Production again

Before

AfterThis is the part Makri saw the 'monkey' shadow. Amanda suggested that I made ATun smaller and the tree blurer so that it appear further. It does looked better.

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After

YES! Atun's hand looked so much better and more like her hands! The previous one looked odd and doesn't look like her hands. Looks like someone's hand. Yay now is better!!!

Before

After

This was the part when Makri found out that Atun was a woman and not a monkey. I made the sky slightly lighter and I changed his hand position. I also changed his cap. Thanks to Amanda I now know what's wrong with the cap. Haha. Before

After This is Makri's bedroom. I added the curtains so that the window doesn't look like a picture frame. The true will be added later. I did some more other than these. These are just those tht I fixed. So right now I'm fixing one scene which is giving me a headache. Argh!!! OKay so that's all now!!

Starting of production.

I haven't changed my ending par. I guess I'll just show Atun fell on the floor again because Makri punched her. haha. So right now I'm already starting to animate some part. I'm almost done with panel 2-6 from storyboard which is the part when Makri said good morning to his fruits and then Atun stole it. I've animated Makri and Atun already but I have not put the tree yet. Will do that today. I've also animated the lipsynch when Atun was asking for Makri's forgiveness (panel 32).I'm quite proud of it. Haha. That's all I've animated so far. It's alot of work just animating these 2 scenes but it's worth it. I'm quite proud of them. Haha. I've animated some simple scenes during the weekend like the fruits blinking (panel 8) and Atun lying on floor after she got shot (panel 27).

Link for expression sheets

HERE

Animatic Presentation

I guess not sleeping for 2 days paid for my presentation today. Even though my animatic was quite rough -->Without sound effect and music and subtitles, I managed to make my audience laughed. Alan said it's good because he can understand what's happening even without the subtitles. It's nice having to hear my friends burst out laughing at my animatic because that's the kind of reaction I wanted from them. However Alan didn't quite like the ending. He said it's kind of hanging and a man is not suppose to punch a woman even though she looks like a monkey. haha. So he suggested that maybe I should end with Atun not Makri like there should be a scene where Atun fell after Makri punched him. I think the very first part when Atun first stole Makri's fruits was quite vague because no one actually saw Atun com ing. Angie suggested that my window should be lower and bigger. And Kevin suggested that there should be like a warning music when Atun is coming. I am going to put that but this animatic has no music that's why. I think that's about it. Oh yeah there's some error with the part when Makri and Sutrisno were talking. Yeah it wasn't meant to be like that. Something went wrong with the rendering.I'll adjust it.So ....yeah I think that's all and overall I think I did quite well. Yayyy!!!

Animatics and New storyboard.

I changed my storyboard already. It's only 1 panel. So here is the new panel for the storyboard. Atun looks more like a human right now. Haha. I have already recorded my characters' voice. The voice talent for Makri was actually Nafisah however I didn't used her voice in the end because my other friends said that it was quite unclear and it didn't really suit Makri's voice. But I must say Naf did a good job at it. I'm sorry Naf. So the voice for Makri now is non other than Mr Andreas Masoen. Seriously that guy is good man. I wanted Makri to sound a little bit feminine and sissy and Andreas did a great job. I couldn't stop laughing when we were recording. And not only that but also he has put in more expressions to the voice. Haha. Oh and I made his original voice slightly higher. Atun and Sutrisno's voice was Kezia. I want Atun's voice to be deep because of how she looks--Monkey. haha. Kez did a good job she put in extra spice in it because her Malay sounded americanize. Hahahah! It somehow suit Atun. Haha. I also changed the pitch of her voice I made it lower. Kez also did a great job voicing Sutrisno. She made him sound like a senile old man. Hahahaaha! Okay now back to work.

Change to background

Okay so I asked Amanda's opinion for my old background. She told me all is fine except for the color. She said that the sapodilla tree should stand out more and not the background tree. After she said that I agreed that my color is all over the place. I'm really not that great in color combination. So I changed the color. I made it less saturated. And I created more depths to the house. Oh and I also changed the style of the tree. hehe. So here it is.

Before After

Oh yeah I also showed Alan my storyboard. He only asked me to change one panel of the story board. Yayyyy!!! I;m glad he said it's clear. Oh yeah and he said I did a great job with Makri and Atun's expression. Yayyyy!!! And here's the link for the expression sheets

Day 10

We didn't do much yesterday (Monday). We only watched Wallace and Gromit. It was really funny. Inspiration for stop motion. I didn't go class today because Ala only wanted to see group 1 and 2 every tuesday and thrsday and grp 3,4 and 5 wednesday and friday. I'm in grp 3 so I'll be coming to class tomorrow. Well I changed my background already...okay not exactly change I added more trees to the background. And it looked better now than before. I also did expressions fr Makri and ATun. I found this expressions sheet in deviantart and I must sat that it really helped me alot exploring differen kinds of expressions and also my stroke.I did it in photoshop using my tablet pen and I realised that as I drew, my strokes are smoother and I became more confident. WHich is good.Yayyy. I'm getting used to using my tablet. So here are my stuff.

New background

Makri Atun

Friday

Thursday was a very tiring day because it was presentation all the way. From p3 to animation2. Since I presented already on Wednesday, I just sat down and listen those who have not present present. Honestly speaking, some of the storyboards were really log winded and dry.Some didn't really finish their character designs and all.... Anyway, I'm really trying very hard to do background now. I have researched on kampongs and sapodilla trees. I also checked out this cartoon and animation called 'Bola Kampung' and also 'Upin dan Ipin'. Thanks to Naf, I found out 'Upin dan Ipin'. It's this 3d animation from malaysia. The characters are so CUTE! I must say their animation is really nice. And is kampongs! Good reference! Haha! Anyway here's the kampung i did. It took me quite long. I decided to do vector for background and I'm going for a very simple look.I don't want my background to outshine my characters. I hope is fine. Please comment!