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Week 2 Stories and scripts

This week I’ve been approached by some of the team members I’ve been working with to continue working together on the final project. I told them my story and they unanimously decided to go with the second story. So we’re going to make a story about a lab, a doctor, and a monster.

As I am the creator of the story, I will be in charge of the whole project. I finished the basic plot framework this week.
The protagonist, Dr Parvis, has to sign a contract with a research institute in order to pay for his daughter’s high medical expenses. To create a biological weapon for them. However, he is not allowed to leave the lab after completing the experiment, so he has to use some special means to leave the lab.

In the meantime, this week we’re going to go over the basics of the mission. I’m in charge of the script, all the character designs and the models and textures.

We have standardised our production style. We decided to use a realistic style for this project.
In order to control the overall art style and effect, I found some reference images for the direction of the production.

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1 Team work

Week 9 Project 2

Most of my work is almost done and this week has been about handing over to my team members. I have also been working on resolving any problems that have arisen during the production.

This week Yang told me that when he was working on the animation, he noticed that a few parts of the girl’s hair were going through the mould. I think this is the problem I had with the hair styling last week. I made the adjustments and gave him feedback.

Part of mistake
Adjusted to solve the problem

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FMP & Theis Thesis

Week 15 About FMP thesis

There are many factors that go into evaluating a film for the audience, but in terms of audience satisfaction, they can be broadly divided into:

  • Expectation – whether a film fulfils psychological expectations
  • Plot – whether there are enough twists and turns
  • Visual – whether it has enough beautiful images
  • Emotion – whether it fulfils the audience’s expectations
  • Feeling – whether it is worth recalling and thinking about

Through this thesis, I would like to explore the link between happy endings and audience satisfaction in commercial cinema by looking at these dimensions.

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1 Team work

Week 8 Project 2

The girl’s decals were completed this week. Also, after talking to the group, the hair was adjusted to make it more neat. Also handed over to the rest of the group.

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1 Team work

Week 7 Project 2

This week the female character’s UV was adjusted and a replacement texture for the jumper material was made via ZBrush.

Character UV
Cloth UV

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1 Team work

Week 6 Project 2

Finished the mapping and textures for the male characters this week

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1 Team work

Week 5 Project 2

Got the scene progress on CHEN this week and the results look great

Scene from CHEN

This week I started on the girl’s model and also added a travel bag to the girl to better fit her characterisation

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1

Week 17 Animating dialogue

This week, I adjusted the camera position and did some basic animation blocking

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1

Week 16 Animating dialogue

This week we have a new task, this time the main animation exercise is on the upper body and the movements and facial expressions of the characters. We also need to find a reference and sketch.

The reference I’m looking for this time is a clip from the Cantonese film As Tears Go By. I also adjusted the camera position and the rhythm of some of the action.

  • Original lines:早知道你这么老土 ,吃鲍鱼 ,吃屎啊你

“joh zee doh nay zeh moh loh toh, sikh boh yuh, sikh suh ah nay”

  • Translated version:”If I had known you were so outdated, you should’ve just eaten abalone or even shit.”

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Advanced & Experimental Project-1

Week 15 body language

This week the tearing animation of the bag has been adjusted and the character picks up the ice-cream. The overall animation rhythm has been adjusted.