Lili Schuett ~ Character Designer

Daily Flight with Tairn and Andarna by emilyedraws   After putting my foot down and making the decision to create the Fourth Wing animatic at the beginning of the trimester, I realised that I needed a lot of collaboration for this project. I started with writing down a list of who and what exactly is involved. The scene ‘Threshing’ that I’m creating from chapters 13-14 requires five characters with voice acting, a cinematic score that provides the sense of atmosphere and a script. My main collaborators are Charles Inopiquez, Ben Blommestein and Aaron Wilkes, one audio student and two film students from SAE. Additional collaborators involve Ethan Morse (one of my friends who has done professional voice acting), Henry Schultz and Dane Keckley who voice the main characters. Project stakeholders are people that are actively involved in a project that can positively or negatively affect the outcome of its implementation or completion, impacting the results as well as each of their team ...

Continuing from my recent blog posts, my main goal is to create an animatic from the book ‘Fourth Wing’ by Rebecca Yarros. I’ve chosen a book that is new and yet to have a media adaptation (which one is currently in the works with Amazon Studios), this way I can have my own interpretation without being influenced by existing media. Beside the fact that I am doing this from something currently popular in the romantasy (romance plus fantasy, seems to be what they are calling it these days) genre, I’m using this to hone my skills as a storyboard artist and go for something bigger. There are a lot of people that know Fourth Wing, I can seek them for any kind of given feedback on my work. How does it fit into the larger media landscape of similar projects? This project easily fits into the larger media landscape as storyboarding is used for most current media, including animation, film, and video games. It visualizes a selected scene from a script narrative or making on-the-spot thumbnail s...