begun.............

Script, Key events:

• Gargoyle awakens.
• Gargoyle (Chester) falls from the rooftop, still awakening.
  
• Swoops down into courtyard.
• Lands on a statue that falls over.
  
• Chester moves to one of our graves.
  
• Chester moves through the courtyard.
• Flies through a stain glass window into a study.
  
• Knocks telescope into shelf.
• Shelf falls to a slant, objects fall to the floor.
• Chester jumps from balcony onto chandelier.
  
• Swings onto a table in ballroom, and knocks over a chair.
• Chester flies out through the domed ceiling.
• Clambers up to the top of the towers, through bridges, up through the bell tower.
  
• Arrives outside the 'princess' door.
• Enters the room.
• Attempts to touch herself.
• Turns to dust before climax.
• The End.
• Applause from audience.