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Student Film Project - First Weeks

18/2/2011

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We've now started on our final project which is to create a short digital animated film. Øyvind, Christoffer, Ole-Petter and myself have grouped together and formed N-Gon Studios.

As Christoffer and Ole Petter went on Animex the first week of our project time, Øyvind and I had a little rough start trying to come up with an ident and a story for the project. It's not that easy when half your team is absent... Also, I'll admit I'm not the most creative person when it comes to storytelling.

We started by coming up with multiple names and ideas for the ident. Some based on random word generators, like "Juicy Bite" and "Monitor'd". Others based on 3D related stuff, like "Turbosmooth" and "N-Gon".
Based on a little doodle I made, I came up with the name N-Gon Studios and started planning out an epic ident animation.
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The N-Gon logo was modeled and textured in 3ds Max and Photoshop and I simulated the impact using nVidia's PhysX plugin and added some subtle smoke and sparks effects with FumeFX and ParticleFlow. The ident was rendered from Max using V-Ray and was composited in After Effects afterwards.
This was all done the first week.
By the second week, we were all back to work and could start focus heavily on the story. By Tuesday we had a pretty good idea of the base story, so while Ole Petter was writing the treatment the rest of us started drawing some concept art for some of the stuff we knew would be in it. Here's some of mine:
We're still not settled with the art direction for this film and will need to discuss this further. We know we want something cartoony looking, but just how cartoony we're not sure yet.
It's all going pretty smoothly as we enters the winter vacation. During this week I will take some time to start modeling the metro station and maybe some props.
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