CRAZY ANIMATION DIRECTION!!

I have discovered a few things about myself over this project, but yesterday i discovered that i am a very crazy and ambitious animator and director. me and co-director shot are last scene together yesterday (the chruch destruction scene) and i wanted to really blow it up as much as possible. i figured that we only have one shot to do this so why not do it Independence day style "no not using actual explosives" but how about three cameras with three angles all at the same time! and then add in over 20 rigs.

Here are the rigs, different lengths of wire with chunks of wood at the ends.

one crazy set up! wired things is were animating tripods for war of the worlds and were using 3 cameras, 3 lights, 3 computers running 3 separate stop motion programs.

here you can see all the monitors!  its very hard working in the dark with that many wires on the floor and lamps and camera rigs, very hard not to knock anything .

 It was a very challenging day for me and Dan but we managed together to pull off such a difficult scene, it was very time consuming and tiring but so worth it. The project goes into post-production as of monday so even more exiting times ahead and now with just over two weeks until completion and hand in things have only just started to get challenging. I am really looking forward to the weeks ahead and seeing what amazing VFX are added to the stop motion scenes, my time on war of the worlds production has nearly come to an end but there will be so much more to look forward to like festivals, screenings and media.

Great times ahead :)

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FINISHED CONSTRUCTION

After what seems like forever the construction part of production is finished and we can now start animating.
its been a very busy first half of the year but its finally all coming together. I am proud to say everyone is very happy with the sets and tripod puppets, i feel i have succeeded so far with my version of war of the worlds something i have dreamed about doing for years and now my obsession is coming to a conclusion. here is a few production pics i have chosen to upload but i have been very selective about which ones i upload, i still want to keep a few things secret so there is a surprise in the finished film.
Also i am very happy to announce i have added a CO-DIRECTOR to the project the very talented (Mr denial James) http://djanimations.blogspot.co.uk/ who will still be animating but now with more intensity and adding a few things here and there as he also has an obsession with war of the worlds.
Today Friday the 27th of April together we are creating a live animatic along with a few video blogs and Monday first thing we will be having a team meeting to split up the shots and create a pipeline for the 2D and CGI animators. watch this blog :)

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completed sets

just a quick update on the production of SURGE, here are a few pics of the finished church and town sets.
its almost time to get down to animating, production is set to start on Tuesday the 24th of April and be finished by monday the 30th, then its onto the 2D animation and CGI after effects.
at the moment i have been working on the tripods and a few other bits and bobs, all the little gritty bits that seem to take over my life lol anyway production is back on track and i will be posting a full blog before production begins on tuesday so i will keep you posted guys :)

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