Thursday 31 March 2011

Updated production overview

Hi again! Here's another production overview I've made to make it clearer what needs doing. I'll be printing out some of these and ticking things off as we go along =)

Excel documents can't be uploaded so here's a print screen version (click on it for larger version):

Wednesday 30 March 2011

Update! And reminders for what needs to be done

Hello everyone.

Nice to see some line tests coming along well, keep updating from the feedback you were given today!
Since Blogger occasionally has issues uploading captures to, please post them on our Dropbox =)

Next meeting in class is next Tuesday, this is with Andy at 10:00 in B124, but I expect to see most of you in GO1 again next Monday, at 1:00. I expect everyone except Emelia to be there (because she has a veeery long way to travel, but if she can make it too then that is good.) ^^

Lukas: 

Keep working with watercolouring the backgrounds. We need both the daytime version and the nighttime version of the alarm clock finished.
But most importantly, the railroad scene needs improvement. Add the "anticipation" at the beginning and work on the bending down bit =)

Oscar:

The morning scene is great and you can start inking this.
The getting into bed scene still needs a lot of work though, work on it from the feedback given today, then do a cleaner version.


Andrew: 

Improve the scene using the feedback from the piece of paper I gave you. Some things are more important than others, like keeping the head consistent (same oval shape, no shrinking). Also remember to fix the tie to the right shape =)
Once you've done it and recaptured and think it looks good, do the clean up drawings. If possible, before the clean up drawings, post your latest capture on Dropbox (and make a post on Blogger just to know it's been added) so we can look at it again to see if anything needs changing before you clean them up. Oscar needs the cleaned up drawings Tuesday at the latest so he can ink them.

The door scene also needs the door to open wider. You don't need a huge amount of frames, you can still have a door be half open and close fairly quickly =)

Amber:

We need the car scene! Work hard on this and give us a good line test on Monday! =)
We also need the slipper scene cleaned up.

Emelia: 

Get the latest line tests posted up, and we'll give you feedback as to what can be changed. You might need to do clean up drawings for these for Tuesday. Bring all your papers on Tuesday, especially the background, so I can trace it and me or Lukas will watercolour it =)

Saturday 26 March 2011

Next meeting, Line Tests etc

Hi all! This is a reminder that our next meeting is Monday 10:00 in B124.

Bring ALL YOUR ROUGH LINE TESTS or you won't get any chocolate! ^^

Also, could everyone please bring along a couple of pounds for Lukas who has bought 2 watercolour pads for us (we need that many) and these are quite expensive so we should divide the cost between us.

For those of you who have already captured your line tests, please post these on our new seperate page called "Line Tests"! =)

PS: Oscar, I need the dialogue recorded as soon as possible, so please bring this on Monday!

IMPORTANT:

We now only have 3 more weeks until the Easter holiday and can't afford to fall behind since we also will have the digital skills deadline coming up. Everyone must work very hard this week so we can finish off the line tests as quickly as possible and start colouring in in Photoshop!

I expect to see as many as possible of you in GO1 this week doing line testing!! And it's also preferable that we work there together as a group EVEN IF the lightboxes aren't exactly the brightest and you prefer working at home etc.

So please work hard with these line tests so when we're done with this I might reward you with some cookies^_^

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Oscar; Update

Hey peoples,

The alternate ending is up for Lucas' viewing. It's not a masterpiece.. but it gives you an idea.
I've also uploaded a "How to Build Man" guide onto the Bible, I think I'll put it here too:

Hope it helps! Good luck with the animating.
I notcied that the character has no fingers so...is it going to remain like that at all times then? just to be on the safe side.

Office animation rough #1

Greetings, Lord and Lady Creatures!
      I have uploaded the rough animation for my scene, and it is now avalible on my blog - If you wish for me to upload it here, please say.  Remember to comment if youy see any flaws.
http://daemonstalley.blogspot.com/2011/03/ap2-rough-test-1.html
Yours,
 Andrew

Monday 21 March 2011

Update

Hi all! We are now in the middle of our Production and it's all starting to come together thanks to the animatic. There is now a fifth version up on our Vimeo for anyone interested! *click me*

HOWEVER, we only have a few weeks left until the Easter holiday and cannot relax yet! (So everyone work hard now, and then we can enjoy a nice holiday at Easter)

I'd like to see ALL scenes roughed out by next Monday! Those who brought their rough movements today must also refine these by next week. Sorry if it seems like a lot, but remember, it WILL take a while to get all the finished animation processed and coloured, so we need to get these line tests sorted quickly!

When you have your rough animation line tested, PLEASE post it on Blogger so we can critique/feedback it! It's a whole week until next Monday and because of the lessons I'm not sure if we are able to fit another meeting in, but we need to be viewing some more rough animation BEFORE THEN.

I know some of you work mostly at home because some of you live quite far away from campus, but I would like to see some of you in GO1 during this week! If possible, send me a message if you intend to be in GO1 to do line testing.

We still need watercolour paper. I'll go to Pullingers tomorrow and look for some and buy a few sheets if I find what we need, then we can maybe divide the cost between us. Me and Lukas can then start colouring the clock shots we have, and then later we'll colour in the backgrounds for the line tests (I guess Lukas should be in charge of these since he has the best idea of what they should look like).

Saturday 19 March 2011

Next Meeting!

Since it is slightly inconvenient for those in our group who don't live on campus to travel to university, I've decided to put our next meeting after the Phil Mulloy lecture on Monday. The lecture starts at 11:00 and I am putting the meeting at 2:00 in GO1.

Emelia: Bring the watercolour paper you have, also a USB and your animation work.
Oscar: Bring along the file of the newest animatic and we'll view it! Also bring your animation work.
Everyone else: Bring a USB and your animation work!
If anyone else happens to have watercolour paper or similar thick paper, then please bring it!

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Production overview and reminders for next week

Hi everyone! Here's the list of shots that we divided between us this morning, so everyone is clear about what they're doing...

Since it's an excel file I can't actually put the file itself up here, I think Blogger only takes pictures and video, so I print-screened it instead...if you click on it it becomes bigger ^^



Our next meeting will be either Monday at 2 o'clock after the Phil Mulloy lecture, or anytime Tuesday. Any preferences then write here as a comment, or else I'll just pick a day and time and let you all know when.


Stuff to do until next meeting:

Everyone must work on the shots they have chosen. For next week, we should all have completed the backgrounds (not coloured, just drawn/inked) and animated rough movement on top of them.

The last panning shot needs to be reconsidered. Lukas, give it a think and let us know your opinion (especially let Andrew know as he will be working with this background).

More sounds need to be added to the animatic to increase the feeling of it "building up".

Also, everyone should still take a look at Vida Vega's pdf-tutorials which Andy put on myuca!

Monday 14 March 2011

Animatic Version 3

Hey guys,
Animatic ver3

Me and Lukas spent a long time considering the sounds for the new animatic. It definitely gives a good feel of what our final animation will turn out like, and awesome to see things coming together. Some sounds need more consideration and some haven't even been added yet, but it's a good start to the sound design. I guess tomorrow we will cover everything that needs to be changed and finally start production! I think one major change we are going to make is making the build up at the end of the sequence more dramatic, with more ticking involved. Just generally more climactic. So yeah, see you tomorrow!

Sunday 13 March 2011

Animatic Version 2

Just uploaded the newest animatic. This version has more complete character movements and also corrected timings and movements. The next 3 sequences after the first day have been added as well, bringing it all together cohesively. I haven't added sound as I kind of had to guess what actions to show in the short time that we have in the last 3 sequences. So I want to check with Lucas to see if he thinks the right actions are shown.  Lucas is coming over tomorrow for feedback and then to put some sound on.

Right now I'm working on using after effects to put the clocks in the background of the last 3 sequences.
Animatic version 2
It's going well peoples!

Scanner Issue

Hello fellow classmates! I am experiencing problems with my scanner it seems to be working one moment then the next switches off! so on tuesday i shall test it on dragong stop motion to see the visual idea. I can't also post pictures of Oscar's character design drawings i've done....i shall show you on Monday or maybe email them to Jennifer to post them on blog...that is if she doesn't mind teeeeheeee. Later days dudez!

Friday 11 March 2011

Train Station

Good Evening, Lord and Lady Creatures!
      I present to you the pencil drawing of the train station.
      Why not the Inked version? Because I haven't done that yet - it's my job for the weekend. The only reason I'm uploading now, is because Jennifer asked me to. As for the rail area, I'm still trying to fix the perspective on it, so that'll be up soon.
      By the way, this was drawn on an A3 sheet of paper, hence the minor issuse in the centre of the page - I only own an A4 scanner, so I had to combine it.

UPDATE

Hello everyone ^^

A few things to mention - Oscar has added a rough guide for drawing the character, view this under the Animation Bible page. We all need to practice drawing the character because we are starting the production next week!!

Number 2: Andy has added the Vida Vega tutorial that I mailed Sue about to the Unit Resources under the MSS unit. View it and read it. We won't be doing it the exact same way (with the mattes and other technical stuff), but she works slightly similar to us since she scans in watercoloured backgrounds and layers them underneath other stuff. So, please take a look at it =)

Number 3: SOUND WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED. Our next official meeting is therefore on TUESDAY 10AM in B124.

That's pretty much all, the finished animatic (!) will be on Vimeo by the end of this week, so from next week we are starting our production.

ANDREW: WE NEED YOUR TRAIN STATION DESIGNS!! Please post these under the "Background design & props"-page =)

Good work everyone ^_^

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Ok rough sketch of how lucas wanted it i shall draw up neat then post 2moro. Lemme know what else i shud add, holla at me on my cell, on here, anywhere!

Monday 7 March 2011

Vimeo! (And reminders for this weeks work schedule)

Thanks to Amber, our group now has a Vimeo account!

View us here: *click me*

We already have the first version of the Flash animatic uploaded there (thanks Oscar!) and I've posted the animation reference videos there in a seperate album. Everyone working on backgrounds for these shots should take a look! Login details are the same as for our dropbox account.

IMPORTANT: EVERYONE MUST DRAW OSCAR'S CHARACTER DESIGNS!
Look at our character design page and also the animation bible page where he has added a rough sketch showing us how to draw him!

I think most of you know what to do, but writing down just for the sake of it is this weeks schedule:

Lukas: Write notes in the animation bible. Draw Oscar's character designs, perfect them how you like them, and get used to drawing the character.

Jennifer: Work with the background layouts. Arrange on A4 so they fit in PAL format. Draw Oscar's character designs.

Oscar: Perfect the flash animatic. New draft hopefully by Wednesday. Also give me the link for the site that we can put the sound effects on so we can link it through the Sound Effects page. Another thing we need is the completed model sheets, with 3/4 back view, but focus on the animatic! Must finish by this week!!!

Amber: Car sketches, post what you have on Blogger! Draw Oscar's character designs to get used to them. Also help me out with the background layouts, I'll give you details.

Emelia: Complete living room and office designs. Draw Oscar's character designs to get used to them.

Andrew: Complete train station/railway tracks and bedroom design. Draw Oscar's character designs to get used to them.

Next official meeting will be next Monday (14th of March) in G23 (the Sound Studio for Sound Workshops!) PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS FROM 11.00 - 12:30!! NEW NOTE: This may have been cancelled!! Check myuca, Andy will send out an email!!

NOTE: We also have class on Tuesday (the 15th)! This is in B124 from 10 until 4 and we'll be having group tutorials.

Sunday 6 March 2011

Office design Take 2!

Living Room Design in Adobe Flash Take 2!

Background Design Living Room

This is background design for living room i did in Flash, very simple.

Man's bedroom v1

Good day, Lord and Lady creatures,
   I present to you the first version of the sketchup model for the man's house. You may notice some things about the room aren't complete - the lack of curtains, pillows and a duvet for example. That is because I've spent a good chunk of the last week trying to make those items in Sketchup, and am now thoroughy annoyed by it, so I figured I'd just upload these to show that I have at least done some work this past week.
   If I can actually work out how to make any of the other pieces, I'll add them and upload a new version.
   Until then, Goodbye!
        Andrew Stalley.



Saturday 5 March 2011

Important notice!

Next class meeting is according to the time table on MONDAY the 7th of March, in GO1, NOT on Tuesday!

So those of us who have the acting workshops have this on Tuesday again.

Hopefully Oscar will be done with the first version of the Flash animatic, so we wil be viewing this together. Bring all sketches with you so Lukas can give them feedback, and if possible, bring a USB-stick or hard drive and I'll put the animation reference videos and the animatics on them...

Hope to see you all there! =)

Friday 4 March 2011

Ok some designs but, how do i add them under the correct catorgories without doing a new post everytime! it's lame.

Thursday 3 March 2011

Update: Backgrounds, Video Reference, Tasks to be completed

Hello everyone =) In terms of the production schedule we are pretty much where we want to be, so good work everyone :D But this is a reminder that there are still a couple of things that we need doing...

Oscar is currently working on our flash animatic (thank you!), so once we have that done we are ready to start production. However, we still need to have all the backgrounds ready!

Andrew, I need you to post up all your designs for the train station and railway tracks, the stuff you have done in Google Sketchup etc.

Emelia, good work posting so far, but we will be needing some more sketches for the living room and the office after the feedback Lukas gave you on Monday.

Amber, WORK =) Post whatever you have done so far. We need more sketches for his car (it will only be a front view of the car) so it would be great if you could please work on this.

Lukas, please comment on the sketches on the blog =) (Also, did you give Oscar your notes for the animatic?)

We need to arrange the background sketches onto A4 in PAL format...I'll help out with that once I have more sketches from you, and then I'll let Lukas look at it...

NOTE: Thanks to Andrew we now also have video reference for the character movements. The way this video reference is staged is how we want the backgrounds to be set up. I'm not sure if the video reference is something I should post on the blog though...what do you think, Andrew? Since you're the one in the video :P