Animation#20

finally done the mum secondary. I have put the most effort on this piece. So this's a happy moment.

Updated drawings on Pig landing

Animation#19

It has been a really good day!
2 animations were drawn.
The secondary for Mum's running works out well, including: hair, clothes, arms. will do the 2nd half tomorrow.

The pig is finally landed.

Also Louise Dancan will join us for the next 2 weeks on colouring and stuff! Also we have Anja from 1st year on board and is doing some animation.
Tomorrow we ll work with Dan on resolution.
I asked Lui to adjust the Milk Machine rig. should get it tomorrow.

Meeting

We had a good meeting today. Michelle has arranged the works till Monday. We ll have another one from Tuesday.
We overlooked the schedule to start from the more important tasks. This weekend is every crutial. If it works out well, i ll be much released.
after a long warmup, we are about to explode!

here are the tasks till Monday:

Me

milk machine,animating pipe - Lui needs to email me

pig clean up

pig spinning

work out the bg morphing between mud & cow

Lui

rig and animate the cow

boy falling

slow down the mud with nose

also i just realise the mud wall is in 3s, but his frame rate is 12fps. that means every drawing is holding for 6 frames now. so he needs to draw 1 more inbetween every 2 drawings

Louise

walk cycle and shading

colouring: 3 chicks

colouring Hen

Michelle

grass animating

cloud animating

bus animating

scan hen+cow & give to Louise

Resolution!!!

Here is the complete bible of the resolutions! Thanks to Lui for doing the technical works

A. Scan - Flipbook

• 800*800
• B&W (adjust threshold/contrast)
• A3

B. Still Export - Flipbook
Use Default: 768*576, .bmp format

C. Line Tracing - Illustrator

• a.Set Actions:
  Object/Line Trace/Detailed Illustration, mode:B&W, Threshold:160, Blur:0.1, amend settings on the righthand side. make sure Strokes is ticked!
• b.Batch Actions:
  Save in seperate folder. .ai format

D. Change format - Photoshop

• when open .ai image, choose open with 300 resolution. (Auto default size:2496*2046}
• The image should be lines on transparent bg. Save as .psd, in seperate folder

E. Colouring - Painter

• paint on second layer underneath the lines.
• colour the canvas green/red
• erase any un-needed lines
• save as full quality .jpg in seperate folder

Folder system:
under one folder named after the scene and shots (eg. Chicken_bump), we will have 4 folders - bmp stills, ai stills, psd stills, jpg stills

We will colour with the doubled resolution, because the quality will be constantly reduced in After Effect, Premiere and DVD making. Illutrator tracing will give good quality of the outlines and a higher resolution of the image.

Animation#18

A test for the Flies
need to break the lines into pieces. but at least the 3-frame-boil works

Animation#17+DirectorUpdate

worms, working on the creep-in

Director update:

• Need to meet for re-scheduling
• Scanning resolution: Flipbook,800*800,A3,Black&White,768*576. Will start colouring (Louise) tomorrow!
• Asked Martin to simplify the music(chicken & pig). it's too scary now.
• Asked Louise to give less confidence to her walk cycle. Like it.

Animation#16

Bus internal drawings, go for no.2:



Start the blind walk of the boy. works ok.
this is the 2nd go. like the last half. need to polish the beginning.

Animation#15+DirectorUpdate

Director update:

• Working on compositing update today
• more work needed on Lui's mud scenes, too quick at the mo
• worked out the timing of the mud wall with Lui. will duplicate in compositing
• Michelle seems have some trouble with cow animation. she took some frames out and we adjusted on Flipbook. works better.
• Louise was having tough time of animating the grass. decided to let her move on to passenger walk cycle. will solve the grass properly when we have more time.
• need to decide the resolution of the scanning

Animation from yesterday, the cycle.
Need to give more perspective to the left arm.

Mum steps backward, keys

Animation#14

Mum's Walk cycle
keys:
this is the 2nd version. the 1st version is broken and aweful:{
the perspective is too extreme. would prefer a closer position

more like it! need to change the leg poses, and slow down

inbetweens, like the hand secondary.

to do: clothes 2ndary; hair 2ndary; give leg and arm curves

Animation#13

Mum's walk cycle:
this is the first animation seen in the boy's mind
what i want to achieve is a subtle introduction leading viewer into the other world. it's openning the "door".
mum changes from caring to confident, also does the boy.

like the rotation. left hand doesnt make any sense! head turn needs slow down.

changes:mum leans forwards,walks back forwards a couple of steps, then turn.
better but left hand and arm need better curves.
head is jumpy, shoulders need better curves.
a few frames of the holding hands need to change.

like it more! i can feel the weight of the drag
changes: rotate the hair
shoulders twist more
left arm curves better
secondary of the clothes. after she steps forward, the clothes will be more calm.
to change -- left elbow should bend more; delay 1 frame of the clothes

Animation#12

Changed the holding hands+look down keys

Look down+leg raised+body pulled back

Breakdown-Animating to do

Finally get to update the breakdown.
Meeting tomorrow.


To do:
colour pattern
update Animatic
comic style
animate-flying flying flying!!!