It’s Alive! Our big achievement this Monday was creating our first demo scene! Last week we put all our effort into making this scene, as it not only provided our first look at a scene on-screen, but also allowed us to get a good feel for the workflow that will carry us through production. Knowing…
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Hello again, friends! This week, the Sirena team was making the last preparations to gear up for full production. Our aim is to have a single shot rendered and moving by the end of Monday the 18th, and so that’s how we’ve been planning out what we have to accomplish. We started the week by…
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Week 4 was a whirlwind. We welcomed our new team member, Jared, into the fold! He will be co-producing with Kristy and helping with storyboarding, editing, and voice direction, among the many other assorted tasks production will inevitably require along the way (such as writing this blog!). The welcoming party couldn’t last long, though, as…
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Following Up We closed last week with three important questions from Chris Klug. Here were the answers we came up with: We chose our narrator as Sirena’s daughter. This was a new idea suggested by Chris and most of us agreed to go with the her being the narrator. We chose our geographical location as…
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Visualizing a Myth We kicked off our second week by looking at the character designs developed by Muhammad, our Character TD. We also shared the designs with our faculty advisors to get their opinion. Muhammad designed the characters keeping in mind the anatomy of the female body and how it will look when she’d transform…
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Welcome! We are Project Sirena, The ETC’s animation studio for Spring 2019. Our goal for this semester is to create an animated short by learning the ins and outs of the traditional animation pipeline. Our final piece will take the audience through the transformation of a young girl, Sirena, into a mermaid. This transformation is…
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