Shots of 2D Animation Done
We finished shots of 2D animation.
Yesterday, we handed in our blogs to Wahidah. She saw our rough cut for interim again and gave her comments. She mentioned that in certain parts, the audio was not clear and we might have to reshoot that particular scene again. She also said that the composition was really good for the 2D art fundamentals scene, thanks to Jem once again for his solid eye for camera =)
After that, Jem and I went for over to Greg's house to work on the 2D animation scene. Wendy did not join us as she wasn't feeling well. She decided to stay back in school and work on her 2D animation of her Mushi character. On the way to Greg's house, Greg was telling me his ideas on what we can work on after P1 finishes. Him and his awesome crazy ideas. I think he can grow up to be a really good story conceptualiser or character designer or even a director for that matter. Don't worry Greg, it's not a small job at all =) Jem took a nap in the meantime.
Once we reached Greg's house, we decided to start filming rightaway. But there are always distractions like Greg's Optimus Prime model. Greg made a deal with us that he would finish all his shots within an hour, otherwise he were to treat the rest of us to lunch. We started out by doing a bit of set design to make it look like an animator's room. One thing about Greg's room - he has a lot of collectibles, be it figurines, toys, model cars, helicopters, planes, etc. Thus, we took a few of his toys and placed it around his desk. We placed his best drawings around the desk and pinned some on the wall as well. Then, Jem and I moved onto filming. He composed the shot nicely as always (man, you rock at this bro) and moved onto filming it. We noticed that the ambience noise was a bit too much, thus we had to turn off the air-con. At one time, the air-con started leaking, thus we fixed that problem by masking a tape with cotton wool around the part where it was leaking so that it wouldn't be recorded by the microphone. Greg, however, lost his bet [ =D ] because both Jem and I wanted to strive for perfection and give us flexibility during post-production. Jem also noticed that the lighting was a bit of an issue in the scene, but I suggested that we could use After Effects to colour correct the shot and try to make it look as natural as possible.
We finished much faster than last time and went home.
When I reached home, I was so tired by the one and a half hours of journey that I instantly fell asleep, which I explains why I did not blog yesterday. Then arrived this morning...
I had a super nice rest because there was no Multimedia Fundamentals class in the morning. Today, we were supposed to shoot Wendy at her place. Thus, Jem, Greg and I met at Compass point at around 1.45 pm and by the time we had lunch and took bus to Wendy's place, it was already 2.30 pm. We immediately moved onto setting up the scene in terms of set design and lighting.
The lighting was challenging here, because the window was facing the camera and direct light was shining at it, blowing everything out. We closed the window and put the camera on manual mode to adjust the aperture and other settings to get a nicely exposed shot. Wendy's room had those fluroscent lights, thus the scene had a warm feel to it without any colour correction in post =) However, there were harsh shadows on her face. We solved it by using a fluoroscent table lamp and shining it from the top. Greg and I took turns to hold the table lamp by climbing onto the bunk bed in her room. We worked in a really hot environment as the noise of the mounted fan on the wall was too much for ambience. The three of us helped Wendy to memorize her lines and have her performance look natural, she did quite well eventually. Good job Wendy. We also saw the animation that she had done yesterday. Even though it was incomplete, I think it was really mind-blowing. The squash and stretch on her Mushi character was really evident. Good job =)
After the shoot was done, we left. Tomorrow, the three of them will be coming over to my place to shoot me for the first in this project. Hope I can do well with the least amount of takes. Good luck, Raj.
Yesterday, we handed in our blogs to Wahidah. She saw our rough cut for interim again and gave her comments. She mentioned that in certain parts, the audio was not clear and we might have to reshoot that particular scene again. She also said that the composition was really good for the 2D art fundamentals scene, thanks to Jem once again for his solid eye for camera =)
After that, Jem and I went for over to Greg's house to work on the 2D animation scene. Wendy did not join us as she wasn't feeling well. She decided to stay back in school and work on her 2D animation of her Mushi character. On the way to Greg's house, Greg was telling me his ideas on what we can work on after P1 finishes. Him and his awesome crazy ideas. I think he can grow up to be a really good story conceptualiser or character designer or even a director for that matter. Don't worry Greg, it's not a small job at all =) Jem took a nap in the meantime.
Once we reached Greg's house, we decided to start filming rightaway. But there are always distractions like Greg's Optimus Prime model. Greg made a deal with us that he would finish all his shots within an hour, otherwise he were to treat the rest of us to lunch. We started out by doing a bit of set design to make it look like an animator's room. One thing about Greg's room - he has a lot of collectibles, be it figurines, toys, model cars, helicopters, planes, etc. Thus, we took a few of his toys and placed it around his desk. We placed his best drawings around the desk and pinned some on the wall as well. Then, Jem and I moved onto filming. He composed the shot nicely as always (man, you rock at this bro) and moved onto filming it. We noticed that the ambience noise was a bit too much, thus we had to turn off the air-con. At one time, the air-con started leaking, thus we fixed that problem by masking a tape with cotton wool around the part where it was leaking so that it wouldn't be recorded by the microphone. Greg, however, lost his bet [ =D ] because both Jem and I wanted to strive for perfection and give us flexibility during post-production. Jem also noticed that the lighting was a bit of an issue in the scene, but I suggested that we could use After Effects to colour correct the shot and try to make it look as natural as possible.
We finished much faster than last time and went home.
When I reached home, I was so tired by the one and a half hours of journey that I instantly fell asleep, which I explains why I did not blog yesterday. Then arrived this morning...
I had a super nice rest because there was no Multimedia Fundamentals class in the morning. Today, we were supposed to shoot Wendy at her place. Thus, Jem, Greg and I met at Compass point at around 1.45 pm and by the time we had lunch and took bus to Wendy's place, it was already 2.30 pm. We immediately moved onto setting up the scene in terms of set design and lighting.
The lighting was challenging here, because the window was facing the camera and direct light was shining at it, blowing everything out. We closed the window and put the camera on manual mode to adjust the aperture and other settings to get a nicely exposed shot. Wendy's room had those fluroscent lights, thus the scene had a warm feel to it without any colour correction in post =) However, there were harsh shadows on her face. We solved it by using a fluoroscent table lamp and shining it from the top. Greg and I took turns to hold the table lamp by climbing onto the bunk bed in her room. We worked in a really hot environment as the noise of the mounted fan on the wall was too much for ambience. The three of us helped Wendy to memorize her lines and have her performance look natural, she did quite well eventually. Good job Wendy. We also saw the animation that she had done yesterday. Even though it was incomplete, I think it was really mind-blowing. The squash and stretch on her Mushi character was really evident. Good job =)
After the shoot was done, we left. Tomorrow, the three of them will be coming over to my place to shoot me for the first in this project. Hope I can do well with the least amount of takes. Good luck, Raj.
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