Update on the storyboard and background designs.
I believe the current problem of my work is that it is not strong enough compare to characters with exaggerate movements. Mine just sitting there and moving her mouth.
So fixed camera won`t work as it can`t express much. After realizing that I made this:
You can see that there is much more partial close-up scenes compare to the old one. Emphasizing body language and anxiety. Including moving body parts. reacting with objects and pauses.
I have no idea what an X-sheet is before this session so I did what I would do if I `m going to draw someone talking. Write down my clip over the storyboard and see where it goes.
I hope this storyboard is better than the last one.
I also made this.
I was thinking of old houses with wallpaper falling down, Decades of unwashable stains piling over the surface.
This is something that I thought I would use as background, and then I woke up and made a more realistic one. Well, comparing to the last one.
This is one of the sketches I did, you can see a wine bottole and a table, a desk full of non-senses and a strange composite on the right side. There is also a painting of a mysterious creature on the wall. I am now thinking to animate most of this but with least movement. Most of them will do meaningless movements such as spining or going up and down. The point of all those is to create destraction. Within the idea of how people seeing the inside of another no matter how much destraction there is. Body language, face expressions, or background movement.
I may even add someone walking pass behind the lady, maybe.
Some of them are made of bronze and others are sliver. I had the idea from Harry Potter book. When Potter entered the headmaster office for the first time. there was a description in the book saying: There are lots of strange tiny sliver machines that are spining and spraying steam quietly on the desk. There was no illustration about this in the book and the film didn`t show this either. That`s what I wish to show. A desk full of mist from bottles.
That should be all. Next update should be something on the X-sheet.