modified homepage

pretty much just changed the random characters up the top to the ones that we are using in the animation. also added a bit more content.. oh and if your wondering why theres a random little eye in the top right hand corner of the content its because i will be replacing it with adams superb moving eye.. any comments.. criticism welcome.. got most of the sub pages done.. tis just fitting it all together now.

my stuff

Hey dudes, thanks for the carrots.
animatic with sound coming your way.

Tom & friend "Mr Carrot"

If you are ill don't come in. If you're ill on the day of the assessment, don't come in. Just make sure we have anything you want to include in the presentation and any suggestions and ideas. As long as we have your animated character ASAP !!!!!!!

Do you want me to talk to Dave. Work can be spread out between the rest of us.

Probably the most important post i will ever make.

It is th 16th, 2:38 am. And the reason I havn't fallen asleep is that my cheeks are burning at the side of my face and i think i may puke. See about a week ago Sean generously offered my a drink which i regretably accepted. Now i'm roasting, dizzy, freezing cold and feel like i have two sharks mexican wrestling with chainsaws in my brain.

In case you don't know what i'm on about Sean gave me his flu. Thank you for the generous gift, I wish i only had something to give in return. But you see when i get fevers i halucinate alot, just ask my flying purple carrot friend here.

I'm telling you this now because i want you to know im not in any way bailing. i will walk the coldness and get to the building this afternoon to work with the rest of you. hopefully before the presitation ill get better. If not ill be in trouble.

Suggestions please.

Mugshots!

Ok, just to let people know. For this promotional booklet i'm doing, thought it would be a good idea to have mug shots of everyone, to show the development team? I took some pics last week but i need to get the rest of you! :-)

Pictures i have so far are:

Tom
Adam
Me
Rhys
Shao

If i could get pictures of the rest of you tomorrow that would be great!

Cheers, Matt

DVD

This is what's going to happen on the main menu screen. Only did one button as an example. I hope it'll work because I need to sort out the buttons vectors and I don't know how to do it yet. The running blood will be longer than that. The pages will refresh every 35 secs.



This is what's going to happen when the user presses play.

DVD Video

A rendered version of one of the videos going on the DVD. This video will play when the user presses the play button.

T-Shirt

We may need to have a vote of who wants shirts printed.

I don't mind but others aren't too sure. We still have a lot of work to do and only next week to do it and I have no idea how much they will cost.

Having said that it does seem like a good idea.

Did a quick design earlier.



Maybe if it had been thought about earlier we would have had more time. Well, we would have had more time hence the earlier bit but you know what I mean.

Posters & Pamphlet update

Have updated the post titled "Sean".

It just shows the posters and the pamplhet with the website.

www.screeeamfest.cjb.net

www.screeeamfest.cjb.net .. just got ourselves a free url guys.. hope your all happy with it.. as of now if you click the link itl just take you to the blog.. but hopefully tomorrow after a buy sum online space i will upload the website and then it should be all up and running and then we can take it from there.. what needs to be addded,changed etc.. hope your all happy with the name

blah

so do you want me to buy a URL? dave said it doesnt actually have to be an online website but if you want me to try and put it online then thats fine. yeah i need most things off you guy as i dont have digital copy of them.. well obviously the finished video is to be embeded into the website.. i shall also try and include your web banners, advertisemenets etc.. will anyone be about monday coz i should have the majority of the work done by then but ill need to get digital copies off everyone.

also hope you get well soon sean man

CD Sleeve

Finished a CD sleeve for a CD to go inside (obviously).

And just to let you know in advance. I'm not going to be in on Friday, unless we meet early. If we do I'm going to have to leave by 12:00.

Website & Deadline

If you can get the url asap that'd be great because I need to put in on the posters. The posters are being printed next week (monday) but we need to leave room in case there are any problems.

They are being printed as

Posters: 4x A2 gloss (laminated) = £24
Pamphlets: 5 x A4 gloss = £7

Total = £39

Split 7 ways = £5.57 each (approx)

One or two extra things may be printed, not sure yet.

If anyone has any problems at all paying me any money, don't worry. You can pay me back when you have it (and I don't charge interest)

The posters are below (minus url)

What do you need from us? I haven't given you anything to go on the website and I probably have things that have been changed.

Deadline

The deadline is Tuesday 22.nd (next week is the last week to get anything done).

hey all

sorry couldn't make it today.. ive been back and forth home all week so havnt properly settles down since christmas. plus im red raw all over.. but you don't wanna know. okay ive almost finished website.. just putting finishing touches on it and linking it all together etc.. i havn't got a web URL at the moment as it is alloffline so i cant give you an adress as of yet.. everything should be finished up by the weekend..

also guys bit unsure of the final deadline date as ive lost my brief.. so if someone could fill me in on that it would be great.

meeting on the 11th.

12:00, bring all work, rendered and not. time to piece this puppy together

Sean

Hello. I'm Daniel, Sean's brother.

Please bear with this post. Spent ages with sean last night writing down what he wants said.

Sean still isn't well and is in bed asleep. He's a bit better than he was on Wednesday though.

He asked me when he woke up last night to put a message on here asking Mat to hold off with the poster printing. He was out of it but I think I got it all down.

My younger brother goes to Swansea College and they now have a printing department. They're quite cheap and make very good prints.

Sean said about having 4 A3 posters printed, 2 of each and laminated and a few A4 pamphlets printed too (not laminated). Is that ok with everyone? Posters could also be A2 which would look better.

You can then split the cost amongst the group (if you want).

Will need to know tonight (if possible) so I can ask my brother to order them tomorrow. I'm keeping seans msn on so you can get back to me.

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4 x A3 gloss (laminated) = £15.20

5 x A4 gloss = £7

Total = £22.2

Split 7 ways = £3.17 each

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4x A2 gloss (laminated) = £24

5 x A4 gloss = £7
Total = £39
Split 7 ways = £5.57 each

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Sean has changed a few things on the posters and asked me to put them on, hope they're the right ones. Reading my notes here :-) He hasn't put a website on because he said he didnt know if there was going to be a website.

He should be more with it tomorrow so will probably be on his laptop. Can you make a post if a website needs to be put on. If so, what address?

Hope all that made sense.

Contestant Animation

Here's two renders of my contestant model (Normal material & Toon shader)



And a quick test render of my contestant animation:

More Blood

Done some more simulations for the DVD.

RISING EYES!!

FLOWING BLOOD!!

DROPPING EYES!!

NEW NAME!!!!

Screeemfest has been changed to "Screeeamfest". If you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about read the post called "What's in a name".

I'll alter anything I have to the new name (poster etc). I have changed some of the blog but can't change the url name.

Everyone needs to look over what they have and try and alter the name.

TOM!!!! The last part of the video needs to be changed (the video with the bats flying).

We probably have the meeting with Dave on Tuesday. What I think we should do is unlock the blog and give him the url.

If you don't think so, let me know. I can unlock it on the day.

Sean

Blood Lifting Eye

On the DVD; when the play button is pressed we could have this animation show.

We can also do other things such as when moving from one screen to another liquid can run from one side of the screen to another. They can only be 3 sec clips.


And the video




When the balls are at the top of the blood they are rotated in the same position. This will be easy to correct.

Update!!!! The balls arent easy to correct. But will figure something out, maybe.

I finished this a while ago... but i thort id just post it up here. Its all freddys actions put together. I hope its ok. I just rendered the animation on to of the BG image.

DVD Background

Have done another simulation but this time it's toon blood.
A render



And a video (playblast)

I've also had another idea for the DVD background.
If we work out where all the buttons on the DVD are going to be I can set it up so the blood running in the background reacts with the buttons.

"What's in a name??"

Not sure what you think but I think we need to adapt the name "SCREEEMFEST" to "SCREEAMFEST" or "SCREEEAMFEST".

Scream is spelt, well, "scream" and having a name called Screeemfest does look as if we're all dyslexic festival organisers.

Not sure what you all think. If you think the way we have it is ok, that's fine.

The Room

Hi all, Sean here

The room is done. I didn't really like the idea of using toon. I would have much prefered making it look more realistic with better lighting etc.

But it looks much better than I thought it would. Although I've used toon lines I haven't used toon shaders but textures instead. So, I got my own way a little bit.

The layout of the stage and the desk hasn't changed so your animated characters won't have to be moved up or anything.

The Panel View

Tom is going to do a toony version of Worms Head (the background) but it will still look like Worms Head, hopefully.



The Contestant View:

Table texture

enjoy

A little test

Hi all.

Have any of you seen the IT (Steven King) film? One of the scenes include a baloon rising from the sewer.

I have done a little test to see what it looks like using a cloth baloon. See what you think. If you think we shouldnt have it in, thats fine.

Also. I've sent a few people messages asking if they need anything and also can people send things to me. I need pictures from Tom for the room (the desk picture). Can people get things to me ASAP?

Last part of advert

This is what the last few seconds of the advert could look like. Obviously it won't look as rough but this could be a possible layout i'm trying. This was all done in flash except the eye/moon which was done in maya. Rendered all in fusion. Please give feedback;

Toon tutorial

Ok tutorial time.
Step 1; Get your mesh.


Step 2; Select the rendering scroll bar on the left, there will be the toon setting in the options bar at the top. Select your mesh and go to toon scrollbar, select toon>assign outline>add new toon outline. In the channel box you can adjust the outline thickness.


To make the texture look like a cartoon texture, simply turn it to a surface shader.


Whalah. Toon. Experiment around its great.

Toon shader

Ok, i know you lot are still a bit sceptic about the toon shader but i will prove to you it is the way forward. It's ridiculously easy, and looks kool. Included in this little blog is a small tutorial on how to do it. To put your minds at ease;

Granny before...

...Granny after.

See how awesome it looks!!! It looks like a cartoon and will be awesome. Tutorial coming up soon.

A little test

Just a little test with a bit of cloth. May use cloth, may not but it seemed to work ok.

Extra Info

I'm making this post to save Adam & Matt's sanity.

My back's gone out of place so "may" not be able to come in tomorrow, so there are a few things I think need to be brought up. Trying to remember them now.....

Some things arent relevant right now but saves me doing it later

1: When rendering, render at PAL resolution (720x576)

2: keep as many test renders, model stages, rigging screenshots etc as you can.

3: If you can render at 25fps

4: Animate your characters a little bit more than you think they should. This is for editing reasons.

5: DON'T render as any kind of video file. Render as tiff's or targa's

6: People animating the panel. you have your area. Thats your area!!!!! You can use it. For example, in pinheads area there can be an animated (or still) cube

7: Rhys, we need to figure out how you can get your animation to me. Would you be able to email me the file from a friends pc?

8: Can't think of an 8

Sean

Meeting this week as normal

Wedensday 11:30 like always. Hope everybody had a good SAND. I know i enjoyed the free booze at the blaster.

Meeting???

This week I'm at SAND. I thought we were meeting on Monday, but nobody turned up.

Anyway. unless we're going to meet at SAND I won't be coming to fade this week.

We're going to have to take any posts like this off. If Dave etc look at the blog it'll look like we aren't communicating with eachother. Well, in this case, we arent.

Sean

hey guys

just so you all know i havn't bailed on the group or anything. Havn't been well this week at all, been drowsy, sick, pretty much glued to the toilet and one of myhousemates has been in hospital the last 3 days with flamed apendics and she was the one that started this illness. I'm feeling allot better now and shouldn't have a problem with next weeks meetings, btw how did this weeks meeting go? someone wanna fill me in?

oh and thanx for the get well msg sean.. haha

Last characters

Ok, they're done. Get back to me on what dates u guys are free next week. We'll meet up and kick this animations ass. Go team. Remember, models done by next week.

Peace.

Blood. Blood, Glorious Blood

Hi.

Firstly, I'm having big problems with the characters. Realised something, I can't make them. I don't think I have that sort of brain.

So, a question. Would anyone be willing to model the characters for me?

Even with the designs I'm having problems. I keep going back to it but I don't get anywhere.

If someone models the characters (jigsaw & ghost face) I'll be fine from then on with the animating and rigging. And if you want, as you modelled the character, if you want I'll animate yours. That's up to you.

I can't really do much with jigsaw's bike cos of the proportions of the character.

In the meantime I'm making plans for an interactive DVD.

Nearly all of the features of a normal DVD movie can be done with my software.

Also making a design for a game, if that's possible (we have time). The idea I've had is a kind of, um.... matching cards game.

You know the game where you turn a card, then turn another. If you get the wrong card they both turn back. If you get it right, they stay turned.

When the card turns there is a knife slash sound. If its wrong there is a scream, if right a manic laugh.

I won't be able to make the game but someone can probably do it in flash, or whatever you use. I can design it.

I may; may, be able to put it on the DVD, but i don't know but it can be put on the website.

If we get very carried away, and if it's possible we can do a time limit thingy. If a person gets all the card turned over by a set time they gain a free entry to the horror festival.

BLOOD!!!!!!

Been working on blood simulations. Have put one below.



I've asked Richy and I'm probably going to do some dripping or running blood for the website.

By the way, Richy won't be coming in tomorrow cos he isn't well. Not sure if he's coming in Wednesday.

I, and all the group want to wish Richy a speedy recovery!!!! Aren't we a good, pleasant group!!

Um, probably more to say but don't know what.

Sean

Pinhead and Old Lady

Pinhead and Old Lady. Enjoy.

YAY finished

YAY it's finished. It does need sound but the animation and drawings are done. I hope you like it. My sweat, blood and seamen went into this so appreciate it!!! See you tomoz at half 11. Peace.

Sneak preview

Here's a little look at the new animatic/storyboard. And oh yer, the fingers do tap.

Mask

Oh i forgot, the mask does need to be modeled. But should be easy.

Ghostface character sheet

Since Ghostface is basically wearing a big dress i think cloth dynamics would be best, meaning his actual body structure would be easy, keeping it as a simple collection of primitives. The only real modeling needs to go into his boots and gloves.

Jigsaw Character sheet

P.s whoever's doing jigsaw (Sean i think) remember to model him in pieces as he is a puppet (arm, forearm, hand, etc, pretty much where there's a joint). I didn't draw the bike because Sean has that pretty much laid down.

Todays meeting

Yet another posting from me. We have 1024mb of space for the blog. I'm probably going to fill it up in a week.

Ok, firstly, characters.

Characters in the animation will be:

Jigsaw, Freddy, Jason, Ghost Face, Pin Head, Little old granny, 1st contestant & 2nd contestant.

Tasks for members:

Me: Jigsaw & Ghost Face


Adam: Freddy & Room


Chow: Jason


Rhys: Pinhead & gran


David: 1st contestant


Matt: 2nd contestant & Texturing


Tom: Character designs (reference images), Storyboard update & new animatic


Richy: Website & all that multimedia stuff

I have made folders for each character which include reference images. People who want these images for their characer, let me know.

It does seem like people have more work than others. Matt, Chow & David have one character, the rest have two.

If this is a problem with people we need to talk about it!!

Probably an idea to take screenshots of your character modelling stages. When your characters are "completely modelled" put stage by stage images in a new post.

Texturing:

Certain models such as Jigsaw & Ghost Face don't need much texturing (UV mapping etc).

If people doing more than others aren't confident with texturing characters maybe pass the model onto Matt (or Chow or David; not sure if you guys are ok with texturing characters).

Rigging & Animating:

Obviously, we can't rig or animate until we have models. When the time comes we'll talk about who will be rigging & animating what. We may choose to stick with the characters we've modelled. But someone doing two models will need to pass one on to Tom for him to rig and animate.

Rendering:

We can't really test with cel shaded rendering until the characters are done. May look better not cel shaded. We want a toony look but it might look better not with a toon render. Don't worry about shadows (if anyone is). With the right setup (shadows etc); shite characters look amazing.

Joke:

Why can't men make pancakes?

Cos they're useless tossers!!

Importing Images

Firstly, you can now enlarge the gantt chart by clicking on it.

When I've been importing images; the part where you find the file you are asked to choose a layout (none, centre, left & right) select "None".

I've been selecting centre. Doing this doesn't let you enlarge the image when clicking on it.

So, select "None" and then centre it with the "Align Centre" button.

Also, emails, again!!!!

We need to finally agree on 1 email address to send emails to. I now have 3 (primary, hotmail & google) and it's already driving me mad.

I use seantoomey.cymru@btinternet.com for emails!!!!!!

Hotmail I use for MSN & google for the blog.

From now on I'm going to send emails to the email addresses I've had from the start. If you want them sent to a new one instead, tell people.

Also, use "Red" text for important posts.

website JPEG

character sheets

Enjoy Mo-Fos

Extra Stuff

Here's the pamphlet video. Videos may take an hour to actually work.

Also, here's the Gantt Chart.

WHEN IMPORTING IMAGES DON'T RESIZE THEM BECAUSE NOT ONLY ISN'T THE ASPECT RATIO KEPT BUT ALSO THE IMAGE IS CUT. MAY BE RESOLVED IF I CHANGE THE TYPE OF BLOG.

Hello people

This is wonder woman,

Now that the blog is online we can really start to bug each other even in the privacy of our own homes.

See you lot tomorrow.

P.S No fat chicks

To Start

Hi all.

Just a test post to see if everything is up and running.

Can you go into your googlemail account and accept the invitation for http://www.screeemfest.blogspot.com/ ?

Let me know when you do and I'll give you admin privileges.

Just adding a few images and a video or two to see if it all works. They may be too small, but we'll see. They are on medium setting.