Senior Project
Week 5
When designing the facial features I decided to make it a plane layer and draw it in. Since I want to do a stylized art style I decided that having it drawn in would look better.
I began this week by working on the character designs on Maya. While I didn’t know how to fully model humans I knew that this could be a learning experience. I do plan to improve them at a later point if I have the time.
Both the female and male characters are different in design. The male character has broader shoulders while the female character has slimmer shoulders.
Week 4
I also began on working on the Woman and Man character designs. I first made a rough sketch of the characters to see what I wanted to do with it. I did realize that there would be some difficulties with the woman character with the dress.
During week 3 I began with making the shot list for the music video.
Week 3
After creating the 2D map, I decided to move to 3D. I created a very simplistic cityscape and two extremely simple characters. Cube model is the man and pyramid model is the woman.
After finishing the first storyboard animatic I began the blocking. First I mapped out the city scenes in a 2D space. I added the red and blue dots to indicate where the characters would move (red = man, blue = woman). The lines show how the characters would move. The green objects are the cameras indicating where they would be moving.
Week 2
The first thing I wanted to do is a mood board. When listening to the song I felt it sounded as if I was in space. So I decided that it might be interesting to bring that into the music video. I found the idea of the main character being in a cityscape but also imagining themselves in space was interesting.
My senior project is a music video from a Mexican band known as “Los Claxons.“ I discussed this with one of the band members and I was allowed to use one of their songs that has yet to be released.