Brief 2 - Final Piece!

The final animation for my Second Brief in Moving Image.

Transformation.
Mabinogi's Rebirth system is one of a kind and I'm super impressed with this result. Hard work pays off!

Brief 2 - Soul Stream FINAL

I really enjoyed this one. Let me vent a bit at the same time. :)

That's all for now~

Brief 2 - So many Testers..

Explaination first.

With my first Brief, I was completely unable to render a video using my own laptop. Photoshop would become completely unusable and crash. Reinstall's, patches, updates, different versions. Not a single key to fit the lock. Explains my lack of tests on my last brief. HOWEVERRR.

Between then and now, I fixed the problem with Adobe's latest update for CC. Wooo 2014.

I have about 20 tester videos but I picked out the better 3 just to save time and.. Well, there's alot of the same thing but you get the jist from these three anyway.

Brief 2 - Test 1

Brief 2 - Test 2

Brief 2 - Test 3

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Brief 2 - Hard at work

Working on the Final!

At this point my hand is sore from all the frames I've had to draw, even at 12 frames per second, but I'm impressed with how it's coming along. Rendering out previews now on my new laptop. For the previous project I couldn't render video, I had to use my friends PC which was a pain. But it's all fixed up! Vimeo spam! (I'll upload them after my HD Final <3)

I'll leave some screenshots I actually remembered to take!

I wanted to take a picture of me in my room hard at work on my Monitor but.. Nobody was free. :(

Final incoming!

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Brief 2 - Layer Managment

For an animation..

Of any size and scale, you need to figure out some sort of management. Separating your layers just like a normal painting and what not. My final file will have maybe 7 layers, depending on how I feel it flows together. I'll touch up the animatic with some details before I progress.

Here's the basic Animatic:

Soul Stream - Anamatic

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Brief 2 - Sound Testing

While bouncing back and forth..

I decided to try and find sound effects for this short animation. It's shorter so therefore the amount of sounds I'm gonna need is cut a fair bit.

The Conflict
I wanted to put a BGM from the game Mabinogi itself into the background and have done with it, but I did that last time. This time I wanted to put a little more into the sound, to give a more finishing touch to this animation.

Freesounds.org have saved my backside once again. I'm currently downloading so many sounds to piece into my anamatic, before uploading it, just to see how it fits.

I leave you here with a small list for now:

Taking Damage 

Heavy Breathing 

Squishy 

Giggle 1 

Giggle 2 

Giggle 3

Dropping 

Heavy Impact 

Thud

Puzzle pieces for the master piece! Or something..

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Brief 2 - Sketches

Pencil to Paper!

Photographs of the shots, merely for reference that I can transform into an anamatic quite sweetly. :D

One

Two/Three

Four/Five

Six

Seven

I love doing the Anime style of Mabinogi, compared to realism, it's easy!

Anamatic coming up, lower frame rate then 24/1 though. For time sake.

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Brief 2 - The idea

Phew, finally!

I'm fascinated by the idea of someone dissolving into nothing then re-forming again. Weird, ano.

So, off this my idea spawned. It occurred to me while I was struggling to sleep, going way back to my roots. The MMORPG Mabinogi: Fantasy Life. <33

The Idea
In Mabinogi the player is called a Milletain (Star Child). Coming to their world from another via a gate called the Soul Stream. They can also use this gate to "Rebirth". Leave their old body behind and transfer to a new body. The game leaves it in an innocent friendly environment but.. What if it wasn't.

I want to take the idea of the Milletain in the Soul Stream, transforming out of their old body to a newer one. I feel like this fits the theme of our brief, happy days!

Now to get the shots on paper..

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