Pirate Book Cover

                                                          Book cover final commission.

Colour variation tests.

Mood Boards

Mood boards for cinematic cut-scene.

Suit Design

A suit that I designed which I was inspired to make from playing too much Command and Conquer. It was initially intended to be a jet pack trooper but this felt more natural to the design.  The gun is quite quirky but i quite liked the shield guard on top and the way it looked from the top.

Book Cover Designs

Been reading alot of Sci fi books and novels over the past couple months, and I really felt inspired to create a cover for a story I had in mind. Heres a couple quick concepts I did for the cover

A Descida Escura is finished!

On the 14 February I came back home. Production had finished, but there was still alot of tweaks to sort out. The edit needed to be more tight, sound and music needed to be synced up. Joe Donohoe who composed for the film back in May came back to help us compose the score. He did a fantastic job and it really makes the film feel more refined than before.

By the time i had finished putting the film together the film had a run time of 14.30. Which is insane thinking back in university where we had a bigger team and proper equipment. I guess after learning after our mistakes and knowing our strengths, me and Tom became a good team. Our work flow from an outside few probably seemed ridiculous, but it worked for our way of working.

This whole project has been a great learning experience and the fact that I now have a film completed feels the more better. I guess the next step now is to enter it into festivals and see what happens. But even if it does not do well, the fact that I've done and I can show it to people, feels like a big enough reward.

And by the way, the films name has changed to "A Descida Escura". I finally got the actual translation for the Dark Descent :)

Breakdowns

Here is some more breakdowns of the backgrounds.

Half time

It was the 8th of December and we had been working solidly for a month and a half. It went very well and we had nearly 2 whole scenes done. There was the odd background and shot to be done but it was getting there. So the plan from here was for Tom to go back to Torquay and i would meet him there on the 3rd of January.So fast forwarding to the new year and i was in Torquay. Its pretty cool, has a hint of inland England aswell as keeping that South west feel. Unfortunately it rained alot so I didn't get to see it all sunny and nice

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The goal now was to finish the film by the 14th February. We had alot to do, 3 whole scenes, backgrounds, animation, coloring, composting, editing, etc.  But we got through it with the help of coffee. 

Heres a few shots from that month of work.