Animated short "Myth"

In this topic I invite you to follow our progress, I will be grateful for your criticism of models, textures and other things - because we are not professionals in the field of cinema, much we learn from our mistakes.

PS. if my English seems strange to you, say thanks to the robot-translator. I own a few lower level language to freely communicate in the professional community, but it doesn’t bother me to communicate well with foreigners from all over the world not in English)

I hope you will get the same pleasure from participating in our project, what we get pleasure from our work.

Synopsis the history

The history of the created world as an illustration from the book I’m writing. The events of the cartoon are taken from the periphery of the world, not to hijack the plot of the book, but only to acquaint people with the world and its laws.

The history of animation tells the girl the doctor-the dream Walker in the beginning of her career in Verbarium. For unknown reasons, a remote village begins to die off and the doctor sent to the village to ascertain the reasons for the troubles. The girl was escorted to her beast, whom she brought out of the dream world and experienced Soulbornman* Verbarium*,

*Soulbornman" is a made - up word. In Russian – «воодушевитель». Roughly I can translate “soulbornman” as a cross between a midwife of ideas, director of art, hunter and executioner. So hard people.
*Verbarium - creative laboratory-museum, whose mission is to translate ideas and images of the subtle world in reality. This is the principle of their survival in the world. Nearly all the members of Verbarium people. And, like all men, they are able to make a mistake. Like a bestias.

Hello again!
The moderator finally missed my topic and I will gradually lay the groundwork for the cartoon.
Today our project is being the creation of storyboards and character designs. Some of them have already created a design, you can look at them.

One of the secondary character



The Beast - antihero in this story. I think our artist did an excellent job. Now I modeling it.



And now we finded the voice of one of main character. U can listen it.


Voice
https://yadi.sk/d/F7OoCQd4mbnZi

The voice of Soulbornman. It involves amazing luck - the prototype of the man
my friend and I can take his character and to insert in the cartoon is absolutely not me (except the voice).

Hi everyone.
We are still working on film. After 5 month we have done story, finish design some characters and now we creation storyboard and models. In October we supposed what have done all work in half of year) Now I suppose what all work will finished in 2-3 year.
If you interested desing, you can see there.
Art of Bestia 2


Concept art of child

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Hello again. Now we create a storyboard, concept of models. I want to ask you feedback - do have you a questions or some interest of our project? What do you thinking about it? May be something is not undestand.

Looks super cool so far.

Yeah, it’s looking great. I think when you start showing the results you get in blender people will be more interested!

The concept art is super cool! But it would be interesting to see some of the models. Keep up the good work :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot, my art group is working hard. Not hard, as I wish of course;)
Now we create a half of storyboard. I forgot one of my painterman and should create it singly. Models is very far, but we are sloooowly getting close. Please, answer me - do you easy to understand my posts? I have no good English, but speak enough, if random English-speaking travelers was not lied to me;) I want you to understand me easily.

Now I wish to tell you some of athmosphere of world. I created a specific world and try to show it in the film. I saw many films on main theme. Mostly it’s very old horrors and misterys (Frankenstein 1930, Metropolis 1950, Nospheraty and other).

And now I can open a little secret of my project. I very, very love France animated film “Le Petit Prince” (2015) and other France animated works. It is masterpiece. When we search style of character, we developed style the Prince. And I usually look this film on the frame, when I create a storyboard and someone not understand me. This film is a huge mine of knowledge if you know where to look.

I dont know what we create in finish, but I want to create a good mix horror and fairy tail. We many work on the spirit of story.

I use many good musik for inspiration and fall of atmosphere. I want to share

, this, this and this.
We are inspired by some by Hieronymus Bosch. But more on that another time, when the sketches are ready. The biggest challenge now is to correctly identify good and bad monsters. In next I will show a main bad guy.

By the way, we proceeded to rough voice. We searh the voises 6 month.

Have you seen work to simulation InfraRed-film with Blender nodes? We need it)
A half film well create in IR-spercter, when heroes live in dream. Now I dont know how to create IR-picture in Blender. (IR like this, 2, 3)

This looks really cool!
I think you should create separate materials for simulated infrared and for normal wave lengths. Also with some post processing can be achieved this kind of effect, but the materials would very much help with it. If you invert the colors from any nature photo and mix it with original in color mode and swap red and blue channels, you should be able to do something that looks almost infrared when showed in black and white. With masking etc you can go even further.

I did not think about materials, thanks)

This looks so absolutely mesmerizing or enchanting. The masks of the characters create such an interest for me. I’m intensely curious. The sketches convey a good mystery and fantasy. Looking forward to some environment examples too!

I know this is peripheral to a story your writing, but how long do you intend this animation to be?

If you do IR in post processing techniques, consider altering the focus of certain colors as well since the IR wavelengths focus differently - that might add to the dreaminess too.

Thank you, I try not to deceive your expectation.
How long - here comes the interesting point. I wrote the script based on 6 minutes. Now I drew half the storyboards and see that film climbs for 6 minutes. Sometimes one or two suggestions in the script that seem simple in text, work on ten shots instead of two on screen. The timing is quite slow (the example and ideal of the Little Prince, 2015). If the animatic works for me and I would like to strong change the script, the animation will take ~12-15 minutes. In fact its rather a piece of film than the short film. I learning in animation school and this is my diploma as an animator and director. This work do not require from us, this is personal goal.
We have not ready environment yet. Some of my artists disappear from time to time but they still working. I will show art when the environment be ready. Perhabs, I can to write a book «how to long work with disappear artists and without money» in finish of project.

Does anybody know how to create the visual selector?

Now we have an environment

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Six months later we finally got the concept of the main character - Maya. (In center and right. Two render - that she looks in really and dreamworld).

And start modeling. This one of a Beasts. Without polishing and cloth yet. Only base form.

[video]http://vk.com/video-104283016_456239018[/video]

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