Textures

Appearance First Pass

Chair

Only see a small portion of the top left of the back cushion. This is the important part.

Money Bags

Lighting Key and Ref

Writing Shaders, Failure, Success

Target Shader Style:
My goal in shading started out as an attempt to re-create the toony-illustrative style of TF2, Meet Buck, and Mac N Cheese.

TF2 came with lots of documentation on their shaders (including a SIGGRAPH paper), so I tried to follow that style most. TF2 uses view-independent diffuse components and view dependent shader components (duh). What makes it unique is the way shadows are driven. Artists use ramps to drive the color gradient across shadows and at the terminator.

My ramp driven shader using a half-lambertian function to allow the light to wrap around the object:

Once lights were attached and diffuse was attached my ramp effect was lost :( Unfortunately I've found the application of this effect in RSL is now defunct.

With that said, I've scrapped the shader until I get a stroke of genius and gone plain ole diffuse/spec/normal map texture routes.

Shading and Material Key

Shading/Material Key

Shading Reference Larger:

SLIM diffuse shading and reference

Basic Color Palette - No lighting

Reference
 

 

Shoe Modeling

Preliminary Shoe Model:

654 poly

3D Animatic/Blocking WIP

A WIP of my 3D animatic, focusing primarily on blocking and getting the camera layout just right.

Storyboard and Animatic

Idiom: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Final Idiom Idea

Don't put all your eggs in one basket: Birds will be betting on an earthworm race in the front yard of some suburbian house. One bird slaps down all his money on the fastest, best earthworm who typically wins all of the races he enters. Another bird advises him against it but bird #1 is very sure of his decision. They settle down for the race start and the gun fires. As soon as all the earthworms take off a kid runs through their "track" and squishes the fast worm. Animation ends with a shot of the birds' mouths hanging open.

Other Ending Ideas: Another bird or animal swoops in and steals the worm. This will call for extra animation and modeling as opposed to the foot/shoe of a kid.

Idiom Ideas

Kick the Bucket - Could be fun
Like a Chicken with its head cut off
You are what you eat
Back Seat Driver
Break a Leg

Don't judge a book by its cover - old bic pen replaced by those fancy multi-ink pens. All the kids are using the multi-ink pens and they laugh and make fun of the plain pen. In the end the plain pen transforms into some mega-super-ultra pen and totally owns the fancy pens.

Jaywalk - Done in the Fashion of the opening sequence for Saturday Night Fever. Towards the end the camera snaps to two birds watching from afar where they deliver the punchline (the bird walking is a bluejay).

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/294764/Saturday-Night-Fever-Movie-Clip-Open-Stayin-Alive.html