Just adding the most recent photos of the animation short project

 

 

 

I've decided to create a foreground setting as a lot of the movement had to be filmed in front of a green screen. I hope to mirror this section of the set in Photoshop to give me a wide-angle set. I have noticed that a lot of my set images have a sort of pink hue. I had noticed that in an earlier image, that included some red clay, how the red ended up being more pink on film. I hope this can be altered when editing.

 

For the tree in my second scene I found a suitable branch on a tree in the garden - thank god I don't live in an apartment. I attached two pieces of metal to the base to stand it on the aeroboard

 

I then had to make a mesh of some sort to secure the moss onto. In the end I got a ball of tangled wire and flattened it out. I then taped this to the branch and covered it with moss. After spreading some sand over the exposed metal it looked fairly good.

 

I discovered at this point that the lion was a bit too big to fit under the buffalo - for the buttocks scratching shot.

 

The buffalo won't stand without the wooden base so it will have to be removed from every shot. There is a scene where the lion scampers out from underneath the buffalo which I thought I'd have to cut but I've managed to shoot it since (sort of)

 

This is the camera angle for when Leroy talks to the buffalo

 

I had to shoot more footage of the buffalo as I changed some of the dialogue

 

I had to make a replica of the buffalo's head for some of the 'camera trickery' I'll be using. I wrapped it in clingfilm to prevent contamination between the colours. The reason it's blue is partly because I want to key it out later and also because I only had blue clay left.

 

I finally got a sunny day to get some pictures of long grass that I'm going to use for the mid-ground of the landscape shots.