Archive for July, 2009

Finally getting to the end of the animation.  Hoorah!

I’ve been over Tom’s today recording some music, well I’ve been playing the odd note and he’s been doing it all for me.

Here he is pressing buttons and fiddling with knobs:

I’d edited the animation using a few temporary songs from various soundtracks that I liked and that evoked the correct atmosphere. The main ones were the prologue music from Battlestar Galactica and the Adagio in D minor from the film Sunshine. We needed to record some music that did the same job.

This one was also kinda inspired by the soundtrack from 28 Days Later (what is it with Danny Boyle films?!)

Main Theme

I’m just finishing off the last few shots for A Tale from the Endless Stair. One sequence I’d left til last was exactly how the demon enters the story. I’d started on a sequence where he crawls from the pit at the bottom of the staircase but hadn’t completed it. Once I’d finished off the intro sequence and had included the shots of an angel, I thought it’d be cool to make that idea abit more integral to the plot so I decided to include an angel character who summons the demon.

I knocked together a quick puppet which was basically a re-dress of the german soldier puppet covered in a cloak made out of a black t-shirt. I had the angel covered in scrolls and with writing on his chest, the idea being that he kinda holds the stories of everyone’s lives and comes to collect your soul when you die. He also has the same symbols that the demon creates carved into his chest – yep he’s abit hellraiser too!

The figures detailed with various bits and pieces from action figures and some scrolls I made out of some textured paper. There’s also real sealing wax holding them in place.

I’ve put together a trailer for the animation as it’s nearing completion…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agq3s__MGbY

I thought I’d post an update as I’ve not posted anything in sometime. I’m coming close to finishing ‘principal photography’ on A Tale from the Endless Stair.  Here’re some screen grabs:

I’m now moving onto the sound effects and music.

I’ve turned my attention to an intro sequence for A Tale from the Endless Stair.  This has basically been done with a bed sheet, a cardboard puppet and a light.  I’ve added a variety of video effects to the footage.  The intention is to give an introduction to the idea of the afterlife and the ‘Endless Stair’ hence the angel figure, I plan to have her flying around a silhouette of the staircase as well as having a variety of other images associated with death and ‘passing on’.