Week 02: You Know What Some of the Kids Said

Yeah yeah, after ideas brainstorming from Week 01, I finally decided what I'm going to do!

I'm going to create a scene with a little girl was about to sleep, sitting on her bed & telling her dad about her worries, what she heard from the other kids said in school.

I want to make it a cute, sweet, adorable character animation..

Cast: Little Girl, Dad
Set: Room


After I got my ideas all set, I quickly go into Maya to create the layout with my characters (from modified norman).
I did sketch out my ideas, but too bad I left my sketches in school lab computer..

Anyway, here's my layout.

Haha, surprise~!! Batman?! Yeah, I changed it to Batman instead of 'Dad' because of 2 reasons:

1st, I want to make it looks like a scene from the Batman movies.
2nd, I don't have time to modify a 'Dad' norman..


Something about layout,
I try to make it more 'movie' approach instead of just one camera. It's good to make your piece that looks like it's a scene from movies.

At least I believe it make your work stand out among the dialogue animation, especially student's demoreel. Of course, animation quality is still the king.

Alright, this is actually the 1st layout I created, as you noticed the switch between First & Third camera is the only different.

It's actually not that bad because the 1st shot established everything clearly.. but it turned out too clear for me..

I prefer the top one because it doesn't show Batman at the 1st camera, when it cut to Second shot only people realize... it's Batman!
& they'll scream 'what the hell'.. & this is the respond I want!

Do you like the layout? heeh


So once the layout, cameras are all set, you're ready to animate it!!
But not so fast, before you really begin your animation, some brainstorm & planning should have done as well~

& I'll talk about this in my next post.

Have Fun~ =)

Week 01: You Know What Some of the Kids Said?

Yeah yeah, finally I got something to post here~

I'm working on a new clip now which I think it's a pretty good idea if I can share my progress here. =)

I'm taking JD's workshop now, & I'm doing a dialogue piece..

Week 01

In order to do a dialogue animation, you should find yourself a dialogue clip first (of course~).
There are many ways you can get it through internet but it's not easy to get a good one sometime.

Few things to bare in mind:

1. Look for something contrast in speaking tone, clear accent but not mumbling, less background sound.
   
   
2. Contrast as in emotional changes as well, to show character's thoughts, thinking, emotional gear change.
   
   
3. Avoid too famous actors, movies/ scenes that too recognizable. It's not a good idea if someone recognize where's your dialogue originally from, or who's the original actor who spoke the line, these would cause the audience recall the original scene, & letting your animation down by comparing them.
   
   
4. Not from an animation featured for sure. Just like Michelangelo was not going to re-paint, re-produce Leonardo da Vinci's artworks.
   
   
5. Avoid FXXX or similar words if you're putting it into demoreel. Keep it clean.
   
   
6. If there's more than 1 character conversation, we should look for the 'conflict' between 2 or more characters.
   For example, Character A would like to offer something to Character B but B refuse to accept it.
   
   
7. Be able to create the context that show your brilliant, interesting, creative ideas. We don't want to re-create the similar scene from the dialogue you've choosen.

Here's what I original have.

scene from Omega Man, video sources from youtube.com

I've several other clips from movies like Memento, Legend of 1900 but I decided to work on this because I would like to do something with a cute little girl scene.

However, it's too long, length of 9-12 seconds is always preferable.


& here's the version I edited.

I take out some of the lines to make the topic even more clear & focus, & tried to reduce the background sound (esp the foot step walking sound at the beginning) as well.



Alright, I'm cool with this & I'm ready to move to the next step --> Brainstorm the ideas, Show your talent~

but remember, try not to involve politics, sexual, racist, toilet/dirty jokes, animal abusing, violence issues in it.. if you're putting it into your demoreel.


That's all for week 01, there are more to come. What I mentioned here is basically the basic rules of it.
Hope you like it & find it helpful (whoever reading this). Do let me know what I missed out or to make it better. Thanks!

I'll show my layout for the next post.

Have Fun =)

Memory

It's not ANIMATION related,

but it's friendship.

paseeewball.blogspot.com

=)

The Reminder

基本上自己的animation已经上传的七七八八了...
画的也没什么进展...
照片没钱洗...
Wanna Be 那边还没时间把前期好好的整理与大家分享..

主要问题是现在手上的projects还处在production刚开始的阶段，实在是没什么好上传的 (为了保持新鲜&神秘感..)

加上本人最近遇到创作上的瓶颈，文化&思想上的冲击.. (抱歉，这写的也太文绉绉了) =.=

这些都是最近没在更新的原因 (虽然我不知到底有多少人注意我的更新..)


anyway,父亲刚于信仰上再次提醒我...

马丁 . 路德 & 约翰 . 加尔文 于宗教改革时期的口号:
唯独信心
唯独恩典
唯独基督
唯独圣经
唯独荣耀上帝

加尔文主义 的五要点 (TULIP)：
全然败坏
无条件的拣选
有限的救赎
不可抗拒的恩典
圣徒的坚忍

这都是归正信仰非常重要的教义
经常以这来反省，检讨自己
以这为各种现象，文化，思潮给于批判
这么做不是要凸显自己有多厉害
而是为了面对上帝
晓得如何面对上帝
在信仰上才能站立的住
生命要改变，有基督的生命，才能改变别人的生命..

谢父亲 的一番提醒&勉励

谢上帝

=)

White Slim Angel III

Another set of photos, a week of Reformed Theology learning in Reformed Institute, Philadelphia.

A week of John Calvin, a week of learning, a life time of Reformed Faith.

White Slim Angel II

Haven't been really posting anything here since August because I've been enjoyed my Summer holiday.. It's so much fun~!!

By working on some projects as well..

But mainly is because that I has posted most of my animation works & I got nothing to show here.. yaiks, what should I do?

Anyway, here I show you some of the photos that I took during my Summer holiday.

We went to ILM tour, & Palace of Fine Arts that near by it. Thanks Jung who invited us!

Also, I've signed up for flickr & this is the new way to browse my photos now. Check it out~!

Enjoy =)

Let's Bounce like 'Mario'

Another class assignment that I did last semester.
I think it's such a brilliant idea to combine 'ball with tail' with 'Super Mario'..
omg~ I'm so annoying~

anyway, I had a lot of fun in animate this. Hope you like it. =)

due to the copyright issue, I desperately wish but I don't think I can put the classic lovely Super Mario soundtrack in it.. >.<