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W13-16: I don’t remember what i did

Week 13:

Viva is this week, nervous but excited to show new music

Mostly did the presentation from Monday to Tuesday while retouching 290 lines and colouring 200 quickly 

After viva, the general response is to quickly get our animation together because time is running out and our Act 2 is completely missing because we plan to revamp it completely

After viva, we planned to finish some Act 1 shots before we started on the new Act 2

I was set to colour 200

Week 14: 

Started doing report while colouring more things

Also, new system plan to take place 

Week 15:

6 SHOTS OF FLAT SHADING!!! 

030, 110, 150, 160,170, 200, 290 

Decided to just do flat colour first, shading takes longer when done together, so we are saving time

This week everyone is on fire, we completed many shots this week until the flat colouring stage 

Week 16:

Continued from last week, did up 004 & 340

004 is missing the paper animation

340 is missing spoon and 330/350 is missing tray while 350 has wrong spoon colour

Also, all the tin colours are different 

Passed all the shots i coloured last week to Hazirah

Coloured 360 too

Fixed background which is missing additional clothes rack

Is currently colouring 070/090 and 100 at the same time, fixed minor errors in it eg. Luna’s base size and added screen 

100 needs background

Need to do report and trailer!!

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W12: uhh yikes, it’s almost veeva again

AHHHHHH Viva is next week!! Honestly, I think i did not do alot of things this week, when i dont know how to do things, i tend to distract myself instead of asking for help from Ching Yee or other groupmates which leads me to doing a task for a very long time which is not ideal. I should also be more confident in my work. So far, the work is going great, the team is definitely more relaxed than the previous weeks. The music is also coming along great, it sounds super good and im kind of excited to show off our work to the teachers and class on monday. :D 

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W11: It’s crunch time

Viva is only 2 weeks away and we planned to get at least 50% of Act 2 completed by then. Currently, we are at about 20-30% so most of Act 2′s easier shots are going to be completed this week. If we follow up our plan for this week, we would be able to complete 6 shots.

Currently, we have a new pipeline which have Riselle doing up keyframes/breakdowns to Ching Yee filling inbetweens and cleanup to Hazirah to colour and do overall fx. I will be handling the backgrounds but sending them back to Ching Yee for touchup for consistency. 

Some things I find hard while doing up backgrounds is the line weight. I can’t seem to get the sort of lines ching yee wants but she gave me some steven universe references to compare so it’s better. Also, she personally showed me how to do it. It’s only through practice that I will become better at it 

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W10: Howdy yall

This week is the tester week of the new pipeline. It did not went as bad as i expected, neither was it good. I managed to do up the inbetweening for the shot i was assigned for with the help of Line through skyping. Very much love to her for helping me. Riselle helped me to clean up the inbetweens and fix it up neatly before passing it to Hazirah to colour. 

In the meantime, I was assigned to do merch design? by using the original luna’s halloween inktober sketch i had which is meant as a joke. At the end of the week, we further consolidated our progress and now im a part-inbetween and clean up artist and background artist. 

I feel like our morale for this week is really down because the progress is really slow and we were putting too much pressure on our animator, riselle to do all the animating which leads to us having an easier time than her, so im glad we redistributed the roles evenly. We are behind schedule now, hopefully, we would be able to catch up.

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W9: Oh no

Due to us scrapping Act 2, we are unable to plan properly for it because some of act 2 is not storyboarded yet. We were doing a fridge shot from Act 1 but that took up more time than expected. Hence, we decided to change up out workflow for more efficiency and that results in Riselle doing keyframes/breakdowns to me doing inbetweens and clean up to passing on to Hazirah to colour and light. Ching Yee will be storyboarding and doing up backgrounds and props.

For this new plan, I only hope that my dastardly animation skills will be good enough, even though i have no such confidence in them which led to overthinking alot during the weekend, I hope it will all turn out well so that I won’t let my team down.

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W8: 9pm meetings & smyang noodles

Helllo, it’s Week 8 yall! After viva, our brains are all surviving on 1 braincell again as per usual. For this week, I mainly coloured 310 for the entire week as the original colour palette that i coloured brie in is too pale for the highly saturated and warm evening scene. Hence, after Ching Yee returned to school on Wednesday, we were given an evening palette to rework the colours.  Also, we continued discussing our Act 2 which is still mostly under brainstorming. We stayed back on Thursday to discuss it while eating smyang noodles to stimulate our brains. It worked, so far we have covered until the 1st attempt of brie trying out her first cake.  Next week, we will plan out our schedule according to Act 2. 

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W7: Woowee WeeWoo p2

Alrighty! After further discussion this week, we planned out the workflow for the next 5 days. We created a big board of errors before that so that we are aware of the mistakes in order to fix them. The errors include multiple continuity errors of missing bowls 

Riselle is going to be animating, Ching Yee is going to be doing up the montage, I will be colouring and lighting the finished animated shots from Riselle to pass it on to Hazirah! and that’s how it goes. 

I finished up 300 and drew in the missing bowl for 350.

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W7: Woowee p1

We just finished our first viva! We survived! YAY! The presentation went quite smoothly and the teachers told us it looked great for now and gave us feedback as usual :) I wrote some of the feedback that I caught on the notes in my phone, later when we get back to class, we will further consolidate it. 

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W6: Weewoo

I forgot to update my blog! And i can’t really remember what i did.  For this week, I worked on finishing a bg for 070, 090 & 100? I think it is not in the right angle for it because originally i did up a bg for specifically 070 & 090 but 100 is a more zoomed out version of it so I redid it as a very zoomed out piece so that we can crop to different sizes as we want it to. If my current one does not work, I will probably fall back on the old version.  In addition, I did up 080 and 410 for the animatic. We are going to change multiple aspects of the animatic and so Ching Yee suggested we will finish as much still shots as possible to give a more rounded feel to the entire film. Ching Yee managed to animate 290 which i coloured and passed on to Hazirah to edit and we did up our slides! Yeap, that’s about it.

Next week, it’s until 6pm and i hope when riselle is back, I will be more focused with work because recently, my head is just filled with playing card games. :( 

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W5: Blease come back, Riselle

Week 5 basically consists of Riselle going overseas to see her (adorable) nephew and us having little work to do because Riselle needs to send over her animated shots for us to colour and light and edit. However, she is taking alot longer to send over the shots which is to be expected. 

Soo, for this week, I finished up shot 440 and redid the background for it. Honestly, I was quite worried about it, but at the end, it looked pretty okay and Ching Yee approved it so it’s all fine. I also did up another background for shot 070. EDIT: Miss Anita came by and critiqued our work based on a first time viewer experience and she gave us several feedback. Mostly, it is about how luna and brie is not that clearly established and how it isn “lively” enough. Taking her feedback into consideration, we brainstormed and came up with some vague storyboards which we will further refine them next week. 

We also met up with our sound artist, Narul, and the music is coming along! We decided to do it more on a jazzy tune

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W4: Chillfest & Card Games

The aerial view took longer than expected, i could not come up with a good layout but eventually i got inspired from buildings of Holland and their canals to come up with an idea. I eventually finished it within 3 days which i passed onto Ching Yee to light it to give the same atmosphere as the other building shot.  Chilled for a day and continued work

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W3: Love hate perspective

Spent the week mainly drawing up some buildings for one of the opening background. I spent alot of effort on it, mainly cause i really feel off when the perspective lines is wrong and also because our mentor is Miss Anita, and she taught us perspective soooooo... gotta make that perfect. 

Im really satisfied with how it turned out, the perspective looks right and hopefully it won’t get picked on too badly by Miss Anita. After Ching Yee touched up the front buildings and lighting, the whole background looks extremely crispy.  Im starting on a new background which is the big aerial city overview right at the start, so hopefully i can do that justice as well! Our group is working productively, i think our viva will be fine. 

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W2: Braincells went on holidays

End of second week, and my brain definitely went on a honeymoon with my motivation. I felt kind of disconnected with my remaining team members, like i don’t know what they are doing which is completely my fault cause i was hanging out in Clover’s cubicle for 2 days. (SORRY GUYS) Besides that, I felt like i did lesser compared to last week because all i remember is playing that stupidly addicting chinese card game which makes me lose 50 braincells per game.  For this week, I coloured a shot, designed 3 poster things and more props. The 3 posters things are the cooking contest poster, Luna’s screen and Brie’s winner certificate. Honestly, i was quite worried for the designing as I have little faith in my design skills, but thanks to lots of pinterest inspiration and my teammates’ feedback, it turned out pretty nice.  

I think we are going along at a nice pace. We set up the mac’s wallpaper as our shots and stuck notes over them to track our progress. So far, there are lots of green on there which is great!  

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W1: Crispy new start

Back from the two weeks break and finding out that my past-studio’s project did not get greenlit unfortunately. Hence, i’m up for recruitment which i’m pretty worried about as I don’t want to be left out and the competition is really great because there are many talented people who are also finding groups to be recruited. Luckily, I managed to join Double Click Studio as their colorist which is honestly something that I really enjoy doing. They are very welcoming, i feel super thankful to them for letting me join.  After we settle down, they gave us an”orientation” of their film which is super cute. I really love the storyline as it is sweet and simple. (Luna is adorable). We also nailed down our goals for this week really fast and got our planning done too. :) This week, I coloured some of the montage scenes, as well as, some shots. I feel super productive this week, hopefully, i can bring over the same energy to next week as well. 

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Week 18: WE ARE DONE! for now....

Can’t believe i actually survived through this rollercoaster of a Year 3 semester. First of all, i just want to thank my group mates for being sooo supportive and understanding and cooperative and they always try their best even in the worst of times. Love them so much!  Reflecting back on the presentation, the presentation went better than i thought. I thought we were going to hit with criticism left and right but the teachers gave us some advice on the poster and the poc animation. I am going to edit them during the holidays. I was glad i remembered the projector has some colour issues and so, I was able to quickly show them the Heaven backgrounds on Hazirah’s laptop instead. 

I do hope we get green lit for this final year as my group have grown terribly attached to the characters. Even if not so, this whole semester has been a new experience for me, more hectic than 2D2 for sure. Im going to take the 2 week term break to revitalise and get ready for Sem 2 by resting, drawing and practising our characters styles until i am more familiar with them. 

For now... 

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Week 17: Hustle Bustle

Besides needing to hand up 1048502 things this week, the day of the final viva is approaching so rapidly and our group is working our best to meet our goals. The good news is that i finished 2 of the assignments due this week so that’s great and now i can concentrate more on CPD. Every year, the stress grows by tenfold and i feel like all the stress piled on me is going to make me break down any moment but im still hanging on somehow. I hope we can finish everything by next week! 

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Week 16: Posters & 3AP

Before we started work this week, we wrote down a list of things to do as well as, definite deadlines so that we will definitely not overdue like the last few times. By writing down all our work from CPD and other modules, time really seems super squeezy, but i should able to get all of them done if my motivation is done partying in Hawaii. 

After writing down, Michelle split the roles for 3AP equally among ourselves efficiently. We continued to update shotgun for awhile before going onto the next task for the day which is the poster design which we wanted to finish it by today. Everyone pitched in on designs and eventually, we came up with several thumbnails. 

Eventually, we narrowed it down to the bottom left 2 with pink ticks and showed Miss Karen. After consultation, we were stuck between 1 & 2. After doing a poll, we chose 2 as our final poster design, and we will be getting along to colour variations as such?

In conclusion, today is a better productive day.