The Creativities of a Brook.

To make the final animation easier to edit I wanted the background to be editable as well. So I made it all in CG 3D. Here is a quick rundown of the stages of building it... The Models... I only need geometry for the trees and the grass, and the tree will be an image mapped onto a simple plane. The Materials... Again, very simple. A slight fractal bump on the ground, some bump on the tree and, obviously, a clipping/alpha map to make it tree shaped. Oh, and a specular map on the floor will catch the highlights from the sun, but you don't notice that in an image without any specular highlights. The Mood... 3 Lights: Sun light behind A second sunlight from the front, only for the trees which otherwise receive no light from the sun at the back. Sky light... In this case a simple spot light from the front with an image of clouds that will be animated in the final animation along with the sky in the back. The Textures... To add colour and realism to the scene. Animation test... I'll ...

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If you steal a few photos from google images: A Sky, a field and a tree... Arrange them like so... And add the characters from my story... You get the basic idea of how my storyboard started out.

No updates, I need my scanner... Can't believe I left it at Uni-home. Anyway, I'll use my camera to take some photos tomorrow... That'll suffice.

As my newspaper project progressed I changed from Rosemary Bennett from the Times to Steve Connor from the Independent... And I plan to illustrate 8 articles over Christmas. Maybe a little far-fetched but here's hoping. Anyway, two of the first drafts I've done... Unlock the secret of your genes - for £31,000 Sales boost for the physics book found in Tiger's car

Next to do was to create a storyboard for my animation. And, for a story board, I knew I'd need a nice selection of character poses from each character... I didn't mind too much about using the same pose twice, so I needed just enough to make the story followable, so that you can tell what the character is doing in each cell Anyway, once I'd drawn a few poses I scanned them in and cut them out so they had a nice transparent background, so I could arrange them on the storyboard. With this nice little collection I thought I'd put a small scene together. Here's what I made first... Then once I finished drawing the bunnies and foxes, I made this one... Click the image for a bigger version... I think. Maybe a little too cluttered, but as an after thought I quite like it.

I never did a final design for this one as I'd already decided to change columnist by the time I'd got to this stage in this illustration... Half of secondary school girls considering cosmetic surgery, Guides study finds.