Rhia Crouch's Blog

I have been testing out the different base colours that I can use for Moon's textures. I feel that number 4 is the best starting point for me as it fits in with the descirption of the character in the poem, with a few from the other designs here and there. Colour Test 1 Colour Test 1 Colour Test 1 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 4 Colour Test 4 Colour Test 4

I have been testing out what the colours for my characters should look like as this is something that I havn't set in stone yet. Being able to see the colours on the models has helped me work out what is working and what isn't Out of the 4 that I have done I feel that the 3rd design fits the design of the character as it is what I imagine the colours of a human Sun to look like. After I have worked out what the base colours are going to be, I will start to use this for the textures so that I'm not starting from scratch. Colour Test 1 Colour Test 1 Colour Test 1 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 2 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 3 Colour Test 4 Colour Test 4 Colour Test 4

Some of the pop-ups have been edited and redesigned so that their can be read better. This has made them look alot better and I feel that will make them moving around in the scene alot more interesting. Jack Frost Pop-up Travellers Pop-up

I've had to re-do some of the designs for the pop-ups one last time as they still seemed hard to read. The Can't Sleep pop-up has been changed to look like a clock and the Travellers pop-ups now looks like a compass. There is also the idea of maybe animating the pop-ups, as in making the hands of the clock hands going round. Part of me can see now this can work but another part of me thinks that the animation might be lossed when the pop-ups starts to move around. I also can't work out how I wound animate some of the designs, such as the Farmer pop-up. This might be something that I might have to do a small test for to see if the animation will work for these designs. Can't Sleep Pop-up Travellers Pop-up

I went back and remodeled some of the pop ups for my animation. This was to make them easier to read along with keeping in the with wooden cut out designs. I've also did some small edits to some of them that I didn't need to be completely rework. Corn pop-up Farmer pop-up Can't sleep pop-up Grass pop-up Lovers pop-up Sleep pop-up Travellers pop-up Wave pop-up

I've been rethinking the style of music that I would want to use in my animation. After I got some feedback on my first ideas I started to think about the time period that my characters, and their story, would have come from. This was something I found abit hard to do as I had only been looking at them as a wooden puppets that came from their own world. However, after listening to some examples that I had been given, I started to feel that medieval music could be a close fit. I started to feel that the music for my animation should give it an element of fantasy and mystery as if a spell has made the characters come to life.

I've been working on the rest of the pop-ups that will appear in my animation. As I was making then I was thinking about the feedback that I got for the first set that I had made and tried to implement it in designs, but I feel that some might need to be re-worked. Lovers Pop-up Sleep Pop-up Travellers Pop-up Wave Pop-up