#moustryhotel

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This is the final poster i did for Jamie’s film ‘Twice as Mice’. It took quite a while to get this done, i took a load of inspiration from the vintage Mickey Mouse film posters, and thought it would be cool to try and do my own style one.

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This is my progression reel for twice as mice. It’s all the works and experiments I’ve done since Jan for the project!

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Jamie film title ideas:

As I’m getting the poster done this week for Jamie’s animation, I’ve been playing around with different titles. We had agreed that we’d both go and do some thinking on it and come back tomorrow with a few ideas, so the poster can be finished by Friday.  So here are some of the ideas I had thought of:

Mouse House

Twice as Mice

Hotel Rodent

Hotel Mouseyfornia

Mirror Mouse

Mouse Duel

Mouse Fight

Mouse Mime

Mime

Reflection

Rodent Battle

Rodent Wars

Rogue Rodents???

Moustry Hotel

Mouse Double

Double Trouble 

Twins

The highlighted ones are the titles I liked the most, and I think fit more than the others, but we’ll see. It was actually quite hard to think about titles, I don’t like coming up with names for things, but hopefully this will give Jamie some inspiration?

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This is the zoom but backwards (outro) for Jamie.

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This test goes a little differently. Like the first draft, it starts as a wide shot, but then only zooms into the center of the hotel and then pauses and the camera moves along over to the window again to cut to a fade. I think  this one is the simplest and the resolution stays - but it’s also quite boring compared to the previous zoom I had done. Jamie says to do a few and then when his film is done, he’ll try out the different zooms and then see which fits best.

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This is the second example I’ve done for the zooms. Jamie liked the idea of the hotel being revealed in the zoom, so I did one from the sky and then zooming out to reveal the hotel in a wide shot and then zooming back into the window where it would stop to have the fade in. I was a little bit skeptical from this idea because of the resolution of the image. The reason why I had stopped at a certain point in the animation for the hotel was because it had lost resolution so it would work better by fading it out onto his set. I think it goes a bit quickly so that you don’t notice the resolution too bad, I also put motion blur on the camera for when it moved out so it would be quite blurry anyways. 

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This is the same experiment but backwards. I think the slower version could work backwards because of the ominous ending if having a silhouette at the end? Something to talk to Jamie about!

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Continuing with Jamie’s intros and outros, I did a couple of different zooms. 

This animation starts as a wide shot, and then zooms into the right hand side window. I’m still testing out different speeds for the zooms, but this one i think goes way too slow, and by then the audience would lose interest, especially where there is no other movement but the clouds - so it’s needs to go quicker than that.

I’ve shown Jamie these and he’s given me a few examples/ideas to try, so I’ll be animating that this weekend.