I could have gotten farther along in the storyboard if I had stayed with scribbles but I can't stop myself from trying to make it nice and clean. So I spent 6 or 7 hours dropping nice line drawings that I already had into the appropriate places. That's why Girl's head keeps changing size and shape. I traced over the characters when they started piling up to save time and it still looks pretty good. I will continue to extend the animatic to get a scribbled version of the whole show with timings and a scratch track. I will also continue to develop the performance and plan when and how facial expressions will change and match the timing up to the song which I still need to record. If I take another pass at writing the script, it may be worth asking people to record the voices for real...
The animatic will play on loop from Tuesday. The display feels little and anticlimactic after all the time and effort that went into producing the pitch bible prototype. I really miss that splash of colour on the wall. Anna Black has done a poster advertising her show and that looks really nice next to the TV. For exhibition 3, I will think more about how I'm presenting what I make during the term ahead of time and do some planning. Exhibition 4 should be an installation that gives the feel of being IN the Imagination Warehouse and exhibition 3 could be one step removed from that...
Shots from Prototype pitch bible.
I'll get feedback from people on the pitch bible over the next few weeks. What I can see is missing now: the layout of each page showing consideration for the center binding. In the above photo, the right hand pictures are good while the left hand pictures have text boxes that run into the fold and can't be read. The contrast between the white box and the text needs to be greater so the words pop. I need title and contents pages and to finish collaging or painting the Girl sitting page opposite one of the series summary pages.
There is really good separation between characters and backgrounds in these pages- the figures and illustrations pop really well.
I may have time to print a second prototype before I go away to Auckland on the 24th. My friend the graphic designer might have some ideas about formatting, as might InDesign.
It's "ok" for now, but the bull dog clips holding the spine together are NOT going to cut it. The middle of the book scene has Jellybean's face lost in the crease. And Teppy's is gone, too!
Jellybean 3D prototype toy with decoration. His spots went on very quickly so little time was spent planning out where the colours would go and it shows. The last minute decision to put in some purple spots was ill-advised; they're virtually invisible against Jellybean's ALREADY purple body! A nice discovery- with the fur on, the toy balances better and doesn't totally lean back on the tail. That might be due to more weight in front or the pile is helping hold the body forward. It's sitting especially well thanks to the blu-tack which is supposed to "deter" children from picking it up and walking off with it. I hope that hand holds- the crack around one wrist was getting worse as I worked on it.
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