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ContentsIntroduction ² Page 3

Pre-Production

Story ² Page 4

Storyboard ² Pages 5 - 6

Animatic (Screenshots) ² Page 7

Linda, Rick and Vincent ² Page 8

Drone and Alpha Spider ² Page 9

Prop designs ² Page 10Environment Development ² Page 11

Production

Modelling Linda ² Page 12

Modelling Rick ² Page 13

Modelling Vincent ² Page 14

Character Rig Setup ² Pages 15 ² 16

Modelling Drone and Alpha ² Page 17

Spider Rig Setup ² Page 18Modelling Props ² Page 19

Modelling Environment ² 0

Promotional Poster ² Page 21

Final Stills ² Pages 22 - 24

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IntroductionThe studio members include three creative

individual:

Sean Banford ² http://seanyb-art.blogspot.com/

Dayle Sanders ² http://daylesanders.blogspot.com/

Adam Webb - http://thevistor.blogspot.com/

¶The Attack of the Robot Spiders· is set in the roots of

the period of the 1950·s but has been brought forward as

a modern production that represents a possible future. It

combines the genres of Sci-Fi and Horror to

communicate the story of the hidden secrets of an

abandoned research facility returning to haunt the cast

that attempt to explore and reopen it.This book guides

the process of making the 1 minute 30 second trailer for

the film.

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http://studiocrawler.blogspot.com/



Story

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A News Crew bribes a scientist to take them down

to an abandoned advanced research facility.To find

out what advanced technology was going on. Linda

wants to make a big hit, convinces some of the

members to go down with her to make the

interview and shoot, the news crew sneak into this

place surreptitiously unaware of the secretmechanical creatures that have been locked down

there.

Something has been stirring in

the shadows and as Linda and the

team voyages through the

complex, the unknown

experiments make their presence

known and seek out the source of

what disturbed them.

Fear Lurks in the laboratory as the

members of the crew mysteriously

disappear...



Storyboard

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This Storyboard helped to visualise the shots and help to piece together a logical order

of what scenes would work and also what needed to be edited out.



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Storyboards by Sean Banford



Animatic

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After redrafting the script and shot transitions, this animatic was a crucial stage to figure out camera shots

pacing and lighting techniques that could be used to make the trailer stronger. As a group we decided that

plain black and white tones would contrast better to the intense red glow of the spiders.

View animatic at: http://studiocrawler.blogspot.com/2011/10/development-completed-animatic.html



Linda, Vincent and Rick

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To reach these final concepts, we had to decide on a style to make the characters feel believable

for our world of the trailer. It was agreed to chose very specific stereotypes of the 1950·s ²

1960·s time period of typical characters that stand out in a social group.

Character Concepts by Dayle Sanders



Drone and Alpha Spider

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There were many ways that we could of designed the robot spider but to address

the ¶horror· section, it was decided that one solitary eye could be considered quite

menacing that creates one intense red glow. Also a spiky machine approach was

used in the legs to capture the terrors of a spider combined with robotics.

Character Concept by Adam Webb



Prop Designs

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The style used for the characters helped to define the props and what would suit the characters. Also

the 1950·s design were more restrictions that were taken into consideration.



Environment: Laboratory

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We decided that the lab should be represented as clean and basic soft colours such as white,

typically found in a lab environment.This was to explain how some areas were left

abandoned as they would of looked in the past. Also how the spiders could of taken over

some corridors and create nests using wire for ¶metallic webbing·.

Environment Concepts by Dayle Sanders and Adam Webb



Modelling Linda

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Linda Model by Dayle Sanders



Modelling Rick

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Rick Model by Dayle Sanders



Modelling Vincent

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Vincent Model by Dayle Sanders



Character Rig Setup

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The rigging for the three characters had to include blend shapes, nurbcurves, etc so that they could be animated to give facial expressions and

smooth body movement in order to complete the required scenes

where they are interacting with props, the environment and each other.



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Character Skinning and Rigging by Dayle Sanders



Modelling Drone and Alpha Spider

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Drone and Alpha Models by

Adam Webb



Spider Rig Setup

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The rig for the spiders were quite simple joints nurb circles because they

are only shown in few and specific scenes and only require movement that

would be layered with the red glow and shadows later in post-

production.

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pider Rigging by Adam Webb



Modelling Props

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The props were made to fit the characters or the environment that it was meantfor so were styled to fit style of animation.The textures and colours were also

considered as pale and clear colours that would be desaturated.

Props by Adam Webb



Modelling Environment

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The environment had to meet the requirements of the

animatic to match the shots for the trailer. Simple textures

have been used to keep to the idea of the lab as a clean

environment and would be blurred out in Post-Production.

Environment by Sean Banford



Promotional Poster

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Final Stills

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