"Little RED Robin Hood" or "Shoe Done It"

Little RED Robin Hood

the interpretation of "Show Done it"

Detective Guy Gisborne    - 1

Detective Jack Hunter       - 2

Miss Carly Reed                - 3

Robin Wolf “Thief” Hood - 4

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                                              WHY ARE THEY CALLED THIS WAY

Detective Guy Gisborne - Guy of Gisborne - Legend says he was the Robin Hood's greatest foe.

Detective Jack Hunter - as a refference to The Hunter in the Little Red Riding Hood who saves the girl from the wolf. 

Miss Carly Reed - Carly (latin for "little") , Reed - ReED

Robin Wolf “Thief” Hood - Robin Hood & the Wolf - 2in 1

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2- The city is in danger. People are in panic. The winter colds are near and everyone is getting cold feet.

The only ones they can trust now are the two private detectives who swore to solve this mystery.

1- You are over reacting, man. The women’s shoes were stolen, big deal.

2- I am totally going to write a story of our first assignment on my blog.

1- Jack Hunter!…

2- What?

1- Remember, we are PRIVATE detectives!

~THEY WERE APPROACHING THE ARBORETUM ~

1- Hello Miss Reed

3- Hi, thank you for answering my call, the police refused to help me, saying that this was no serious matter and…

2- We are on top of your case, mam! We have put aside everything we had on schedule to help you.

1- Yeah, yes, indeed. Lets proceed, shall we?

Hello Miss Carly Reed, I’m private detective Guy Gisborne. Please tell us about the day your shoes were stolen.

3- Well… [fashback], I entered the park on lunch time, sat on the bench, felt woozy and fell asleep. And then my shoes were gone. [flash-forward]

1- Alright, lets try more details, did you see anyone else in the park?

3- Well… Yes, [flashback] there was this guy…

4- Hello miss, my name is Robin Wolf, I collect contributions fot “Adidas Charity”? [flash-forward]

3- He was collecting charity. I told him that I [flashback] don’t have any money.

2- Continue…

3- Am… A few minutes after….

4- Hello Miss, sorry to bother you, but would you like to contribute to the “Adidas” foundation here in Notts?

3- No I don’t! – I said and pushed him on the shoulder slightly when I was leaving. [flash-forward]

1- What happened next?

[flashback]

4- Mam, where are you going?

3- To my grannie’s house to bring her some God damn pastry! And you know what?! I have got so much money… Too much, in fact, and I will not share a penny with your stupid charity! Now piss off! [flash-forward]

2- Wow…

3-Give me a break, I had a terrible day…

(optional)

[flashback]

2- And after that you fell asleep on the bench and woke up naked…

1- No shoes.

2- Exactly…

(optional)

[flash-forward]

1- Great, thank you Miss ____________ . I guess our next move is finding this charity man and asking him some questions.

2- No problem in that, here he comes…

4- Hello gentlemen, nice to see you, mam. Would you like to…

3- Hey! Those are my shoes!

1,2- Where?!

4- In his bag!

                                                            ~THE GUY RUNS OFF DROPPING THE BAG~

1- Quick, get him!

~ONE DETECTIVE IS LEFT BEHIND WITH THE CAMERA AND THE GIRL AND TRIES TO QUICKLY DISSASEMBLE THE TRIPOD. THE OTHER RUSHES AFTER THE THIEF~

1- Stop! Stop you bastard!

~THE THIEF IS CHASED UNDER THE BRIDGE WHERE HE IS BLOCKED BY JACK, THE SECOND DETECTIVE, WHO JUMPS DOWN ONTO HIS PATH~

1- End of the road, man.

4- Wait, you don’t get it! Yes, I stole some shoes, but they are for the poor. That girl can buy some more, but the people I give them to need them more… I hope you understand…

2- Hell yeah we do! Get him boys!

~AWKWARD SILENCE~

2- I always wanted to say that.

~ROLLING THROUGH 20 POUND NOTES~

2- I hundred quid for our first job, not bad. I guess she was pretty rich.

1- Yeah, kind of greedy too. Didn’t want to pay double for the “super fast work” we did.

2- Good thing I never introduced myself. Saying it was too easy… Who is she to say that?

1- Yeah, too bad we couldn’t do anything about that Robin Hood Dude.

2- That would be legal...

1- It won’t be long until he is back to his dirty tricks…

~THEY LOOK UP AND SEE THE THIEF RUNNING AWAY WITH A SHOE FROM SOMEONE LIMPING WITHOU ONE~

1- Oh sh / oe…

2- This is so going on my blog.

                [part of the last phrase after “/” appears after the credits]

Thanks for reading this guys,

Ed.

             

Animation (Rough Cut Version)

 Right. So I've been a bit busy the past weeks. Working nights and days, being sick and all of that and I guess I fell behind on some assignments at the Uni and even missed all the lectures last week. That is most unfortunate, because I really enjoy the work we do and the things we learn. So, yes, in a few days time I managed to get together what was supposed to be my animation project and I really gave a go to some animation techniques I haven't tried yet. Tomorrow I'll be adding some effects, as fades, color correction, backgrounds, particle effects, sound effects and some fancy Action Movie Essentials Pack stuff... Should be fun! So I expect this to be ready by Monday and I hope that not getting the initial feedback from the tutor will result in... well... Ah... We'll be fine! Alright, here's the video of a rough cut, first version, enjoy!



Thanks for reading and watching,
Ed.

"The Rule of Thirds" or how hard to find any good pics I made

 So as I was unfortunate enough not to attend to the seminar where the Rule of Thirds was presented to our attention I had to sniff about on the web to find out what it is all about. What I found was interesting, because as many genius things it was beautiful, simple and so obvious that it would never come up to your mind as a background for a theory (rule).
 The Rule of Thirds, in my humble opinion, is what teaches you that asymmetry is beautiful, and then puts it in a grid and makes it symmetrical, although still beautiful. It explains the beauty of most of the images.
 It took me a while to find a good picture that I made myself, and I finally got to my old DeviantArt account where I found this:

 This photograph with a reaching hand is mostly played on the contrast and we can see the most contrast, and the main character, lets say, on the left side, in the exact position of two crossovers. These are the highlights. But the interesting part is a third object in the picture - a shadow, which looks so thick you can assume it can grab you. Its pinnacle, its brightest point merges perfectly with the top-right crossover, thus making this image even more beautiful. The final, bottom-right crossover points out the blue of the ceiling making more than just a background. It seems that you mind should insert something of its own into that seemingly empty space for the hand to grab.

 I think it is a great example of the composition that features only two real objects, but lets you add many of your own.

 Thank you and good night,

Ed.

P.S. a websit I found - http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Actions/RuleOfThirds.php#Download

"Stasis Session" interactive project COMPLETE

 Now I've just finished working on my interactive story project and boy, oh boy it cost me an arm and a leg. Then again in the end I think it was totally worth it and these last 2 days that I didn't sleep will pay off.
 Deciding to make this project was a big step on its own, despite the fact I've never seen an HTML code before, I knew I was making something huge here. Huge in terms of scale, though I hope the quality will stand out too. After all, a free-roaming game? Eghem...
 This piece of work made me think. A lot. I had to come up with new ideas of how to arrange everything in order to make it work and make it look as tidy as possible. It also reminded me of a great saying - "quality over quantity". As it turned out I've worked so much on quantity I forgot about the quality, although looking on the result makes me feel warm inside.)
 Here it is, I hope the link works and I'll list the specifics below.

                                 "Stasis Session"   >>   http://edprojects.netai.net/


 P.S. It seems that the whole thing was taken down by the hosting, so unfortunately, currently there is no way to check it out online. I'll try to figure something out, maybe post it on my real web site when that is done after the interactive DP2, but 'till then, there will be no access to the content. Sorry.

 

 
 The ending product is 134MB of volume and uses 100's of photos and their copies.
 1,978 files overall.

 For all this I had to come up with the "bubble" system.

 The main idea of this adventure map/game is free-roam where you can openly explore big areas a long as you want and when you want. So to keep this in order and making tell a story the "bubbles" became crucial.
"Bubbles"are folders containing the information about a certain area in a certain time of the story. When you reach a key point the "bubble" changes to another one so you can explore more territories and progress through the story without stumbling upon an old "cutscene", for example. This was my main challenge and I'm more than certain that with the help of "bubble" system I've beaten it.

By the way this is the free hosting I used and it definitely the best one I tried so check it out. And download FileZilla for file transfer, because it is way easier. Hope this helps.


Thank you for reading till this very point,
Good luck and good night.
Ed.

My Design Process or "My mind is an over 9K TB HDD"

  It has been a long time since I last made something that I could show to the world and be generally proud of it. A 1 minute and 11 seconds long animation done entirely in After Effects with a thin line of Premier Pro editing. Shall we begin.
  The project that I eventually called "Just a Reminder" was initially a try of one animation technique. It started of with an idea of zooming down to Earth and even inside of it to, eventually, get to its centre where you could find something interesting. I started doing that with no sketches, just watching tutorials on the go and keeping everything inside my brain. I soon understood that this is going further than just a trial and that it might have an idea that could impact peoples hearts in the end.
  The project required lots of pictures that you could find on the web for free. While searching for some particular picture of Earth I stumbled upon an image from a video game called Mass Effect. The game took place in every single corner of our galaxy about 150 years form now. I did not find the picture but I became obsessed with the idea of making a social commercial for people living in a far future. As I assumed in 150 years, especially if the events would follow the pre-Mass Effect scenario, human race will be scattered all over the Milky Way and remembering where you are originally from would become a social, political, religious and a very personal issue. It is crucial not to forget your roots. So this is what the project was all about. Remembering.
  By working hard, day and night, non stop for two weeks I finally made this, a video that made its way through time and space and now is somehow registered on planet Earth in 2157. Take a look:

 

The initial zoom project

98 layers in AE & 3D Cam

Fast fall to the city of Milan 

The Heart of the Earth

You can see the eyelashes in top-right

STATISTICS:


Max layers -98
7 sequences
40 images (aprox.)
2 weeks hard work
71 second result
1 QuadCore 8GB RAM computer - nearly fried

First Contact War. ME. 2157.

                                               













This is the tutorial for the original technique I used:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/

Thank you for getting this far.

Cheers,

Ed

Awesome Inspiration & a "Wanabe" Project

  Yesterday I was at the NUT's War Gaming and Role playing society's first meeting. It is not yet fully established but you have to give them credit for being highly enthusiastic at what they do and I am sure that in just a few months or even weeks time these guys are going to be fully operational and running.
   However my fascination lies in the idea I got just after I left the meeting. Thinking of them being so enthusiastic about what they do and love I stumbled upon my own little wimpy dreams. I love short films, music clips, little stories that you can find on youtube and vimeo and I am blown away how that can become your life, work, a great hobby and a superb portfolio. So far couldn't find myself in an environment that would appeal to that or surrounded by people who would say that they would love to do the same, till this point. And this is where we finally got to the inspiration part.
   I generally thought that there are not many people on my course who came here knowing much about production of all sorts of things that we do, and will do, and maybe they are not really interested in this stuff since its just a start of the course, but how horribly wrong I was and I am very sorry for that! Going through blogs of our guys and girls on Reflective journal I turned round some great works and ideas and found a general enthusiasm about their future works and jobs and that made me think, even dream possibly. Guys, I want to make a proposition. How about we create a "Short film, music video and all sorts of our Multimedia arts field's making society sort of thing"? Through this we can escalate our works, teach each-other, learn new skills and gain lots of experience. This would help create great portfolios and maybe even workplaces when we eventually could end up working with TrentTV, Fm or even become youtube partners. This is a pretty big and ambitious idea but I am pretty sure we could make it. We still got 3 years of work here and all the facilities we need so why not use them.
   Thank you if you read to this point and I hope you agree with me.
   Also a big thanks to you guys for inspiring me either thorough your work, blogs, or just general involvement:

Deano
 http://deanoparker.blogspot.com/
Bartholomew
http://bartholabazaz.tumblr.com/tagged/ntumultimedia
Joshua
http://joshesuniblog.blogspot.com/
Kalab
http://kalab92.blogspot.com/
Kamil
http://kamill.wordpress.com/
Kieran
http://kieranm1992.blogspot.com/
Nick Rood
http://nick-rood.blogspot.com/
Nima
http://nimahedayati.blogspot.com/
Rachel
http://rachelgman.blogspot.com/
Beckie
http://beckypike.blogspot.com/
Tom
http://thomasmroberts.blogspot.com/
Zoe
http://zoestroud90.blogspot.com/

 Thank you once again. You do understand this list doesn't particularly mean anything but my appreciation for your work and a big thanks and I am sorry if I offended someone in any way.
  Yeah guys, I hope you'll think a bit about it.
Cheers,
Ed.

Late Notice

  Well I just went through the posts and blogs of my fellow classmates and understood that I've missed an important part of Uni's start. I totally forgot that we've went through some interesting stuff during our induction week. And I am talking Pinhole Cameras and Whiteboard Animation. The embed video is going to show our animations that we've done in groups of 2 or 3 people using whiteboards, special markers and Cannon Powershots. Although my first pinhole camera experience wasn't at least partially successful and did not produce any decent part of work, I am certainly glad my first whiteboard animation looks nice and somewhat organised. So here they are, a Whiteboard Animation Video, and an article by Rachel Man on her about the Pinhole Cameras that we did. Enjoy.

Rachels blog:
http://rachelgman.blogspot.com/2011/10/pinhole-camera.html


 P.S. I've just stumbled across a great source of inspiration and I'm very much thrilled to shout about it in my next post!

 Ed.