Done!

Sorry for the lack of updates.. but it is because I am finished my film!

Everything went out smoothly~ my film was completed on the day of the deadline (April 29) and everything- animation, colours, bgs, etc etc were all FINISHED =D

I mentioned about my composer and sound designer in my previous posts. My original composer and sound designer both dropped out on me near the end of the deadline, so the sounds and music are not made from them. It was really stressful to have people suddenly tell me that they can't work on the sounds and music but I am glad that it worked out in the end! (Thank you so much Ayaz and Nicholas!!)

So yep~ The film is currently being screened at Emily Carr till May 22. On May 21, it will be screened at the Vancity theater in Vancouver.

Although this film gave me a lot of panics and stress during the making of it, in the end I am very glad I worked on it. It was really worth the effort and I can finally said that I have tried my best and completed a film in my final year of university =)

Now I just need to build my portfolio and hopefully find a good job

Trailer + Press kit!

I have been insanely busy, so I haven't been updating""


Anyways! I have just finished my trailer and press kit! The press kit is for class view only since it has my address in it.. but the trailer is available to view for everyone XD

Trailer:


My World Trailer from Jenny Chen on Vimeo.


Press kit (Password protected for class view only):

http://www.mediafire.com/?xaockrjgr63y199

UPDATE:

      Right now I am just struggling to finish my film. I still have work from other classes which is not really helping.. but I just have one more scene of animation to finish, which I am aiming to finish by this Sunday... aiming. After I still have 26 backgrounds to make.. which I have no idea how I will get done. And then I need to colour the animations.. Omg.

     The sound mix is pretty much finished. My sound designer is still tackling one particular sound, but that is about it.

      Since I have not finished my animation yet, I have not mailed two of my voice actors with my animations that needs voices yet... which is Richard and Lay's voice actors. I promised them that I will be mailing them this Friday with all the scenes that needs voice so they can have at least a week and a half to work on the voices.

     My composer if still working on school stuff, but he has worked on the music for the beginning sequence (which in the trailer) and will soon be able to tackle the other music in my film.

    So yea.. I am just crazy stressed right now.. and time to get back to animation

Updating again for class #3

Ok so here is what is going on... Well I pretty much update at least once a week, but this is for class so here is the summary of what went on and what is going to happen..

I am going to try my best to finish all the animation this month.. I feel like it might go up to the first week of April till I finish (Mid March will be impossible for me.. especially since I have 2 other classes), but.. at least I'm sure I will finish all the animation. As for colouring, my helpers are all busy with school so I actually have not been getting any coloured scenes back since the semester started.. but 2 of my friends did say they will be able to help me.. one starting in March and one after April 14, so I am thankful for that. I am going to start my poster soon (which I still need to know the size it has to be in) since I need to do an event poster for Illustration class. I thought I should hit two birds with one stone with that cause seriously, I am extremely stressed about EVERYTHING..

For the music and sounds... I got my first pass for my child scene music and I thought it sounded great. I am still waiting on the street scenes and ending credits music. My composer said that it would be ready on Feb 27th, but I think he might just be busy with school.. so if nothing turns up by Sunday, I will be contacting him. As for sound designer, like I said in my previous posts, he is too busy this semester so he will have no time to work on my film, but he found a new sound designer for me. I will be meeting with the new sound designer on Wednesday.. I hope everything will turn out well.

For voices, I am going to start contacting my first 2 voice actors for very soon. I will be contacting young Richard's voice actor this week and Bill the next. Since I am still working on the animation for Richard and Lay... I probably have to wait till the beginning of April to contact them. I think Richard's animation will be finished first, so his voice actor will be contacted hopefully near the end of March.

So that is it for the update! If I am missing anything please tell me =]

And for this weeeek--

So yesterday I was really bummed out about the sound design thing. I decided that I will start recording sound by the middle of March if I have not found a sound designer by then.
Thing is, I am still quite behind in my animation, so that really stressed me out.

Anyways the schedule for this week (till Wednesday):

-Edit in the walk cycle for the pinning scene (scene 1) [DONE]

-Try and finish the animation for scene 3 [Impossible now =/ Just 2 more parts]

- 3 more comics [2 DONE]

- 3 illustrations  (bg with characters) [1 DONE]

- Update blog for class [DONE]


Omg. I so need a break after grad film.

So....

My sound designer won't have time to do sound for my film.. I am kind of really screwed.
He's really busy with school this semester so I understand, I was lucky enough to learn some sound stuff from him.. but man LMAO..
I was in a wreck today after hearing that, cause I understand how much work sound is. Doing this REALLY isn't as easy as people think it is. It is so much work.. I'm going absolutely insane, so I totally crashed today. Crashed as in my mood just dropped, like I am so stressed out and tired about this.

I really. REALLY need a sound person.

I probably should scout out for one asap.. if I can't find one in time, I guess I will be doing this myself

[Edit]: My previous sound designer just contacted me yesterday and introduced me to a new sound designer!! Yay ;v; So much weight off my chest.. I'm gonna see him this Wednesday~ I hope things will go well :>

GOT A COMPOSER

My sister's friend, Fluteman Chang, will be composing for my film =D!! He did a sample for the first 35 seconds of my film and it sounded like real film music... FFFFF- Love it. So excited!! ;v;

For the following week...

To do (Till Wednesday):

-LOL CHANGE OF PLAN. GET TIME LOCKED VERSION OF REEL TO SOUND DESIGNER BY WEDNESDAY. It turns out that his school changed the schedule so the reel is now due a week early... well it will make me work faster. [Will finish today]

- The means.. FINISH tight drafts for both scene 8 and 9 [ALL DRAFTS DONE.]

- Edit the child pinning scene (just the draft first) [DONE]

[Comics and Illustration will be worked on after I get the reel to Damon]

[Saturday booked for a birthday. It was fun =D]

I just contacted my sound designer and potential composer.. I hope everything will work out fine. I had my critique today and overall it was alright. People suggested me to take parts out but right now I am about.. neeehh about it.. personally I think it makes more sense if I leave everything in and the film will not feel rushed, but some people think it can be cut down more. I don't really know what to do any more to be honest. I might just go with what I have right now, but I do like the fact that I won't need to animate so much if I take them out.. I am just worried that it might seem rushed.. Well I took out scene 5 from the film as a test and I think if I end up taking it out, I WILL need to end up changing a couple of other scenes to make it work. I will keep it and see how people feel about it. At the moment, I know scene 8 and 9 will be pretty good to go. The class did say I don't need Lay in the end anymore... (even though I was told to bring him back last semester), but the thing is.. then I don't know where (**-Spoiler Alert-**) the paint cans would come from... even though it may not be important right now, I think that question will eventually come up if I took Lay away.

In the end it is my film, but I want to best for it.. I will see what I can do, when March comes around, I will start on the animation of scene 8 and 9 first, because I think I will be going with that ending (I'll admit it.. I became a bit attached to it LMAO.. C'mon it's almost March.. I can be a bit attached right? XD)

Week # I don't know..

To do list for this week (Till Wednesday):

-Tight drafts for Scene 5 [DONE]

- 4-5 BG and characters Illustration WIPs... Omg. [DONE 4 I might make less so it looks less rushed..]

-Presentation thing for animation class + post on moodle [DONE. And was the first to post LMAO]

- 1 comic [DONE]

-Update reel for critique [DONE]


Omg. mg. mg.

Update for Class #2

We are supposed to have an update for Feb 9 but I want to do it first LMAO..
I actually update this blog quite often so I am not sure if it would be any different. It just says "blog update".. so here goes:

Currently.. I do think it is hard to animate cause of all the stress I have. I need to get a time locked version of my film to my sound designer by the end of February.. and honestly, I am not sure if I can make it. I hope he is willing to do slight edits, cause I think like.. 75% the timing WILL change in the end. It won't be anything major. Just slight changes.

My animation is about 50% done right now and my backgrounds is like.. maybe 47%.. around there.

Luckily I have a digital illustration class that allows me to work on film stuff. This will push me to do more work. I will be able to finish 4-5 more coloured backgrounds with characters for the next assignment. I will also be able to start my grad film poster in that class.. so I am stressed but at the same time excited about how I can hit two birds with one stone. Then I can for sure graduate in May (Yay)!

Right now I am just doing some tight drafts (tight drafts as in drafts that are more timed than roughies.. I mostly just do rough.. roughs and animate from there.) I don't know how far I can get but I will try my best. I am trying to finish scene 3's timed version by Wednesday... TRYING.

I have just cast my voice actors for all of my characters recently.. *EDIT* Everyone replied and the cast is confirmed *v* I'm so happy~  

For composer... My sister's friend still haven't contacted back yet, so I am waiting for that. If he backs out or whatever, I will most likely just buy 1-3 songs from 5Alarm, cause that would be the easiest way to go.

My mood right now... frustrated. Stressed. I get more annoyed easily these days cause of all this.... happening.. so if I look pissed, or act pissed, I am sorry.. I try not to but this thing really is eating me. And funny thing is I have been slightly breaking out even though I have already went through acne treatment. This shows how much pressure I am currently under.

My other classes.. Webcomic and digital Illustration.. Webcomic is relaxing but also.. so much work.. 5 comic pages every two weeks.. Mmm.. But it's ok, it forces me to draw something else. I just finished the last of the five for this week yesturday, so now I can just animate... Yay.....
Digital Illustration.. a lot of work too, but at least I can work on my film stuff for some of my assignments. Thankful for that.

I think that is it for Feb 9's update. I hope I am not missing anything

This week

My stress level right now? about 85%. 85. yep. When it hits 100%, that's when I am going to cry and animate at the same time LMAO..
I didn't really animate these past few days.. I think I got a bit fed up. I will get back to it tomorrow though.
I checked with the office today and made sure I am graduating this May... so that is exciting. I got feedback from Darren after and they were all really great critiques. He told me to add more elements.. which.. to be honest, I wanted to try and avoid, but he just made it so much better.. so I think I will try and add those in.

Check list till Wednesday:

-FINISH SCENE 3.5'S ANIMATION... omg.. I just did not know how to approach it.. OTL"" [DONE FINALLY.]

-Finish tight drafts for scene 3

- Comics [DONE]

-Blog update for class [DONE]

- 4 more drafts for illustration class? [DONE]

- Cast voice actors + contact [Done and CONFIRMED.Yay!! so excited *v*]

Cast:
Young Richard: Topleka

Richard: Neo_skywalker

Lay: Ryusuke

Bill: Edwyn 

....-sigh-. Kind of overwhelmed.

Voice Auditions

I am going to sound like a pervert, but it is a compliment so it should be fine-- a lot of the voices sounds very handsome.
Sorry, but I had to say it LMAO. I hope it's not odd or impolite..

All the auditions so far are all so great... It is not even the deadline yet and I am already battling between some of the voices.. It makes me kind of sad that I can only choose one for each character, cause there are multiple voices that seems to fit a certain character LMAO. I'm gonna have a real hard time casting the voice actors on the second of February XD, hopefully some of my friends can help me with this ;v;~ -looks at the ol' crew-

To do list for this week

For this week as in I got till Wednesday LMAO


Film scenes:
*FINISH SCENE 1.5 PLEASE. SON OF A GUN. [DONE. FINALLY.]
*Scene 3.5 (IMPOSSIBLE. I HATE THIS SCENE WITH MY HEART.)

-5 pages of web comics [DONE]
-1 music illustration [Done a bit of 2?]
- imaginary world sketches [DONE]
- Contact partner for presentation thang [DONE]

Omg. You know that feeling when you're so stressed out that you want to just cry randomly? Yeah.. yeah. LMAO.. Doesn't sound like much but. AHRARARARARA

Update for Class!

This post is for ANIM 420 Senior Animation II class

Since I started my blog for this film last semester, I am just going to link to some of my previous posts' pictures. If you are not in my class, you can just ignore this since it is a bit of a repeat XD:

• Production Schedule and Task List (I kind of think they are the same, so they are put together... but then again I don't think we have done a task list before so I am not sure what I need.)

• Why paper

• Concepts: Early Character Sketches, Young Richard, Screenshots

• Prototype (I am not really sure what to include for this... I hope I read the definition on the online dictionary right):Early Character Sketches,  Richard's Biography Worksheet

• Reference Images/ Videos:                                                                                                      

Professor Layton (Subtle animation, character designs, and colour)

Triplets of Belleville (Jumpy, yet smooth animation, Character designs and colour)

Up (Character contrasts, squash and stretch animation, and bright colours)

• Work in Process Reel (Last updated in December, next update will be available on Feb 2) [Password Protected]

I hope I posted everything and am doing it right, sorry if I missed or messed up anything.

[EDIT] For some reason, the links to my references weren't working.. here they are:

Professor Layton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXJROtr2blk&feature=related

Triplets of Belleville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFa96dBT9VE

Up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHfrLZffPo

Holy flying ducks

So much shit to do--- I don't even.
Lets list this out so I don't think I have free time to take a breather.
Finish scenes:
-1.5 [I FAIL. Will finish this week.]
-2 [DONE]
-6 [DONE]

-Meet Damon (sound designer) to discuss about sounds and contract on Sunday 9am [DONE, AND GOT 5 BUCKS JACKED BY A BUM. GOOD DAY.]

-Update blog with reel, schedule and etc (I kind of don't want to update my reel here though for many reasons, but it is an assignment so +_+"..) [DONE]

-Music design CG sketches [BY WED] I can try to choose a song and do it on the bus/skytrain

-Comic History Presentation [BY THURS]

It doesn't sound much, but I animate very slowly and is behind so.. -sigh-
I will be back to check these off.

New year's Resolution

*FINISH GRAD FILM
That is obviously the biggest LMAO
- Graduate in May
- Go to AE and aim to make more profit to pay off student loan
- Make more products
- Find a temporary job while working on my animation portfolio
- Pay off half of my student loan.. or at least 1/3 by the end of the year
- Try and send in film to 1 or 2 film festivals (depending on dates) If it doesn't work out, deviantart.

*Important notes*
-Find 3 voice actors for my characters. I may be able to do young Richard's voice or just let him be voiceless
-Finish prep 30 seconds of beginning animation and send it off to testing composer
-Keep in contact with sound designer

PS: The working more during the break thing... Uh... LMAO Spent a lot of time with friends so.. But I will try and catch up