Short FIlm:Sticks and Stoves: Previs

Before production we had gathered our Pre prodcution documents from last semester in hope of producing a film based on our ideas. After various adaptions of the source material we came up with the idea for "Sticks and Stoves" working title. This idea is vastly different from the work in our pre-production work so it meant that I had to re-concept the entire film from again.

Synopsis: A whimsical  little girl stumbles across a ouija board hidden in the attic. Upon interacting with it she incidiently summons the devil, however when the ouija board is in the wrong hands it's power can be turned against anybody, even the devil.

Firstly, we filmed a maquette for use as reference in the previs. I directed the footage because my knowledge of composition was most suited to the task. My team members acted in the footage, and then chris did a great job at editing it.

The following weekend I modelled a proxy mesh for the devil, Abdul modelled the environement and chris modelled the girl. Abdul then made a basic rig for the characters and chris animated and edited the previs footage. In the meantime I was producing conept art for the characters and the environment.