Applied animation week 16 (final week)

With only three day left I quickly moved on to editting my dads voice as it was important for the animation, I basically went through both audio clips selecting which was the best version of each sentence and placed it in the time line, I did this with Rey so that I had a second opinion on what sounds better. After selecting the best sentences I placed it all together and changed the pitch and speed to make it lower voice for pitch and then sped it up with speed to get it close to his original voice. the purpose for this is so that I can speed up the audio as it was 2 minutes and 49 seconds long which does not fit our timings for our animation which is a lesson for the future, to make sure that I record the voice with the anamatic open for the voice actor. After speeding it up and taking gaps out of the audio I was left with a 1 minute and 55 second audio clip which I passed on to Grace as she was compositing everything together.

All of this was done on audacity and did not take to long to do, allowing me to continue with animating the closing book scene which surprising didnt take to long as all I had to do is draw the page falling down and fitting to the reverse opening sequence of the book which I did struggle with at first as I had no idea which frame I had to combine my page falling to. so I set up a few ruler lines to guide me which was all lined up with the reverse book opening:

After that was done which did take a bit of tie since I had to match it up correctly so it would transition properly, this is what it looked like.

I also forgot to mention that I added the name of the book for both sequences.

All that was left to do for animating was the leaves flying ou of the page and then falling which I decided to do on after effects as I wanted to use the assets that grace made of the leaf, this was a difficult task as I had to constantly duplicate the leaves, key frame it and pre compose them in after effects, heres the process,

After completing this sequence I sent it off to Grace so that she can add the sequences in the animation, little did I know that when I saw the animation so far I found a few mistakes that I informed Grace about and that she said she would fix when she has everything done, I did help them with how each scene should look like and how it should transition, and I'm happy that we have finished this animation on time.

I loved the music choice and sound effects Grace added to the animation helping with the flow of my Fathers narrator voice in the process. 

Here is the final animation:

this is the compressed version, the HD file is too big so I will place the video in the submission folder.

To finish this project of Grace and Rey took the roles of making the DVD screener and Preskit, I helped both of them with deciding what images we should use and how we should present it, and here is the examples of the final thing:

(this also was the cover for the dvd pack)

And this ends our project, it was a fun project but many problems occoured for myself and the team because of time management, hopefully this animation is good enough to submit to festivals but after we clean up a few mistakes here and there.

Applied animation week 15

I started this week off with the keyframe animation for the book scenes, where I first did a test of what I think or how I think the book should look like and how it will open. I informed my teammates to continue with creating the assets and backgrounds so that they are ready to be animated by all of us.

Here is the test I conducted which I found very easy to do:

I made a few mistakes here and there in terms of resolution but that was all quickly sorted once I realised I was working on the wrong canvas size.

On the program, I was using called Clip Studio Paint, they have a perspective ruler, and this is how I was able to make sure that the book opened correctly, here's a screen shoot to demonstrate the ruler in action as it not only helped with the process of making the book but it helped me creating the background;

So I moved on to creating the line art of the draft animation with the background lines which I then gave to Rey to do the in-betweens and here is the example:

no in-betweens

with in-betweens

Rey mentioned to me that it was a little difficult at first to in-between the lines I created but he managed to do a great job!

from this, I moved on to placing the base colours with shading and highlights and here is how the first frame looked like with this new colouring technique I adopted over experimentation with some previous illustrations I made:

I continued colouring like this throughout the sequence and I'm so proud that I managed to complete my first colour animation of the year and here is the final version of the book opening:

Since this was all keyframed I had a bit of difficulty with the transitioning to white but I managed to do it using a dark purple gradient as you can see in the final example above, all that's left to do is make the leaves flying off the paper and falling down and then create the closing book sequence which I hope to do next week. I also have to edit my father's voice as I've recorded him twice with different voices, I plan to get it all done by next week hopefully before the deadline and also help the team out with anything that's left to do.

Applied animation week 14

Yet again due to handling modules for submission has pushed me far behind schedule and has ruined the time schedule I was to follow, although after finishing and submitting all of the other modules I had some time to make a plan of action with my teammates as to what I need to do and what they should consider finishing, and with that I managed to record my Fathers voice whilst also correcting all my grammar in the script, as my dad found it difficult to say parts of the narrator's script, here's the final version of the script:

My plan for the next 2 weeks is to finish the animations I have to do which involves the book scenes that I've already mentioned, whilst helping my teammates with some of the scenes and backgrounds we have to create. I hope we can finish the animation in time for submission.