Heyhey everyone,
I have
awesome news! It seems like our Sheridan 3rd year group film
“Grounded”was
accepted and will be showcased at the Ottawa International Film
Festival 2014! Yeey!
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| "Grounded" https://vimeo.com/95567674 |
It is an inspiring four minute short
about adventures of a bunny and his little brother. The film is
hand-drawn in Toon Boom Harmony. It was one awesome experience of the
teamwork, dedication and successful short film production. Here’s a
vimeo link to our film: https://vimeo.com/95567674
Enjoy!
Last few weeks I have been working on
several animation shots and learnt more about effects, camera moves
and symbol animation in Flash. Alex said it is ok to post the shorts
that I worked on and here they are:
Mountains and Sleigh
- I designed and
flashified Bead Mountains which was the easiest for me except the
camera movement. It was my first time dealing with the cinematography
in Flash. Rich helped me with a nice smooth truck-in transition using
just couple of keys on a comp level and ease-in and ease-out
settings.
- Designing and animating
stars and sparkles took long to figure out, as I never touched Flash
before my internship. Keith helped and explained me a lot and also
showed me how to tweak Grandpa and a harness so that they are is in
time with the dogs run cycle.
- I enjoyed animating the
husky's trot cycle! Last semester in Sheridan I had to animate dog
cycle in Maya and it was very interesting to apply same principles in
symbol animation.
-Darien and Joel helped me
to figure out why the sleigh dogs would start glitching while
trucking in, disappearing even when we would export png sequence. As
Joel advised I reduced the size of original png images and the
problem was yaay fixed. Thank you!
Four Sleighs:
This animation was the
easiest as I already had sleigh cycle done. So it was just the
timing, tint and alpha channels.
Animal Wall:
This
shot was mostly about the timing. I also learned how to work with
colors and transparency settings in Flash.
Tundra and
objects:
This shot taught me about
the timing, gravity and again about camera moves. Alex and Keith
explained to me that all major camera moves are usually done on a
comp level. Keith though showed me some tricks on how to attain 3d
effect move by animating objects inside the comp and applying the
same ease-in ease-out parameters as the tweens on the main level
would have. It has totally boggled my mind but I think I finally got
it. like 90%..ok 88%..
Animation test
for Caribou Mandala:
Working
on mandala rotation was fun. I experimented with the timing of all
the layers and transparency settings. I think it worked alright in
the end. It’s so rewarding to see your own design animated. yay!
This mandala exercise and Flash effects techniques I learnt from
Alex, Keith and Darien provided me with all the understanding I
needed to start working on my 4th year film as I am going to have my
Sun Mandala rotated as well.
Next week I will post my Geese and
Caribou Mandala animations. I hope I will be able to finish them
before my internship is over which is for one more week. Anna left a
week ago and this week is the last week for Carol. No more Carol on
the Oakville train and bus. Awe. I will see my girls only in
September. It was great to get to know both of them. Smiley Guy made
an official goodbye pizza party for us on the roof of the studio. It
was very nice! I will miss this roof and all awesome Smileys people
with whom we used to have launches together.
Another update of the month is my
husband and my wedding anniversary! We had our wedding a year ago in
Blue Mountains and it was amazing and beautiful. This summer we
decided to celebrate it by going to the Niagara Falls and it was
awesome too. We walked a lot, got the sun and the rain, saw the
fireworks, got a chance to feed a friendly seagull that would eat
only egg and not the bread and who refused to fly away and spent with
us the whole hour, cute bird! The Falls were incredibly powerful and
mesmerizing. Beautiful place, here:
My husband Chris is a ETM music
producer, he got inspired by Alex’s film and came up with the
musical piece which if approved by Alex and other producers might be
added to the film soundtrack. That’d be awesome!
That’s all for now. Next week there
will be my last week and my last post on the Smiley Guy internship
portal:)
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