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Archive for August, 2009

Finally these brushes are out, for all to grab….

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How to create a template for a storyboard

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Now with the brushes out of the way,  David set up basic design principles for our storyboarders to follow while they create the storyboards.  This meant creating a template for the storyboards.

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David’s tutorials on creating character brushes in GIMP continues.  Both tutorials have examples of PH2PC characters.

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In order to gain efficiencies in our storyboard processing we decided to create character brushes in Gimp. Here is the first tutorial done by David Purchase on how to create these brushes.

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Character Emotion Sheets

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Hi Everone, just finished up these model sheets for our three lead characters, Turk, Pavo, and Bella.  These main emotions are only a few included in all the brushes i’ve created for aid in storyboarding…

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8 minute short project planning underway

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

One of the first things after the euphoria of the success at siggraph to ebb, was the realization that we have a huge task a head of us. Developing a good project plan as we did for the preview is the first thing we needed to do.

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Based on classical Indian dance premise that all we need are 9 emotions that a character needs to express themselves, David Purchase started our journey in creating a mood sheet for our characters.

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PH2PC Preview Premiered at Siggraph 2009

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The 15 second preview to PH2PC  was very well received at Siggraph 2009.  The general concensus was marvel at what we were able to accomplish in 3 weeks.

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We Did IT! 15 sec teaser done in 3 weeks.

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

This amazing team pulled it off. We had the Prince Harming to Prince Charming teaser done in 3 weeks.

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