Making Of Awaken Clip

[Roflcopter]

Later this week I'll start work on the final version of the video for John's Awaken song (it's on his myspace).

John liked the 'demo version', so to speak - so it's now time to work out those ideas and turn them into more convincing animations etc.

Since there's been a few requests about storyboards and how it all works from scratch I will be going through the steps one by one, frow sketching the storyboard and using those scanned pictures as dummies in a project, bringing in each sequence from its workbench once finally rendered.

Will keep you guys posted.

[john]

Hey

Nice one! Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing the breakdown of how you put it together.

John

[Nightwolf]

Looking forward to it

[Roflcopter]

Here's a pretty simple sketch (I can't draw, and have pretty awesomely bad handwriting when it's just private doodling )

The storyline is pretty simple and weird, so you can do whatever you like, really - about some extradimensional visitor/tourist with superpowers looking like a cross between the Eye in the Sky and some real alien. He arrives via fiery portal and all and hops about the solar system, playing a bit of mayhem everywhere, until he gets knocked out by a sattelite by accident (poetic justice) and goes down in flames to earth and makes some massive explosion. Pretty ridiculous storywise, but I hope to make it look a bit good, at least. (pics are in rough order here, and is frankly not really strict due to its nature, or lack of real linear story).

[Roflcopter]

Our little alien visitor/eye in the sky WIP version:

[john]

interesting!

[Steve]

Facsinating!

[Roflcopter]

Well it's all pretty silly, but it's not for nothing sf movies have always been directors favourites - you can fake just about everything.

If I were to redo The Ten Commandments for this, I'd have to rethink my budget.

[Roflcopter]

Here's the demo version I showed to John earlier, it's *very* rudimentary, and has very little to no FX, and Premiere isn't very good at them - but has a few of the basic ideas

http://roflcopter.eu/dump/awakenplayer2.html

[Alistair]

What a great idea! And, not having listened to it for some years, what a great song!

Well done, guys!

[Steve]

This is fantastic! I'm gonna dig out me video camera!

[Roflcopter]

Thanks, everyone - glad you like it so far

I used Adobe Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements - and there's a few tricks you can do with that combination that aren't even used here, and that's really the bees knees if you don't have all the high-end stuff - there is a special inbetween format that allows for some awesome fx editing.... will make a special tutorial on that one...

[john]

Hey

It's looking good.

Cheers

John