Momster: Behind The Scenes

Set - Day 3

2008-07-22T21:56:00.007+01:00

The last patch of photos:

The Hallway to Kitchen.

Dean Sleeping

Wayne sleeping as well.

James not asleep?

Cher, Laurence and Martin.

Both Steves

Laurence

Ellie, Jane and Wayne

Anna, Martin, Ed, Grant and Ben.

Ed, Ellie and Cher.

Kitchen

Anna working in the Kitchen.

The bedroom with Ellie and Ben.

Ben notice me and gave a Thumbsup.

Ben and Ellie.

Many people here.

Meanwhile Anna making dangerous food here.

Hallway.

The vaccum and the washing machine, the washing machine was a pain to move...

The green room.

The day when we demolished everything and the theatre room was empty.

Set - Day 2

2008-07-21T22:07:00.005+01:00

Unfortunely I don't have the first day but this was taken in 15th July 2008.

Here is the famous Dolly that has killed someone in the history of film maker. Quite a heavy equipement which requires 4 people to carry.

Here is Steven, Steve, Ellie and Martin.

This was recorded on Tuesday 15th July 2008 in the theatre room in BCU. It has me, Fraser, Steven, Steve, Ed, Ben, Ellie and Martin in the footage.

The Kitchen.

Here you can see Steven directing Ellie and Grant doing something.

Here is Rachel's Dad and I think it's Dean who holding the reflector.

Wayne lying...

Fraser tired...

Rain drop test

2008-07-19T19:55:00.002+01:00

Here are test sample of rain drops:

Still need to fix the motion blur.

This will be used in a scene where it splashes onto the camera/flat's window and it drips down.

It requires v-ray render so I gotta check out the setting.

Cloud Test

2008-07-18T01:49:00.003+01:00

Afterburn Test

Rain Test

2008-07-18T01:02:00.004+01:00

Here's a little rain test i made earlier....In the original script 'Momster the musical' Emily's father would leave the house to go to work and break dance in the rain. To be honest i think i prefer the original.

More concepts...

2008-06-25T19:18:00.003+01:00

Me and Fraser are near the end of the deadline of the modelling the building so we didn't get to blog anything because of the tight schedule.

Rough sketches of the building.

First off, me and Fraser had similar ideas of how the buildings visually look like but the thing we lacked was the architecture of the Council flat. So we had a argument about the design, we agreed that the flat should be a rectangular shaper rather than square.

But we also wanted a shape that isn't so normal so we came up for a solution that the Flat should be shaped like an "I" shape.

So we started modelling the flat...

To be continued...

Some Concept Art

2008-06-20T18:44:00.002+01:00

This is some of concept art I did for the building... In the past couple days the building itself has evolved a lot.

Concept Work

2008-06-17T20:49:00.002+01:00

Second Post!!

Hi this is Nixon blogging. In Momster film, I am designing and modelling the council flat along with the FJK (AKA Fraser).

Below is some of the research based on existing animation:

I looked mostly at Hayao Miyazaki films: Laputa-Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle.
The other animation films are Tekkon Kinkreet, Garden of Sinner and FFVII: Advent Children.

Here are some of the live research I done. I concentrated mostly on the effects of the appearance of the decaying Council Flat. From tagging, paint peeling, overgrown plants, bill boards etc.

Some of the Concept drawings I've done.

Hello World!

2008-06-17T15:42:00.000+01:00

First post for the Momster: Behind The Scenes blog.