Developing ideas

Scott and I went to a café after the gym this morning and sat down to try and develop the idea for the mime further. We both like the concept of "mimeland", but we had some concerns about the audition part of the idea. So we sat down and started to throw out suggestions and after a few silly ideas and some laughs there was a moment where it felt like it all came together. The idea is to make it into an audition for a film, and the off-screen voice is a overambitious and slightly ridiculous director that yells out scenarios that the mime's has to act out. And as the mime finishes his act, the next one gets an even worse scenario to act out. Not sure if it should end with a mime break out of character and show his frustration or if he is going to impress the director so much that he gets the part.
Anyway, this is still work in progress and it might not be the idea we go for, it's just the idea we worked on today.

Em could unfortunately not make it in to town today, but we have kept her up to speed on what we did and we are all meeting at Uni tomorrow and will continue developing the ideas. I guess the goal for tomorrow should be to decide on a final concept so that we can get the story down on paper and start working on the storyboard and plan it further.

Otherwise I have also animated a bit today, or to be honest animating is stretching it a bit. I have just done really basic stuff like bouncing balls and some posing. But it's all been done in Maya and it's slowly starting to make a bit more sense.. I've also borrowed the "How to cheat in Maya 2010" from Scott so been reading up on some stuff in that too. Hopefully I'll be able to learn enough so that I won't struggle too much when we start animating the tasks.