Hello whoever had left that post would you kindly leave your name at the bottom, this has been mentioned more then once in this blog already.

The trees for starts are not small, they are in proportion to the characters which will be six inches tall, if you walk into the stop motion room and pick up one of the cardboard characters and put them next to the tree, you will see they are in proportion and that there is a nice variety of shapes and sizes. Also swamp trees such as mangroves are thin and not big thick forest trees. Also if you look at the wire frame of the one I was making with me in the photo against my body size you can see its not small and once it has been built up it will appear larger and thicker.

Why haven't we used sticks and wood. Well if that had been suggested earlier we would have considered using more of such things, as it stands its cold and wet outside, and the trees are so big in the parks you cant reach to snap bits off. There is also the fact of the amount of wildlife we did not want to bring back. I'm sure wood worm, wooly bugs, and silver fish would not be appreciated in the animation room and I'm sure disinfectant would not be claimed back on the budget. Though I think the largest argument would be we all like making things, and all prefered making things from scratch to suit our needs perfectly then waisting hours in the cold then looking for that perfect branch.

If you go into the stop motion room you will see that Steven has sourced some dried wood we are using in the video. I apologise there are not photos of those on here but I can't document what everyones doing at once on here thats their own responsibility. Also we felt making these style trees meant are requirements are met to match it up with the animatic, you simply don't get mangroves and swamp trees growing outside the university. If we where making Robin Hood fair enough. I feel the trees made so far also show level of proffesionalism and effort.

If this does not answer your question whoever you maybe then I am willing to discuss further, but I feel I have said enough to prove the point. I would appreciate if other members of the group signed on and left their thoughts on this.

~Hayley Warner

trees

any reason why your trees are not made from sticks and twigs?

they really look like small trees

10th Nov 2009...

A nice productive day. cheers for recording the work Hayley. i'm really liking the way the trees are turning out, can't wait to see them painted.

The animatic is looking alot clearer now and i think theres only the cabin and end scene to finish now.

~Dave

Tuesday 10th November 2009 Group Progress

Hello everyone Hayley here ^_^. I have lots of photos here I’ve uploaded but that’s because we have all had a very productive day. Just about everyone minus one person (Laura Warner – is she ok I haven’t seen her in a while?) turned up today and everyone’s worked their socks off being there nearly all of the day, David and I were the last ones to leave the basement at about 7.30pm and the others had gone only shortly before that.

David and James focused on the animatic mainly throughout the day, and Steven did some frames for it this morning and I had a little play with the editing this evening. Grace, Steven and I though mainly focused on tree building today, and went shopping together to buy PVA glue and paint, brushes etc, all bought at the cheapest possible prices. Ben came in today as well but went home to work as he had access to more useful tools at home so it was easier for him to work there. Even though the group split into two most of the day into a set team and animatic finishing team so that we were getting the most possible work done, we have all been talking to each other and giving feedback on the different parts.

I apologise for the shoddy labelling as I did it in paint, but I felt it was useful to label all the photos to show who did what. My apologies also to James’ and Ben as I did most of the photos this evening and didn’t get a chance to photo you both, but I think I’ve made it clear enough in this you both had been there today.

~Hayley Warner

Me and Ben made some tests trees sunday. Grace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkEcCZQeTyM
Hey guys this is a link for armatures, how to make them if anybody wants to have a go at it for testing as we have started testing trees and that, i will post photos of tree building later.

Also as for meeeting tomorow is 1pm good for everybody at jm46?we need to make a list of things we need 2 buy for set building and go out shopping together, nobody forget their wallets! we will give adam recips to get our moneys back via the budget.

Grace.

Hey guys, sum awesome swamp pix to peruse, for tree n general set buildin reference...

From Ben.