Final Video

Here is the Final Video, the running time is around 1:30, the sound needs to be tweeked a little, the words may be a little hard to read since the video was rendered in 1280x720 at 30fps. I will try to find a hosting site to upload the video

Creating Textures...

Creating the textures arent that bad, the video will be featuring only 6-8 different textures, most of the city is simple shades of Grey anistropic textures. some of them have bump mapping, some buildings have "blue glows" to show a futuristic look, heres a quick look on how i create the textures:

Toyota Toad

Here are the cars that will be featured in the video, All the cars are exactly the same to show an extreme for standardization and capitalism. This car has hovering capabilities and it looks like a "toad" I have nicknamed it the Toyota Toad.

News Stand

Here is the News Stand from the video: I think "virus" seemed to be the least scary, nuclear war couldn't work since why would the cars and robot still be there? so a virus can remove the biological element and leave the mechanical.

Interface for "Traffic Nanny"

Here are some interface screens for the Traffic Nanny

Design For the robot

here are some screen caps for the main character

City Design

Here are some screen caps of the city design. The style of this video is dark, almost Film Noir. The only colors being show are the bright blue from certain buildings (reference to all the blue LEDs in current technology) and the yellow meter maid.

StoryBoard 2

Here is the New Story Board

New Direction

Sorry I haven't posted in a while i have been up to date with the project and I will be uploading everything in the next hour, just getting everything organized for the presentation. I dropped the original idea for the video since it was taking atleast 3 minutes to get the point across and it was still a little unclear, I came up with another idea that was in the back of my mind for a while. The story is about a robotic meter maid named “Traffic Nanny v2.0” in the year 2192 giving out tickets in a deserted city,The style is very dark and boring. the robot confronts a news stand which shows that life on that planet had been destroyed over a hundred years ago. THe robot stares at the sign. And then goes back to giving tickets to cars that have been left there for over a century. The video is a commentary on how society is progressing and at the current rate, the world will be inherited by machines and they wont be equipped to handle it.

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animatic for movie:




Download Link

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Tried some sound editing software today, mainly HOG v.071


original
edited

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Flying through Gator Nation...

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The storyboard for the project has been uploaded. the story starts by a sad woman looking at a painting, the camera zooms in to the painitng and the next scene u see a man running through a similar bg, he is running over various obstacles, jumping on a ladder(which comes out of no where), he umps off of that, and then he lands on a boat, he rows the boat, he comes ashore, and then he starts running again, he is running through the desert, and suddenly he is running through a blizzard, he comes up to a house, and then he goes to the door, he opens it and there is the sad girl, they see each other and kiss, the camera zooms out and the audience realizes that the couple kissing is acutally a painting, and there are other various paintings in the room and that correspond to various scenes in the animation (ladder, desert, blizzard etc.)

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The purpose of this blog is to document from conception to finalization a 30second short film.