Today is the day we compile all our animations together and now we are rendering to put it in a CD. Although i dont really feel that the animation is there* yet. You know, like there's a few missing scenes needed to be add. But so far, im quite impress with my group members as we made it on time yet we bring out the story. I'm sure people will understand what's going on. We add alot of SFX and ambience sound to create more exciting storyline to it.
Naf did a execellent job on doing the credits and Kez on editing. Racheal did an amazing job on the manrilyn moonroe. Andreas is superb as possible. We also would like to thank Amanda for giving us some great tips and suggestions. Jarrold for becoming our vocal on Brian.
I think the problem we faced and didnt really manage to make it through it the smooth of our animation.To save up our time, we did half tweening and half traditionally animation. Example like some our little scenes, like waving jumping, we do on tweening. For walk cycle and waving we draw it one by one.
But so far so good, im loving what we have done so far.. in 2 and a half weeks, we, Fourandahalf productions manage to came out 2min15secs animation with comedy and wonderful character and background designs.
Love my group, love our animations!
Till here.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Day 16, 11 May 2009
hi Andreas here again, its getting kinda Sicke... oops i mean boring to blog as there are two blogs to be updated..
Anyway, today we were supposed to combine all the files, so everyone exported their respective scenes as PNG sequence except Tri as she still had one scene to perfect. We handed the files to Naf our director/editor. I exported one of my scene with 2 different background version as i am quite confused with the layout.
there were several difficulties as our scene color for the background and the character slightly differ. The size of the background and the char also slightly out. Thus, Naf asked us to export without the background.
Amanda also asked us whther we know about line task, which is jus to use rough sketches, vectorised lines, imperfect betweens, etc to check for the timing. When the inbetweens and key position are nicely timed, that is where we perfect that very scene.
There are also problem with Rachael marylin monroe scne as pointed by Nafisah, when Nat touched Brian, the hand is there, however the hand is already drawin in the next scene.Thus, we edited Nafisah scene a bit as it is easier than editing Rachael part.
Then, Rachael and I went to find some SFX and music for the scene. We decided to stayback a bit today. Nafisah also wrote down the credits. The song chosen for credits apparently is Mr personality though I think mrs personality work better but oh well.. enough random rabling
thats all for today I guess, see ya next time
Andreas Mas'Oen (0705922c)
Anyway, today we were supposed to combine all the files, so everyone exported their respective scenes as PNG sequence except Tri as she still had one scene to perfect. We handed the files to Naf our director/editor. I exported one of my scene with 2 different background version as i am quite confused with the layout.
there were several difficulties as our scene color for the background and the character slightly differ. The size of the background and the char also slightly out. Thus, Naf asked us to export without the background.
Amanda also asked us whther we know about line task, which is jus to use rough sketches, vectorised lines, imperfect betweens, etc to check for the timing. When the inbetweens and key position are nicely timed, that is where we perfect that very scene.
There are also problem with Rachael marylin monroe scne as pointed by Nafisah, when Nat touched Brian, the hand is there, however the hand is already drawin in the next scene.Thus, we edited Nafisah scene a bit as it is easier than editing Rachael part.
Then, Rachael and I went to find some SFX and music for the scene. We decided to stayback a bit today. Nafisah also wrote down the credits. The song chosen for credits apparently is Mr personality though I think mrs personality work better but oh well.. enough random rabling
thats all for today I guess, see ya next time
Andreas Mas'Oen (0705922c)
Day 14 Thursday
I've been really horrible with keeping up this blog thing. no one kill me please, I even have trouble keeping my diary up to date. hah.
So, nothing much, we just kept doing our individual scenes, hoping to finish it as soon as possible so that we can compile everything on Monday.
I had a bit of a problem with doing the trailing fart because; one, the fart had to keep moving; two, the fart had to be 'attached' to her but in one place; three, it's a panning shot. yep.
I was going to move the damn thing frame by frame or move the whole working file into After Effects; this would have had me in an utterly bad mood. Thankfully, Amanda came up to me and I asked her what I could do. She very patiently tried the many options I could use; and at the end of the day, Ta-dah! it is aliveeeeee. Yeah.
We learn something new everyday.
So, just had to tweak a bit here and there to get it to look right, Andreas showed me how to use the Alpha channels thing, which helped a lot too.
Then we went to help Rae with her P3 voice overs, that was quite fun. But yay! I think we could finish stuff by Monday, hopefully.
So, nothing much, we just kept doing our individual scenes, hoping to finish it as soon as possible so that we can compile everything on Monday.
I had a bit of a problem with doing the trailing fart because; one, the fart had to keep moving; two, the fart had to be 'attached' to her but in one place; three, it's a panning shot. yep.
I was going to move the damn thing frame by frame or move the whole working file into After Effects; this would have had me in an utterly bad mood. Thankfully, Amanda came up to me and I asked her what I could do. She very patiently tried the many options I could use; and at the end of the day, Ta-dah! it is aliveeeeee. Yeah.
We learn something new everyday.
So, just had to tweak a bit here and there to get it to look right, Andreas showed me how to use the Alpha channels thing, which helped a lot too.
Then we went to help Rae with her P3 voice overs, that was quite fun. But yay! I think we could finish stuff by Monday, hopefully.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Day 15
I'm Naf!
I am here to bring the latest update of the group progress.. Like Duh right but well it's the fact. Sorry. I'm kind of tired. Anyway, let me think what we have done so far...hmmm......
Oh ok. We have done most of the scenes and it is going great. We did get some approval from amanda and yah. It's cool. So, we plan to finish our animaiton pieces by monday and we could start to combine all the stuff. I was planning to take different shots of the animation and place it as a picture and make an album out of it.
With the beauty of motion graphics, I'm going to make it pan from one place to another so that's our credits. Oh the song with be Mr Personality. It is a cool song I think back in 1998 or later. I just love the beat and I asked Rachael, Tri and Kez if the song is okay and they agreed. So I cant wait to start the credits. WOO!
Oh, Rachael showed me the animation of the skirt its looking good man. I'm serious. She said she really studied Marelin Monro. Very nice. Anyway, I think that's about it.
Tata!
I am here to bring the latest update of the group progress.. Like Duh right but well it's the fact. Sorry. I'm kind of tired. Anyway, let me think what we have done so far...hmmm......
Oh ok. We have done most of the scenes and it is going great. We did get some approval from amanda and yah. It's cool. So, we plan to finish our animaiton pieces by monday and we could start to combine all the stuff. I was planning to take different shots of the animation and place it as a picture and make an album out of it.
With the beauty of motion graphics, I'm going to make it pan from one place to another so that's our credits. Oh the song with be Mr Personality. It is a cool song I think back in 1998 or later. I just love the beat and I asked Rachael, Tri and Kez if the song is okay and they agreed. So I cant wait to start the credits. WOO!
Oh, Rachael showed me the animation of the skirt its looking good man. I'm serious. She said she really studied Marelin Monro. Very nice. Anyway, I think that's about it.
Tata!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Day 12 Tuesday
I realised that I have not blog. Sorry people!
This is RaE by the way.
So today we were doing our own stuff again. I'm still doing that marilyn monroe scene without the marylin monroe. So Natali is just going to be shock because brian fell and then the cat walked pass her. I'm still halfway doing that. Amanda told me to move on to other scene so that I wont be bored doing this scene over and over again. So yeah I did. I had to do lipsynch! Which is a bad and a good thing. Bad because is tedious, good because I must practise my lipsynching.Haha
OKay as for the rest of the team... Andreas is doing well (as usual) for his part. I really love the part when Natalie jumped and said "I.M PREGNANT!" with her tummy all exposed.Haha! Great job man. Oh and the baby scene. He hasn't given it yet. He showed me during the weekend but I told him to make a few changes to the part the gas came out from the flying baby's butt. I told him to make it look like the train smoke. Haha. He still need another scene which is the slomo of nat's lips saying "pppprrreegggnannnttt." yeah we have to re-record the voice because the current one is distorted and for some reason it has an electric sound.
Naf is doing great as well. Even though I can't stand Natalie's bimbotic voice, I though Naf did a pretty good job showing Natalie's action. It matched the voice. She has to add some motion graphic for the background. Like pink babys stuff going around Brian. I pity her for having to listen to the voice over and over again. Haha.
Tri is doing her walk cycle. I haven't really see what she did but I'm sure she's doing great. Kez is doing the part where Nat farted. She must make her shake Brian but so far I haven't seen the latestt one.Kez's and tri's latest background is nicer! Suits more with our characters. Oh yeah speaking of characters, we also changed Natalie's color. We need to make her color different than Brian so that she doesn't blend in with him. So here's the new color!!
Over all, I think Four and a Half girls are doing well! We are planning to combine by monday so that we can focus on p3.Gogogo people and me!
This is RaE by the way.
So today we were doing our own stuff again. I'm still doing that marilyn monroe scene without the marylin monroe. So Natali is just going to be shock because brian fell and then the cat walked pass her. I'm still halfway doing that. Amanda told me to move on to other scene so that I wont be bored doing this scene over and over again. So yeah I did. I had to do lipsynch! Which is a bad and a good thing. Bad because is tedious, good because I must practise my lipsynching.Haha
OKay as for the rest of the team... Andreas is doing well (as usual) for his part. I really love the part when Natalie jumped and said "I.M PREGNANT!" with her tummy all exposed.Haha! Great job man. Oh and the baby scene. He hasn't given it yet. He showed me during the weekend but I told him to make a few changes to the part the gas came out from the flying baby's butt. I told him to make it look like the train smoke. Haha. He still need another scene which is the slomo of nat's lips saying "pppprrreegggnannnttt." yeah we have to re-record the voice because the current one is distorted and for some reason it has an electric sound.
Naf is doing great as well. Even though I can't stand Natalie's bimbotic voice, I though Naf did a pretty good job showing Natalie's action. It matched the voice. She has to add some motion graphic for the background. Like pink babys stuff going around Brian. I pity her for having to listen to the voice over and over again. Haha.
Tri is doing her walk cycle. I haven't really see what she did but I'm sure she's doing great. Kez is doing the part where Nat farted. She must make her shake Brian but so far I haven't seen the latestt one.Kez's and tri's latest background is nicer! Suits more with our characters. Oh yeah speaking of characters, we also changed Natalie's color. We need to make her color different than Brian so that she doesn't blend in with him. So here's the new color!!
Over all, I think Four and a Half girls are doing well! We are planning to combine by monday so that we can focus on p3.Gogogo people and me!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Moving on..
Tri here!! :)
Today, spilts outselves into different tasks. Mostly have been done and i'm quite happy because we managed to finish it on time. On Monday, we're planing to combine everything together. What i did was, i animated the logo and at sound effects to it and first few scenes and also the background. We are yet to add ambience sounds and sound effects to the whole video. I hope that we can do it by Monday as we have our Project 3 to be done.
We too are yet to re-do our gantt chart as we do it wrongly for our previous one. So basically, we have to create a table and state our tasks and the date so we could time ourselves and plan ahead so we won't faced delays.
So far, the problem we faced are, background as i make it too satruated that viewers focus more on the background then our character. So Kezia, edit the backgorund as it look very simple and i think she did a good job. So i follow her style and do the other backgrounds.
Next problem we face is, trying to bring out the humour that we have created, like the farting scene and marilyn moonroe scene. Both Rae and Kez did a very good job on the scenes. I just hope that our viewers would understand our animation as well as our story.
Now, we are all doing our own scenes on hoping to combine as soon as possible.
Till here.
Today, spilts outselves into different tasks. Mostly have been done and i'm quite happy because we managed to finish it on time. On Monday, we're planing to combine everything together. What i did was, i animated the logo and at sound effects to it and first few scenes and also the background. We are yet to add ambience sounds and sound effects to the whole video. I hope that we can do it by Monday as we have our Project 3 to be done.
We too are yet to re-do our gantt chart as we do it wrongly for our previous one. So basically, we have to create a table and state our tasks and the date so we could time ourselves and plan ahead so we won't faced delays.
So far, the problem we faced are, background as i make it too satruated that viewers focus more on the background then our character. So Kezia, edit the backgorund as it look very simple and i think she did a good job. So i follow her style and do the other backgrounds.
Next problem we face is, trying to bring out the humour that we have created, like the farting scene and marilyn moonroe scene. Both Rae and Kez did a very good job on the scenes. I just hope that our viewers would understand our animation as well as our story.
Now, we are all doing our own scenes on hoping to combine as soon as possible.
Till here.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Day 11, 04 May 2009
yup its Andreas turn again, your favourite "half" girl....
Anyway I showed everyone my piece the one I did on weekend (except Tri, she is sick.. aww..get well soon).. anyway moving on... In fact I only showed Kezia as the rest has seen mine over the net (yeah MSN is v practical), She said that I have to rotate the mouth slightly, and gimme the idea to move that Brian eye a bit, so yeah I did that swiftly.
I also showed Amanda my scenes. She give me few idea of how the fart should look like, she also said I need 4 or more in betweens. Currently It really look like it is so motion tween. She also said that not only my scene, but most of our scene abuse the usage of motion tween... Oh man.. I guess that means more drawing to do (not just me, all.... :p). I do not need squash and stretch for that scene. However, I should move on to next scene first and tweak this scene later on.
As for the walk, she said I have to apply the slow in slow out principle more, especially the hand. Amanda also commented that we need to make the character has different hue, since we use less striking colours, it is hard to see them in the screen (for example the cat scene). Amanda also said we need to make the earring colour more striking.. so yeah, poor Kezia I guess she have to tweak the colour again for say... is it 4 times? or is it the 5th time? Ah well..
Kezia also showed us the updated background. Since it is so plain (and sad.. poor kids only have 1 slide to share with the rest), I think we should add another facility... say swing? seesaw? those weird-looking-vibrating-plastic-horse? So yeah.. a swing is added in the end.. good job :p. She also put a lamp for Brian to lean on in the playground. I also think that Brian should really lean and turn to stand normally as he greeted Natalie. (so yeah.. mroe drawing to do for Tri, but c mon Tri, good luck, I also have a lot in between for the baby to draw, Nafisah also had in betweens for the hand).. so yeah good luck all
There were not much going on today, since it is production day and yeah.. I guess that is all.. this is Andreas Mas'oen, your favourite half girls commentator, logging off...
Andreas mas'Oen (0705922c)
Anyway I showed everyone my piece the one I did on weekend (except Tri, she is sick.. aww..get well soon).. anyway moving on... In fact I only showed Kezia as the rest has seen mine over the net (yeah MSN is v practical), She said that I have to rotate the mouth slightly, and gimme the idea to move that Brian eye a bit, so yeah I did that swiftly.
I also showed Amanda my scenes. She give me few idea of how the fart should look like, she also said I need 4 or more in betweens. Currently It really look like it is so motion tween. She also said that not only my scene, but most of our scene abuse the usage of motion tween... Oh man.. I guess that means more drawing to do (not just me, all.... :p). I do not need squash and stretch for that scene. However, I should move on to next scene first and tweak this scene later on.
As for the walk, she said I have to apply the slow in slow out principle more, especially the hand. Amanda also commented that we need to make the character has different hue, since we use less striking colours, it is hard to see them in the screen (for example the cat scene). Amanda also said we need to make the earring colour more striking.. so yeah, poor Kezia I guess she have to tweak the colour again for say... is it 4 times? or is it the 5th time? Ah well..
Kezia also showed us the updated background. Since it is so plain (and sad.. poor kids only have 1 slide to share with the rest), I think we should add another facility... say swing? seesaw? those weird-looking-vibrating-plastic-horse? So yeah.. a swing is added in the end.. good job :p. She also put a lamp for Brian to lean on in the playground. I also think that Brian should really lean and turn to stand normally as he greeted Natalie. (so yeah.. mroe drawing to do for Tri, but c mon Tri, good luck, I also have a lot in between for the baby to draw, Nafisah also had in betweens for the hand).. so yeah good luck all
There were not much going on today, since it is production day and yeah.. I guess that is all.. this is Andreas Mas'oen, your favourite half girls commentator, logging off...
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