Unfortunately, I was absent that day but still submitted my first rough one one shot with Dylan’s background of the Boy’s room with the boy looking around from left to right from the sound coming from outside which wakes him up.Β Here is my first rough to test out the background with the boy on the bed lifting his upper body with his hands on the cover.
Aodhan gave pointers on my rough and how the head turn was a bit too fast and needed a proper arc for the head with a bit of exaggeration to sell it. So I took what he said and tried out a new scene with a arc as an example to see if would look better this time before moving on to the next scene.Β
The second week of creative futures took us in the direction of the major project which includes creating our own poster designs for our short film and show it off to our future employers from countless businesses. Henry talked about Design thinking and why it is significant for us to have a poster for our short film with the concept, contrast, hierarchy and grid.Β As well as getting an emotional response from it’s viewers to have a conscious level of it with the positive design from viewing the poster and editing it in a proper layout and design.Β
Our tasks for the creature future was to draw concept posters, 3 each on what our poster for our short horror/thriller film be. Sarah, Dylan and I had drawn concept art designs and our short film and try to narrow it down to one.Β
For this weeks progress after completing our presentation assignment last week, I had updated our asset list on Miro for Dylan to add certain 2D assets in each room and other assets that are optional for the short film itself to make it real life setting. I also updated the animatic from one of the shorts that needed to be changed for Sarah to edit finally fixing and improving minor mistakes before animating. The rough I did with Sarah needs a little work as we await for Sarah to finish her sculpting and her previs to be animated and done by the end of the week.Β
My plan before next Tuesday is to continue animating other scenes which Dylan has given me one background to do but only with one shot where the boy looks around the room when he hears a strange noise in rough animation. I will continue chatting with the group two times a week before and after classes and watch videos to help with my animation process for the weeks ahead so I know where I’m at.
This Friday’s class introduced us to creative futures which will help with future employment during our major project short films which will be for the end of the year show once we graduate afterwards. We were informed of our assignment for this semester which will take place after our finalised major project, giving us this time for Fridays to make poster, banners, showcase our work and how we will present to our future employers from our chosen platforms.Β
To give us time to update our arts and creations on multiple platforms to showcase our CV’s, showreels and portfolios near the end of semester 2. Near the end of the lesson I had discussed with other team members about our short film and creating a poster for it. We each had a task of designing 3 sketches of what our poster could look like to represent our horror thriller film by collecting inspirations and references which follow the same formula with our plot. We used to gather references and inspirations including other short films to help with our short film pipeline.Β
During the Christmas break and January month, I continued onward with my work and finished my animatic featuring the middle and end scenes to collaborate with Sarah’s Intro which was then completed. Afterwards we held a call meeting after the Christmas holidays to see where we were at with progress with our production. There had been some issues with one of our team members not finishing with their dissertation. For me I had to wait patiently for Sarah finishing up the layout of the 3D environment then I could animate the one scene which includes the boy waving at the beast and the beast waves back at him. While being patient I had looked at tutorials on YouTube to see any simple techniques or tips for hand waving and how to make it look smooth before I start animating my rough with the 3D backgrounds.
We then presented our production presentation to our lecturers Aodhan and Sarah with the work we had done over Christmas and the rest of January. We included a list on what we had done, assets for the environment, character sheets, the cabin, animatic, first rough test and updated schedule. We received their feedback/opinions on the presentation since we have made so much progress from our last stage in the pre production. There was some minor mistakes that we can improve and add on before fully animating for the weeks ahead but it was an overall success and better than the last two presentations. We have our destinated roles these months so we can continue on with production to our post-production.Β
Here is what I had contributed to the presentation as well as setting up the slides and text for my teammates and my own:
My last talk for the Dissertation/Report module this semester before next week’s assignment submission for Friday 22ndΒ December. I had my talk with Yuan this week for how far I have done for my Dissertation in fact I had finished the next chapters 3 and 4 and done the conclusion in the end while proofreading my work. Once I had my talk with Yuan, she mentioned the sub headings should be typed as chapters not sections and the main title should be a bit more academic but brief. Movies and tv shows should not have quotation marks and the their year release instead have the italic font and the year mentioned once if it has been mentioned once before. Also capital letters to movie and tv show titles if the wording is long. Th last chapter title should be changed to a case study and finally to change the format to meet it’s requirements for submission.Β
Our tutorial was quite brief today with the group (one was absent) to see how we were for our progress. For me I showed my lecturer Aodhan my progress for the middle part of the animatic which Sarah Elliot needed help with and what I was focusing this week on before our very last class in Major Project. Aodhan found the animatic very great as that was the progress he wanted to see and I told him I would be focusing on the third and final part of the animatic which I would send the videos and frames to Sarah to edit them altogether just before January and around Christmas as well. Here is a glimpse of the middle part I have worked on.
I asked about the production stage and for the presentation about animating one scene which should have a detailed background during January before our next and last presentation on our progress on our animations. In the meantime we were given time to focus on our dissertation’s for next week as it comes first for December giving us time to focus on one then on the other.Β Β
No tutorial talk this week as mine would be the next with Yuan around 11am which would also be my last before the Christmas holidays. I took this week to focus on Section 3 of impacts which I was able to get done and buts to be proofread before the tutorial. This week I will also aim to finish section 4 with spiderman as the last section and it’s paragraphs and see if I’m able to get the conclusion done but as optional this week all completed and Yuan to review it if there any mistakes that needs improving.Β
Our lecturer wasn’t able to attend this week like the others however, he looked at our work online discord and wrote feedback on each of our work and progress for this week. For me, I focused on redoing the character sheets from Aodhan’s feedback last week so I went online and researched and looked at other examples of character sheets to help improve my own and go for straight normal poses. I looked at this video below, to aid me to draw proper character sheets which included adding lines for the structure like the head, main body and legs to demonstrate the height and appearance of characters with turnarounds to see the whole character as a fictional character with a 2D appearance but almost real like a 3D object.Β
After the boy and his father were completed and redone the proper way, I brought them together to show off the height difference between the both since the boy is half the height of a wooden door and the father is an inch less then a door.Β
This made me realise where I went wrong with the first two character design sheets and how I could make better character designs for the future when creating fictional characters for my own or the business. Meanwhile I was collecting sounds that would be considered for our main project whereas Sarah was having problems with our animatic which I obliged to take the middle and final part to complete around Christmas after having our dissertations done beforehand.
This week was my tutorial talk and last meeting with Ryan to look at my progress on my dissertation of my coursework. I showed him the changes that were made which included the title which was shortened and the change of structure with the sections changed around but remained the same topic throughout. Both were great and Yuan already checked the introduction and first section while I showed my progress on the second section involving techniques and tools for hybrid animation. When he reviewed the second section there were some points that needed fixing like why these techniques are important or more great with more full stops, avoid repetitive words, highlight the techniques on why and use different phases with short sentences.Β
The last few paragraphs were all good as it progressed very well along the way towards the end of the section involving techniques being used and why it’s important. I also have to watch out for the wordcount (5000 words) and that every caption will be also added in for the dissertation and polish my sentences when I go back to proofread them so adding words like real or alive for effect. So that the techniques are effective and important and add phrases like weight, flow and humanity. I will take this week to fix up section 2 and rap on section 3 or 4 for the next two weeks before I have my last talk with Yuan, before the submission of our dissertations.Β
