Jack and the Beanstalk : A Court Room Drama

The Big Finale

As their is no longer crit presentation for this project, I thought the best option for everyone to get the full pitch that I aimed to deliver would be through my blog.

For my Transcription I choose to create a court room drama of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The idea came from the reading two versions of the story, which appear to give to side to the story. In the first version of the fairy tale see's Jack as a thief, a boy living in poverty, who stole the Goose and Harp from the Giant. The second version of the fairy tale see's Jack as a Hero rescuing the Goose after she called out to him.

The fairy described in shots 1 and 9 are seen by its trail of pixie dust. The fairy will be the driving force which opens the door in the opening scene. The characters within the scene will only move and fidget a little, they are on trial so they shouldn't move to much. Within this piece i believe it is important to incorporate other fairy tale characters in the court room to unite all fairy tales as there own complete kingdom.





















Judge : the Judge is the character of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Giant and Jack : from Jack and the Beanstalk
The Spoon : from the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle






















The Gingerbread Man : from the fairy tale The Gingerbread Man
The Dish : from the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle
Three Bears : are from the story of Goldie Locks and Three Bears
The Cow : from Jack and the Beanstalk





















The Fairy : as found in nearly all fairy tales, traditionally they are tiny creatures that leave trails of pixie/fairy dust behind them. The fairy, following tradition a fairy trailed by its dust opens the door to the court room at the start and divides the scene at the end.





















The adaptation of the united nations to the united fairy’s. The United Nations flag is the symbol of unity and common law for countries across the planet. The United Fairy’s flag is the symbol for the same thing for the fairy tale kingdom.

The End is Nigh

After a long weekend problems, I can see the light at the of the tunnel. After much trial and error and trying different computers, everthing rendered as it should. I managed to slow down the problems of fast animation but much is still out of sink with the sound. This is the last in my ever growing of things to do before the final checks.

New Opening and Endings

In the Opening scene the camera will follow a fairy trail which opens the door. The camera will continue follow to the Judge.

The closing scene will show a preview of the episode to follow. The fairy trail from the beginning will appear once again in the closing, to keep continuity, it will travel down the screen through center separating the two opposing characters for the next court case.

A Bad Day For Designers!!!

Today has got to the worst day I have ever had with projects. Everything I touch has gone wrong! Personally I don't enjoy posting problems and irritations about projects so i don't, i just work through and fix them, then mention then if its relevant. Today's problems are beyond relevant. Finished Renders are missing items which are turned on in the scene, lighting has gone bonkers and the playback speeds are wonky. So far its been on of those days that I wish I didn't get out of bed.

I am rendering the opening scene once again (about the 6th time) and physically watching it to make sure the items do not vanish again. What is happening is utterly bizzar, there is no rhyme or reason for the judges mic, chair and gavel to turn off. Fingers cross this render works.

The lights i think have just been an error from the organic life form behind the machine, so not much to say there other than to remind myself to check, check and check again!

The last major problem of the day is the most confusing off them all, everything has been set to 25fps throughout the project, the sound record, the animating, the video file rendering. Yet with all these check and the animation created to sound in Maya, the video files are playing faster than the sound. For this I need to play and figure it out otherwise nothing will fit.

Why is it always the last few days problems occur? no matter how prepared and organised you are.

From the United Nations to the United Fairy Tale Kingdom

The united nations flag symbolises the union of the nations across the world. This flag has been adapted to the united fairy kingdom which unites all fairy tale characters under one set of laws.

lighting renders

theatrical lighting test

Image Updates

Fully riged and animated characters. Jack and the Judge are fully lip synced ready for render, just a little cleaning up of key frames needed.

Judge Preview