A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This is a commission project I did for Box Tree Productions with Rebecca Pearce Davis.

I'm sure you all know the Midsummer Night's Dream story by William Shakespeare . 

For this project Rebecca designed the backgrounds while I mainly  designed and developed animations such as the fairies and transactions.

You can see the power of our collaborations through the work below.

This lovely image was designed by Rebecca and I. Rebecca, did a high percentage of the work doing the background, however I did the lovely chair that hangs in the centre of the page.

This is the opening that I designed with the fairies that I developed and designed flying across the screen.
For quick animations the fairies have come out beautifully. If I did this project again or if I had more time to develop it I would have given the fairies more detail and developed more of them with different styles.

For this video Rebecca has animated the movement of my animated fairies to fly them around the screen.
The forest background was created by Rebecca and I developed the curtain along with the animation of it opening.

This flashy video was designed by Rebecca but I have edited it to make it flash. 
Rebecca also design a single ball of light which I have slightly developed by changing the colours of them and animating them in the photo. Pretty mysterious right.😄

This lovely video from night to day to night again was developed by Rebecca and I. Rebecca created the forest background which I then edit in photoshop to create a night version before I made them fade in and out of each other.

This is pretty much the same a the last video.
Rebecca created the background which I then developed further to create the red forest before I made them fade into one another.

Theses are a close up of the fairies I developed in photoshop and TVpaint before adding a glow to them in After Effects.

For this one I created the gradual change of Rebecca's lovely forest into the image of a palace. 

Finally, when Rebecca and I thought all out hard work was finished, it turns out we weren't...

And we where hit with a boom shell.

Sadly,  the uncooperative party that shall go unnamed (NOT Rebecca!!! ) had decide that she wanted some changes done. However because this was after the deadline we where limited in time. And what made it worse was that she wanted Rebecca and I to do it all by ourselves.

So we ended up doing another opening but I didn't have enough time to add all the fairies and the prosses of re-animating the curtain was far two complicated and long to re-develop. (Took me over a day and a half's work last time). 

As the uncooperative party was refusing to give me credit for my work and ignoring me altogether saying that 'it was unprofessional to talk to me' I felt disrespected.
I would have been happy to re-do the things she asked but after the way she treated me, I decided I'll do what I can but I won't fully go out of my way to do work that I won't be credited for when I have much more important university work that I will be respected and credited for.

I asked Rebecca for her understanding and she fully understood and respected my response. 

But thanks to the things her unprofessionalism Rebecca and I learnt many things that she should have done.
We learnt that if a person asks you do work for them make sure you:
1. Make a contract with them first before you do any work
2. Make sure that the contract is fair 
3. Make sure you understand the contract
4. That the time/ percentage of work you develop is reflected equally in your payment. 

Here is new version that I developed.