Film completion and release!!! Exciting stuff

Well it's done! Histoires Petite Pomme is complete as of the early hours of Tuesday morning. Simon Kong has completed the Flash folio and Jonno and I are working on completing the promotional package and presentation ready for tomorrow afternoon.

It was a hard slog of several late nights and then 40 hours straight in the computer room but we did it. I am happy with our final film but if we had started earlier we definitely could have improved several scenes and the overall quality of the film. Jonno did a great job editing the final cut and the song "I think I like you too" goes perfectly with the action and really helps create an up beat mood and fast pace.

Our class presentation and film premiere are tomorrow at 1pm an Fenji Lecture theatre so if you're free please come along and support Nice Pear Studios in our first film release.

Cheers,

Cam.

Changes!

Well the shot from the wedding (3 posts down) is now not in the film...just slightly annoyed considering I spent ages making new characters and dressing Mr Apple... *sigh* oh well... It is being replaced by the newspaper article, maybe if we'd had more sleep we would have thought of this earlier. On the positive side it means I don't have to do as much animating. yay?


Actually having a great time despite the stress, lack of sleep etc.

NEWS!!! New Character and edit progress

He's awesome! Made him at some ridiculous hour this morning. I know I said there were other things to do but at the same time you have to have fun with it.

Well all-nighter it is. Jonno is currently working on the edit and I'm about to start on my final shot, the all important Monsieur Banane CU reaction shot after the reveal of Baby Banane. Simon is working on the first shot of the hospital scene. the end of the animating is in sight... BUT we still haven't started our Flash folio or begun editing our promotional package so not sure if we will have time and have to forfit the marks for that...hope not.

We've done amazingly well so far considering we only started last week but still much more work to do. Looking forward to sleep and a shower!

Better get back to work.

Wedding scene update

Still very rough but coming along well.

Mr and Ms Pomme's happy day.

If time I will add more wedding guests to the right hand side of the shot and animate Mr Pomme to kiss Ms Pomme but we still have more important shots to do and scenes to finish so they come first as this shot already tells a story and wont look so static with a zoom.

CU shot of Monsieur Banane at Mr and Ms Pomme's wedding. Will be zoomed in on in Premiere to include bottom of beret and top of the scarf.
Sooooo many hours of work for one second of animation but I am so happy with it
Enjoy :)

Wedding Scene progress

Well Nice Pear Studios staff are practically living at university at the moment, many late nights. We have made great progress and things are coming along well. I've had several problems with Flash in the last 24-48 hours where files some how became 'read-only' and I wasn't able to export them as Quick Time files so I may have to copy and paste all the layers and frames into a new Flash file...very frustrating. Any way this is the Church Int. shot 1 but the background is about to change and it is not tweened yet so it's fairly rough but I'm sure you'll get the idea. We will continue editing tonight adding the music and SFX that Jonno and I have been gathering. I'm glad I have done editing before and had access to the media mac labs for the SFX library. I'm hoping to at least get a rough cut of the completed and semi completed scenes tonight. Better get back to work and fingers crossed that Flash doesn't crash on me again. If it does the whole of 508 will know about it! Cam :)
Ps. Ignore the first 4 second of the video, due to Flash crashing while I was saving I had to use an older version and haven't edited that yet. Left it in to show the shadow as Ms. Pomme will fade in.