This is a updated journal for Canada Line project from my experimental class, and I am working with another eight students from my class on a ten seconds animation piece. Our group's name is team the other world. For this week, we have Omar, Cody and David working on the storyboard. Omar generates the story and sketched out the first version of rough story board. Cody did a very professional illustration version of that storyboard and passed to David for coloring and compositing. I downloaded the file from moodle and readjust the timing for our first story animatic on station 241 in a premiere project.
The beginning of the class was a bit confusing and chaotic. When I left the school with the finished project on the station, things were still fine. But the next morning's class when Martin showed us the file, the file that I have been working on was gone. It took me some moment to figure out what happened. Martin pointed out that as a class we are two weeks behind the schedule and he is not exactly happy with our lack of participation as teamwork. Martin gives us some more time to be organized to be able to present the file. After he left the classroom, the group was stressed over and very chaotic. People were speaking in harsh tone and having busy, intensive crossing-over conversations.
The good part was that some voices were activated through the process. Basically Karla and Laura from team parade, speaking for their team, insisted that there should not be transitions between the three groups' animations and we would create one animation piece in the very end to connect all three pieces. Also, a few classmates quickly spoke loudly and actively to the whole class about how a fourth episode could be like. And there were also classmates wrote down notes on the whiteboard. So when Martin came back the class has found some important solutions for stories. Then Martin viewed the files and people recommend that for our group it would be better if we could keep four simple shots instead of many shots like the one presented today.
After each group presented their animatic, we had another group meeting regarding the progress and next week's strategies. Cody generously offered to do a quick sketch for the new shots. Since Omar strongly wish to practice paint-on-glass techniques, so we firstly decide that our main technique would be paint-on-glass. I was more into 2D puppets, and Judy, David, Janice and Emilie also presented a level of interest for puppet animation. Later Nick joined our group, saying that if no one is interested in doing puppets, he will just work on his own. This talk provoked few more discussions. We tried to explain to our late coming team member that we are considering to combine puppet and painting techniques together to ease his stress.
Then as a large team we decided to divide into two departments. Rocky, Cody, Janice, Emilie and Omar are going to work in painting department. David, Judy, Nick and I will work in puppet department. Since we only have one main character, we will have one puppet to make. Four people working on one puppet seemed to be a bit crazy for me. Also, Nick claimed his great knowledge and experience for creating physical 3D puppets. I would for sure prefer experienced and professional hands to get working on our puppet. I then suggested that we may consider to make the train set from the discussion happened last week, as the physical 3D train set also belong to 3D category. David passionately agreed with me and expressed his interest in creating the train. Our 3D department then divided into two smaller departments. Judy and Nick are going to make the puppet and David and I would work on the train for this week.
David would work on the design of the train and provide me the visual image and actual scale measure design for the set, and I will create the physical set using cardboard. Before we left the classroom, I also asked Cody to please post on moodle about the character's whole body proportion design. Since people really like Cody's drawing in this first animatic and the outlook of our main character. Cody offered he could finish the drawing and new storyboard quickly and upload them. There is going to be a meeting on Thursday. Hopefully things would be smoothed out and people can be more relaxed once we start to work.
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