Poster: bump in the night

[Nicool]

Wonderful:thumbsup:
Tim Burton is with you:p

[TRPeterson]

Great style! If there's a children's book behind this idea, taking that style and creating some animated shorts for the story line would be incredible!

Terry Peterson
www.trpeterson.com

[liQu1d]

looks cool :applause:

[zurfer]

Just wondering wich of these you guys think is best

This one or the one posted beneath

Thanx

Peter

[zurfer]

here´s the other one

[TRPeterson]

I like the one with the more blue sky and lower window.

[Vash T Stampede]

that moon rocks. excellent work!

[JPGargoyle]

Very good. I like it :D

I like the first one better.

Just one small crit:
If this is for a children book I think you should consider on changing the letters. They are hard to read and children might find it even harder.

Good work. :D


Best regards.

[jmw]

I like the first one with the smaller window. The colours seem to work better with the overall composition. Great work, I love the weird cartoony style! I like the text but agree that it could be a little bit clearer without getting rid of the quirkyness.

[I animate]

Hello :wavey:

I like the first one with the blue sky. I also agree that the lettering is a little hard to read and if it is for children it will be difficult for them to read.

Other than that :applause: great job there.

[zurfer]

Tried a new text..a litle more 2d look on it wich will go better with the final product. And wont feel as burtonesque as before.

[JPGargoyle]

That's better.

I really like the other letters, but this ones are ok too and are much easier to read.

The glow around the moon adds a nice touch to the scene.

Good work. :thumbsup:

Very nice. :applause:


Best regards.

[randyrives]

Nice work. I like the text on the older version better. It is harder to read, but seems to fit the image better.

Maybe something in-between the two.

[fellah]

really nice image. simple, yet great looking character, and a really nice mood! though some things could be improved imo, I made a little pic to show what I think(click image for bigger pic)
http://www.fellah.net/temp/bumpieposter2.Small.jpg (http://www.fellah.net/temp/bumpieposter2.jpg)

right now, the eyes look into nowhere.. you need to give them a better focalpoint as eyes are a part of a character we tend to look at first of all, and they can be very expressive.
same with the arms, it's cool without, sure, but you lose alot of expression possibilities. just some really simple 'children arms', in style with the legs could add alot.

I'm sure you can do alot better than my fast paintover, but.. it's all up to you what to do, just some thoughts,
take care

[rikrog]

possible alt:

there's a slight look of all the elements of the cover gathering together in the middle, so moved down pic and scaled up it slightly.
also had a tweak at the title.

[zurfer]

Thanx for the replies all of you

Tack Fellah, även om armar skulle se roligt ut så går det tyvär inte ihop med resten av idén... de skall använda sina huvuden för att springa in i saker därav bumpen.
Jag kan hålla med om att ögon en ser lite ofokuserade ut men jag tror att detta har att göra med en lilla bilden... I orginal storleken ser man att han tittar ner på dit han smyger vilket i animations syfte stämmer.. Jag gör nog en liten test rendering för att se hur det ser ut.
Kollade ditt 3d gallery... Hajen är riktigt skojjig..vad använder du för prog?

Rikrog: The reason for everything being centralized is to draw attention towards the character..if he´s moved down i think the other elements get overhand... I migt try to move the text up a bit.. but i think i tried it in Photoshop and it just felt a bit out of place... thanxs for the replie thou and i´ll play around abit with the ideas and see what comes up.

[zurfer]

Tried some of the changes you wanted. Here´s the result.

[Tim Deneau]

Awesome work, that looks fun!

Only crit I have is that the lighting on the character doesn't match the pattern on the floor. In my opinion it would look better if you used volumetric lighting, with the window frame shadow cast over the character.


Actually, is that stripe on the head a shadow? My mistake, I thought it was just a color design.

[jmw]

Yeah, the text is a lot easier to read and the big chunky font still makes the image look fun. It pretty much looks finished to me but i think you may as well try lighting the scene with volume lights just to see the what effect it has.Nice work

[fellah]

zurfer,
a-ha, jag förstår. då kan du ju skippa armarna såklart. ögonen kan ju kolla åt vilket håll som helst isåfall me, om det skall vara till en animation. fast vore det inte bättre om han kollade åt ett annat håll när/om han bumpade? nevermind, gö som du vill :)
tack för komplimangen, använder lightwave hemma, å lightwave/xsi på jobbet.


btw, are you planning to post an animation when done? would be nice to see,
cheers

[zurfer]

Well I´v more or less created all the basic elements to start animation production on this short. The manuscript, storyboards, most modeling and rigging is done but I need help with the animation. So if anyone out there use Max 5 and think this looks interesting please send me a private message. I´m sorry to say that I cant pay anyone, because all of my money goes to food and apartment, but the ones who do help will get full credit for their work. It would be helpfull if you live in sweden but its definetly not a must.

For those interested I will send over a copy of the script in word format (or other if requested) and some test renders so you can decide if it seems as a task worthwhile.

Best regards

Peter Broqvist.

[jmw]

Can you post some of your test renders, i like the style you are going for here and am interested to see more....

[zurfer]

Well I´m using the poster as a guide for the style really. I want a mix of 2d and 3d styles but the 2d part of it is really just planes mapped with a cartoonstyle map.
The lighting schema is more or less the one in the poster, sort of tho make it look like an illustration.

herse the fullshot of the room it all takes place in. The closeups will practically be nothing but gradients in colours that portray the mode of the sceene. The whole movie will run at about 2 minutes and if it turs out as good as i hope it can i´ll try to get it in the festival run.

[zurfer]

This is the opening shot. There will be an animated intro text over this zoom in on the city.

[zurfer]

this is the only other full character in the short. His father will be in one of the final shots but you will never see more than the bottom of his legs.

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