Week 16 of Production for the 1080 Studios, oh boy oh boy.
Our deadline is getting close and i am freaking out!!! So much stuff to do. The assignments for the other classes are also due next week, and I’m only 3/4 way done with them. But with the bad comes the good as well. I finished one class module, so now i have slightly more time to work the animation for CPD! Oh yas! And since the assignment for the other classes are coming due soon, that would mean that the modules are coming to their end soon and our schedules would be even more cleared for us to work on the production even more!
YAYYYYYYYYYY (kinda cos we still have to do work but at least we don’t have to juggle 5 modules at the same time).
This week, i didn’t really work too much on the animation, i gotta be honest. I know! I feel a bit guilty, but i had to place priority on other classes a little bit first. But i still did a little bit of work, and that is the eye animation for the second scene of the animation!
It was a quick animation, just some simple frames and it was good to go, though Dana had to change the shape of the eye cos it didn’t really match with the original design of the character. I just followed what i drew in the storyboard. Then i also coloured and edited the new animation in the animatic! Which you can check out on our studio blog at https://1080studios.tumblr.com/ .
I am really hoping we are to finish this animation quickly, maybe a few days before the deadline so we don’t have to fret too much about submitting an incomplete animation, with missing colours or animations. That would be a nightmare.
Anyways, this is your Captain logging off and i’ll tell you more about what happens in the next week! Bye bye!!!
Week 15 of Production. I believe it’s production stage at this point, right?
Week 15 is just the same as any other week to be honest. School work, animation keyframing, sweating and panicking over the workload, etc. This week i managed to finish the arm stretching animation that i was working on last week.
It was really weird to work on this animation because the action for this scene is a bit….unique? Not saying people don’t stretch their arms in real life, but it is hard to find an exact video of a boy stretching with the camera facing in front of him. So i had to record myself doing this action and also sometimes, i would move my arms and analyse where my arm would be or how my body would move, and draw according to that.
I then also coloured and edited more stuff for the animation and added them into the animatic, as a form of updating it. I feel like i’m working really slow, but at the same time, i also have two more assignments due on the same week two weeks from now, so i’m panicking a little bit. Oh gosh.
But judging from our teacher’s reaction, our work pace seems to be…okay? i can’t really tell to be honest.
Anyways this is your captain logging off. Have a safe flight and take care!
Week 14 is over really quickly and as per usual, i feel that i did work but also no work at all.
This week i focused on colouring the cleanups from the previous animations i have done, animating a new shot and sending it to the cleanup artist, and also editing the new animation into the animatic! Here is the updated version of the animatic / animation!
The colouring process for the title card was a little troublesome, because during the colouring, my ToonBoom Harmony kept crashing and refused to work, and i still had the shading to complete. So i uploaded the file as a zip to the studio’s shared folder, so Dana can complete the shading in my place, while i figure out how to fix the Harmony issue.
Thankfully, i just had to download a newer version of the software and was good to go for the next cleanup. But Dana wanted to send me back the original file for that title card shot, because the frames for the boy’s skin were not in frame, apparently. I believe she accidentally shifted the frames and that caused everything to shift. I would have just worked on the original file that i uploaded, but she already completed shading for most parts of it, except for the skin, and she deleted the frames for majority of the skin. Which means i have to re-do the base colouring again *cries*
Nonetheless, i still managed to complete it in a day, thankfully, and i edited the completed title card into the animatic! So far, we are doing good but i wonder if we are able to finish the animation in time. A bit worried, not going to lie.
Anyways, this is your Captain signing out for this week. See ya!
Week 13 marks the official start of the production! That means it’s time to start animating.
I am in charge of the character animation, basically the keyframes and in-betweening for our character – BOY. He has no name, just boy. And apart from the POC, I have already started working on the first 10 seconds of the animation.
I actually really enjoy the colouring process, not going to lie. It’s quite therapeutic, especially when I listen to podcasts, audio stories and music while colouring the animation. Thankfully, our character is not too complicated to colour and shade so that’s a win for me.
Apart from that, I also completed the colouring for the POC sequence where the colours were missing.
I am currently colouring the title card of the animation and things seem to be going fine so far. Since it is whitespace week, I am hoping to be able to finish half of the animation by the end of the week. Is it a stretch? Hmmm, maybe? But I know there are more assignments to come in the next week and I cannot handle the workload no more. Fun.
After countless nights of all-nighters and incessant head bangs on the table and existential crying, I finally completed the animatic. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
To be honest, I finished editing the first draft the night before the submission and I almost let out a big sigh of relief and fell back on my chair. Even if the editing was a bit shoddy, I was just glad I was done with the overall idea for the film. The next morning, right before the class, I polished up the editing, cuts and sound design for the animatic before submission. So for now, this is my magnum opus and one of the most exhausting things I have ever done. Please enjoy the animatic for 2359.
I will be working on the POC for the project so pray for my sanity and my sleep, cos im going to lose lots of it…again. Dear god, at least let me sleep in heaven thanks. This is your Captain signing off! Bye!
As if the week can’t get any worse, I have to redo most of my work from Week 2 till now. It’s honestly a shame. And the worst part is that the new animatic and storyboard are due this week (Week 8). AHHHHHHHH Not to mention I have two common tests this week and I have to study for both of them. Well, as of the time of writing this, I have one test left but still the pile of work to do is immense.
I am actually finished with the storyboards, which you can view below:
The previous storyboard was actually quite different from the original, which I don’t even know how or why. HOW DID WE DERAIL FROM THE SCRIPT XDDDDDD
But I tried to follow as closely to the script as possible and implement cool shots for the animation. 6 pages seems a lot but most of the shots are quite fast, but if it can’t fit in 1 minute, I will probably have to remove some, or change it on the fly. We don’t have much time so.
I’ll continue working on the animatic and pray for the best. A lot to do today so pray for me TT This is your captain signing out, bye bye.
This week has been really hectic. So many work to do and so little time to complete them. I get that I am suppose to manage my time and keep track of my homework, but oh my gah there’s so many modules. And the animatic for the project is due in a few days AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Anyways, I had to sort of solo the animatic a little bit so here are the panels I did for the animatic so far. Still got a few left but so far this is what I have done.
My brain is about to be ransacked from all these panels oof.
I seriously don’t even know what to write anymore for these blogs.
Well, guess I’m out for now. Bye.
p.s: THIS BETTA GET ME AN A AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER OMG
It’s another week of work, how fun. I am getting more and more pessimistic as the weeks progresses, but it’s a normal part of the process, right?
Moving on from last week, I am tasked to work on the animatic and sound design. 3.5 pages of storyboards, a 1 minute animatic, all by myself. That’s killer, in my opinion. I am not a great artist and I am not a fast one either, so I was really worried as to how the animatic will look. But thank fully Natasha offered to do the second page so a bit of that burden is now off my shoulders. YEEET!
I haven’t done that much for the animatic but so this is what I have done:
It’s simple shading and I wasn’t sure how the boy would have looked just yet when I was working on the animatic, so thus there will be a bit of slightly different look to the actual animation.
The last two panels took the longest since the audience would be able to see the entirety of the room, so I had to make sure I got the details right.
It’s hard to get so much work done with so many classes but somehow I am managing. Am I doing good? That’s definitely debatable.
Well, back to doing even more work I guess…..Bye…Your Captain signing out…
Week 4, oh boy. Is it only Week 4? It felt a lot longer. Let my suffering end.
But Week 4 has me and my team members rushing to finish deliverables. Well, I had an easier time since I was mainly working on the storyboards and the colour choices for the layout / set / environment. Initially, I wanted to work on the character sheet since Dana seems to be loaded with work, but somehow she didn’t want to give that responsibility up and assured that she could handle it. Thankfully she did, so I’m relieved. She was looking really stressed all the time not gonna lie.
Then we went to do the pitch, and we were the first team to go up.
I WAS NOT READY JUST YET I HAD JUST ENTERED THE CLASS, AND 5 MINUTES BEFORE THAT , I WAS ASLEEP IN THE CAR XDDDDD
But nonetheless, I had to ready my heart, tighten my invisible neck tie, and let my brain juices flow. And I pretty much improved most of the stuff I said during the pitch. Would I say I didn’t prepare for the pitch? Well, not exactly since the team were in Discord discussing what we should say during the pitch. But I wasn’t sure what I would need to say during my turn since my slides mainly consists of pictures and they are self-explanatory? I don’t know. But as usual, the lecturers had questions and I had to find answers in the span of 5 seconds.
It was noted that the first version of the storyboard didn’t have an establishing shot. And that the characters looked too generic in terms of art style. *cries* And also that we needed to speak up louder lol XD
So I made changes to the previous storyboard. Not much had to be changed, but I had to find a way to add an establishing shot (or a more obvious establishing shot, in this case).
I am going to start working on the animatic for the animation soon, but my god this week I was just rushing with so many work for other modules, I barely have time to draw. But soon….soon….I WILL DO IT. *proceeds to go on YouTube and watch vids for the next few hours*
This is your captain signing out. PEACE I WANNA GO CHILL NOW BYEEEE
Week 3 of Pre-Production, people. This is where stuff starts to happen. We have to actually do work.
As a person who does not enjoy intense work, I was starting to get worried. A lot of deliverables are required and mainly due in the following week, since we have to present our work and pitch it again to our lecturers (as if the first time wasn’t enough *screech* ). But it’s fine. I’ll be the bigger person here and forgive them for making us do work in a shorter time.
In a three-man group, we don’t have any choice but to wear multiple hats for the project. For now, I was tasked to work on storyboard. For around a week, I spent time thumb nailing the shots and then creating an actual storyboard for it. The thumbnails were relatively easy and I did them pretty quick. I already had a pretty clear vision of how the short film is going to look like on screen. Below are the storyboards I created for the project:
I wasn’t sure how the final look for the character was going to look like, since the character design has not be completed yet. Thus I just had to make do and draw a boy who looks like…a boy. Yes, it’s a boy. The hands at the first panel was definitely hard to draw since I am not very skilled at drawing hands. But the rest are not much of an issue so thankfully I managed to finish the storyboard in around 3 hours or so.
After completing the storyboard, I was a little lost on what to do, so I consulted my teammate on what I should do. I did ask to assist on other deliverables, so I am tasked with colouring the layout of the room that the short film will be taking place.
Despite being an artist, I am not proficient or knowledgeable in colour theory. To be honest my colour theory sucks. If anything, why am I still qualified to be an artist? I am seriously questioning myself right now. But this is a graded project so, you got to do what you got to do.
I based the colour of the room according to our visual inspirations for the film ; mainly Omori (a video game) and the 5 minute animated short film, Afternoon Class. The bright colours and visuals are very significant in those two so I tried my best to emulate that feel.
I showed it to the team, but they felt that the room looks a bit too bright for the animation. So after much discussion and consideration, we have decided to go with the colours shown below.
And not going to lie, I am pretty proud of this! For once, the layout is not that bad! I definitely wish I can work a bit more on my colour theory, but so far, it doesn’t look too weird or ridiculous looking!
So this is what I have done for the past week. Still have much to do for the next few days before the next meeting but can’t wait this project to be over already. I know. It’s only the third week.
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