House of Horrors

Weekly Progress:
Our goals this week were to
1. Refine the story idea
2. Create a rough story reel
3. Add a temp audio track

Our weekly progress can be seen in this Quicktime Animation.

Marbles

Goals for this week:
1) Define main story points. This will help us narrow down our research needs.
2) Design main character(s).
3) Come up with some alternate story moments that may be added in to help flesh out the main story.

Presentation Slides - here

These slides contain the first draft of our story beats, followed by some concept art for our hero marble and track designs, and finally some test renders of some volumetric glass concepts.

Expansion Slides - here

These are the new slides for Thursday, they further define the conflicts our hero faces after he loses his reflection.

Full Story Slides - here

This a merged version of the above two slideshows that only contains the story panels giving the full order of events.

Here are some initial animation and rigging tests based on our hero marble's design:
1) Interior freely rotating - here
2) Interior following shell - here
3) Zero G Fluid (Satellite test) - here

House of Horrors

Weekly Progress:
Our goals this week were to
1. Research Architecture for our mansion
2. Research Skeletons for our character
3. Each person created 3 visual moments they wanted to see in the film
4. Take the visual moments and create a story overview
5. Create record keeping and project naming conventions/standards
6. Discuss and assign individual responsibilities in the project

Our weekly progress can be seen in this Powerpoint Presentation.

House of Horrors

by Dan Morella

A man must face his fears or appear a coward.

Pitch Slides

Marbles

by Jonathan Lequire

A marble track that represents different journeys through life.

Pitch Slides

Inked

by Zach Trabookis

A story about a man and his struggle to contain his lifelong inner struggles and experiences.

Tattooed man is seen walking through a desolate desert where his life seems bleak at best. He begins to hear voices all around him and he begins to notice his tattoed illustrations moving. A rain storm arrives and washes off the tattooes, as if, the man is released (cleansed) from his cursed past. He struggles to get up and continue his journey forward; the tattooed man doesn't realize it but the cursed tattooes can never be rid of, as we see one formulating on his back as he leaves.

Pitch Slides

Demise of the Impressionist

by Trae Murray

Adding life to paintings through animation and cinema.

Pitch Slides