Wednesday, 16 January 2008

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.

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

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

Sunday, 13 January 2008

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.

Saturday, 12 January 2008

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.



Friday, 11 January 2008

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.

Thursday, 10 January 2008

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.

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Contestant Animation

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



And a quick test render of my contestant animation:

Monday, 7 January 2008

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

Sunday, 6 January 2008

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.

Thursday, 3 January 2008

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.

Wednesday, 2 January 2008

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: