Animatic Presented at Interim Crit 11/10/2007

This is animatic I have presented at the Interim Ctir on 11/10/2007

On this crit I was advised to look at next aspects of my project:

• sync musical notes with music
  
• make leaves/notes movements
• make a reference between appearing graphic elements and music
  

I kept working on this project and took comments into consideration
Trunk would represent sound of the harmonics. Also I'am going to make graphical representation of xelaphone and bass.
Basically I have listened soundtrack and made a graph for each instrment - harmonics, xelaphone and bass. As this audio piece has kind of wavy structure it was quite easy to show strongs bits using sinusoid curve.

Later on I have took trunk and split it up into 20 pieces, each piece = 1 sec. of sound track. Each strong part of of harmonics represented as a highest point of curve. Actually such type of synchronizatin could be done in Maya much easily, but ny some reason, sound didn't work in Maya, that is why I had to look for way around it

This is stage I am at.

Digital Compositing and Post Production.

For the Digital Compositing and Post Production brief I have chosen the second of the 5 available topics, which is VH1 channel ID for easy listening program called Kitsch 'n' Sync.

For the begining I have played with associations with word "easy" - light, free, weightless, simple, primitive, clear, straight, plume, fur, foam, powder, dust, easy in/out, take it easy, rest.

All of us needs some rest, especially nowadays with city's busy life. Where people goes to have a rest? Ofcourse to the nature! :) I think that nature would be a great signifier of calmness and rest which would be associated with Easy Listening music.

So basically I came with idea of shooting video footage of a tree/plant with leaves. Light wind statrs to blow and one of the leaves detaches and strars to fly taken by wind. As it flies it transforms to the musical note. Then it transforms back to the musical note and settles in the logo (just on the place of the yellow leaf.) As it is a autumn on the street, I am going to make a connection with the that aswell (as I a was advised on the first crit). In the beginning leaf green but by the the end it going to be yellow already.

These are sketches and storyoards I have done so far.

Animatic

I am planing to make a 3D model of the leaf in maya and afterward composite it with the video footage. I have been experimenting with maya already and here what I have manage to do so far.I think it is quite a good qualite, and looks almost real (not here, because of the low quality). I just want to mention that i did't work on the lighting yet, which should it even more realistic. (should do :)

after a while finally managed to animate growing branch :)

This is raw animation of leaf transforming to the musical note

Thank you for patience :)