Second semester of Junior year we had a class called pre-production. This was a course that we took to plan for our senior thesis film, which would be our final graduation projects. These films were similar to the cartoons that Pixar puts at the start of their movie, except of course for the level of quality, given that it was student work.
During pre-pro you had two thesis ideas you developed. As part of the process, these ideas were subjected to faculty critique at three points along the way, after which you would make changes. At the end of the year your two ideas were voted on by the faculty, and they picked which one you would develop. (Unless both passed, in which case you got to choose.) If neither of your ideas passed, then you didn't pass.
This semester, the Drawing for Animators class acted as a co-requestet to Pre-pro. Giving us a class in which we developed our character designs and environments for our thesis. At the end of the semester, we took our chosen idea, and added color studies and the like to it.
This is my chosen thesis. I'm pleased to say it passed, and had I chosen to stay at Ringling, this is the film I would have developed into a final 3D animation.
Note: the final video file is too big for blogger, so until I can find away around that, here's a version that was made close to the end. (The chicken was made slightly less obnoxious for the final)
Late Development:
This started off as the 1-min cow project I did in concept 3, found earlier in this blog.
The Barn:
The Chicken:
The Cow:
My teachers were a bit concerned with using particles in Maya, given all the other things I already had to do so I was encouraged to experiment with my fire stylistically.
Fire off:
Fire on:
Early Development:
Barn Sketches
Chicken Sketches I
Chicken sketches II
Chicken Rough
Cow Sketches
Cow Rough
