Today our team went to Flickerpix to have our next meeting with Joel, this was super exciting as we were able to see inside their studio and actually get a feel for how they work. It was really interesting seeing their workspace and their models around their studio, it really felt like a lovely environment to work in, with lovely people working there. It was also great seeing the room where they film all their stop motion animations, they had some intricate models out for one of their recent projects that they are working on.
After Joel gave us the tour and we had talked to the other employees that were there we then went into Joel’s office to update him on our progress. We showed him our presentation that we had created for our last class as it had everything up to date, we talked through it with Joel and he gave us feedback on where he felt needed some changes.
For the Grace model, he felt that the face needed to be more of a V shape, with the head being more top heavy, so add a tiny bit more of a forehead with more pronounced S curves. He also said to make the hair more fluffy as he always sees her with fluffy untamed hair. While on the topic of hair we talked about how the hair would realistically be tied back when you are horse riding as you wouldn’t want to have hair blowing in your face and if he wants the animation to be education its something to consider. So I am going to make the changes as said before and then move on to creative a variation of hair that is tied back and will work with the hat, which will include the pigtails, french braid, plait in pigtails and a low ponytail. When doing the hair I will also make sure to have the strands of hair at the side of her face as that is one of the main requests that he wants.
Joel then requested that the nose should be made more of a button as he felt that it was too flat, he wanted more of the curves of the face to show through so that’s an easy fix that I can apply to the sculpt and send to Joel to get confirmation on the head sculpt.
We then discussed the new horse concept that we had created which he loved and we talked about how we wanted to make it resemble more of a connemara horse rather than a shetland horse.
Rebecca Animates 