Team Bing Bong - Production

Thursday - Week 11

Sultan is not happy with those who are frequently missing classes. Those who do not attend will be thrown off their teams. He is also worried about a few teams, including Bing Bong, that we may not get our done in time for May next year.

I have done a few Maya scenes for the layouts that Charlotte could work on. I plan to do more layouts and focus on finishing off the crow animations. All 13 of them. Charlotte and her suppoirt worker and I have created schedules and plans for the timetable. We each have our tasks so we are determined to finish the final animation.

As soon as I came home, I began drawing out the crow for scene 3. First, on sketches with my light tracer. Then I scanned these images into Photoshop and began drawing digitally over them.

Charlotte has already finished the scene 3 layout, making my animating job easier.

Friday

Now that all drawings of the crow have been drawn out, I began painting them. Now I finally finished scene 3 and posted it on the Google Drive. I'm already drawing up crows for scene 6 and 16.

Saturday

I had to make sure the file size is to 1280x720 for the animation. Shannon helpfully pointed out the flaws in scene 3 so I shrunk the crow's size down so it doesn't dominate the scene. I used three images of the crow instead of seventeen. I posted the 4 second video on the Google Drive for further analysis.

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Week 8

Monday

I am totally exhausted but ready to finish the animatic for this week. Neil helpfully sorted out the flaws in our project. Charlotte and Shannon are tasked to work on the timing and animations of our scenes. I'm still doing the last of the crow animations and the layouts.

Animatrix: Kid's Story is a good animation reference to our animatic. I spent the whole day finishing the style of the crow animations and preparing to animate them. I've also come up with a couple of the girl scenes with her walking up to the houses and running.

Tuesday

I went over to see my support worker. Everything checks out under this dark day. The animation crows are going great. I've finished painting my layouts with watercolour and scanned them into the computer. The progress on animating them has been slow but promising. I have nearly five ready, inculding a sixth one. I'm so excited that I couldn't believe that my team mates are doing so well.

Wednesday

It has been a really good day. I have completed about six crow animations and another four is on its way. Shannon is doing great with the scenes and sketches for the snow globe and turn-a-rounds. Charlotte is producing such beautiful artwork. They agree to stylize my crow animations. Though everyone is doing great with animatic, I just wish Mimi would just stop using Charlotte as a punching bag and quit trying to control everything.

Thursday

Shannon was sick on all days that Les was coming round to check on the animatic. I was so angry and worried that the team's incompetence is going to ruin the grade. Les helpfully pointed out the flaws in my crow animations: beaks needed to be long and curved. So I stayed up until midnight finalizing dozens of drawings of it.

Friday

I'm setting up the PDF for the presentation on Monday. I'm organizing my work that played its part in designing the Guardian and uploading the animation clips on my Google Drive instead of the Blog because the files are too darn big to fit in the tiny program.