Summary of the last few days

I haven’t had time to write anything the last few days unfortunately, so I’ll try putting the essentials down in this post.

Andreas had a few suggestions about the temple exterior, so I made some changes to it at school on wednesday and thursday. I then put them on my memory stick so I could work some on it during the weekend and left school. Without the memory stick. No update on that front in other words. I’ll put it up in its current version at my earliest convenience. Whenever that may be.

Not being able to work more on the temple, I tried fitting it into some surroundings (I’ll replace the temple with the current version when I find my memory stick). As this is still the concept phase, 3D can take too long to do so I ended up finding images on the internet and mashed them together after a fashion in the top image of this post. The shadows aren’t right, but not too important in this case. I’ve made the temple, the road and the stars. The other components I’ve found. Landscapes were made by Ladyofspira. I don’t have anyones leave to use the images, but as it is only intended as a possible guideline for general looks and meant for the team only, I hope I won’t get too many lawyers banging on my door. If I’ve used your imagery and you want it removed, leave a comment here and I’ll take care of it at once.

On thursday, the group made radical changes to the story, for the better in my opinion. Jamie wrote the second draft of the story while the rest of the team was present. Andreas and I worked the story into a draft one treatment that afternoon:

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FLY-OVER CAM. Futuristic motorcycle driving high speed across desert landscape, suspicious DEVICE with timer countdown fastened to bike. Bike approaches destination, lights from fire in distance. Bike slows down, stops in front of entrance to HIGH-TECH TEMPLE, signs of recent destruction and mayhem. FEMALE dismounts bike, picks up device and moves into temple.

Female moves deeper into temple ruins. Inside temple enters LARGE CHAMBER showing recent signs of havoc and destruction.
Giant PILLAR thrown towards her. Barely dodges flying pillar but drops device. MALE in armour appears in end of room. Female spots giant ROBOT emerging behind him. Robot backhands Male out of the way, charges against her.

Female runs against charging robot, leaps to attack. Attack dodged, giant FIST punches her, throwing her across room.

Male’s attention drawn to device. Runs towards it but stopped by robot attacking him. He attacks back, misses, robot throws him across room, through BRICK WALL. Female lunges for device, stopped by robot grabbing her. Robot pins her to floor with foot, about to crush her with fist, but knocked back by flying AXE hitting its face, from Male emerging from rubble. Female free, grabs SWORD and thrusts it through robots head.

Robot shuts down, falls to ground. Heroes stand over destroyed, inactive robot. Long awkward SILENCE. Countdown reaches zero.

Device gives distinct BEEP, breaks silence.

Female: (Neutral tone) Your lunch is ready…

Male: (neutral tone) Thanks. (Pause) So what’s for dinner tonight honey?

Female: (in same tone) Leftovers…

Male: What?! You said you where making meatloaf!

Female: (Irritated) Yeah! And you said you would fix the sink! That was last week! And what about the dog?! He smells like week old crap!

Couple walks away, arguing like typical married couple.

Finally, since the arrival of the aforementioned device, we’ve been in need of a count down display. As compositing etc. is my area, I spent some hours this weekend trying to create such a count down in Nuke. I had to do some light programming, something I haven’t done in a long time. Luckily I got some help from the good guys over at fxphd and I got it working in the end. This is a temporary design and will probably change, but decided to put it up anyway:

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Tomorrow we’ll work more on the storyboard for the presentation coming up this coming Thursday.