Week 10 holiday? fuhgeddaboudit

Ayyyyyy!
You're back.
How nice to see you!
How was your holiday?
W-what's that? You didn't have one?
Oh you DID have a holiday but it didn't feel like it at all due to the copious amount of work?
Dang!
I wonder what that's like..............

So this week, we showed our animatics to some of our classmates, Zhi Fang and Bervyn, and they said that they did not understand what the message was. Zhi Fang knew what our story was about before they saw the animatic so she said that at the start of the animatic, what we were trying to show was clear but the second part of the animatic did not continue with the same message. So there was no focus. Bervyn did not know anything about our story prior to this and he said the same thing. All of us also agreed that we should try to focus more on one theme, which is either the discrimination in the society or the love story between Stanley and Ting Ting. So we stuck to the same characters and environments but we played around with the character developments and background and the flow of the story. In the end we got like a new and improved version of UNDERNEATH and I sent a long email to Karen explaining all the changes and the reason behind it.

But after all that we went back to the old story as Jim commented that our new story wasn't really a story but just a series of events and it took out all of the excitement that the old version had. So we filmed the live action reference video like the old animatic which was fun.

Some other things i modelled, rendered and textured:

School starts next week and I am not ready....

Week 9 HOLIDAY!!!!

Phase 1 has been successfully completed. Now to prepare for Phase 2. And by prepare, I mean eat chips and watch TV. Right off the bat, there were so many things to do. Charmaine and I had to start modelling, UV mapping and texturing the environments which included 4 buildings on a street, and trashcans and a dumpster as we were gonna hand this environment in for 3D Environment Modelling Module which is due in week 11.

Before we start to model however, we had to do the line work for the 3/4 view of all the buildings. That was my first task to complete.

I also started Modelling the Buildings I was in-charge of which is the building on the top right and left.

Fast Food Restaurant

Poster Building

Yep, this is what i did. It took a longer time to do the line art than the modelling itself. This is what I have done in 1 week. Yeah I know it's very minimal but come on! It's holiday! There is so much more work to do for CPD and I have not touched any homework for other modules. The previous term has been tiring and i think i'm losing steam. I feel like the drive that i had when this semester started is deteriorating. This is what happened last semester which resulted in me failing 2 of my modules. The only reason I am not as unmotivated as i was last year is because I have a group that expects me to produce work which I am grateful for. It forces me to focus and keeps me grounded. Although one of them can be annoying at some times.You know who I'm talking about. 

Anyways see yall next week. 

Week 7 & 8

I'm combining week 7 and 8's posts as i have not done much for CPD during this time. Exactly what i was afraid of. But because of assignments and common tests, the only thing i contributed to my team was the updated animatics, which i did the day before we had to show it to Karen. So i slept late because i was doing it. In the end, Karen did not see it. This is because i was in 3D Environment Modelling class while Roxann and Alvin were in CPD. So we agreed that i would compile the storyboards and put the file in the server for them to edit a bit and show to Karen. But i was using premiere pro and it is very troublesome when transferring files as the file will have to search for the images used and a lot of times our frames will be jumbled up. I could not use iMovie as i cannot update it. and iMovie is more user friendly especially for editing ametuers like us. So they had to compile the animatics from scratch during the CPD class. I feel bad as it wasted their time. But they managed to do finish it and show it to Karen. so thats good.

I initially took up the role of editor cause i felt that i was not really doing much in terms of aesthetics, so i wanted to edit as it is more technical. I was a bit upset that i had lost sleep to do work that did not get used, but then again it was a technical difficulty so i just had to brush it off. So from now on, any animatics will be done in Alvin's or Charmaine's laptop.

Today we started modelling our environment. I started on a building and it took so long to do as we did not have a clear reference of our buildings as they were all in front view. And we also did not gather any textures and research. So i have a new task of doing final line for the 3/4 view for all the buildings to be used as reference by Charmaine and I when modelling. Well that's all for now. See yall. You can probably sense the gloominess and tiredness behind this post. No memes, or dry, deadpan, sarcastic humour today. sorry not sorry. can't wait for 'holidays' to start. Once again, bye guys....

Yours truly,

....me