Friday, AKA Last Day, 18 September 2009

Today is the last day, I packed up the CD for my P3 and its backup and went to school.

Raj and I presented on time at 3 PM. I am quite impressed with Raj's squash and stretch, he had a good timing sense for his animation too. Followed by a good concept, it shows good potential, it is too bad he had too little time to work on it.

As for mine, there are some critiques that I kind of expected. I expected the first scene too be too long as expected. I planned to shorten it but the voice actress is no longer available! (busy) I tried editing the voice clip but since it is continuous, cutting it halfway or fading it in seems to make it abrupt.. So my only alternative is to make it not too boring by animating the screen.

There were major problems with my timing, I think my pause timing did not work too well. There were critiques about the judge clothing before like what Alan said few months ago. Same goes to the jury, they looked like a prisoner. I forgot Amanda critiqued about it before (though the only thing I remembered is to animate the jury and the audience, and I forgot about the simplest part.. how stupid of me).

I also expected the credits to get some critique there, perhaps putting my name numerous times is too not professional just like what my sister pointed out previously. But I did that to extend the credits timing so I can put in some animation in, I guess it backfired though.

However, Raj and I still managed to pass, it may not be the best grade we ever see but.. we had a lack of time in the first place. There were also no time to arrange a proper consultation beforehand nor the time to make the necessary changes. After all beside juggling 3 subjects, we still have some dedication to Gambit (Raj in fact is more busy than me as he is involved in one of the project for saturday).

As for me myself, I had to sacrifice my holiday rip. My family and cousins (its whole family trip), went to cruise for 3 days this saturday. However, I still need to go gambit as I postponed my gambit work on Thursday and Friday to this saturday as I am busy with school and presentation.. but enough of me complaining.

I guess with this I can at last sleep in peace after lacking sleep/not sleeping for these past few days.

Good night people, this is Andreas signing off... happy to work with you readers..

Andreas Mas'Oen 0705922C

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Yeah I continued my work this mornign as my sister used the computer from last night till 10 AM.

I managed to finish the hardest scene (I think) just before I went to school to pass my work to Alan yeah! With that I finished all the scenes I got to do

All is left is the editing...darn it no time to rest yet... But for not I got to go to school

I can't upload the .gif the workfile is humongous

After suffering from 5 PM, i managed to do the necessary editing and burn the disc all done by 11.15 PM. so yea thats like 6 hours work no break (except when rendering)

There were some errors and small mistake I have yet to fix ... and perhaps I will leave it.. they did not disrupt the scenes anyway... I was a bit tired AKA lazy after re-rendering them for 7 times (due to some errors and all).. If only there were more times (or energy) I would have refine them by finding better SFX and BGM... but for now..oh well..

I am "a bit" proud of the work anyway considering the very little time we were given compared to the rest of the class...

in the morning I finished compiling my char design and adv. animation (yeah i did not sleep again)

After that, I did a scene for the NEWS TV screen, which is quite troublesome as it is compilation of some simple scenes. It took me 2 hours to actually finish that, how troublesome...

At 10 Pm I finished editing and compiling all the other scenes, but have yet to put in the sfx and the first scene of the reporter.

My sister needed to use the computer urgently so I guess I have to continue later on midnight or during early morning.

day 25, 15 september 2009

I only did a 25 seconds long worth of lip sync and actually that is all I did for P3 today

this is because I went to school to consult with Alan about normal mapping/displacement mapping/bump mapping from ZBrush to Maya.

So yea I dedicated 70% of the time today to wrap up everything about character design subject. In fact, I am still in the midst of rendering from Maya when I am writing this blog at the moment.

day 24, 14 September 2009

I woke up at 12, managed to continue and finish the scene in 3 hours 30 minutes, It is quite complicated as I have to animate slightly all the characters in the scene

the .gif seems corrupted as only the judge appears to be animated but oh well.. its .gif can't expect too much

I'll take a short break (I think i deserve it) and continue on my credits scene tonight

at evening, I did my second last scene, which is actually an incomplete scene from last time, it only cost me around 1 hour to add in some extra stuffs.

I shall go dinner now and then continue on my credits scene (which I kept on postponing)

It took me around 2-3 hours to finish the credits, it is simple but ya..

I am now left with the hardest scene but woohoo almost there... lazy to compile em though...

day 23, 13 september 2009

I am now doing the another angle scene instead of the credits, it is quite troublesome as I am designing a new set design

I wanted to upload the set design preview (no human yet except bum and judge) but blogspot is failing me again.

I also had to attend Gambit training,I wish i can skip that.. agrh

can't seem to finish today, 7 AM now, continue later after I woke up

day 22, 12 september 2009

As usual I finished a scene as soon I woke up, it is the fly scene this time, it only cost around 2 hours to do this scene. I will do the lip sync scene now..

and yea I am uploading those scenes I was unable to yesterday

on second thought, one of the scene file is too large.. and my internet java is failing me

at evening I finished a more simple lip sync scene of Bum

I also used another 15 minutes to finish another simple scene of the bottle base scene

added bg to another simple scene I done previously in 10 minutes

after my dinner (10:16 PM now) I shall do more lip sync scene, praying to finish all the "simple" scenes by latest tomorrow

Actually I haven't had my dinner but decided to spend another hour and a half to do a lip sync scene first... simply can't eat in peace if I have not do my quota for the day... so I manage to finish it at around 12:20 AM

I guess this is the time I will be able to eat my dinner in peace.

I shall perhaps do the credit tomorrow or the judge scene talking from different perspective.