1980s Room: Modeling/UV/Textured

The 1980's room pretty much done, might need to play around with the lighting.

Narrative: Character Rigging/Skinning

We decided on using the ribbon spine as our character will have to dance in the last scene, it is the best option to have more freedom in animating him.
With the Skeleton done for our character, it is ready to be skinned now.

Modeling: The 1980's Room scene

This shows the modeling progress concerning the second scene (1980's room), it is pretty much done. 

Modeling: The Train and 1980's room scenes.

I would like to mention that our environments will be modeled as single planes, because of the animation transition style we are going for, and the textures will be applied to the planes to give it a 2.5D look.
So this is what I have done so far for the scenes I am modeling ( Trains scene and 1980's room).

(I have included the concepts to make it easier to understand the modeled scenes as it is in an early stage)

Train Scene

The seats will be modeled using a plane as well and using a front orthographic from the concept.

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1980's Room Scene

And again here I have used planes for the wall, posters, however certain elements are modeled in 3D such as the box, bed, lamp-shade and shelves

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Narrative: Further Research

Following our ideas about recording devices, We have decided to do a research to find out more about the devices we chose and their influences on the society.
Here is what I found

Recording Devices

Narrative: Ideas

Concerning the narrative ideas, I have watched a documentary about the Industrial revolution which has helped me a lot to broaden my knowledge about this subject.




Idea 1.

The character is a man who is affected by the revolution, lost his job because of the machines that took over.
He started the Luddites movement which used to meet at night and start destroying machines and inventions.
The man realises the machine brought some positive changes to his life, such as taking the train to visit his family. Furthermore, he realises the movement spread across the country and arrived where his wife and kids are working, this resulted in the death of his family, leaving him miles away from their bodies.


Idea 2.

The Age of Enlightenment which was a cultural movement of intellectuals which resulted in founding the Lunar society in which philosophers, intellectuals, thinkers and industrialists met to discuss ideas and inventions. They used to meet in Soho House,Matthew Boulton's house, the Steam engine inventor,every month during the full moon, because the extra light made their their journey safer and easier.
The Luddites movement members used to meet at night as well, and one of the members took revenge of the leader of the Lunar society.when the leader left the meeting heading to the manufactury he was killed by the luddite hoping it will change something about the unemployability.