Bot poses...

The bot poses for my leica reel are finished. Now I got about 23 scenes left to do in my leica reel and it should be finished by next week at some point. I am aiming for Wednesday.

Forced work...

Yes, today is one of those days when I find it really hard to work. Weather is grey and so un-inspirational it's not even funny. And the fact that my World of Warcraft subscription runs out tonight and the fact that I won't play for a very long time again makes it very hard to stay away from it. But by working hard I will treat myself to a good WoW session tonight and then wave a long goodbye to my baby.

So at the moment I am working on the poses for my little robot. These will go in to my leica reel so it's not work that's being done for no reason. The leica reel is coming together nicely and I think I'll be proud to show it ones finished. Till then, here's some photos on my working area and stuff

Plants pt 2

Totally forgot to upload these 2. Just some more plant concepts. There will be one more coming but at the moment I am working on my story boards and trying to get my leica-reel put together. 

Plants...

Some new additions to the concept folder. I have been drawing plants for days and finally come up with about 5 designs that I want to use. I thought I'd stop there since the modelling part will be way to challenging if I have to model a gazillion different plants. Now I only need to model five and I can change shaders and colours on them to make them look different... Anyway, here's the 2 first ones coloured...

The tree...

Here's a very rough sketch of the tree and how I sort of want the vegetation to grow. I will refine the vegetation designs allot more, but it's hard to not repeat yourself. So working hard on that at the moment. 

Inspiration...

Since music has been such a big part of my life, making a music video was the obvious choice for me. At first I tried doing something I thought people would like to see but realized that I didn't stay true to myself by doing so. And these music videos here inspired me to make "Synthetic Eden"...

Spacious Thoughts - by Fluorescent Hill

Instrumental Video Nine - by beeple

Kwoon - I lived on the moon - by Yannick Puig

Apache - by Oneedo

Thank you guys for being the greatest inspiration!

The Story...

Synthetic Eden

This is a story about a little robot called A. He is born into a world through a mechanical lotus flower that has come from outer space.

He wakes up to a very boring and empty world, but there is a reason to why he’s been sent here. He is to create a new world, a perfect world for him and his love E.

It is a simple story with some eye-catching scenes. We will follow A as he creates this world through a little display on his forehead. He will have a way to communicate his next step through this display and as the symbol for say tree comes up on the display he shines a leaf on to the ground and the tree starts growing.

The scenes will be heavily composited and animated. This is a bit of a challenge for me but also something I love doing. I will use the knowledge I already got along with allot of research on how to make things come alive the way I want them to.

This will be more like a music video than anything else. There will be a few sound effects for the robots to give them more personality.

What I thought here was to combine my biggest passions music and art. I love being creative and without music it is hard for me to be creative. The music track I am using is a dance track made by a boy called Jesse Valentine. His tune really inspired me and I came up with this story to his fantastic music. You can listen to this track here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/448029
I have edited the music though so the bit that starts around 1:00 have been taken out since I thought it being a bit too fast and up tempo for the actual animation.

I hope to have at least a thumbs reel up by the end of this week if not even the finished lica-reel.

Synthetic Eden

Since I have scrapped my first project Ellie Brown I have changed the name and address of this blog and from tomorrow this will be the production blog for my final year Major Project called "Synthetic Eden". Here are my main characters, well the first concept drawings of them anyway, I am sure the will come to change a bit along the way. I will tell you more about the story and my ideas tomorrow...