New Years Update! (more research and preproduction)
Happy New Years to all of you! I imagine that 2009 will be a year of change and new interesting adventures for me. I wish you all a good year to come.
I have been doing some more research and preproduction these last couple of weeks (when I haven’t been taking time off for the holidays).
Prepoduction:
I have begun sketching some light plans (scans will be posted next week) and I am surprised at the amount of time it is taking. Mostly I think it’s because I am still sort of new to this kind of workflow, but I think it will cut the production time considerably.
Research:
I have also been researching the genres and what direction I want to take with them and trying to define them. The research will be added to the research.doc in time for Milestone 2.
Excerpts from the upcoming addition to the research.doc:
Realistic:
Description:
A scene textured and lit to imitate to imitate the ”real” world.
Realism vs.. Photo-Realism
My initial thought was to make avoid making my realistically textured scene ”photo-realistic”. I thought that it would be a waste of time to include effects of a camera lens onto my image. However I have since then read up on the matter and I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of great effects that would heighten the experience of the scene quite a bit (such as distortions of perspectives). I am still inclined to think it a bit off track from the goals I have set for myself in this project since it doesn’t’t necessarily have much to do with lighting, but it can however be something that heightens the experience of ”mood”. […]
Fantasy:
Description:
A scene textured and lit to experience an overall realistic environment heightened with imaginary effects such as glow and over-saturated colouring.
Fantasy vs. Fairytale.
As I perceive it a Fairytale world can go further from the ”real” world than a Fantasy world can. In a fairytale world it is generally portrait as friendlier and distorted and manipulated with bright colours and designs where realistic proportions often are distorted so to get a more exaggerated effect. In the Fantasy world the tendency to stay with the basic realistic proportions in both characters and environment is bigger although some exaggeration is common. The fantasy world is often portraid with a historical version of our world thrown together with magical effects and creatures, races and cultures very different from our own. […]
Painted:
Description:
A scene textured and lit to imitate a painting keeping some realism in the experience.
Well, That’s all for now. Next week there will (if all goes well) be a MS2 Delivery for you.