Changing a few things about my story

So I had presentations today and again lots of people made a lot of good suggestions making me have to rethink a little bit about my story. I'm not going to redo my leica reel I don't think, I'll just go straight into the pre-viz. Thankfully this allows me to do a bit less work since I was a bit crazy with the amount of humans I have to rig. So here is the changes

1) Only 3 locations this time, the school Classroom, Canteen and Shop. This will take the load off modelling so many environments.

2) Less characters, I realised a lot of my characters weren't working for me so I'm going to keep the characters that are and leave the ones behind that don't really need to be there. So sorry Dallas and Cachou that means you die. Which leads onto

3) I'm simplifying the story a little bit, instead of having a group of humans the main character goes to, he's only really going to meet 1 human, a girl. There going to get along before something happens to their relationship.

4)I'm going to try and put a little bit of animation in there, I'm going to focus on human expressions and lip-syncing. This I'm still unsure about but I'm going to see how it works.

As for work, I've pretty much finished the rigging and the weights on my Nick character, I have to do the blend shapes and start rigging the Alien and Trudy.

Characters Modelled and Textured

So I've finally gotten the characters of my story modelled and textured, I think they look pretty good, the hair is a little weird on some of them so that's something I might change later. I'm going to out some sub surface skin in later when I start using mental ray.

The protagonist Nick

The alien that tries to talk to Nick

Dallas leader of the group of humans

Trudi a girl in the group

Cachou another girl in the group

The alien as a human at the end