Playing with Clay!!!

Here are some images taken of our experimental character-designing attempts using clay.

Here is some footage taken of cutting the clay with some sculpting tools.

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~ayancey/dpa_860/clay.mov

Ideally, we would like for this footage to guide our animations, but it looks like this clay might have been too moist.  The cuttings aren’t as smooth/fluid as we were hoping for.

Concept Art

Here are some drawing of how I would like the mirror figure to look (somewhat overweight but not extreme):

More useful images

I found more images that might help with the concept art for the mirror figure:

Real figure initial model…

Rotation:

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~ayancey/dpa_860/real_body.mov

Mirror figure/Rigging tests

Here’s a first pass at the model of the figure in the mirror:

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~atriple/860/body_mirror.mov

And here is an initial rigging test of the falling pieces:

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~atriple/860/rigging_test_02.mov

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~atriple/860/rigging_test_03.mov

More initial models…

Here is a first attempt at creating the larger person that will be seen in the mirror.

Model test

I’ve been playing around with ZBrush and here’s my first attempt at a model of the real figure outside the mirror.  Right now it looks like an alien but I’ll try to get it looking more like Giacometti’s figures next time.

http://www.fx.clemson.edu/~atriple/860/zbrush_test.mov

Initial Models

Here are some models of the set Stephen did for us.

Music Ideas…

Here are some miscellaneous sound clips that, to some extent, I think could be useful…in the very least at giving us ideas for further direction in what type of music to look at.

http://www.stendhalnoise.com/Soundtracks.htm

• http://www.stendhalnoise.com/StendhalAudio/piano1.mp3

http://www.kenbiroli.com/soundtracksamples/

• 08 – One In a Million
• 11 – Talk to Her

http://www.nzvideos.org/soundtracksamples.html

• http://www.nzvideos.org/battletruckclip.mp3
• http://www.nzvideos.org/constanceclip.mp3
• http://www.nzvideos.org/Crush.mp3
• http://www.nzvideos.org/fiveclip.mp3

Visual Development

Here are some images that I’ve found to help communicate the art direction of the project.  There are examples of how the figure in the mirror should look and how the real figure should look.  I found some textures that represent what the cuts would look like on the figure in the mirror.  I also have examples of the set (mirror, table, tools) and the lighting.  I want there to be some dirt/grunge on the mirror so I’ve included examples of that as well.