Collaboration.

Creating my list of processes throughout this project helpled me to realise I could do with a hand in creating textures. I asked my friend Tracey Feeney to create me some textures, I showed her the research I had done and showed her the style I was hoping to achieve, I asked Tracey if she would create me a mud texture which I would use on the ground of my playground, I explained that it would be half covered in grass to give the effect it was dying. I also asked Tracey if she would create me a glass texture which I could use on all my buildings, I showed her my storyboard and first pass animatic and told her I would need some cracks to give the effect of a broken window. Finally I asked Tracey if she would create me one destroyed building for my background, which I would place behind my modelled buildings, again I showed Tracey the styles I liked and explained the outcome I was trying to achieve.

Tracey Feeney asked me to create the rain for her film, she is doing a 2d piece using Photoshop and then using Aftereffects to animate. Tracey's short film is based on the men at work sign, this piece of animation will consist of a small work area on a street, the silhouette of the man in the road work sign comes to life and dances in the rain to a singing in the rain sound track. The piece is very cartoony and Tracey would like to keep to the same style for the rain, I was shown the animatic and storyboards and I had a fair idea of what she was hoping to achieve.

List.

I thought it would be a good idea to make a list of everything I needed to do throughout this project, I understand things may pop up and could change this but at least I will have a rough idea of what to do and aim for. This will also give me a chance to eliminate a task as this could be part of somebody else's unit collaboration.

Things to do:

1, Once happy I need to start modelling as soon as possible:

- Broken fence around playground.

- Broken swing set.

- Seesaw.

- Two benches.

- Two rubbish bins.

2, Trees surrounding the park, (this will be created using the brush tool in Maya).

3, Lamp posts (I would like these to have an orange/amber glow to them, seen as I am hoping to achieve a fairly dull and grey evening.

4, Buildings, (Off the top of my head and using my animatics, I would say I would need to model around twelve buildings using Maya).

5, Rubble surrounding all the buildings.

6, Pavement/road.

7, Background buildings, (which will be created using sourced images and then manipulated using Photoshop).

8, Sphere, (which will act as the sky to surround my destroyed city).

9, Textures:

- Mud texture for the playground.

- Half grown grass over the top of the mud to give the effect it is dying, (I will use a brush tool in Maya to create this effect).

- Wood texture for the fencing surrounding the playground.

- Swing set texture.

- Seesaw texture.

- Wood texture for the benches and the bins, (I would like these to have different colours of wood on them).

- Road/pavement texture.

-A texture for the lamp posts.

- Twelve different textures for the buildings.

- Window texture, - one broken and one not, (I would like these to be quite dirty).

- Sky texture for the sphere.

10, Lighting and cameras.

11, Render.

12, Credits.

13, Sound.

14, Collaborate and work with somebody else.

After looking at the work in hand, I think it would be in my greatest interest if I brought somebody on board to create some textures for me, this can be done throughtout the modelling process.