This week we started blocking our animation shot. We already have the thumbnails of the key poses so this week we had to block them in Maya and set up the timing and spacing.
Blocking Pass 1
I blocked the key poses this week. In the process, I tried to keep nice timing and spacing.
Feedback
I mainly got feedback around select all controls and put keyframes on blocked keys.
This week I collected moodboard references from the artefact project. Other than that I made storyboards and analyzed the challenges that I might face during the process.
Project Details
I named this animation short, “Enchanted”.
The artstyle will be low poly and stylized. It will be 3d but it will give looks oof 2d environment and I will incorporate 2d effects and magical elements in it.
The color theme will be dark, glowy and magical.
References of Environment
I have collected a few references for my project. I have always been fond of the dark environments with glow and magical themes. This is the same I want from my project.
Storyboards
This is the tentative storyboards for the project. I might change it during the process.
The story starts with a magical orb in the centre of the enchanted forest, a thief comes in the scene, steals it an runs away. But we see that there are ark spirits of the enchanted forest chasing her an taking the orb back.
Storyboard of Enchanted
Challenges I might face
To achieve a good visual output from the project
This project is animation intensive and I might not be able to add details