Oh no! I am liek 5 days late to blog for this day.
Anyway, on thursday, we had a presentation on our project.
The presentation was called "Proof of concept", and we needed to proof that our animation is doable by the end of the block.
So we presented and we went first, because i requested that we go first as i was ill.
We went up and presented our Storyboard, Props, Gantt Chart, Difficulties, and etc.
I did the storyboard, and Amanda commented that a good storyboard will explain for itself.
So i did not speak, and I guess i think everyone understood the storyboard.
I changed the storyboard a little teh day before this presentation because we wanted to add another scene into the storyboard.
During the presentation, we also explained that we were going to use thought bubbles and stuff done in 2d.
But I think there was a misconception about our idea.
Amanda thought that our thought bubble will show words of what the character would say.
And because we said we were going to have voice over, Amanda got confused about us using "voice over"and a speech bubble at the same time.
Actually, we were going to put pictures in our thought bubble and have the voice play in the background.
I think the group now is quite excited to do the animation, but then again, we still fear the worst.
We said that we would try to finish as must as we can, but if we cant, we will try to finish 90% I THINK.
Also, we had some test shots of the top view shot of the chase scene and some random shot of a carrot falling.
i thought that kind of showed the class how our stop motion piece would look like, and we got rather good responses from the class.
Some said that the test shots looked great
I think this is an encouragement for us.
And also, Amanda was being very encouraging by constantly telling us "I think this will be fun."
Not that i dont think this will be fun.
I'm sure this will be fun, but along the fun will come hardwork and frustration.
Well, I am hoping for the best.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Heya! its my turn to blog again!
heh today was rather fun.. i liked looking at the outcome after taking tons of pictures. its super cool.
Jarrold was sick and so he didnt come to school. we suspect that he has swine flu. hehh
germaine and i went down to the equipment store and wanted to loan a remote where we can click from afar to get the camera to snap; so that we will not touch/move the camera. however, to our dismay they do not have such a remote. So we'll make do with what we have and use our camera to snap..
after telling amanda, she gave us some suggestions about the expressions for our characters. we could also not have eyes, nose etc on them. but use camera shots to create the expressions. i thought that was rather interesting..
another problem is that our broccoli is dying. hahah it turned yellow.. so we'd have to prepare a few spare ones to replace them..heard from amanda that we can keep them in newspaper and place them in the fridge to preserve them. heh
so tomorrow is interim 1; proof of concept.
shuxian did the powerpoint today and we also helped to do up the slides.
We stopped doing the slides and moved on to set up our slurp supermarket to shoot.
we had to stop for a while as amanda had a speaker to share with the class his experiences etc..
after the talk, we started shooting and it was funn!
we did the scene where the young man was being chased by the old women around the supermarket. it was rather tedious though, because we had to move quite a number ot things for every single frame. but its really fun. :)
hope tomorrow's interim will be a goooood one!
heh today was rather fun.. i liked looking at the outcome after taking tons of pictures. its super cool.
Jarrold was sick and so he didnt come to school. we suspect that he has swine flu. hehh
germaine and i went down to the equipment store and wanted to loan a remote where we can click from afar to get the camera to snap; so that we will not touch/move the camera. however, to our dismay they do not have such a remote. So we'll make do with what we have and use our camera to snap..
after telling amanda, she gave us some suggestions about the expressions for our characters. we could also not have eyes, nose etc on them. but use camera shots to create the expressions. i thought that was rather interesting..
another problem is that our broccoli is dying. hahah it turned yellow.. so we'd have to prepare a few spare ones to replace them..heard from amanda that we can keep them in newspaper and place them in the fridge to preserve them. heh
so tomorrow is interim 1; proof of concept.
shuxian did the powerpoint today and we also helped to do up the slides.
We stopped doing the slides and moved on to set up our slurp supermarket to shoot.
we had to stop for a while as amanda had a speaker to share with the class his experiences etc..
after the talk, we started shooting and it was funn!
we did the scene where the young man was being chased by the old women around the supermarket. it was rather tedious though, because we had to move quite a number ot things for every single frame. but its really fun. :)
hope tomorrow's interim will be a goooood one!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Day 7
heyhey so today is my turn to blog! :] we decided to try a little bit of stop motion today for fun. and below this paragraph are some of the clips we've taken! :b don't mind the lighting and exposure and such cause we still haven't finalise how the lighting would be yet. we wanted to use three lamps but one of them couldn't work and so we will have to leave that for tomorrow. ohoh and we didn't do any of the scenes in the story but just random shots and little tests to get a rough idea on how it should be done and the stuff we should look out for/avoid doing etc. Anyway, check them out!
heh pretty cool eh!! we got all excited when we scanned through the pics in the camera. ;b but based on this short tests, i realised that we must be really careful when moving the objects around. if the shelf is moved even just a teeny weeny bit, the movement can be pretty obvious. also, the camera shakes a bit when we press the buttons to get a shot...but we can't really do much about that unless we get one of those things that can be connected to the camera in a way that we won't have to touch the camera but just a button connected by a wire. hmm get what i mean? heh. geez i should go and find out the name for that thing. *googles* hmm i can't seem to find it... anybody know what it's called?
anyway, another thing we got to note is that we don't accidentally block the lighting in some shots. that would be pretty obvious too. but other then that i think we can manage to pull it off! i hope. ;b i would like to see the whole piece done in it's entirety but i'm afraid we wouldn't be able to finish completely...there's only 2 weeks for us to animate the whole thing! but i guess if we plan our schedule properly and stick to it we would be fine. ;] yea so that's what we did today!
gina
heh pretty cool eh!! we got all excited when we scanned through the pics in the camera. ;b but based on this short tests, i realised that we must be really careful when moving the objects around. if the shelf is moved even just a teeny weeny bit, the movement can be pretty obvious. also, the camera shakes a bit when we press the buttons to get a shot...but we can't really do much about that unless we get one of those things that can be connected to the camera in a way that we won't have to touch the camera but just a button connected by a wire. hmm get what i mean? heh. geez i should go and find out the name for that thing. *googles* hmm i can't seem to find it... anybody know what it's called?
anyway, another thing we got to note is that we don't accidentally block the lighting in some shots. that would be pretty obvious too. but other then that i think we can manage to pull it off! i hope. ;b i would like to see the whole piece done in it's entirety but i'm afraid we wouldn't be able to finish completely...there's only 2 weeks for us to animate the whole thing! but i guess if we plan our schedule properly and stick to it we would be fine. ;] yea so that's what we did today!
gina
Monday, April 27, 2009
Day 6
Hello! it's back to me again...start of another week. I think the weekend is waaay too short. :[
Today we continued to build our set. Before that, we had consultation with Amanda and i think she gave us quite a bit to think about...like how we're going to split the work up and maximise our time and resources...causes honestly, 1 month is a freaking short time to produce a 2 to 3 minute animation...it feels almost like p2, except we only have like half the time to get it done. We still got to think about how we're going to do the expressions on the veggies cause it's really important in our animation...and 2mr, we'll probably try with lighting etc.
Anyway, today we mostly decorated the supermart shelves with tiny toys, beans etc. The tiny food toys were borrowed from Candice's uncle. It was so entertaining looking through all the tiny toys and all...can't believe people would actualy put so much details into these little objects. some even have the food labels and all. i think it was really cool (i'm a geek like that. heh.) no wonder some people collect stuff like that as a hobby!
Here's some pictures. :]
Check out the details in the toys!!
Our layout so far when we put everything together:
Today we continued to build our set. Before that, we had consultation with Amanda and i think she gave us quite a bit to think about...like how we're going to split the work up and maximise our time and resources...causes honestly, 1 month is a freaking short time to produce a 2 to 3 minute animation...it feels almost like p2, except we only have like half the time to get it done. We still got to think about how we're going to do the expressions on the veggies cause it's really important in our animation...and 2mr, we'll probably try with lighting etc.
Anyway, today we mostly decorated the supermart shelves with tiny toys, beans etc. The tiny food toys were borrowed from Candice's uncle. It was so entertaining looking through all the tiny toys and all...can't believe people would actualy put so much details into these little objects. some even have the food labels and all. i think it was really cool (i'm a geek like that. heh.) no wonder some people collect stuff like that as a hobby!
Here's some pictures. :]
Check out the details in the toys!!
Our layout so far when we put everything together:
yeaaa thats it. I thought it was quite fun decorating the set. :D we're going to continue tmr and hopefully we'll have the whole layout, lighting etc. done.
Germ :D
(oh man!! i'm such a blog noob. the pics are all screwed up. oh well. :b)
Germ :D
(oh man!! i'm such a blog noob. the pics are all screwed up. oh well. :b)
Friday, April 24, 2009
Day 05
Me turn now... to start off with our group photo!!!!!
OK so today we had a big progress.... we started making our props. as mention, we cut out cardboard that we are going to use to build the shelves. we brought everything up to the studio and start building it. as Tri gave us some comments on how we can join each side of the card boards together, we decided to try different methods of joining to see which joint can hold the cardboards up better.
The first method we did was to get a small piece of cardboard and stick it below the divider as a supporting. the second method which is something like the finger joint that we create a slot that we can slot the 2 piece of cardboard together. and there we see that the second method is better in a way that the out come looks better and it can hold the cardboard upright. Zaihan came along and told us other different methods we can use to hold the dividers for the shelves. as we were trouble by how we can cover the holes on the side of the cardboard, Zaihan gave us a roll of tapes that we can use to cover the holes. it acts like stamps whereby we just need to put a little bit of water on one side of the tape and then it will become sticky andwe can just stick onto it. no extra effort needed.
Next step is adding colour to the shelves. we were deciding to mix a colour that is similar to the orginal cardboard colours. but then was not easy. we wasted quite alot of paint before finalising the colours. and Germ was the one who tried to mix the colour but in the end the colour looks quite a bit off. hahaha... Okay before wasting more paint, we finalised the colour and started painting on it. and the out come looks like this!
We also tried taking pictures of the scenes and it looks great. with that i believe that everyone felt positive and more confidence added to make the stop motion turn successful.
So next week, we will be starting to build more props.
=D
and if you're wondering why is candice is not appearing in the photos, it's bcause she is the photographer!
Shuxian
OK so today we had a big progress.... we started making our props. as mention, we cut out cardboard that we are going to use to build the shelves. we brought everything up to the studio and start building it. as Tri gave us some comments on how we can join each side of the card boards together, we decided to try different methods of joining to see which joint can hold the cardboards up better.
The first method we did was to get a small piece of cardboard and stick it below the divider as a supporting. the second method which is something like the finger joint that we create a slot that we can slot the 2 piece of cardboard together. and there we see that the second method is better in a way that the out come looks better and it can hold the cardboard upright. Zaihan came along and told us other different methods we can use to hold the dividers for the shelves. as we were trouble by how we can cover the holes on the side of the cardboard, Zaihan gave us a roll of tapes that we can use to cover the holes. it acts like stamps whereby we just need to put a little bit of water on one side of the tape and then it will become sticky andwe can just stick onto it. no extra effort needed.
Next step is adding colour to the shelves. we were deciding to mix a colour that is similar to the orginal cardboard colours. but then was not easy. we wasted quite alot of paint before finalising the colours. and Germ was the one who tried to mix the colour but in the end the colour looks quite a bit off. hahaha... Okay before wasting more paint, we finalised the colour and started painting on it. and the out come looks like this!
We also tried taking pictures of the scenes and it looks great. with that i believe that everyone felt positive and more confidence added to make the stop motion turn successful.
So next week, we will be starting to build more props.
=D
and if you're wondering why is candice is not appearing in the photos, it's bcause she is the photographer!
Shuxian
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Day 4
Its 4 days into Animation 2!
WOOOOO!
Today we had our first interim.
And our group was the first group that have to present our Character design, Story board, etc.
I think the interim went pretty ok.
Although we got a whole lot of questioning from the other groups and Amanda herself.
They asked us if we were sure and confident about this project we were embarking, and also since we are one of the only few people that actually are insane enough to attempt stop-motion, some of us gave an uncertain smile.
but i think we'll be alright.
I THINK.
I also think that this project will be one that we can learn and explore a new skill.
Hmmm.
Anyway, we received comments about how we have to create more tension between the old lady and the young man.
Like how the suspicion part has to be stretched and emphasized.
We were told that yesterday by Amanda, and we did extend our storyboard. But I thought today's one is ok what.
Cuz the top view shot will last for quite long, and tension can be built then.
but its still up to our group to decide on whether we are going to extend it and how.
Then we were asked about our modeling of our props and stuff.
I think since we are the only one doing stop motion, we had a lot of shooting from the class that we had to defend against.
But overall, the crit caused us to worry a little, but still necessary.
I hope we can get the props up soon, and figure out exactly how we are going to tackle this project.
but at least we made a progress today.
We went to the 5th foor to "steal" materials and we managed to get cardboard and a wooden plank for the floor from the PID workshop.
We cut out some of the cardboard today, and tomorrow we are going to try to piece the cardboard together to form the shelves of the mart.
YAY! YIPEE!
-Jarrold
WOOOOO!
Today we had our first interim.
And our group was the first group that have to present our Character design, Story board, etc.
I think the interim went pretty ok.
Although we got a whole lot of questioning from the other groups and Amanda herself.
They asked us if we were sure and confident about this project we were embarking, and also since we are one of the only few people that actually are insane enough to attempt stop-motion, some of us gave an uncertain smile.
but i think we'll be alright.
I THINK.
I also think that this project will be one that we can learn and explore a new skill.
Hmmm.
Anyway, we received comments about how we have to create more tension between the old lady and the young man.
Like how the suspicion part has to be stretched and emphasized.
We were told that yesterday by Amanda, and we did extend our storyboard. But I thought today's one is ok what.
Cuz the top view shot will last for quite long, and tension can be built then.
but its still up to our group to decide on whether we are going to extend it and how.
Then we were asked about our modeling of our props and stuff.
I think since we are the only one doing stop motion, we had a lot of shooting from the class that we had to defend against.
But overall, the crit caused us to worry a little, but still necessary.
I hope we can get the props up soon, and figure out exactly how we are going to tackle this project.
but at least we made a progress today.
We went to the 5th foor to "steal" materials and we managed to get cardboard and a wooden plank for the floor from the PID workshop.
We cut out some of the cardboard today, and tomorrow we are going to try to piece the cardboard together to form the shelves of the mart.
YAY! YIPEE!
-Jarrold
Day 03
HELLO! It’s my turn to blog on Wednesday! I have not been blogging for the longest time. But it feels kinda good to blog again. Haha. We’re doing Animation 3 right now and it has been quite fun so far.
We finalized our storyboards and layout for our story today. To improve our storyboard; more frames were added. As Amanda went around giving advices; she gave our group a considerable amount and it did help make us think bigger and better. Jarrold was doing the storyboards while the rest of us discussed about which character to use; character design and brainstormed a lists of props that will be needed for our set. As Gina and Germaine mentioned, stop-motion is something really new to us. Thus, we have been researching and watching ultra cool youtube videos in class to help inspire us.
We also had to prepare for our presentation tomorrow and therefore we did our powerpoint up in school before we left. We were thinking about the eyes, eyebrows and mouth for the characters and decided to do it in photoshop to showcase for tomorrow's presentation as it will give everyone an idea of how our characters will look like. So far, is has been pretty fun because we get to play with miniature items and they are really cute!
Anyway, here is an example of our character
cute! :)
Candice Huang
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Day 02
Heyheyhey so this is Gina here. it's my turn to blog...every tuesday. luckily each of us don't have to post everyday since it's a group blog, so it's just once a week! phew. :b
Today we have class as usual and we all agreed on the group name of "slurp!" since we were planning on using food as the characters in our stop-motion. And since the title of our piece is supermarket it's all the more suitable. :b it will also be more fun to work with food yes? more interesting then just using clay or something, and we can also eat them afterwards. heh.
Germ has posted a couple of awesome stop-motion videos yesterday and here's another one! this one involves real food. "It shows an abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict." yea i'm quoting it cause i'm pretty lazy to rephrase at the moment. ;]
Anyway, since we were told to produce individual storyboards for today's class, each of us had a set of thumbnails/brief storyboard ready to show each other. most of our storyboards are pretty similar and so we just went to pick out the shots that we liked better and lined them in order. Amanda went around giving each group some feedback on their storyboards and she seems pretty oorigh with the way our story flows and all. it's pretty straightforward really. but the real problem is that we all don't have/have little experience with making stop-motion films (including amanda) and so this is really new to us. hopefully it'll turn out the way we want it to! looks like it involves alot of planning and requires patience to execute it well. heh at least it'll be fun. i hope.
Soooo we did some research on stop motion to get a better idea on how it's done and looked at some more stop motion videos. they are pretty inspiring at times! ;]
yea i don't really know what to type anymore so i guess i'll end it here! :]
gina
Today we have class as usual and we all agreed on the group name of "slurp!" since we were planning on using food as the characters in our stop-motion. And since the title of our piece is supermarket it's all the more suitable. :b it will also be more fun to work with food yes? more interesting then just using clay or something, and we can also eat them afterwards. heh.
Germ has posted a couple of awesome stop-motion videos yesterday and here's another one! this one involves real food. "It shows an abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict." yea i'm quoting it cause i'm pretty lazy to rephrase at the moment. ;]
Anyway, since we were told to produce individual storyboards for today's class, each of us had a set of thumbnails/brief storyboard ready to show each other. most of our storyboards are pretty similar and so we just went to pick out the shots that we liked better and lined them in order. Amanda went around giving each group some feedback on their storyboards and she seems pretty oorigh with the way our story flows and all. it's pretty straightforward really. but the real problem is that we all don't have/have little experience with making stop-motion films (including amanda) and so this is really new to us. hopefully it'll turn out the way we want it to! looks like it involves alot of planning and requires patience to execute it well. heh at least it'll be fun. i hope.
Soooo we did some research on stop motion to get a better idea on how it's done and looked at some more stop motion videos. they are pretty inspiring at times! ;]
yea i don't really know what to type anymore so i guess i'll end it here! :]
gina
Monday, April 20, 2009
Day 01: start of animation 2!
Today is the start of a new school year and block! can't believe we are seniors already. D: it's a tad sad that in about a years time, we would be graduates. But i think i'm more sad by the fact that i'm senior, which means i am ooooooold. :[
anyways, for animation 2, we had to form groups of 5 people and produce a short animation. In my group, there's Shuxian, Candice, Jarrold, Gina and myself. :] Each group had to pick a random card and since there are about 5 groups and only 3 stories, 2 groups would have wildcard. And luckily, we got a wildcard. yay.
The three stories each had a different theme and we got to read them all. We decided on "supermarket", as it was more light hearted and we were also thinking of trying stop motion! and having a supermarket theme would be great as we can make use of fooooood. :D
Also, i wanted to try something new. We already had the chance to do 2D and 3D and so i thought it wouldn't hurt to experiment and try stop motion yes? besides, i was really inspired by stop motion during the holidays. My sis and me saw some stop motion videos on youtube by PES and it is really super duper awesome! check this video out, i really loved it alot!
Tell me you aren't inspired by that! :D
yeaaaaa so our group decided to embark on this risky idea. We know it would involve alot of planning and on top of that, our school doesn't teach us stop motion, which is rather sad. We'll probably have to do alot of research and find out how to go about producing a stop motion film effectively and also consider the set design, props etc. I don't know if we're going to shoot ourselves in the foot for trying something that's so new to us but if everything works out fine, it would be really worth it! and i guess it's a good alternative if you aren't all that good at both 3D and 2D *cough* myself *cough* :]
we all had to come up with thumbnails for our storyboard. we're going to have a group discussion tmr and pick what thumbnails we want for the final storyboard. So fast got homework already. D: so yeaaaaaaaa.
I'm going to end the post with this cool advert. so effective!
awesome much? :]
germaine
anyways, for animation 2, we had to form groups of 5 people and produce a short animation. In my group, there's Shuxian, Candice, Jarrold, Gina and myself. :] Each group had to pick a random card and since there are about 5 groups and only 3 stories, 2 groups would have wildcard. And luckily, we got a wildcard. yay.
The three stories each had a different theme and we got to read them all. We decided on "supermarket", as it was more light hearted and we were also thinking of trying stop motion! and having a supermarket theme would be great as we can make use of fooooood. :D
Also, i wanted to try something new. We already had the chance to do 2D and 3D and so i thought it wouldn't hurt to experiment and try stop motion yes? besides, i was really inspired by stop motion during the holidays. My sis and me saw some stop motion videos on youtube by PES and it is really super duper awesome! check this video out, i really loved it alot!
Tell me you aren't inspired by that! :D
yeaaaaa so our group decided to embark on this risky idea. We know it would involve alot of planning and on top of that, our school doesn't teach us stop motion, which is rather sad. We'll probably have to do alot of research and find out how to go about producing a stop motion film effectively and also consider the set design, props etc. I don't know if we're going to shoot ourselves in the foot for trying something that's so new to us but if everything works out fine, it would be really worth it! and i guess it's a good alternative if you aren't all that good at both 3D and 2D *cough* myself *cough* :]
we all had to come up with thumbnails for our storyboard. we're going to have a group discussion tmr and pick what thumbnails we want for the final storyboard. So fast got homework already. D: so yeaaaaaaaa.
I'm going to end the post with this cool advert. so effective!
awesome much? :]
germaine
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