You can't even tell they were bright colors.
Actually, if you look really closely, you can see that orange an red bricks are ever so slightly translucent. Not enough that you can see anything through it at all or even close, but the way that light comes off them is slightly different from other bricks.
Cool looks nice although I'm not a big fan of the top of the birch tree it looks kind of out of place. But that's just my opinion.
Do you not like the shade of grey, the shape, or the size? I was planning to make it bigger, but I needed to find some more bricks first.
Do those trees represent the visual style you're going for? I have this cool idea to make a really whispy, white tree, bit I haven't figured out how to make it as smooth as possible yet.
Any more tree designs would be a nice thing to have, I usually use trees similar to these, but I also have the curved trees I use in my fairy-tale videos. And I of course plan to use those here as well.
I think part of your sets should be an old rock brick building; all the shades of grey could give you some really amazing realism.
I was also thinking the same thing. I was hoping to have the ruined remains of some small castle or medieval building since it takes place in England.
HoldingOurOwn wrote:Just for kicks, I'd love to see the film in color, too!
The film will never exist in colour, not even in a way which I'll be able to watch it.
There's a slight difference between how the shades of grey translate when draining the colour out of a picture rather than just setting my camera to greyscale.
It you take my comparison picture and drain the colour, you will find that there's an obvious difference between the two and the colours are not in the right order anymore.
Now, I could shoot it in colour then drain it, but I'd rather have the camera set to greyscale as so that I can be ever cognizant of exactly how everything looks in greyscale whilst shooting. I can also use this to quickly point the camera at what I'm currently building so I can see how it looks rather than taking a colour photo, putting it on my computer, then draining the colour, which would be bothersome and time consuming. It would also add an extra step to editing in the red frames, as I would have to drain each frame before starting.
In the end, there is no reason at all for colour version of the frames to exist except for a behind the scenes video where you can see everything looking remarkably ugly.
Though, I still do plan to take some pictures of the completed set in colour so one can still see how remarkably ugly is really is.
Though, I'm unsure if I'm going to release these before or after the final film. It might be nice to wait so someone watching the film for the first time wouldn't remember how the actual set looked, which might take away from the film.