Hello All!
Well, I think last week was one of the hardest of my whole life! Starting with my work, which makes me stay working from 12 to 14 hours a days, and even at the sunday I worked around 9 hours!!! I can't lie saying it was horrible, because I got some good time with my colleges, eating pizzas, seting up a photography studio, 3D modeling, ping pong, papercraft etc. But the thing which made everything harder was my soul who was in a very inspired mood and keeps me awaken writing and research for the Dearest Chameleon. This happened especially because the team is growing up and everybody is excited with the project, so it is difficult to not get involved on it!
At least I can say that the pre production phase is in its early end, needing just some adjustments at the treatment to be ready to GO!
this week I would like to introduce a newcomer!
Daniel Ferreira Florêncio
Daniel is a photographer by profession, he really loves what he does and has already won a national prize of photography. He lived at Portugal for one year where he had some experiences with cinema, and at the split of those two interests, Daniel will assume a place at the Photography direction of the animation.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Expanding!
Hello all!
Well, with this post I happily announce that the Dearest Chameleon will grow up!
Last week, Lucas, Guilherme and me had a conversation about the idea of studio Sagwee and we decided to transform the project, at least by the moment, into a independent animation's producer.
We decided this because, for the moment, it would be much more interesting for us if we just keep going on our studies and career, in order to gain more experience and practice and, maybe, later in the future, we can consolidate the Sagwee better.
After those decisions we decided to hug a production and make it happens, then I suggested to use the Dearest Chameleon and now we`re all into it! Wohoo!
This is pretty cool, because now we are expanding in a whole huge range the possibility to make the animation something pretty decent, using a well organized team with around 20 people.
We set, at the moment some functions for the "Sagwees":
So, let's introduce the newcomers!
He is a big buddy of me, who loves animation and geek jobs! He is a co-founder of the Sagwee idea, and we have been working in some projects together for almost 2 yeas. His specialties are related to the CGI and he is joining to assume the Post-Production Direction but to work Also as 3D Artist. Lucas really likes to draw and to create concepts, so, early at the project he will assist the Scenery designers.
As a Sagwee's CEO, he is also getting a job at the production, doing the Human Relations to help making the worker's life better :)
He is a great friend, who shares the taste for animation and games, and was the first to say me "Hey, let's make some 3D projects together" and after it, Sagwee was born!
He is also interested for CGI and will manly take the position of the 3D Modeling Director. But will work also as a Material Designer, in the shading department and Character designer. Guilherme is also involved with the production as assistant.
Well, see you at the next post!
Well, with this post I happily announce that the Dearest Chameleon will grow up!
Last week, Lucas, Guilherme and me had a conversation about the idea of studio Sagwee and we decided to transform the project, at least by the moment, into a independent animation's producer.
We decided this because, for the moment, it would be much more interesting for us if we just keep going on our studies and career, in order to gain more experience and practice and, maybe, later in the future, we can consolidate the Sagwee better.
After those decisions we decided to hug a production and make it happens, then I suggested to use the Dearest Chameleon and now we`re all into it! Wohoo!
This is pretty cool, because now we are expanding in a whole huge range the possibility to make the animation something pretty decent, using a well organized team with around 20 people.
We set, at the moment some functions for the "Sagwees":
So, let's introduce the newcomers!
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| Lucas Almeida de Carvalho! |
As a Sagwee's CEO, he is also getting a job at the production, doing the Human Relations to help making the worker's life better :)
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| Guilherme Gonçalves Santos! |
He is a great friend, who shares the taste for animation and games, and was the first to say me "Hey, let's make some 3D projects together" and after it, Sagwee was born!
He is also interested for CGI and will manly take the position of the 3D Modeling Director. But will work also as a Material Designer, in the shading department and Character designer. Guilherme is also involved with the production as assistant.
Well, see you at the next post!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Cut & Paste - Berlin
Hey!
So, I'm got a big insomnia today, probably because the south american Mate that I drunk some hours ago, haha, but, anyway, this gives me the perfect opportunity to write about the Cut & Paste - Berlin.
I was there last week to see this uncommon format of event, which can be also considered a "Design Sport", haha. The cut and paste is basically a competition between designers who applied for 3 categories, 2D, 3D and Motion graphics. Except by the final results, the 2D and 3D are much more interesting, because the contestants must produce their works by a given concept in 15 minutes, and in front of everybody who is watching!
Well, I went to there to learn something about animation, which basically didn't happen, but in other hand now I am convinced that is possible to make extremely fast jobs and obtain some considerable good results at the end. The following pictures show a little bit of the event, I ask special attention to the last one, which was the most impressive thing at the night, a guy modeling an "academy perfect" fat guy in 15 minutes using z-brush and 3ds max!
Well, about the main subject of this Blog, the animation that I am directing and producing, I can say that the last tasks done was script's correction and also the 19 new frames for the storyboard, which are much better now then was before, I'll post one frame to you guys take a look.
Now it's being much easier to work because when I went to Berlin, I also took my scanner which was in my friends house since I moved to Hamburg.
OK folks, This is what I got for today. Next post will be more trilling, I am almost at the end of the "Directors Interpretation" and this week I had a conversation with a college from the post production company of Markenfilm Group, Infected. Now I am more confident to talk about methodology and starting sharing some useful information with people who wants to work in the CGI Motion Graphics area.
So, I'm got a big insomnia today, probably because the south american Mate that I drunk some hours ago, haha, but, anyway, this gives me the perfect opportunity to write about the Cut & Paste - Berlin.
I was there last week to see this uncommon format of event, which can be also considered a "Design Sport", haha. The cut and paste is basically a competition between designers who applied for 3 categories, 2D, 3D and Motion graphics. Except by the final results, the 2D and 3D are much more interesting, because the contestants must produce their works by a given concept in 15 minutes, and in front of everybody who is watching!
Well, I went to there to learn something about animation, which basically didn't happen, but in other hand now I am convinced that is possible to make extremely fast jobs and obtain some considerable good results at the end. The following pictures show a little bit of the event, I ask special attention to the last one, which was the most impressive thing at the night, a guy modeling an "academy perfect" fat guy in 15 minutes using z-brush and 3ds max!
People waiting for the beginning.
The stage of the chalenges
This picture was taken after 10 minutes from the beginning of the 3D competition.
Scares me.
Weel, more information and pictures about the event you can find at the following URL:
Take a look! Maybe there will be on also in your city :D
OK folks, This is what I got for today. Next post will be more trilling, I am almost at the end of the "Directors Interpretation" and this week I had a conversation with a college from the post production company of Markenfilm Group, Infected. Now I am more confident to talk about methodology and starting sharing some useful information with people who wants to work in the CGI Motion Graphics area.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Drastic changes
Well, it passed 10 days since the last post and, well, the project changed a lot!
As the previsions said, I started some steps deeper steps of the pre-production (like sketching and photoshoping concepts), but then, I saw that I wasn't comfortable with the way where to the whole thing was going.
The screenplay and the storyboard are okay, still keeping a story which I consider deep enough to be interesting, but, well, the message was too childly, too happy! Damn, those felling deviate the animation for a direction that once I would like, but now I am not feeling really comfortable with it.
So, I reviewed my last design and photography jobs to see what kind of design are truly myself. I found the answer and tried to translate to some concept arts. At that moment I saw how strange is when a designer, which strict visual and symbolical studies think a screenplay. I prefer to express my ideas with images, not with text, hehe. If you see the screenplay of the animation, it looks like a lot of notes put together and with some connective prepositions. Well, let`s see how it'll end :)
Now, I pretend to follow a language which is more symbolical and meaningful, using some original and ironic graphic elements. Take a look over the actual Blog's banner, you can see a photo-montage which translate the general idea about how the scenery will looks like, and I am posting also now two concepts for the male character, but those, of course, still needing much more work.
Well, thanks for reading, this always makes me feel more inspired to proceed the workful task.
Next post, which I hope do at the weekend, I'll upload some photos and a short resume about the Berlin's Cut&Paste 2010, which fortunately I went last week :D
Best Regards
rodrigo janz
As the previsions said, I started some steps deeper steps of the pre-production (like sketching and photoshoping concepts), but then, I saw that I wasn't comfortable with the way where to the whole thing was going.
The screenplay and the storyboard are okay, still keeping a story which I consider deep enough to be interesting, but, well, the message was too childly, too happy! Damn, those felling deviate the animation for a direction that once I would like, but now I am not feeling really comfortable with it.
So, I reviewed my last design and photography jobs to see what kind of design are truly myself. I found the answer and tried to translate to some concept arts. At that moment I saw how strange is when a designer, which strict visual and symbolical studies think a screenplay. I prefer to express my ideas with images, not with text, hehe. If you see the screenplay of the animation, it looks like a lot of notes put together and with some connective prepositions. Well, let`s see how it'll end :)
Now, I pretend to follow a language which is more symbolical and meaningful, using some original and ironic graphic elements. Take a look over the actual Blog's banner, you can see a photo-montage which translate the general idea about how the scenery will looks like, and I am posting also now two concepts for the male character, but those, of course, still needing much more work.
Well, thanks for reading, this always makes me feel more inspired to proceed the workful task.
Next post, which I hope do at the weekend, I'll upload some photos and a short resume about the Berlin's Cut&Paste 2010, which fortunately I went last week :D
Best Regards
rodrigo janz
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Cool chameleon
Well, the things are going faster now, iei!
I got almost all the footage that I need for the mood-boards and with good perspectives I can start the production of the animation yet in the end of November!
I found a very nice illustration made by the artist Gregor Corsic and I want to share it with you!
This illustration was made almost with the same concept of a commercial made last year in the company that I'm now working. It is one of my favorites advertising movies. (I have strong reasons to believe that the final scene was recording in the place that we use to do our lunch pick nicks, ehhe, gotta ask someone Monday).
I got almost all the footage that I need for the mood-boards and with good perspectives I can start the production of the animation yet in the end of November!
I found a very nice illustration made by the artist Gregor Corsic and I want to share it with you!
This illustration was made almost with the same concept of a commercial made last year in the company that I'm now working. It is one of my favorites advertising movies. (I have strong reasons to believe that the final scene was recording in the place that we use to do our lunch pick nicks, ehhe, gotta ask someone Monday).
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Finally I finished the storyboard and moved the blog to a better platform, the blogger, ehehe. My original plan was to make a whole design and personalized layout for the blog, but now I think this is just a waste of time which I could be working in the animation itself.
I'm starting now the pitching process of the animation, collecting a lot of images and references videos. I pretend to finish until the end of November, a document with all kind of concepts that will be used during the production of the animation, it is going to help me to keep focused and to create the whole idea of how the animation will look likes even before it started to be done.
According to the quality of the finished document I'll think about found collection our inviting some volunteers to help on the production :) (so, if you feel interested, leave a post or e-mail me).
Here goes a very nice picture of a chameleon which I found trough some researches.
The photographer is called Igor Siwanowicz and you can find more of his work at the website:
http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1783374
I'm starting now the pitching process of the animation, collecting a lot of images and references videos. I pretend to finish until the end of November, a document with all kind of concepts that will be used during the production of the animation, it is going to help me to keep focused and to create the whole idea of how the animation will look likes even before it started to be done.
According to the quality of the finished document I'll think about found collection our inviting some volunteers to help on the production :) (so, if you feel interested, leave a post or e-mail me).
Here goes a very nice picture of a chameleon which I found trough some researches.
The photographer is called Igor Siwanowicz and you can find more of his work at the website:
http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1783374
Monday, October 11, 2010
Oh noooo, I begun the animation with the left foot! Hahha, I took 1 week to make half storyboard and that doesn't include the reviews and remakes. But OK, that happened also because this week I had to work in my graduation project from the Design course and also a quite exhausting week at Markenfilm's Art Department. Here goes an image of the storyboard, to prove that I'm really working, hehe.
Well, see you in the next post!
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