Junk Food (Production Blog)

The Autumn of Junkfood (The final leaves Hold strong)

2009-06-02T13:43:00.000-07:00

Its nearing the end of the term...and the end of the year, everyone on edge, blood pressure is high, our director Mr Harrison is suffering from a slight stress induced temporal memory loss.

The textures are all done, The modelling is all done, all thats left now is the animation, rendering and Post Production.

Myself, Chris and Ajdin are the Post production people so were gonna be after effecting the movie until the early hours. Our groups come a long way...sure weve had a few setbacks...and a few more even larger ones, its been a bit of a bumpy ride, but i think now that everyones feeling the pressure were starting to work more as a team. Some of us are using our tiny tiny tiny smidgen of spare time to fill our other folders, I began doing some animation tests on sophies skirt using different deformers and keying them whilst Natasha has been practicing the Dynamics that i taught her the other day. Mehmets breaking his back animating, Louis is working till the early early hours (he works whilst the sun sleeps) and Chris is finalising a texture.

The final few kinks we have now are the huge size and ammount of memory these scenes require, converting the textures from .TIFFS to 24 and 16 bit TGA files seems to decrease the memory burden on maya a tiny bit but nothing extreem.
Everyones a little worried about the movie, and we recieved some rather harsh yet honest words from Daniel Dali on Monday, and that seems to have put some people into shock induced work mode now ^_^ which is great, everyones powering onwards.

Good luck to you all guys.
Were gonna need it

Festival in June!

2009-04-07T15:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/

Submissions for JUNE 2009.

I think we should enter. It would be a good oppertunity to be a part of.

Opening Sequence Refference

2009-03-31T07:30:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick refference for the opening scene of the movie, refference is taken from Final Fantasy VII opening Sequence.
This is just for the sequence where the camera pans through what looks like space and eventually down to sophie's zepplin model.

More References!!

2009-03-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

So even tho everyone decided that the grave stones will be made up of bits of junk and a little bit of stone, these are just a few pics that can help us get an idea of what can be created for the graveyard, (mainly to help me get some inspiration for modelling the grave stones/plaques)

2009-02-24T18:50:00.001-08:00

We're busy!

Nice little animation:

9 Trailer - and some incredible referrence material!

2009-01-21T13:57:00.000-08:00

I remember seeing a short animated film called 9, directed and made by Shane Acker, a year or so (maybe longer) ago, it's incredible to realise how an animated short could - and now has been turned into a full length feature film. It's directed by Tim Burton, and has voice acting by celebrity actors including Elijah Wood.. Just incredible, to go from such humble beginnings as an independent film producer to go to the big screen with such calibre and class as Burton on board.. So this is what us animators should aspire to, think big, deffinately..

And the original animated short it's based on:

And just one more for good measure; Jojo in the Stars, Directed by Marc Craste, 2003, Studio AKA.

Furthermore, I've found an interesting website with plenty of great steampunk, dieselpunk, and anything else in between: it's updated on a daily basis, and has a whole host of different articles and images. 'The Gatehouse'

Day One - Louis D.

2008-12-04T19:47:00.001-08:00

>>Junk Food Main Gallery here<<

Halo 3: ODST Trailer............

2008-12-02T15:17:00.000-08:00

Even though we have our style and ideas etc. pretty clear in our heads now, thought I'd add this trailer as inspiration for our environments. It has some really nice 'wreck' and atmosphere refference which I think is quite similar to what we have in mind.

Plus it's a cool trailer :P................. Enjoy.........................

Production Scheduals

2008-11-30T14:44:00.000-08:00

Right guys, ali's asked me to post this on his behalf, Chris i think it'd be a good idea to invite ali to post on the blog too, as he is the producer of the movie..
Here we go.

Environment Research

2008-11-14T07:30:00.000-08:00

Inspiration

2008-11-14T04:07:00.001-08:00

How Cool!!.. They both inspire me XD

My storyboards

2008-11-04T01:41:00.001-08:00

These are the storyboards so far, il upload more as i do them, some are colored some are not,...some are bad others aren't...drawing from my mind isn't exactly my strong point sorry guys, il retouch them though see if i can make them look a little nicer.

MoodBoards

2008-11-03T10:06:00.001-08:00

Not much, but just to get our creativity flowing :)

Trinket Idea

2008-11-03T03:58:00.001-08:00

Some photos showing a necklace I have. Nice research, giving us ideas of how we could design our trinket XD

Fallout 3 TV Trailer

2008-11-02T16:06:00.000-08:00

Trailer for the newly released game Fallout 3. A good source of refference and inspiration for JUNK FOOD'S visual style and mashup of themes................

(The robot in the beggining of the trailer in particular could help with the robot designs)

1 More IRON MAN...........

2008-11-02T07:32:00.000-08:00

The shot taken without camera flash :P.......

I am... IRON MAN

2008-11-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

While up London on friday, we came across 'IRON MAN' ... he looks really cool! We thought this would be good reference to help us design the robot for our film!

Research/ relevent stuff

2008-11-01T05:58:00.001-07:00

Well here are some works by a few different artists, the 1st one looks like junk but really its just a famous Japanese warship (which the name escapes me as of now) but it looks old and scrap like (it is from WWII so it is pretty old).

This is form MEGA ZONE 23, its an anime set in a 1960s retro futuristic world, in certain areas its in similar style to the junk world which you have envisioned mr Coah
Some concept art from WALL-E (its almost impossible to find stuff on this movie...i wonder why its so secretive).

A nice random image found online, it has a robot so i posted it.
Right now im working on the storyboard's for you man, il have them done sometime in the coming week, hopefully Monday or Tuesday, i forget what date the formative is though.

Architecture

2008-10-30T10:02:00.000-07:00

'Hugh Ferris,' - really good reference for architecture in the 1920's.

This artist who created perspective drawings for buildings influenced settings in films such as; Gotham City in Batman and the film 'Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.'

Images below from the film 'Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow.'

Very similar feel to Ferriss' work with a futuristic approach.

Poo: The 2nd Coming

2008-10-30T08:49:00.001-07:00

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Poo

2008-10-30T08:38:00.000-07:00

^_^

2008-10-30T08:29:00.000-07:00

\( ^_^)/
Yay we have a group blog. ^_^

The start

2008-10-29T15:07:00.001-07:00