Today is a combined class. Alfie cleared some misunderstandings and reinforced on what we are supposed to do. We were shown various video excerpts.
As usual, from the start of my poly life, whenever something which is not mainstream is shown, or anything that some ppl have not seen before, or something that is old, or not to their liking, think it is stupid and pointless. When i say it's not crap, i will try to explain but most of them will still think it's crap. I not quite sure how to explain also, my bad. Although some do not like it they keep quiet. i appreciate that. But come on man. We are in MOI, and what alot of us are lacking in is exposure. We don't need 100 new Michael Bays every year to make 100 new Michael Bay movies every few years, and have Michael Bay videos everywhere in YouTube. I am not saying Michael Bay is not good, but he can be considered to be an icon for more modern styled movies. What they do not understand or want to understand is that many of the movies nowadays have many traces of the old movies. And some of the media shown to us is so well-known that it is really a shame for a designer studying in a video/animation course not to know about. COME ON. It's already MOI PROJECT ONE. A movie that you do not know or do not like does not mean it's crappy. There's a difference between "you think/I think it's lousy and It's lousy". look, i don't like some of the stuff too, but there are definitely things to be learnt too. And i remembered one of the lecturers saying sth like if you just want to hold camera shoot/technical technical, then no use coming to poly. Quite true. I am not referring to anyone specifically here, and i mean no offense. I am saying these to my friends for their own good...please learn to appreciate.
Sorry for being such a whiner, really really sorry. it has been great working with you guys. Really. Sincerely.
We were shown the making of lord of the rings, iron man animated movie, monsters inc, fog of war, shoot em up, hostage, some mount everest thingy, and maybe some others which i had forgotten. quite inspiring.
i hope that none of you who read my blog are offended by this post.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
MOI P1 Day 02
Group leaders were asked to present our ideas. Our group only had a very rough idea. Initial idea was to just film different people doing different modules, showing the process, then the product. Fast catchy music to be used to make the video look as if the work we do is cool, happening, and exciting. However we thought that it is quite a challenge to make the pace fo the video fast and exciting when we have to make a 10 minutes video.
We separated into our own group and began discussion. We decided on Honey to be the scribe. I had some communication problem with Andreas HAHAHAHA (let me be informal for awhile thanks) lol but Nafisah sorted my cranky brain out.
We came up with alot of ideas: (Credits go to Honey, as she is the scribe, the ideas are copied from her blog and pasted here, but i edited them.
1) Create an animation that goes around filming the video in our place, instead of showing a video that shows us animating.
2) Video filming during the animation process [Example one of us are filmed while drawing the animation out and the other is filming us. Slowly the animation goes into transition into a video. The transition part is somewhat like what we did in Animation Fundamentals final project( 3d animation as background for 2d animation, so that we know where to animate.)]
3) News reporter who is a animation character reporting news. The small television will be zoomed in, then showing us show casing our best works. We will be using animated characters to portray us. Also we will include an interview session to make it more news-like, interviewee will be Gary since he can act XD but he is interviewed by his animated self ~ To make it EVEN MORE news like, we are going to include the ticking clock before the news start (just like real life). The news reporter will also be saying a few words before actually reporting our news X_x But we needed to make the introduction LONGER so we are making an advertisement like TP's open house ad. The ending is decided just like real life news as well like the old times where the news reporter says byebye, credits are shown at the same time as the lights are dimmed and workers are putting away the equipments .
4) All of us are at a museum which displays our work piece and when we open a door, a bright light shines on us and turns us to animated characters. Personally I found it to be too cheesy and cliche.
5) A small animated character for each of us and it is going to present our works (one for one) (video mix with animation)
We then decided on idea number 3, the newspaper reporter idea. That explains the amount of details in the idea compared to the others. We spent time developing the idea. As you can see, the idea contains parts of the other ideas.
To add on to Honey's details on the chosen idea, the character of the new reporter will be slightly plump, and we plan to include random fidgets/actions to make it amusing and show that we animators from MOI do not just animate the news reporter to just open and close his mouth. He has to be slightly amusing and appealing. We got carried away on making him amusing, but i reminded that it should not be overdone as parents might be looking at it. We decided that the random actions will be decided when we are animating.
We discussed on how to end it. initially we wanted to have a weather forecast, and TP is always having good weather, or follow recent news programmes where at the end of the show credits were shown and the background is showing some interesting event. However we felt that it was unnecessary and that ending with the lights dimming out and the crew keeping the equipment while showing the credits would work better.
We then decided that all of us would animate our own self-animation/self portrait, however Nafisah and Andreas will be the main animators, Gary would be the so called main actor, i will most probably be handling the video camera and ya, honey is the scribe like i said earlier on. However we will assist each other.
Basically, the structure of our idea is confirmed, however the sequence of whose works to present first will be discussed when we bring our past works together.
Thats all folks.
We separated into our own group and began discussion. We decided on Honey to be the scribe. I had some communication problem with Andreas HAHAHAHA (let me be informal for awhile thanks) lol but Nafisah sorted my cranky brain out.
We came up with alot of ideas: (Credits go to Honey, as she is the scribe, the ideas are copied from her blog and pasted here, but i edited them.
1) Create an animation that goes around filming the video in our place, instead of showing a video that shows us animating.
2) Video filming during the animation process [Example one of us are filmed while drawing the animation out and the other is filming us. Slowly the animation goes into transition into a video. The transition part is somewhat like what we did in Animation Fundamentals final project( 3d animation as background for 2d animation, so that we know where to animate.)]
3) News reporter who is a animation character reporting news. The small television will be zoomed in, then showing us show casing our best works. We will be using animated characters to portray us. Also we will include an interview session to make it more news-like, interviewee will be Gary since he can act XD but he is interviewed by his animated self ~ To make it EVEN MORE news like, we are going to include the ticking clock before the news start (just like real life). The news reporter will also be saying a few words before actually reporting our news X_x But we needed to make the introduction LONGER so we are making an advertisement like TP's open house ad. The ending is decided just like real life news as well like the old times where the news reporter says byebye, credits are shown at the same time as the lights are dimmed and workers are putting away the equipments .
4) All of us are at a museum which displays our work piece and when we open a door, a bright light shines on us and turns us to animated characters. Personally I found it to be too cheesy and cliche.
5) A small animated character for each of us and it is going to present our works (one for one) (video mix with animation)
We then decided on idea number 3, the newspaper reporter idea. That explains the amount of details in the idea compared to the others. We spent time developing the idea. As you can see, the idea contains parts of the other ideas.
To add on to Honey's details on the chosen idea, the character of the new reporter will be slightly plump, and we plan to include random fidgets/actions to make it amusing and show that we animators from MOI do not just animate the news reporter to just open and close his mouth. He has to be slightly amusing and appealing. We got carried away on making him amusing, but i reminded that it should not be overdone as parents might be looking at it. We decided that the random actions will be decided when we are animating.
We discussed on how to end it. initially we wanted to have a weather forecast, and TP is always having good weather, or follow recent news programmes where at the end of the show credits were shown and the background is showing some interesting event. However we felt that it was unnecessary and that ending with the lights dimming out and the crew keeping the equipment while showing the credits would work better.
We then decided that all of us would animate our own self-animation/self portrait, however Nafisah and Andreas will be the main animators, Gary would be the so called main actor, i will most probably be handling the video camera and ya, honey is the scribe like i said earlier on. However we will assist each other.
Basically, the structure of our idea is confirmed, however the sequence of whose works to present first will be discussed when we bring our past works together.
Thats all folks.
Monday, January 28, 2008
MOI Project 1 Day 01
We assembled at LT 25 for a briefing by Alan. 3 other lecturers were there. We were briefed on the important dates on the calender and details on the things we will be doing. We are supposed to form groups of 4 to 5 people and make a video showcasing each individual's life during the past year in TP DES. There will also be presentations in between the process work. We were also briefed on equipment and facility availability. We were then separated into our respective classes, where we divided into our desired groups. My group consists of Gary, Andreas, Naf, Honey and me. We were briefed on the details of this blog. Mr Ronald reminded us that these will be the people whom we will be working with for the next 2 blocks. Well, there are bound to be differences and disagreement, but i guess we would have to conform to each other :)
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