For the first week of the class, I was not there. I did not participate in brainstorming an idea for the current project but however for week two, I was given some work to do for the pre-production phase of the project (they got the idea approved within the first week of classes).
For the second week of class, I was briefed on the idea and the overall story and I was given the task to draw a couple of shots for the storyboard, draw the concept art and mood board for the landscape.
I first started with gathering some reference images which will be used for the mood board. I wanted to get pictures that represent grass/ sand landscape with no trees as I was worried about the render time. Therefore I used these reference images:
The theme of the animation is a fantasy one. I looked at different bridges that have been in “Disney” movies and I also looked at different fantasy environments.
I then moved onto the next phase which was to complete my part of the storyboard, as the pre-production pitch presentation was on Wednesday and I wanted to have enough time to do the concept art for the landscape.
I had to draw the shot were the knight is carrying the princess and as he steps onto the bridge, the bridge collapses.
I then moved onto the concept art, I did not draw a lot of sketches of the landscape as I drew objects that were going to be modelled and different variations of the objects.
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