LTM group project, week 6 Journal

Week 6 from 18/11/13-22/11/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

18/11/13-19/11/13
Continue to add the in-between frames for the final scene (scene 10), which includes moving Jack arm movements and continuing with lip-syncing.



20/11/13
The whole day I have painted the background scene for the first scene and started to paint bits of the first scene as-well.



21/11/13
Today, I finished off the final scene with in-between frames, the only thing that is needed is to add colour in and add a background to the last scene.



And started to paint bits of the last scene as-well.



22/11/13
Today, I continue paint the first scene, and retouched the background to the first scene in Photoshop as-well.



Next week just finishing off painting in both scenes.

Bye.

LTM group project, week 5 Journal

Week 5 from 11/11/13-15/11/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

11/11/13-13/11/13
Continue to add the in-between frames for the first scene, which includes moving the characters and arm moving.



14/11/13
Today, I finished off the first scene with in-between frames, the only thing that is needed is to add colour in and add a background to the first scene.



Also, Fiona sent us a colour chart of what the characters will look like to be painted in a later date.





15/11/13
Today, I have started to add the in-between frames for the final scene (scene 10), I started off with the lip-syncing with more to do next week.



Next week just finishing off the in-between frames for the final scene.

Bye.

LTM group project, week 4 Journal and rough key cut of the animation so far

Week 4 from 04/11/13-08/11/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

4/11/13-6/11/13
Continue adding the keyframes for the first scene. Also, I added in some of the lip syncing for the scene as-well.



7/11/13
Continue adding the keyframes for the first scene. Also, I added in some of the lip syncing for the scene as-well.



8/11/13
Today, showed our rough cut with the keyframes for ‘A long way to Tipperary’ . The showing went well with the clients and Michelle seemed pleased that it would fit with the exhibition. There is a lot more animation work to be done, need to do more inbetwen frames for my scenes for next week and for the deadline too.



Bye.

LTM group project, week 3 Journal

Week 3 from 28/10/13-02/11/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

28/10/13-30/10/13
Continue to add more keyframes for scene 10.



30/10/13
Also, I started to sketch down what the first scene will look with Fiona.





31/10/13
I have started off doing the keyframes for the first Scene.



01/11/13
Today, our group got the audio sorted out, in the sound studio recorded the voice artists who are doing the voice recordings for the first two scene which we needed to re-recorded.



02/11/13
Got the new sound recording for the first scene, then I change the keyframes, were I needed to change. When that was finished, I sent a SWF file for scene 1 and scene 10 to Fiona for a rough cut to be send to the clients on Monday (4/11/13).



03/11/13
Here’s our first rough cut, as the clients wanted to see something tomorrow. So Fiona have sent this on and warned them there will be more changes by Friday, when the Rouch Cut of the Key Frames is showed.



Next week just continue with adding the keyframes in.

Bye.

LTM group project, week 2 Journal

Week 2 from 21/10/13-25/10/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

21/10/13-23/10/13
Started to put in the keyframes in for final scene (scene 10). Got a meeting with clients tomorrow at the London Transport Museum.



23/10/13
Meeting was cancelled with the clients at the London Transport Museum, due to the client was ill. However, the client did e-mailed us on what to improve on from what they saw of the animatic. The client stated that they wanted more negative war stuffs on the animation such as death. Which, we as a team disagree, because the animation was suppose to be more of a comedy animation rather than death and being negative. So, Fiona e-mailed backed that this will not work, due to animation should be of a comedy and should stick to the original story, which they choose originally.


LTM_Tipperary_Animatic from Xiaowan Zhang on Vimeo.

They e-mailed backed and agreed with our views, the only changes was the soldiers uniform. Currently they are dressed in their military finery, but in reality they would need to be in khaki army uniform so we will need to change midway through the animatic.



24/10/13
Continue adding the keyframes for scene 10. Also, I added in some of the lip syncing for the scene as-well.

Today we did a acting class with Ioli on Thursday. She was full of ideas for the project and made it much better. New additions and changes included the first scene between Jack and Jimmy in which Jimmy prods Jack; Jack dropping into shot. This will help we when I start drawing down the first scene.

25/10/13
Continue adding more keyframes for scene 10 and change some of the keyframes from yesterdays acting class with Ioli.



Over the weekend I will starting doing the keyframes for the first Scene.

Bye.

LTM group project, week 1 Journal

Week 1 from 14/10/13-18/10/13 working on the ‘A long way to Tipperary’ story with Fiona’s group being one of the animators.

15/10/13
We met with the clients at the London Transport Museum and it went well. The client wanted a few minor changes from Fiona concept such as making the Leicester Square sign looked more like from the signs of the first World War I and add more first World War British soldiers into the animation, apart form that everything is fine.

17/10/13
Today, we’ve adjust and added more images into Fiona’s animatic what the client have asked to do with their actions from Tuesday.



Also, we’re discussed what scenes we are doing, I am doing the first scene which is 10 seconds; and the tenth and final scene, which is 12 seconds long. Overall, I have 22 seconds to animate in a 85 second animation.

Scene 1: Jimmy and Jack talk to each other – Jimmy’s eyes throbbing, spit from his mouth as he speaks, in slow motion he says ‘five shillings’ - REASSIGNED TO JONATHAN ( I figured that Jonathan may aswell animate all scenes with these two characters as he is already doing the last one – plus he wanted to do this one.)

Scene 10: Jack on stage singing. We see Jimmy “The Lips” scowling up at him, his lip and eye throbbing. Jack waves his arms wide for the final “It’s a long, long way to Tipperary but my heart’s right there!” A thought bubble appears from Jimmy’s head, saying “It’ll never catch on.” - JONATHAN

18/10/13
We’ve finished off the improved animatic, added more images into the animatic to show the client on Wednesday (23/10/13)


LTM_Tipperary_Animatic from Xiaowan Zhang on Vimeo.

Also, I open up Flash, to try to get hangaround of Fiona’s drawing style. By using some of the animatic sketches as reference to her style, so I can match the style.



Over the weekend I will starting doing the keyframes for Scene 10.

Bye.