The zombie hoard

With the project progressing on, i have been contemplating the exhibition at teh end of year, and early on came up with the idea to have a small hoard of 20-30 zombies wak through the exhibition space and draw attention to the Honors work. This is definitely needed as honors exhibition space is often over looked as it is often in a room away from the final year students.

After scouring online for interested zombies i have accumulated roughly 12 zombies! Being very early on my hoard of zombies will easily grow in size by the time they are needed to walk. It will be a great spectacle!

Sound Lows and Highs

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a bit of ups and down with sound design. Unfortunately Danial Pennefather (Good Freind and sound designer of E=mc 2) has left the Z-Day project due to personal reasons, i wish him luck and thank him for all help he has been.

However even with the loss of my sound designer is have secured Martins Voice actor, a very talented budding performer and freind Jacob Thomas, who is heavily involved in performing arts and embodies a lot of Martins characteristics.

Along with Jacob join the team, there has been some talk with a few other sound designers which is look extremely promising, will update soon with the outcome!

The Z-Day Cast

The Z-day Cast has been designed, after a fiar bit of tweeking and back and forth the 2D version of the cast is finished and ready to be turned into 3D.

Below we have:

Martins character sheet



Tonys Character sheet



and the Cast Character sheet

Moodboards

These are some of the mood-boards that i have done for my Z day project:

The Concept Board, shows some of the original sketches and character designs:




The Z day Board, shows the general feeling that i hope my piece will give off, combing characters that are aesthetically similar to my own as well as rough settings.



The Zombie Board, shows the accumulated zombie reference pictures that i have acquired and have used to draw inspiration from



The Martin Board, shows the type of character that Martin will be (hopefully)



None of the above images (unless stated otherwise) are property of Pierre Isnard, they have been found of Google images and various websites and are used only as research and reference material.

Handdrawn effects tests

The following renders were done by myself, using a standard poly sphere, and the 11 Second CLub rig.

I am exploring the hand drawn aesthetic within Maya, and 3D animation.

The death of Zombie Tony

So over the past few week i have been cutting back the original script and fine tuning the story. The other day i had the epiphany that Zombie Tony has already met his demise! there is no need to have this 5th character in my Zday project. With the removal of the entire middle scene has left a void and unfortunately Zombie Tony didnt make the cut! this will of course make a greater distinction between Reality and Imagination, whether its a good thing or a bad thing is yet to be seen.

bye Zombie Tony! i will miss ya