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background rocks for the cave environment, and a tree stump for the forest environment.

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progress images of main tree prop and spiked branches used for forest environment.

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Background Models for forest environment

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Background models for forest environment

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2D Backdrops for Forest Environment

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Animatic by Serena :P

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Animatic

-  Turn your sound down low lol :P

music by Sigur Rós - Takk

sound effects FreeSFX and FreeSound

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STORYBOOK

The narration doesn't do the story any favours but making the storybook was a good exercise that helped restructure the story for the better.

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Character design: Tree

1) Finalised design more in line with what modelling will require, but keeping the main focus of the initial one. Feet became more like little stumps, and the head is now hollowed out at the back. 

2) Isolating the segments of the character design. 

3) Some further development sketches

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Character Design: Bear

1) refined bear designs, kept same colour palette as initial design. More muscular, wider shoulders, and an alternate take on the chest bone armour. 

2) details and alternate angles on bone gauntlets

3) development sketches for Bear character

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More of Zoe’s concept drawings for 3D assets and a cave wall texture test.

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Cave Environment/Lighting Test

Similar to Tree Environment this was composited in Maya using image planes and 3D Models. Also a test with lighting a glowing mushroom.

not original assets

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This guy has really weird pacing and lot of unnecessary pauses. Not sure how that happened since we are obviously master wordsmiths.

This is the original audio - for the final storybook it was changed quite a bit in Audacity, removing awkward pauses and a few words here and there.

Narration by tacomusic

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Storybook images updated for the story changes.

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Orb Lighting Test

First test with Orb lighting in an environment. This was done using a glow shader and a point light as the light source. I will be exploring alternatives in after effectts as it has more flexabilty without having to re-render an entire scene.

We’re happy with the brightness of the orb but have chosen to decrease the radius of the glow effect.

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Storybook Narration

In a dark and eerie forest a glowing orb of light appears floating slowly through the trees.

The orb settles near the largest tree illuminating a split down the middle, waking a figure inside.

The disturbed tree creature dislodges itself from the tree and reaches out to touch the orb.

The orb retracts and floats away, beckoning the tree creature further into the woods.

The creature weakly stumbles as it follows the orb along a rough path.

He is led to the entrance of a cave and hesitantly follows the orb inside.

He is greeted by a bear-like creature surrounded by these glowing orbs and is summoned over.

The orbs begin to circle around the two characters, spinning faster and faster forming a sphere of light that engulfs them both.

The lights fade, the characters are gone, and a sapling is left in their place.

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TEXT TREATMENT

The film begins with an establishing shot panning across a dark, eerie forest with tall trees that cover up the sky. An orb of light appears left of centre and floats into the forest, the camera tracks the orb until it settles near the largest tree.

There is a split in the tree where a figure is barely visible. The orb floats over to the crack and the camera changes to a close up, where the orb illuminates a tree character. The tree character wakes up and emerges from the crack. He is entranced by the orb and tries to touch it, but it floats out of reach. He continues to try and grab the orb, and weakly stumbles after it, leaning on trees for support.

The camera cuts to a long shot, where the tree character follows the orb to a path lit by other orbs, and stumbles along the path into the distance. The path of orbs leads the tree character to an entrance of a cave where he initially hesitates, before following the orbs in to the cave. He enters the cave which is lit only by the orbs. There are surreal plants and giant mushrooms growing out of the rocks.

Cut to an over the shoulder angle of the tree character, who is looking at a bear character sitting cross legged and hovering in the air, surrounded by orbs. The tree character approaches, there is a point of view shot looking up at the bear.

The tree character tentatively moves closer and closer to the bear character, the bear character raises his hands, the orbs spin faster and faster, forming a sphere of light that engulfs both characters. The light gets brighter and brighter, until there is a flash of light and all that is left is a sapling left growing where the characters used to be.