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As a producer of the film, I had to come up with effective ways to make sure that production was going to go as smoothly as possible. The most common ways were to create deadlines/milestones and also some sort of schedule to make sure everyone kept by it. Back in first year, I was in a few third year productions and needless to say, I picked up some essentials of a production and decided to apply it into this current project.

I created a general milestone schedule or otherwise called as the Production Overview/Schedule:



I followed it up by making an individual schedule sheet so that every member can keep track with what they need to complete by a certain deadline rather than just verbally saying it and possibly making us lose some precious time.

All of these were definitely not a waste of time at all. If anything, it definitely helped out in production and made sure we worked properly and productively as a team. I really enjoyed making these!

After weeks of hard work, from getting the concept down, changing our initial idea of a hybrid animation to a fully 2D-animated film, it definitely has been a whole rollercoaster ride. It was all worth it in the end, the moment it was all compiled together as a whole.

It was a huge sigh of relief the moment it was completed, and it was definitely amazing to see a vision come to life. So without further delay, here's our final, completed film for ShelterBox!




I especially felt that it was great to have worked with people on my team and that we could all work well together despite some slight misunderstanding at the start. All in all it was a fantastic experience and I can't wait for second term now.

Without further ado: Let's roll the credits!

This term we had the opportunity to work with Jason Walker again, which was amazing! He's an amazing tutor and honestly I've learnt a lot from just the few sessions with him. These drawings are all from the 6 sessions with Jason.


























We learnt more about getting the gestures right this term, and it was really helpful.

For the final life drawing session, we had it with Andy and it was loads of fun. We had to draw on large pieces of papers. We didn't draw them on the easels like we normally would do. These were the result of the session:






The session reminded me of a life drawing session with Martin Morris that we had last term. All in all, it was fun and allowed us to just relax when it came to drawing.

I have not updated on the pre-production module in a long time, which I'm not going to lie- I've put aside due to focusing on ShelterBox a little too much. After giving the mini-pitch that you can read here, the result of it was that mine did not get picked in the end to make a pitch bible out of. We were all allocated into a pitch bible group to work with and I joined 'Alienation' which was created by Imogen Saunders. I honestly loved her idea and also the style that she got put with, which was by Tom Gauld.

Initial character turnaround for Timmy | rejected.

Character turnaround for Amy | rejected.

Finalised character turnaround for Timmy.


Finalised character turnaround for Amy.




Character poses for Timmy.


This was the test shot that I did as well:




All in all, it was a fun experience and I loved Tom Gauld's illustrative style very much! I hope I get to experiment around with his art style soon.