The work we want to do for this Collaboration project is a fighting animation, which Yann and I have planed weeks ago. He wanted to do the experiment of motion blur in Houdini, I want to learn hard surface modeling and how to rig a robot. Therefore, we have discussed about the story and came up with a concept art:

The story background is in cyberpunk world, a killer meets a bounty hunter girl in a alley, and start fighting for some reason.

The next step is to find people and make a team, we got Evanna from Ma Vfx, Fly, Murray, Jay and Layne from Ma 3D animation.

The division sheet about showing what different parts of this project. We will start from storyboard, characters and scenes design, is for pre-production. Murray can start learning rigging and lighting from now, Evanna and Jay can learn physical vfx and particle vfx while doing the scenes design. So everyone has their own job to do in the pre-production stage.

Storyboard:

The storyboard is all i have done on this week, it covers about 48 second of the story before the fight start. I have tried to used as less pages as I can to show the enviroment and feature of this two characters. The man is a professional killer, around 40 years old and cruel. He has a gun, a mechanical eye and a mechanical arm, got strong power but low movement speed. The girl has two swords and has high agility, the badge on her coat shows her identity, a Bounty hunter.