Day 15, Wednesday 20 May 2008

Since animated .gif doesnt rly work I decided to just post .jpeg. Anyway I added expression for that woman behind, and yea I think that fat woman is better leave as it is but I shall see how it shall goes in the near future.

due to someone's idea I will make the fat woman loss her weight.. and of course.. I will try my best to make it look sick

Day 14, Tuesday 19 May 2008

Updated the audience expression shots..

dang its not working again... even school inet speed cant help

Day 13, Tuesday 14 May 2008

manage to edit 2 of my scenes, the audience is half finished, (i may not animate tt fatty woman, i think her blinking is enough, maybe the gas pass just behind her, but well if there are time ill animate her too)

i think there are something wrong with the animated gif, most probably is due to my slow inet speed at home... dang it..

Andreas MasOen

Day 12, Thursday 14 May 2008

There are 2 presentations today, thats is why there are lack of updates... anyway I manage to rush my animatics ..

there were few problems present like things do not go as smooth as I predicted, decoding error, lack of memory, lack of focus and motivation, viruses swarming my comp, anti virus going haywire, MSN can't login, bad weather.. and so on..

there are nothing much i can say today, however I use most copyrighted songs from the same source I base some of my courtroom from... for some of you that already know... yeah it is Phoenix Wright.. I guess i gotta credit em later e..

I used Kezia voice for reporter and Raj voice for Bum. Me, myself is the judge. However, there are chances I have to rerecord those, i think lack of emotion for some. Though Kezia one is already fine.. Anyway.. sicne its animatics i skip lip sync and havent fully alter some angles but oh well it is jus for the comical timing.. I hope it works for later presentation (in fact I hope I got to present, I do not want to waste my 2 days w/o slping for nth... bah...) Thanks a lot Kezia and Raj, even though I may not be using urs for final, rest assured, you both will still be fully credited, both of you can contact me anytime you wanna get a free hug :D .

I think I should include some things I produce though here it is..

I love to degrade myself thus the Retarndreas.. (subject to change in the future)

If the title is too *cough* disgusting*cough* it is also subject to change...

I tried layering in AE instead in MAYA however I have not put the background yet.

One word of warning : most scenes uploaded are INCOMPLETE, so pardon me for the lack of quality, and it is in animated .GIF thus the pixels and colour palette error

I could not upload the AE layering files here, it is too lag to open and... I am also lazy to put it here actually... you can always ask me if you wanna see it.... though it is not worth showing..

click on the image if u wanna see the animation.. however the butt is not working.. I tried uploading few times but does not work...

Your most beloved **tard,
Andreas Mas'Oen (0705922c)

FEEDBACK:

1.) my typography sucks... aww......... Alan commented the A is nice but I gotta fix the rest, dang I have to think or design it again
2.) Same goes for the rainbow fonts, some of the letters are more glaring than the rest, same goes for PRESENT, i think I gotta outline em
3.) Alan said that adding expression shots of people puking or feeling smelly will make it better
4.) There were few comments that the starting is a bit long, I agreed, that is why I planned to animate the screen, where there will be different sort of animation flashing there
5.) The woman color palette is too daturated.. gotta fix em again.. aaah...argh..
6.) I still got to add background for the start. I have very little time to add it thus I abandon it at the moment. However, some people think that the door is floating. I really have to add it ASAP...
7.) There were some problems with voice, some said the judge, however Alan said reporter one is more problematic. Maybe there were too many lines.. Maybe I should cut some or put those texts like in those news
8.) the ABM icon is too distracting, maybe I should add the lag time for the animation of that ABM. Hmm after adding the details for the 1st scene will it be less distracting? or there will be too many things happening in the same time.
9.) ah.. I almost forgot that I have to change the door design, it looks like a wardrobe door now..

Sunday, 10 May 2009

recently i focus on animation 2, pardon me..

honestly I do not do much on my P3 yet, I only added few simple thumbnails for my storyboard (v simple and I think no worth scannign over)

and I tried to sketch out the BG for my other angle, I will try to vector it out tmr and if possible color it on the same day. I will try to use maya on Tuesday of nothing goes wrong to create the other bg (the door, I think is necessary as thats where the title shall appear)

the following attachment is the bg I sketch, i think the perspective a bit funny but wad do u guys think? it is a quick sketch under 15 mins so pardon the blurry lines (especially all the vertical lines or horisontal lines, i do not use ruler for em [see the small door/gate and the place where Dimwit stands]), i promise it will be better once its vectorised....hopefully.. wait.. probably...70% chance..or less

Day 10, Wednesday 06 May 2009

there is no class yesterday so yeah..

anyway, we have group discussion today about Gantt Chart. We started by discussing the things in our production. We included things like character design, storyboard, animatics, background design, improved storyboard/animatics, voice recording, audio, and etc.

However Alan said we should prioritise in breaking down our scenes. After that, we should prioritise doing the most simple scene first. This is to boost our confidence and in the same time to tell ourself how the whole style shall be like throughout.

We should then proceed with the most difficult scene, this is as soon as we have the feel from our most simple scene, we should let the hardest part of ours settled.

The third one we should do is the last scene as it gives the most lasting impression, perhaps since it is the last scene people get to watch.

Alan said as we are not showing to client, sometime changes can be made to our animation (even though it may be different from storyboard). The purpose is to work smart and still able to convey the same message even though the scene is different. This will also allow us to save time.

I guess that is all today, long discussion for 2 hours. Ah, just a reminder next Monday will be another movie session I think. :p hmm Twelve Monkey? i watch that when I was a kid I think. The first one that make me realise not all movie are happy ending, and thus loathe it when I was a kid.

Andreas Mas'Oen (0705922c)

Day 09, Monday 04 May 2009

There is a movie session today, It is Gromit and Wallace' series. Animation using stop motion, it is fantastic and I am amazed at the follow through and how the whole camera angle is still smooth and all. I could not even believe it was a stop motion

After sending Alan the learning contract, I showed Alan my newest character, He make few comments like now he looked like a bum. He said I do not need the torn and the stained. Make him mroe sloppy too ... so voila! here is the FINAL character ....maybe....

day 08, Thursday 30 April 2009

well.. i only attended 1 hour of the clas today due to some reason, everyone had quite an interesting idea. I am quite shocked tat Alan shared the same thought about Raj's idea (that knife scene). When I was little i am quite scared of all scenes that had sharp object in it, ALan pointed it out before me so oh well. his storyboard was quite clear which is good too. Laurie story has so much potential but it was quite a letdown that she do not let the tension build up more. I could not see wgat is going on on Greg's storyboard so there is not much I can comment on. I also like TY's storyboard it was quite cute, though the ending is *cough* quite tragic.. Jarrold one is also quite funyn though personnally I think if the baby pop up during the sit-up it will be funnier ;p or ... you know let the woman go to toilet or something and the baby just pop out during the "you_know_what" in toilet. Honey one is quite cute, however, i prefer if the owner expression could bes een in ending.

That is all I see from thursday presentation.. good job people..

during the weekend i did a bit of character (though i do more anim2), to make him look more idiotic and helpless

the stain is added to make him look dirty, while the torn is to make him look like misfortune? say bitten by dog or sth... the button and tie is to show him being not neat, the tight suit and clothes is to show how hopeless he is.. the extra strand hair... jus to show that he is a 'not neat guy' trying to be 'neat'