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

yay!

hey, germ here! suppose to blog on Monday but i fell ill and didn't come to school for 2 days...a lot of people are catching the flu bug recently... D: So sorry i could not contribute for the past 2 days of production. All i could do was put the images together in photoshop and make it into an animated sequence. The images were quite clear but over exposed. But it's ok as we can still tweak the levels eh? :D

i must say that the rest of my group members are really fast...we only had about 4 or 5 scenes left to shoot today and wrap up! yay!! GOOD JOB PEOPLE!! :D:D I heard they shot about 21 scenes yesterday? awesomeness!

Today's shoot was quite fast but i realised that we kinda have a continuity problem with our scenes. We did not plan well enough i think so we ended up mostly improvising on the spot and had to change some of the scenes a little from the original storyboard. But it's okay as we managed to solve some of the continuity problem. We'll still have to check if the flow is right by pieceing up the images of all the scenes first, in case there is some problem. If theres a problem, most likely we'll have to reshoot the scene. But lets hope theres no problems! :]

Anyway, we managed to wrap up the scenes at about 4 plus. Since we had more time, we decided to make a stop motion sequence for our production name! it was quite random really. We just decided to cut up the other shoppers...like the carrots, potatoes, corn etc. and then use them to form our group name. heh. Well we figured since they are rotting, may as well make full use of them. :D It was really fun and fast! Had fun cutting the poor things up. I might put up the video sequence for our production name up if it doesn't take too long to load. Blogger can be so sloooow maaan. :]

YEA. IT'S A WRAP!!! :D now on to the tedious part of pieceing images, compiling, editing etc.

HELLO, we are left with 8 SCENES TO DOOOOOO!
awesome or what. hahahah
we are all so glad that things are going quite fast! think we'd be able to finish it.. hopefully!
it'll look really cool. :)

So for these past 2 days it was actually a little tiring because we did quite a lot of scenes.
scene = moving + snapping + moving + snapping.........
yes. HAHA. but the AFTER is awesome lah. watching how this stop motion thing is working well makes us all really happy!
we had some problems today, the usual problem would be lighting.
Also, the backdrop as gina mentioned in the previous entry... we are like super budget, so most of our stuff are very flimsy; but we're doing goood :)
oh btw, THANKS amanda for lending us your lamp and adaptor.. :)

so there was this scene where we were supposed to shoot the 2 heads passing by the cashier sign; we decided to cut that out because it would be very odd due to the continuity of the story and the fact that our cauliflower is extremely short. hehe.
but we still managed to make the story flow.
We finished all the scenes at the cashier area! woo!
the part where the items magically goes into and out of the basket is my favourite part. hahah
anyway! we're going to continue the 8 scenes tmr!

while we were shooting, germaine was compiling the things we took yesterday at home. yay. hope we'll be able to finish soon!
and germ is coming back to sch tmr! yayyy :D

here are some pictures shuxian took with her hp!







Candice.:)

Day...11!

Heyhey it's gina here. germ's suppose to blog today but she's sick (so many people are falling ill nowadays!!) and so she didn't come today! she fell ill on saturday (on our bday, how unlucky is that?) so i'm blogging on monday for this week. but she's feeling alot better already so yea. :] she should be back on wednesday. and even though she couldn't film with us today, she's going to compile the footage that we got at home. :]

today we completed 6 scenes!! whoooooo!! :D pretty darn happy! ;b we encountered some continuity problems though but we managed to solve it. added an extra scene (the product entering the basket which was nicccceee) and switched the numbers for some. we had the usual problems of lighting, shadow and unintentional item movement but we tried our best to keep those problems to the minimum. but it's still rather inevitable especially because of camera shake. ;X that can't be helped. Amanda said she's more concerned about the storytelling bit and not so much on the rest though and so that's a little comforting i suppose. ;]

oh and i'm not sure if this is mentioned yet but we decided not to put in any expressions for now...so it'll be shown through "body language". hopefully that would work!!


we also need a backdrop for our set and so we used the two wooden-textured-looking boards that shushu bought over the weekend. ;] there's a line inbetween but at least it looked better than having other surroundings in the shot.








Our broccoli was also starting to rot and turn yellow and so we found some green spray to spray on our broccoli! doesn't it look much healthier now? xb
















and raymond helped us to cut out the rotting brown bits on our califlower. ;] thanks! and ohoh here's another thank you to amanda for lending us your lamp!! ;] heh.

anyway, it was fun and time passes really quickly when we're doing the stop motion. we also have to be innovative and creative when solving certain problems. i wished that our course included some modules on stop-motion...that would be really awesome...but too bad it doesn't. ;[ but if this stop-motion piece turns out well and if my skills improve on stop-motion, i might use it for my FYP seeing how i can't exactly draw and my 3D skills are pretty horrid. ;b glad to know that there's at least some other alternative! yea so thats today!! :D

and oh yea we watched two wallace and gromit animations today during our project3 class. it's stop-motion as well and it's really inspiring and awesome!! go watch it if you haven't seen it yet! ;]

gina.

Day 10

Happy labour day.

OK since Friday there's no school and nothing to blog about. but still i think i still have to blog something to be fair to my group members

okay so first the checklist on the stuff we have to do for the props.
1) the cashier sign
2) the background
3) money (on the cashier)
4) labels for the shelves
5) supermarket entrance

I went to buy 2 board for the flooring. i hope that it will fit or suit the environment if not it will be a waste of money.

moving backwards, we tried out a scene which shows the chasing scene of the granny and the young man. i would say that it is a great job that we sort of manage to get the whole thing done within a short time and it is our first try. Hurray!!! there are many things to be noted like the light source, the movement of the main character and the shoppers. i realise that we did not really plan the movment well and is like random movement. especially for the shoppers where they seem to be moving backward and forward. next if the camera. well the camera do shake quite a bit. but there's no choice. we have to keep up with it first and see if there is other option to it. For the lamp case, candice had to bring back her lamp because her siblings need it at home. so i will be bringing another lamp to school and Amanda will be lending us one as well. Thank you!!!

for the interim 2, i was very happy that everyone is please with the short stop motion we did. and it shows that at least we made the right choice on doing stop motion and there is another way to do animation other than 2D & 3D.

so for the long weekend, we have to finish all the prop stuff before we can actually start shooting on monday.

May everything goes well and smoothly!!!