11 Dec 2016
A lot of things happened this week , its quite amazing. Firstly work was unsurprising stale and everyone concentrated on the IS modules because a world issues report was due. I completed 2 backgrounds and are working on another 3.
Changes made:
The look of the characters changed, they look more like they are wearing masks, however they do look scaries and it didn't really appeal to me and another member so we tried to voice out our opinion however majority won and though it doesn't affect part of my work, i still find the change a hassle because all the shot animated so far has be edited and we don't have much time left.
Also we took out some scene that was unnecessary like ting ting reflection part and we added more exterior scenes to depict the society more and at the middle so that our film will have more of a flow.
The end credit scene though no teacher made noise about it, we took it out to save time. However i loved that scene because it shows because of stanley's act of courage it affected other humans to also speak out. Luckily i manage to convince my producer that if we have enough time, they could animate that part :))) most probably it wont be added, but i think if i work hard enough i can get through to them.
Funny incident
To end off the week, my group caused a blew up a power socket. It was pretty funny, she just wanted to charge her laptop and plugged in her charger and ztttss, a odour was produce and half of our workspace power plugs stopped working.
Im worried about my health so im going to exercise this week and do work so JYJY everyone.
Sunday, 11 December 2016
sem 2 week 11: Plausible Horrible week
4 Dec 2016
So far our project has been going well, I've lit a total of 15 background images. Until our Mid year Viva came along! Somehow our group seems to just have bad luck with Viva. We were the first to present for the day, As you remembered 2 of our group mates came late for a previous viva. This tie we made sure everyone met up an hour before the presentation. We called each other and everything.
Viva review
The first fault we made was to download the googleslides and not change the image sizes, so as we are presenting, the images were bigger and blocked our words. The audio wasn't working in the morning as well so it freaked our team out and we forgot to introduce ourselves before playing the animatic. Overall the teachers commented that our presentation was very sloppy.
On the art itself, the teachers praised us for the lighting and the colour sketches. However Jim one of our mentor slaughtered us as he question about the purpose of the magical reflection. His opinions and points were helpful though. Anita also found our animatic unclear and that our monsters doesn't look scary enough. Its not the first time we heard this comment before, we are going to discuss on how to change the look of the character.
This week i didn't do much work because changes are being made and it seems like most of the shots are unconfirmed. Oh wells, it would be a good break from being disappointed.
So far our project has been going well, I've lit a total of 15 background images. Until our Mid year Viva came along! Somehow our group seems to just have bad luck with Viva. We were the first to present for the day, As you remembered 2 of our group mates came late for a previous viva. This tie we made sure everyone met up an hour before the presentation. We called each other and everything.
Viva review
The first fault we made was to download the googleslides and not change the image sizes, so as we are presenting, the images were bigger and blocked our words. The audio wasn't working in the morning as well so it freaked our team out and we forgot to introduce ourselves before playing the animatic. Overall the teachers commented that our presentation was very sloppy.
On the art itself, the teachers praised us for the lighting and the colour sketches. However Jim one of our mentor slaughtered us as he question about the purpose of the magical reflection. His opinions and points were helpful though. Anita also found our animatic unclear and that our monsters doesn't look scary enough. Its not the first time we heard this comment before, we are going to discuss on how to change the look of the character.
This week i didn't do much work because changes are being made and it seems like most of the shots are unconfirmed. Oh wells, it would be a good break from being disappointed.
Sunday, 27 November 2016
Sem 2 Week 10: Diseases flying around
26 Nov 2016
By popular demand for my viewers (hi craig and martin if you're there), its time for CHARMAINE'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK!. *theme song plays*
Dailies
By popular demand for my viewers (hi craig and martin if you're there), its time for CHARMAINE'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK!. *theme song plays*
To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
Almost everyone fell sick this week, I unexpectedly stayed healthy even though there was so many germy people surrounding me. Its really important to keep health, through last week i learned that once you fall sick, your will to do work drops and the quality becomes crappy. Even our teacher fell sick and it really affected us because we haven't see him for 2 weeks and there was so many things we wanted to consult him about.There was Red Camp last week, where secondary school students came to tour our school. It was really uncomfortable having so many students stare at you while you composite and it made all our teachers unavailable because they were the tour guides.
Thankfully the teachers went out of their way to squeeze out a few minutes for us to consult them. We had a 2 hour consultation with Philip on Thursday, and it was the most useful one so far because we haven't seen him in awhile. He helped me with my environment lighting and colours. What i mainly got out of it was i had to make the environment more desaturated and blur to bring focus to the characters. It aches my heart desaturating my work because i love to have colourful and vibrant drawing. However for the best of the team i shall follow his instructions. Here are some composites that i did which I most probably have to redo. An extra fact is that we just confirmed what type of brush we are using for monsters and humans.
Team Dynamics
I think our team is doing fine, though i do feel like we are behind time which makes me very anxious. We haven't had any arguments or upsets in awhile and everyone is getting very serious with their work. It shows we are getting use to each other however i do miss those times where there was a bit of drama. Not to jinx anything because i really do enjoy the peacefulness and i hope we get through this sem well!
See you next week
Sunday, 20 November 2016
sem 2 week 9: 1 more week till presentation
20 Nov 2016
Hello guys!! whoo hoo! This week was amazing, one of the best birthdays i ever had. So many people wished me and many more celebrating my birthday with me :). But now on to work
CPD
This week i played a lot with the after effects filters, and like usual because my friends want to change the composition of their shot, i have to change the composition of my lighting, which requires me to re-render EVERYTHINGG!!. This week I've learn we cant do any super hard camera movements because to get the 2D perspective of the toilet shots is way too difficult. So at first i'd finish compositing all the toilet scene but now, I have no toilet scenes complete because we are scrapping the work to find new compositions. Sigh pies... I know this is the greater good of the project but it breaks my heart to see my work get wasted.
This week i intend to finish 3 more lightings. I've actually finished compositing the lift lobby scenes as well but alvin gave me a advice on how to improve it so i guess i have to re-render it.
Audio Design workshop
Though in our course we aren't taught audio design, our teacher invited a guest, Mr Kazz Sato, I could clearly see his love from his work and through his showreel you could tell his specialty is horror sound effects. He didn't talk about the technical aspects of the sound effects but talk more about what is suitable for what situations. How the weirdest items can make the most natural sounds. He reference to a few films that i love, like kill bill for the dramatic sound effects when they hit each other and singing in the rain where there was juxtaposition, because though rain is associated with saddness the man singing, sing in the rain is very happy. Another good note is that when the characters are speaking you should dim the background sound so as to hear the characters.
He had very good advice, he also told us not to give up on our passion because he has seen alot of talented people giving up just to have a stable jobs and he finds it a waste. This talked actually gave me more encouragement to do my work better because i do love what i am currently doing right now, though i have doubts.
Here is what i did last week:
Hello guys!! whoo hoo! This week was amazing, one of the best birthdays i ever had. So many people wished me and many more celebrating my birthday with me :). But now on to work
CPD
This week i played a lot with the after effects filters, and like usual because my friends want to change the composition of their shot, i have to change the composition of my lighting, which requires me to re-render EVERYTHINGG!!. This week I've learn we cant do any super hard camera movements because to get the 2D perspective of the toilet shots is way too difficult. So at first i'd finish compositing all the toilet scene but now, I have no toilet scenes complete because we are scrapping the work to find new compositions. Sigh pies... I know this is the greater good of the project but it breaks my heart to see my work get wasted.
This week i intend to finish 3 more lightings. I've actually finished compositing the lift lobby scenes as well but alvin gave me a advice on how to improve it so i guess i have to re-render it.
Audio Design workshop
Though in our course we aren't taught audio design, our teacher invited a guest, Mr Kazz Sato, I could clearly see his love from his work and through his showreel you could tell his specialty is horror sound effects. He didn't talk about the technical aspects of the sound effects but talk more about what is suitable for what situations. How the weirdest items can make the most natural sounds. He reference to a few films that i love, like kill bill for the dramatic sound effects when they hit each other and singing in the rain where there was juxtaposition, because though rain is associated with saddness the man singing, sing in the rain is very happy. Another good note is that when the characters are speaking you should dim the background sound so as to hear the characters.
He had very good advice, he also told us not to give up on our passion because he has seen alot of talented people giving up just to have a stable jobs and he finds it a waste. This talked actually gave me more encouragement to do my work better because i do love what i am currently doing right now, though i have doubts.
Here is what i did last week:
Camera angles like these wont work
AN APPROVE SHOT YESSS!!
LETS KEEP IT UP CHARMAINE!
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Sem 2 WEEK 8: blending days
13 Nov 2016
Hello everyone, sorry i didn't post last week, i was really sick and totally forgot about it. Anyways just a short recap of last week, nothing much happened i started lighting a few shots. Stanley's house, the lift lobby and all the toilet scenes.
This week i did the same except i practice more of compositing in after effects. I looked through some youtube videos of professionals and how they composite their render layers. I realised that a lot of the lighting and effects are done in after effects! (well it is in the name but still...) and from our lighting class we only touched it for 4 hours. Luckily my mentor Borko showed me some filters I can use and gave us a very brief lighting masterclass. Everything was really fast, i wasn't sure if i even absorbed anything.
Anyways i am really stressed out about not being to finish on time , the 3 renders i worked on all of last week 2 of them need to be retouched. I do feel some of my work being wasted. My group members seem quite chill about the whole thing though, maybe i should be more like them or i should just keep doing my own thing.
Either way for this coming week i hope i will concentrate more on my FYP, i am embarrass to say that i have been concentrating on my other modules way too much and have been going out a lot on weekend. TIME TO SHUT MYSELF IN
Renders:
Hello everyone, sorry i didn't post last week, i was really sick and totally forgot about it. Anyways just a short recap of last week, nothing much happened i started lighting a few shots. Stanley's house, the lift lobby and all the toilet scenes.
This week i did the same except i practice more of compositing in after effects. I looked through some youtube videos of professionals and how they composite their render layers. I realised that a lot of the lighting and effects are done in after effects! (well it is in the name but still...) and from our lighting class we only touched it for 4 hours. Luckily my mentor Borko showed me some filters I can use and gave us a very brief lighting masterclass. Everything was really fast, i wasn't sure if i even absorbed anything.
Anyways i am really stressed out about not being to finish on time , the 3 renders i worked on all of last week 2 of them need to be retouched. I do feel some of my work being wasted. My group members seem quite chill about the whole thing though, maybe i should be more like them or i should just keep doing my own thing.
Either way for this coming week i hope i will concentrate more on my FYP, i am embarrass to say that i have been concentrating on my other modules way too much and have been going out a lot on weekend. TIME TO SHUT MYSELF IN
Renders:
Sunday, 30 October 2016
SEM 2 WEEK 6: Modelling can be Mind-boggling
30 Oct 2016
Modelling, Uv, painting Uvs (repeat)... That was basically thats basically how my week went,though my other non related course modules seem pretty tough because i am not use to writing or studying :( i should work on my weak area.
Here is a quote to keep everyones moods up:
Modelling, Uv, painting Uvs (repeat)... That was basically thats basically how my week went,though my other non related course modules seem pretty tough because i am not use to writing or studying :( i should work on my weak area.
Here is a quote to keep everyones moods up:
Learn from yesterday
Live for today
Hope for tomorrow
Meeting with the mentors
We met the mentors separately this week. First Borko: he taught us how to create shadows in aftereffects and how to soften the lines. He is ok with our environments look.
Philip: suggested ways how to make our camera movements more complex by adding tracking, panoramas and 180 camera turns
We understand he wants to challenge us to learn and grow. But we are on a really tight schedule and are far behind the other groups. We tried explaining our reasons for not being for the idea but it doesn't seem to be registering,
Work done
This week I felt very accomplished because i have finished all the environments except for the exterior street. I'm leaving that for next week. For a long time I've felt the work I have been doing is for not because it seems like whatever I've done has been thrown away. But after penning down everything, I realised I am making progress! By next week tomorrow I CAN START ON LIGHTING HALLELUJAH!
Group dynamics
Right now everyone is really looking for a leader. We have established as a group there are some suggestions we are going to ignore from our mentor, but everyone are asking the same question; "so are we really going to do this?" or " How we going to explain it to him?". All the answers are the same "I don't know.". I don't have the rights to critique on my own teachers comments because he has way more experience than I do and i think thats why we have all been so hesitant to rebel though we really want to.
See you next week! Here are some sketches
Toilet completed
Monster lobby completed
Sunday, 23 October 2016
SEM 2 WEEK 5: Draggy and dull
23 Oct 2016
It has only been week 1 of the school semester and already my life seems so bleak. Working on the same project everyday from 9-6pm is killing me. The school came up with this new system of having weekly dailies with our supervisors. It was like a messier version of Vivas since we do not have to produce powerpoint slides. Currently, I am trying to find something to help me focus. My mind has been wondering all over the place on the internet. MUSN'T WATCH AVATAR THE LEGEND OF AANG!! (my favourite series which i have watched over trillions of times)
It has only been week 1 of the school semester and already my life seems so bleak. Working on the same project everyday from 9-6pm is killing me. The school came up with this new system of having weekly dailies with our supervisors. It was like a messier version of Vivas since we do not have to produce powerpoint slides. Currently, I am trying to find something to help me focus. My mind has been wondering all over the place on the internet. MUSN'T WATCH AVATAR THE LEGEND OF AANG!! (my favourite series which i have watched over trillions of times)
AVATARRR!!! WHY DO U STOP PRODUCING THAT SHOW
Weekly Dailies:
As you would expect it, our team took 2 hours in a 1 hour time allocation. We showed our teachers Our POC, environments, what we are currently working on (starting the animation) and our animatic.
They advice us to continue editting our animatic as we worked on the animation.I can officially state that the main office is finish. The exterior environment we are changing the design of the main office building to the pink one most right of the sketch.The teachers also commented that the other buildings next to the main one has to be more detailed. There's more comments about the toilet and the fire escape, those are minor adjustments.
We currently do not see eye to eye with our supervisor as he envisions for this scene to be "this way" however we find that the work will make the film nicer but its unnecessary and will create more problems in the animating stage. We also are exceeding our animatic timing again by 1min40sec. Making all these changes will just extend our time even more and maybe even change the meaning of the film if we stray too far?
Currently i am improving the exteriors and starting to light the shots.
Here are the sketches i did for the week:
Experimenting for background buildings
Thumbnails for the fire escape
Group:
Currently we are working well together in a slow pace. And we are all very frustrated because our film is becoming very foreign to us and we would like to have more control over it. We aren't sure if we should heed all of our supervisors advice or not. Anyways I'm praying for a good week ahead and for good rest. :)
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