These stills are already in the Art of book, but I think it was
worth to uplod them as self-standing images on blog too.
I believe this should be the last publication on The Baltic Pixie
project for a while, as I won't be embedding the finished animation for a
while. I have submitted it to a student animation festival organized by Cartoon
Brew and in their rules have specified, that the animated short can’t have an
online presence for a while.
Major’s submission deadline is only couple of days away and there are
still bits to be resolved.
Mid point of the week I was over with animating and synching up the
environments and thought, now it's JUST to render... 3 days and it barely gave me
anything. Nothing would render. I can't describe how frustrating it
feels to be a step away of finishing and then, for some out of
air reasons , not be able to. But , really, I believe Alan helped with solving
problems and after these few avaricious days it will only be better... Also and
what I found uplifting were to see the render stills. They kind of motivate
to keep on going and soon, taking the time needed, I'll be happy to have
done it. Gladly for a radical change straight off computer screen I
went and was a part of acrobats, permormers and musicians team in FUSE
festival and just let it all go :] Fingers crossed, next week it will
be a whole another story on the making of Ivan the Bird.
Last week of studio experience just past away and here is the last update on activitys done throughout the time.
The week was busy with getting the last animations ( the ones which involved toymaker's character) done.
There were quite a few of them :
toymaker in production line scenes
The scene of Toymaker meeting his creation :
When Animation was completed , I've concentrated on postproduction, that is compositting and editting.
Main changes done in after effects were to achieve a certain look and feel , whether it meant to add noise, increase exposure, animate glow. All the scenes had their colours tweaked, most of the time ading 4 colour gradient to add some variety in other wise quit simple looking scenes ( such as marching army shadow on field etc.)
Heavy editting is what our project relied uppon from the very beginning, and that is where I found myself for .. 3 days. Weird enough, towards the end of editting each time I'd have a headache, what isn't usual to me at all , so perhaps these subliminal shots and speedy sequences really do effect somehow :D
Here is a taster of the final product, a teaser trailer :
Appart from that it was time to wrap the project up, so here are the designs of DVD cover and DVD disc:
Ant the actual painting suggests the story of film itself. The toy which was created to bring happynes and joy and was an inactive shell, got invaded by alien content and became lost and threatening monster.
There will be one last post, an overview of the project and the trailer itself :)
