Arthur animation update

Today I had a quick look at options for creating the landscape for my animation. Previously I looked at using Digital elevation models of the Edinburgh, Arthur's Seat in particular, and putting them into Vue. I then found that it would probably be a lot easier by simply creating an Arthur's seat lookalike in Maya by sculpting a NURBS plane as it will only be viewed in two shots at the most. For the sky i may either use view to make a HDR map or simply download a royalty free image.

As for the story, it was suggested that perhaps the scene showing the bayonets was perhaps too sudden for an opening scene at it would be better lead into it from another. Instead I am thinking of having Arthur cooking and while chopping up some vegetables, the knife reminds him of his bayonet and prompts the flashback to the bayonet-on-the-rack frame shown in my storyboard and animatic.

Today I have also started to model some of the props for the scenes. I have started modelling the bench in the scene where Arthur converses with Merlin. This is the bench as it looks so far and I will update again as I progress.