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| Sariel, the main hero antagonist angel |
The production hitherto has been all over the place. Two years ago the seed of an idea popped into my mind. What if I told a story about invisible guardian robotic angels that fought demons who were trying to kill humans?
I wrote a script and set out to shoot it guerilla style with my friend, who happened to be a Thailand movie star and filmed it in 3-D, using my rudimentary HD 3D camera that I built. (It's pretty crazy when I think about that)
Over the next two years, I would rewrite, rewrite, rewrite the script many times, even though I had no idea how I would refilm anything because my movie star friend had returned to her country, and created my CG robots.
I wasn't doing this full time, of course, as I was permalancing at the Mill NYC as a 3D artist for about a year and working gigs at various post houses around the city. I also had another film of mine in post, "Sketch" which ran about 20 minutes and had many CG effects that I had to make. I'm a man of many interests, and more often than not, Aeon Angel had to take a back seat. Even so, I believed in the project and squeezed in as much work as I could, and here is where I am now:
CGI
- two main hero robots nearing completion (modeled, rigged, textured)
- four other robots modeled only
- two human characters not started
- various CG aspects not started
WRITING
- on the 15th draft or something like that...forcing myself to finish the final script within the next two weeks.
FILMING
- because my thailand movie star friend is in Thailand, I don't know what I am going to do.
EDITING
- the original version of the movie based on the original script is edited together, but of course, all that is going to change when I redo the movie.
Where do I go from here?
- Aside from finishing up my robots, I need to finalize my script. And that script needs to be short, concise and cool. I may need to cut out a lot of things in order to finish my movie by January 2011, while still maintaining a very high production quality.
- the centerpiece of the film is the battle on the bridge. it's really about getting to that point and giving the audience someone to root for and a context for why the battle is happening.
- I need to start animating my robots fighting this battle, but before I can do that, I must whittle down my script to its final, concise form.
- I have another script to write for my AFA fellow project, which is also due in two weeks, but I am fairly confident that I can finish that in a reasonable time. Perhaps I can set a double goal, to have both scripts finished by August 14th, 2010.
- After that deadline, it must be locked, meaning, no changes. Have to move on...
AUGUST goals
- script finalized
- hero robots finished and ready to be animated/rendered
- Adam CG character
- Xaphan CG character
I'd be in very good shape if I was successful in completing these goals for August. Basically, all my main assets would be ready to go. I'm not going to plan out the next 4 months because it's still too early to and I might just be setting myself up for failure. So, I will do everything I can to finish up these lofty August goals, get in a good place and onwards from there.
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Building up Bobo piece by piece due to technical problems with mental ray. Cleaned up the scene and removed all extra junk and geometry from previous versions. Hopefully it won't give me any problems the 8th time around connecting shaders...
