hihi this is kinda a late posttt... heh
anyway this post is supposed to be a day before our presentation (WEDNESDAY)
so we came to class and did our final touch ups by adding sound effects and music for the background. Germaine did the credits and then we added it in.. however, she had to do it a few times because we forgot to add some people's name.. haha.
Overall it was really good i feel.. even though we spotted a number of mistakes like seeing a hand, shadows of hands and lighting problems.. etc..
basically we compiled everything and finished it all today! :D

personally i really enjoyed this project very much and hope everyone else did as well! :D

LAST POST!!!!

finally the end of animation 2. yesterday was the presentation and everything went well and smoothly Hurraaayyy!!! unlike other module, this module is more fun and exciting and we were all look forward during the production period. it is really fun and enjoyable doing stop motion though it is quite tedious during the process. i also had a group of fun team mates with all the witty ideas, jokes and laughter which makes the whole production enjoyable.

well for the video, it is not really that good but also not really that bad. hmm, well maybe it is the first time we are doing stop motion and without much knowledge about it so its not bad!!! but there are alot of things that we can improve on. at first i thought that there will be many negative comments like the shakyness, lightning and i was afraid that they cant understand the story with the character w/o any expression but but with all the applauds from the classmate, it is really very encouraging and i felt really good. i really enjoy during this module and perhaps next time i will try stop motion again!

GOOD JOB PEOPLE!!!!

BYEBYE!!!

Day 18

SO SORRY!
I DIDNT BLOG!
BUT THURSDAY WAS THE LAST DAY!
WOOOOOOO!

Our presentation, I thought, was A-W-E-S-O-M-E-Z-I-S-M!

It was great.
Many good feedback, and since it was our first time doing it, and probably one of the first times in MOI, we did great!

YAY!
I am so glad this project is over.
But as a new chapter closes, a new one opens.
CHARACTER DESIGN CLASS ON MONDAY!
Noooo.
But overall,
I think this project has taught me a lot about stop motion, and also dynamics of a team.
So glad I took part in this project. (Not like I had a choice.)

-Jarrold

Day 17

Hmm there's nothing much to update now that production is over. we are still in the post-production process which is basically compiling all the shots for each scene (we split the scenes equally among everybody in the group), changing levels (we couldn't really save those that we too over exposed though. :[ ), stabilising shots (thank you raj!!) and adding audio (V.O. and SFX) and in aftereffects! yeaaaa.

it's going pretty well i must say, everybody does what they are given to do etc. i think it's great that we didn't meet with any personal conflicts, and that we tried to solve the problems we've faced along the way. but i suppose with more time given, we could have done more to improve it. like re-shooting certain scenes that were too over exposed, or perhaps adding facial expressions to the vegetables cos i realised that sometimes the movements tend to be a little stiff (there's only so much we can do to a vegetable...like tilt or turn but that's about it! we can't bend or twist it.) and so it might take away from the character's emotion ect. but now i'm pretty satisfied especially since we are really all new to stop-motion.

this is going to be my last post for this blog and so i wanna say thank you to my groupmates as well as all those who have helped us! it has been a really fun experience working with yall!! :D

cheers!

gina.

Day 16

We've been editing the scenes and compiling everything. Going to have our final presentation on thursday! We've all been working pretty well together...i think it's good progress! However i think theres still some problem with lighting and the camera is quite jerky...sometimes it looks like the vegetables are experiencing an earthquake. :b we tried to do the motion tracking thing in after effects to stabalise the shots...it's better then before but it still shakes quite a bit though. oh well. We decided to forgo with animating the vegetables facial expressions as we think the body language is enough. Hopefully we are right about that. And besides, we highly doubt there is time to draw on every single shot we've taken...hopefully everything turns out okay for us!

Today i did the credits...i was given the choice of either animating the thought bubble or credits and so after winning 3 games of scissors, paper, stone with jarrold (MUAHAHA!) i picked credits. :] Finished it today! and i piece the opening scene to scene 7.5. I'm almost done except that i still need to do colour correction, leveling and the audio. :]

I saw some other groups work and i must say that it looks great! They all seem really stress though. D: but it's alright...it'll be over by thursday! :]

germ :]

Day 15

OK so today we did not go to school instead we stayed at home to work on the editing. the ginger compile the images and sort it into folders. All thanks to raj, he taught us how to use aftereffect to stabilize the images. in another word is to make the video not so shaky. i didn't know that after effects had this function. this is so cool!!! ｓｏ　ｉ　ｓｔａｒｔｅｄ　ｗｏｒｋｉｎｇ　ｏｎ　ｉｔ．　ｉ　ｔｈｉｎｋ　ｉ　ａｍ　ｎｏｔ　familiar　ｗｉｔｈ　ｔｈｅ　ｆｕｎｃｔｉｏｎ　ａｎｄ　ｉｔ　ｄｉｄ　ｎｏｔ　ｗｏｒｋ　ｏｕｔ　ａｓ　ｎｉｃｅｌｙ　ａｓ　ｉｔ　ｓｈｏｕｌｄ　ｂｅ　ａｆｔｅｒ　ｔｈｅ　ｅｆｆｅｃｔ　ｉｓ　ａｐｐｌｉｅｄ．　ｍａｙｂｅ　ｉ　ｍｉｓｓｅｄ　ｏｕｔ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｓｔｅｐｓ　ｏｒ　ｗｈａｔ．　ｓｈａｌｌ　ａｓｋ　Gina　ａｇａｉｎ．　ａｆｔｅｒ　ｒｅｖｉｅｗｉｎｇ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｆｏｌｄｅｒｓ，　ｉ　ｒｅａｌｉｓｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ｏｎｅ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｆｏｌｄｅｒ，　ｔｈｅ　ｉｍａｇｅｓ　ｓｈａｋｅｓ　ｓｏ　ｍｕｃｈ　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｔ　ｌｏｏｋｓ　ｌｉｋｅ　ａｎ　ｅａｒｔｈｑｕａｋｅ　ｉｓ　ｈａｐｐｅｎｉｎｇ　ｄｕｒｉｎｇ　ｔｈｅ　ｆｉｌｍｉｎｇ．ｉ　ｔｈｉｎｋ　ｗｅ　ｈａｖｅ　ｔｏ　re shoot　ｔｈｅ　ｓｃｅｎｅ　ｉｆ　ｎｏｔ　ｗｅ　ｈａｖｅ　ｔｏ　ｕｓｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｏｏｌｓ　ｉｎ　ａｆｔｅｒ　effects　ｔｏ　ｆｉｘ　ｉｔ．　well editing is not as easy as it seems. i think i still prefer during the production days. well a miracle that we manage to finish the production within 3 days. BIG CLAP to ALL.. OK hope that everyone is working well. Monday we shall see the edited version. =)

pictures from the recording.

Day 14

Today, we did our voice over.
At first, only Gina and germaine were suppose to do the voice overs.
Then came to the boy's part, and either one of them tried to do the guy's part, but it didnt work.
So... they looked at me and said, "We already got a young man's voice here what."

So, I was dragged in to do the guy's part.
I think I didnt mind doing it, although I hesitated a bit.
It turned out to be fun though, and all of us laughed at each other's part.

Gina did the voice over for the grandmother, while germaine did the voice over for the cashier.
I think we were quite fast, as we finished all the recording in less than 2 hours.

Now, all we have to do is match the voice over with the video and compile the scenes together.
I was given 2 scenes, the opening and the credits to do.
I think it is quite ok, and I got the whole weekend to do all these work.

Overall, I think it was a good idea choosing stop motion for our animation2.
It was a new experience and the entire thing wasnt very stressful and hurried.

Also, we dont have to do lip sync and colouring, and line drawing and stuff... Muahahhaa.
We are almost done with this project!
1 more week to go!
Go Slurp!

-Jarrold