Brief 1 - "I See You"

It's done!

Check out the link below to see the final outcome of my hard work. Spent two weeks doing nothing but animating. My hand is sore. OTL

I See You

Aside from the final video (WOO) here's some screen shots I did of piecing it all up. Titled as listed

Fixing up the styles, there's a huge wordpad file with all the finer details for every bloody bit!

Rendering out the previews for my final project! Ahh! Hype.

Using Sony Vegas Pro to do the credit roll at the end of the video. More animation!

Designing the bubble and text for final project. I forgot to do these.. :(

That's it for now, next up..

Brief 2!

Week 8/9 - Final testers! [Update 2.5]

Update 2.5: Here we go, boys! Rendering out my final project as we speak. I'm happy with how it turned out! Been working none stop for just over 2 weeks to try and get this finished on time and I'm really chuffed here. :) Another post will go up with the final video when it's all uploaded, saving this space for some more small testers after the final is uploaded.

Screen capture of myself adding the styles:

Behind the Scenes

Vimeo limits suck.. Here's two testers of my animation, seeing how it works before I piece up the puzzle:

Looking Pretty [Test]

Keiiri, you Glow [Test]

Update 1: Still hard at it! It's been a bit of a struggle but I'm really pleased with how it's turning out. Hope it shows! I'll post more testers after the final is up, don't want to use up my HQ vimeo limit just yet. :(

Been a busy bee trying to wrap my head around this animation. Had a breakdown for a day or two and gave up with it but I'm starting to get some confidence back, thank god!

With that, there's a 5 second teaser of the "In Bed" scene, all styled up. I need to make a few tweaks on it but it;'s basically the finished outcome. :)

Brief 1 - "In Bed" Tester

I'll just update this post with any more testers to come~

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Week 8 - Finished Main Frames + Final Anamatic! [Take 4]

UPDATE: Didn't add the second part of the ROUGH Anamatic when it was done. My bad! :(

Anamatic Part 2 (ROUGH WIP)

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Finished the key frames and pieced it up! Happy days!

8 - Sitting in the Chair
Keiiri sitting in her chair, PC starting, sad and dark feeling here..

9 - Eye - Close up
More feeling from close ups! Keiiri looks down and sad, lights up some more and lightens up a little.

10 - Mouth - Close up
Swapping to Teiiri, his mouth turns into a smile. I might flip it just to get a feel but it might border the 180 rule..

11 - Reach for the screen
Teiiri's hand comes to the screen and Keiiri's follows suit!

12 - Final Pan
The final scene! The full encounter! :) Boop.

Final Anamatic!
There's some bloody.. Stupid black frame issues just because of the image resolution not fitting the rendered state. I didn't want to use up my Vimeo HQ this week. Saving it for my final bit!

Better Animatic

YAAYY. Now for the inbetween! (Still need Audio....)

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Week 8 - Finished Main Frames [Take 3]

Slow progress as of late, been really out of sync but deadline's quickly approaching...

Got 3 more to show for. Decided to split the later ones up into smaller chunks to make it more manageable.. So there is now 12 in total instead of 9, leaving 5 keys left to complete.

6 - Bathroom Sink
A simple one, watching the water drain out as Teiiri moves his hand away..

7 - Window Pan (Keiiri)
These two are one complete key, one's the start ones the finish. They will pan and fade into each other accordingly. First up is Keiiri...

7 - Window Pan (Teiiri)
Going into the second one, opposite side, Teiiri...

Gonna try and knuckle down tomorrow, hopefully feeling better. Man, I am constantly ill.:c

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Week 7 - Finished Main Frames [Take 2]

Continuing on, I only have line images this time around. Heading home this weekend and my tablet monitor is too big to carry around so.. I'll do the styles at home. 

The aim after these is to make a short animatic, a better one, getting an idea of how it's all going to flow together. :3

3 - Feet on the Floor - Continued.
Finished off these two, with the start being in my last post. Walking to the bathroom dooorr..

4 - Bathroom door
Opening up the bathroom door as Teiiri!

And going in as Keiiri! :D

5 - Bathroom Mirror
Tricky one to animate.. Looking forward to this.. ;_;

Starting as Teiiri, washing his face...

Then, BOOM. Keiiri washing her face, reversing to normal pose! I can't waaiitt..

4-5 more scenes to do. Eeek.

That's all for now, folks.

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Week 7 - Finished Main Frames [Take 1]

First of.. I would say a good few posts here.

Putting all the layer styles on the main key frames before I start animating everything here. The background areas won't really be animated, and anything that will be animated will be filled white, allowing me to put the styles on top of the rendered video.. on top of the backgrounds I've finished and.. Boom. :D

Layer by Layer
Saving each piece out layer by layer from photoshop. Because a fair few pieces aren't being animated, I can finish them off now allowing me to add the actual animated pieces over the top when they're done. Alpha channels for transparency and what not.

I've made them in a Video Sequence so I have a background to work with when I'm doing the perspective. Just so everything does tie in together.

After Effects: Stylin'
Piecing up the jig-saw in After Effects to add the layer styles, like mentioned in my previous post. This will be the base for colouring and adding life to my animation.

I'm using:

Gradient Overlay - For the Colours. Two tone effect isn't too little but adds just enough to work

Inner Shadow - With Linear Dodge. Used to add highlight tones to the colour.

Drop Shadow - More depth to contrast the Highlights.

1 - Window Panning
In this one the duvet, the pillow and the blind will animate. The duvet more then the other two just to show there's someone under there. The blind and the pillow will only move slightly just to be slightly.. alive. I guess.

2 - Getting Up
First view of the character emerging from his bed.. It's the opposite character. A lot of back and forth in my animation. Initial idea was to fade from the purple to blue to show the characters and how they link together, but I changed my miindd..

I love the depth on this duvet though.. But that's not the one I'm using! This is Teiiri's bit after all..

Laying down to sitting up...

3 - Feet on the Floor [part 1]
Finish off this one tomorrow.. Needs to walk and stand by the door but.. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

WIP and finished Styles.. Keiiri's legs!

That'll be all today~ More tomorrow most likely. :)

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Week 7 - Brief 1 Idea Breakdown

Forgot I haven't done this yet, ama spoon.

Mkay, so my Story is going to focus on the Character Growth between two people in a relationship.

Looking at a possible Paradigm, there really.. Isn't one I suppose, but I'll see if I can break it down accordingly:

Act 1 -> Plot Point 1 -> Act 2 -> Plot Point 2 -> Act 3

Act 1
Character 1 and Character 2 wake up, slow little zombies and head to the bathroom for their usual morning routine.

Plot Point 1
Character 1 and Character 2 realise how sad and empty they feel without the other beside them.

Act 2
Character 1 and 2 are really down and demotivated from everything, feeling noticeably "lost".

Plot Point 2
Character 1 and 2 decide to act and see each other again on the computer.

Act 3
Character 1 and Character 2 are happier now they can see and talk to each other again. Happy days!

The Eight Point Arc is another way to try and express a story but I don't think it can wrap around mine quite as well as some others. Sadly. :c

The character ones are on an earlier post. c: And with that...

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Week 6 - Adobe Audition and Horror Files!

Looking in on sound.. How does this work, guys? ..

A simple Audition intro, how to change sounds to match the settings they're required for.

With this in mind, we were set another task. Take one of the following videos, all silent films, and find sound for it.

The Haunted House 1

The Haunted House 2

Safety Last

The Black Imp

Using the website Free Sound (No Royalty, User Sounds) we set to work. Solo or Team work. I went solo and this was my output. :)

The Final Horror

I wanted to go for comedy to mess it up a little but I struggled matching up the sounds. Saadd..

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Week 6.5 - Small WIP

Updates: Got my hands on CS3 and diid some more colour tests! I'm thinking of splitting the background up into more layers just to add variety on the gradient.. Split the door, the handle and the wall.. Woooot, Screenshot!

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Doing my 3D work and.. Actual work, work.  I have a small update. Animating the storyboard into a short anamatic.

It's only the first part and I know for a fact I need more frames.. Fff.. But, it's the jist for now.

Rough Anamatic Part 1 

Colour testing

With advice from Mike (creator of Draw with Me), my animation will be.. Slightly coloured. As in, gradients!

Now, the later versions of After Effects don't have the layer styles option as openly as CS3, so here's a colour test screen shot while I get CS3 back from my Hard Drive. :)

Simple Colour Gradients. <3

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