New Hardware!

Recently, I purchased a new £200 graphics card for my computer. In terms of my animation, this gives me the potential to create a far better end product, as more camera effects, bigger and more expansive sets and more ambitious particle and lighting effects can be achieved. Alongside this, I may be able to complete my original intention of filming the entire short film in 60 frames per second, giving the finished result a much smoother look and finish.

With this in mind, I am altering the original story that I had in mind slightly to incorporate some of the initial ideas that I had but was at the time unable to use, such as multiple antagonists and a larger scale fight at the end. This larger scale fight will use some of the models I initially made for this project, but scrapped due to their high-requirements. Some of those are as follows:

The large areal fort that the antagonists will reside in, and the protagonists will have to infiltrate

Small Drone used by the antagonists as a smaller form of henchmen (Note: This model got as far as having it's colours textured before being scrapped)

Along with various other scenery objects (walls, platforms etc), these are some of the previous ideas that can be now incorporated into the short film, either taking on similar roles to their original intention or being changed to fit the more up to date narrative. The narrative changes effect little of the story, but are largely just a few shots placed into the pre-existing scenes in order to set up the antagonist more, as well as introducing a new plot point that will be used in the finale (a small Ipod-like device that will play a song and it's music video when one of the protagonists accidentally activates it). This will, of course, lead to changes being placed within the finale, as it will be done on a much grander scale then previously planned to be.