Ugh Oh, I'm Sick

Sickness brought my productivity down a bit, so I've only done these things this week:

- added more detail to library door texture
-finishing modeling/texturing s5
-animate s3~5 (70%)
-s5s6: lion gestures faster, change facial expression to surprised/concern
-communicate with musician


UNDONE + NEXT WEEK:
-s1s1 model/texture/rig/animate curtain
-s8 texturing and modeling, bring in bushes and trees to match s 9
-give girl a shoe bottom texture
-s6s1: have girl fall faster, heavier impact, more cloud squash and bounciness.

-add any missing hair/dress animation in s1~s2

-s5s1 re-do wing tip animation, have more feathers there
-s6~s8 animation


See my new production schedule below:

I posted an ad on Craigslist and had a bake-off with multiple sound designers. I listened to a couple of 30-second samples they made for me, and I've found my musician! The sample has been added to my latest playblast. Note that it's only draft 1 so there are a few places that will change later.

www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/gf_second_pass_v1.mov

Planning of cloud squash for s6s1.

So much green to look at!

What I did this week:

s5

ugh!

hedge lion maybe? yeah?

-s5 textured, except the road and the hedge blocks, i'm thinking of turning it into hedge animals, say, two lion-shaped hedges by the gate.
-s4s4~5: better feather timing
-s4s4~5: combine the two shots, no camera cuts
-s4s8: book slide off a bit as her foot pushes off it to get onto the window frame
-s6s1: higher cloud position, so its more bouncey and floaty
-s7s1: shorten shot, see tiara sooner, less running
-s8s1: add bushes n same trees as next shot on the side, slow camera down as girl stops
-s9s1: first pose of girl needs to face screen left to match previous shot
-s15s1: full animation, except grass animation is still missing. Added fireflies coming out of grass as lion lands
-s15s2: pull fireflies closer to chest by the end of the shot to match next shot
-s16s3~end: second pass animation
-communicate with my musician

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Fetch isn't working, so there's no link this time. I'll bring the movie to class.

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What's for next week:

-s1s1 model/texture/rig/animate curtain

-finishing modeling/texturing s5 (road, hedge animal etc.)

-s8 texturing and modeling, bring in bushes and trees to match s 9

-give girl a shoe bottom texture

-animate s3~5

Reading Week is still Production Week

This week's list:

1st priorities:

FEEDBACKS BATCH #1

-s9s1: add timing to lost tiara acting, shorten it, switch slouch pose to the end and transition into next shot

-s9s2: keep eyes and hands still

-s9s3: keep girl action here but use s9s4's camera angle instead

-s9s4: erase bg grass keyframe

-s9s5: pose and frame better, make the girl go eat berry, and react to sour berry

-s9s7: pick up speed on lion acting here, have a longer pause after lion pushes tree before apples fall

-s9s8: get rid of girl's cross-eye

-s10s1: put lightning bolt here, remember to make it a lower angle

-s11s1: cut this shot

-s12s2: speed up entire shot, wings go into pose faster when lion growls

-s13s1: more exaggerated flying animation, make lion push and ascend faster, no constant timing, by the end of this shot lion should be back-faced to camera

-s13s2: speed this shot up

-s13s3: speed this shot up, we see lion go into cloud here

-s14s1: shake less

-s14s2: cut this shot

-s14s6: stronger timing

-s15s1: faster landing and cushion with reverse-engine flaps (bird landing ref pls), have impact when landing

-s15s2: block out action more, she's looking for fireflies in the grasses

-s17s2: speed up action here slightly

-s18s1: continues to run towards the desk, shoves chair aside here

-s18s2: cut this shot

-s18s4: cut this shot, no more governess

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FEEDBACKS BATCH #2

-s4s4~5: better feather timing

s4s4~5: combine the two shots, no camera cuts

s4s8: book can slide off a bit as her foot pushes off it to get onto the window frame

s6s1: higher cloud position, so its more bouncey and floaty

s7s1: shorten shot, see tiara sooner, less running

s8s1: add bushes n same trees as next shot on the side, slow camera down as girl stops

s9s1: first pose of girl needs to face screen left to match previous shot

s15s2: pull fireflies closer to chest by the end of the shot to match next shot

2nd priorities:

-s3~5: second pass animation

-communicate with my musician

3rd priorities:

-s3s2: texture library door

-s3s1: hallway paintings texture

-s5: texture/model all props here (ext. castle walls, hedge, barrier, gate, road)

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I shaved off 30 seconds since last week, tightened up some shots:

www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/gf_first_pass_v3.mov

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This week's texturings update:

Nose shape changed. Added neck deco.

Lowered saturation and background brightness.

Library door textured.

Library door texture.

Hallway paintings textured.

Hallway paintings texture.

First .. passsss?

Other than the library door, I've done what's on my TO-DO list from last week, and they areee:

-s2: one more royal portrait

-s9s1: fix acting

-s9s3: have a bonding gesture of the girl and the lion

-s9s6: have the lion's left forearm push the tree instead of jumping on it

-s10 on: block out rest of the film

Yes, that's a wig. That's why the hair colors don't match.

This is my initial idea for the bonding scene: a simple hug. But the poses got weird cuz the lion's arm gesture literally says GET AWAY FROM ME, plus... he has claws D: So in the end, I kept the reaching out part and changed the rest.

A quick 2D blocking of the girl running out of her room. Some poses got changed in 3D, it's rly nice you just figure things out on your way.

www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/gf_first_pass.mov

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Next week's TO-DO list:

-s3s2: texture library door
-s3s1: hallway paintings texture
-s5: texture/model all props here (ext. castle walls, hedge, barrier, gate, road)
-fix animation feedback from tues class
-s4~6: second pass (as much as possible)