Designing Science Fiction

Our pitch bible presentation  Narrative short summary:  Episode 1: We are introduced to our cast, a group of cyborgs attempting to escape their life as slaves to the humans and reach ‘the factory’, where they can have their human parts removed, become full robots and live in peace. However, they are hailed by a ship and quickly realise that the spacecraft they hijacked was a space restaurant, and the beacon advertising it is still broadcasting. Deciding to fulfil the order to avoid suspicion, the clueless cyborgs scramble to find something humans might like to eat. However, the only thing left on the ship is their own meat... Episode 2: Engineer is troubled with the meager 1-star review their meal garnered, despite the other cyborgs lack of concern. They only want to shut down the beacon.We see flashbacks to her time working for the humans at the same resort as Jukebox, never receiving any praise. While she pities ...

Finalised Character Design for Friendly and Captain by Grace -  We all agreed we liked the number 1  Get Together -  We discussed  Inspiration/Research: Trailers  Looking at a mix of live action and animated trailers. The Jetson's Intro - Aqua Teen Hunger Force Intro - Annihilation -  Gundam Seed Series OP 3- Parasyte The Maxim Intro - Space Yelp Logo - Experimenting with lighting and colour tone in the kitchen area Cyborg Factory - After Effects Video Tutorials - Storyboarding -  Character intros and space yelp & t easer trailer -  Horror Vibe -  Watched a whole bunch of horror trailers.

Today we met up in class and showed each other the work we did over the week, to give critique and feedback and working out what we will have done over the break: Kasina worked on the inside aesthetic of  the kitchen and diner area: She played with 2 different aesthetics - We all agreed we liked the first style the most so will continue in that direction. It has a more grungy rundown vibe to it which is what we were going for. Grace continued developing the characters, this week she worked on Captain & Friendly: Different outfits and styles fitting our 1960's vibe and colour palette -  We really liked the design and style of 9 & 10 for Friendly and 6 & 11 for Captain. Bridget started looking at how and what she will create a model for: The teachers commented we should do one of the characters, such as Engineer.  We think if we have time we can do both ;)  Danielle continued working with after effects and began a...

Discussing Storyboard/trailer outline/character introduction: Great tutorial Videos for After Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMblOoHg6A   ( AE: Borderlands-style Character Intro! - After Effects Tutorial) Free Video footage & Sounds for After Effects: https://www.videocopilot.net/orb/ https://freesound.org/search/?q=clank Sound effects used: Squeaky Wheels Crash Clanking metal Retro space music Some Screenshots of progress Music possibilities: Sketches of interior for diner: Character Development:

Presentation!  The greatest one star restaurant in the quadrant our story revolves around a bunch of runaway cyborgs who steal a restaurant ship to escape human rule.  However, they forget to turn off the beacon and end up getting customers.  To avoid detection, they use their own meat to create meals to keep the customers happy.  Engineer becomes consumed with the idea of pleasing these customers, and the story quickly turns bloody as she ransacks the other cyborgs for more meat for these meals, eager for human approval. We looked at three different aesthetic design concepts. Really useful feedback: Told to look at dark humor type movies Stepford Wives Shawn of the dead Zombieland Ex Machina Look at other retro aesthetic for the retro theme like a Kiwiana twist (Milkbars) To do before next meet up: Bridget: Script for trailer/storyboard Dani: Start playing around in a...

Some context  Characters   Engineer   Captain - size and shape of a large fish tank   Friendly - could pass for human Jukebox - the only cyborg aboard their ship with real chemoreceptors. Shaped like a steel cabinet   Navi - all occipital tissue and myelinated axons Subject matter   meat   guts/ muscle   food/ takeout orders customers   cyborgs   space shuttle marine culinary   review system   beacon Food mentioned in the story   Salisbury steak blueberry cobbler   wine Savoury sauce.   Blackberries (mashed up by Friendly’s fingers) Boxed-up meals shot between the ships in an insulated steel container Meat steaks seared, sausages, meatballs. filled with cilantro ganache. pizza teabags   chocolate wilted handfuls of cilantro and some radishes the liquefied kidney paste tossed with raw pasta risotto red bean paste creamed together with ketchup and red pepper flake...