hey.

looks good.
when will you post the final?

Meeting Friday At Noon

Please come in if you can, give feedback.

We may also have to allocate some BG recolouring to make it all flow.
So please be there to help us.

Well also be working on scenes this weekend.
Compositing.

If you want to come in Saturday I will teach you after FX and you can 2 tone animation etc. We will need some help to get the whole film two toned, so please come in. I believe Ill be working all weekend.



Thanks in advance to all who come!
- Jake

MONDAY

Monday Meeting @ 2PM

Bring your scenes.



For those of you working with layouts that have the ship in it.
Here are some shots for reference.

Please Post your Flash File AND Your exported Flash File (.mov) on the server by Monday.
Info on how to export is two posts below this one.

We need both in case consistency doesn't match up, and for any reason we need to make minor changes.

Thank you for your co-operation.
- Jake

airlock_layout

Hi~

I am putting an airlock layout for those who have a scene with the airlock.

I didn't like my design so that I went for Andrea's concept for the airlock.

First layout is done by me, and second one is Andrea's concept.

And so sorry for not being at the mentor meeting this week; I've been animating for about 20hrs everyday so that made me sick...I guess everybody is going thru the same situation.

However I will be there on Friday meeting.

See you :)

-Sooji-

How to export your Flash scenes 101:

Step by step guide on how to make your flash file into a video file.
1. Click File
2. Click Export
3. Click Movie
4. Choose where you want to save it
5. Change the 'save as type' at the bottom of the window to: Quicktime (*mov.)
6. Render Size 1280 by 720.
7. Click on the 'Quicktime settings' button in the bottom left corner.
8. Under 'Video' Click 'Settings'
9. Copy My setting shown here:




















10. Press ok.
11. Make sure sound is checked.


























12. Press 'OK'
13. Press 'Export'
14. Your done!



Hope this makes sense. Lots of steps, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Post if it does not work for you. Or if you want more screen grabs.

Thanks all
- Jake Fullerton -

PS Post you exported scenes on the server by next Monday night. There will be a pretty folder for them.

Colours and Scene Folders

Hi Group I will be making a folder tomorrow with final color palettes for our layouts tomorrow they will be in a folder name FINAL COLOUR, also we will be setting up our scene folders so ppl can begin to drop in their work on Friday! Make sure to make the Friday meeting for directions on esporting your scenes and also make your you brin in your one completed scene along with working animation. A reminder again that everything is Due MONDAY APRIL 7TH!

*If you are having trouble with your scenes or for see a problem with your workload now is the time to notify your group please be responsible about communicating any problems you may be having.

FRIDAY MEETING 6PM be there with your Animation and ! finished scene we need to put these things into a reel do not fall behind.

FLASH HELP

For allt hose of you needding help with your scenes....Bryan will be in tomorrow at 6pm helping ppl on their stuff. Please don't delay, final scenes are due in 5 DAYS!!!!!!!!

Also please make sure to make the production meeting tomorrow ....it's crucial that EVERYBODY shows up to our final meetings to ensure deadlines and communication. Production meeting with Tony is at 2pm see everyone there.

pin

dunno if its still good... or am i over deadline o_O;;
ill have the real psd file if its still valid ):

-lisa

Tuesday

Hey all,

Meeting Reminder.

Tuesday is the official group meeting.
Attendance has been down on tuesdays, but we need to reverse that now. We are getting close to the end. 2 weeks left really...

Bring in your animations and layouts thus far this tuesday. Show them off to the group. We will meet in one of the A151 computer labs so that everyone has a computer. Get your scenes checked. Its the only way to learn if you are doing things correctly.


Please have a minimum of 1 finished scene. Some people are done or 75% done. Push hard to get as much as possible finished.

SO

TUESDAY 2pm PLEASE COME AND SHARE.


- Jake Fullerton -

P.S. I have an interview tuesday for co-op. But you dont need me to be there. Its a sharing experience. Please share, see others scenes. Get ideas, get suggestions.

corn prototype

ive seen ppl working on some corn stuff.. and i came up with these.
yay

-lisa

Workbook Scenes

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.
I was wondering if everyone could have their workbooks scenes on the server by Monday. I will try to put them together Monday night after the group meeting on 2 pm.

Thanks.

- Dave

MONDAY

Meeting Monday at 2pm

Bring your layouts, try to clean one up. If you don't know about colour to use just do a gray scale version.
The idea is to build it in flash so that you can all get a feeling for how its done, gradients and textures are added after in photoshop.

Looking forward to seeing everyones stuff!
- Jake Fullerton -

ANIMATING IS FUNNN

hey guys, just to let u guys know that there are files in the model sheet folder thats called something like handsshare and armshare for the kid.
i made few shapes, and when u guys need them u can just use those.
and if u guys made new shapes, then add them to the collection for other ppl or for future use.

thanks!

yay have fun animatingggg

-lisar

this isnt relevant. but check it out guys!
street fighter contest, draw your favourite street fighter character and it might be published in the udon 20th aniversary art book~

Hey guys, I'll be in tomorrow at 2:00 if anyone needs help. I'll be in 151.
-Bryan

Space Ship Chair Design

Bryan, if you are working on the chair feel free to drop off or change any parts that doesn't suit flash.

Space Ship Interior

Here is the revised space ship interior design. I believe I got everything in there, dash board, air lock, etc. The design air lock door area is not so clear in this drawing, but basically take Sooji's design and fit it in between the 2 curve metal pillar/bar type of thing.

The circle thing in the center was intended to be the teleport portal, but it doesn't have to be since we dont have a scene of him appearing in the spaceship.

I got a joy stick on the chair, but if it is unnecessary take it out Bryan. I will get a design of the chair up tomorrow morning.

The circle on the roof are lights.

I think thats everything

Jack

MONDAY

The Meeting is on Monday

Sunday did not work for enough people so we moved it to Monday.


Monday at 2pm.
Must Make this meeting, character are finally done, you will learn how to animate with them, and see where they are on the server.


Sorry for any confusion. I can't remember what day exactly it was changed. But I think it was during the mentor meeting on Wednesday.


- Jake -

is there a meeting on sunday? do tell
i m staying in oakville this weekend for this lone reason

part of my scene
-lz

Airlock

Here is a design for the airlock room.

There are some perspective problem, but it looks ok enough for design pack.

-Sooji-

Airlock Switch

hmm...I belive I am supposed to design the airlock switch....

However, since Laura is dealing with the scene with the airlock switch, choose one you like, Laura :)

Well, here is my design.

-Sooji-

airlock done in flash
-lz

Alien boss

here is the alien boss.

the air lock & the air lock switch comin' up~

-Sooji-

Ship!

This is for the design pack, its a temp model because we need something up.
The actual design I'm still working on.... hard......


here ya go Dave!
- Jake

Design Pack due Tomorrow~!!!

Hello, group~
I asked Mark about design pack, and it is due tomorrow (March 14th).
It doen't need to be printed out; it can be handed in digitally.

Those images above are the templates that Laura made before for design pack (I guess...).

(* Sorry, Laura. I thought these were made by Dave. Sorry~)

And rough layouts are also due tomorrow, individually.

Hmmm...lastly-
in tomorrow's Story class, I heard that we are going to watch a movie for Tuesday's test.
I am not sure what will happen exactly, but I think that's what I heard...
I guess it might affect on your Tuesday's test if you don't show up for tomorrow's morning class.

You all have a great day :)

-Sooji-

Layout Style

This is the layout style that alot you seemed to like at a previous meeting. I think they work well with Characters and well here's as much refrence for it as I could find. Thanks Lisa!!! for the samurai jack stuff too..some of it is quite similar to this style.

-ANDREA!!!!!!!!!!!!

layout sample thingy

here are some layouts from samurai jack.
i think it would fit alot better than invader zim, and it looks funner to try!
i dont think its any simpler than invader zim; just that samurai jack uses no lines but separates forms with shapes of colour. what do u guys think??? im gonna vote for samurai jack =)


and heres a really rough rough rough sample that i did... rough.

very ROUGH.
so heres what i did:
- i used gradient tool of teal blue and dis saturated yellow for the background colour
- i chose a grainy brush and picked up colours on the background and swiped lightly across to add some texture. add stars =)
- made a new layer and i used a normal brush and added grass ( does it have to really be corn field? i think it would make our life so much easier if it was just a hay field.)
- added swipes of high lights, and make a layer under the grass and add some shadow with a grayer tone
- with the similar grainy brush, pick a little bit darker colour from the grass and swipe some at the bottom so it doesnt look as cheap and more interesting lol

i think for this style, colour is very important. it has to look unified, yet contrasted.
i think we can rely on our colour supervisor mi yeon for that, to make swatches.
no lines were used in making the simple background i made, cuz it was a easy one, but if u get detailed layout scenes, then i suggest roughing out the layout first, then use that as a guide and build the layout.

yea..
i dunno, ill do more tmr before class if i woke up early enough haha.

- lisa

Stuff todo

Bring in your workbooked scenes for Wednesday please. If you can't Thursday at latest.

Scan it into your computer and time it out.

Thanks all

- Jake

colore
-lz

REMINDER

Meeting Tuesday! 1:00pm

If you check your calender I handed out you will see what is happening tomorrow, but as a brief recap:

1. Bring in what scenes you've work booked already.
( As an idea for progression, I've pretty much finished work booking all of my scenes. )

2. You will get to see how the characters are coming along in Flash. You will also learn how they work.

3. You will also be able to compare your work booked layouts to others who have scenes around yours. This will help with consistency.

These three things are all very important. Especially the third.
You must make sure your scenes work for flash before Friday.
Today is a good day to find out if your scenes do or do not work for flash as they are.

You can workbook digitally if you want. I'm doing mine strait in flash.

See you all tomorrow for the weekly group meeting. 1pm

Thanks

- Jake

wahaha

for bryan, the MAN.

-lisa

So here's the kid (Billy?) in all his flashy glory. Not totally done, (ie he needs mouth and eye shapes) but he's almost there. I think we should change his proportions a bit though. The alien is coming along as well. I may be able to get his turnaround done tonight. We'll see.
Also here's a video of the kid that I did in maya:



So anyone that wants to help tomorrow is welcome to come, and is very appreciated. I don't know exactly what will be left to do (other than one billion mouth shapes), but I'm sure there will be no shortage of work. Bring a list of any props that you need to do for your scenes, and I can help you build them.

SO to recap: Sunday at 12:00 we are having a character building session. Please come. This means you Lettie and Lisa.

P.S Remember that your workbook for one of these scenes will count for 20% of your mark in DQ's class so have them done for this week, and do them as well as you all can.

-Andrea

Here's the Lieca guys!
use this plus the scene descriptions below to find your scene!

Thanks to Andrea for the extra hours of audio editing on this!

I updated the numbers now too, so it should be easy to find your scene!

PLEASE DO YOUR WORK BOOKS! MANY HOURS HAVE GONE IN UP TO THIS POINT AND CHARACTER MODELS ARE ALMOST FINISHED! PLEASE! Once your workbooks are done we can start animation!! Exciting times!

How to workbook:
Work book your Layouts and Key Pose your scene.
Feel free to really act out your scene, move your character around, just maintain staging as close as possible. Its better to push it far in the work book stage, and pull it back when you go to animate, rather than the other way around.

Thanks all.





- Jake Fullerton

Scenes Below.......................................

Scene Points Breakdown

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Table of Contents
A= Animation /10
L= Layout /10
LP= Layout Painting /5
C= Compositing /5

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1 Fly by title - Animation Mike - Layout Steve
A - 3
L - 9
LP- 5
C - 2
2 lying on bed long shot (establishing shot) Animation Mike - Layout Mike
A - 3
L - 9
LP- 5
C - 2
3 lying on his back looking down on him - Mike
A - 5
L - 2
LP- 2
C - 1
4 fly by (window) ufo goes past - Mike
A - 3
L - 4
LP- 3
C - 4
5 Shocked look - sits up a bit - Mike
A - 5
L - Resuse scene 3
LP- Resuse scene 3
C - 1
6 walking to the window sill - Jake
A - 5
L - 8
LP- 5
C - 4
7 the came for me!- Mike
A - 3
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 2
8 running out of room - Jake
A - 6
L - Resuse-6
LP- Resuse-6
C - 5
9 Establishing shot (feild) - Lisa
A - 0
L - 8
LP- 5
C - 2
10 beam out of ship and walk - Andrea
A - 8
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 4
11 Putting box down - Mark
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 2
12 Reveal - Im ready! - Mark
A - 3
L - 10
LP- 5
C - 3
13 alien scream - Mark
A - 8
L - 7
LP- 4
C - 2
14 LS - Gah! child! my hearts! - Sangho
A - 5
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 2
15 First Kid Dialogue - so what planet are you from - Sangho
A - 5
L - 2
LP- 1
C - 1
16 cawho? - alien shot - Sangho
A - 3
L - 2
LP- 1
C - 1
17 whod win in a fight? - kid shot - Sangho
A - 5
L - Reuse - 15
LP- Reuse - 15
C - 1
18 procedure - alien shot - Sangho
A - 4
L - 2
LP- 1
C - 1
19 does ur ship have lazers!?- Kid shot - Lisa
A - 4
L - Reuse - 15
LP- Reuse - 15
C - 1
20 Trafic laws - Alien shot - Lisa
A - 5
L - Reuse - 18
LP- Reuse - 18
C - 1
21 Can you blow up my school? Hahaha - Kid shot - Lisa
A - 6
L - Reuse - 15
LP- Reuse - 15
C - 1
22 Falooga! shut up - alien shot - Lisa
A - 6
L - Reuse - 18
LP- Reuse - 18
C - 1
23 Taking out memory wipe - Miyeon
A - 5
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 3
24 Great! ive always wanted to go to space! - kid shot - Miyeon
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 1
25 No, No, im going to space, your staying right here- alien shot - Miyeon
A - 5
L - 6
LP- 3
C - 1
26 Kid looking blankly - Miyeon
A - 1
L - Reuse - 24
LP- Reuse - 24
C - 1
27 You have a big head - Steve
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 2
28 Memory wipe breaking - Steve
A - 6
L - 1
LP- 1
C - 2
29 Kids at school said i have a big head - Steve
A - 10
L - Reuse - 27
LP- Reuse - 27
C - 3
30 Running Under ship Long Shot - Animation Miyeon Layout Laura
A - 4
L - 8
LP- 4
C - 2
31 Beamed into ship - Laura
A - 7
L - Reuse 10
LP- Reuse 10
C - 5
32 Running to the button - Layout (Jack) - Animation Bryan
A - 7
L - 8
LP- 4
C - 3
33 Ship takeoff - Jake
A - 6
L - 6
LP- 3
C - 4
34 Flying in space - Jake
A - 3
L - 2
LP- 2
C - 3
35 So where we goin? - Jack
A - 8
L - Reuse 31
LP- Reuse 31
C - 3
36 about to press - Jack
A - 3
L - 6
LP- 3
C - 2
37 alien diving - Jack
A - 7
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 2
38 hit kid out of the way -Jack
A - 6
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 2
39 behind - Bryan
A - 2
L - 7
LP- 4
C - 2
40 alien boss - Sooji
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 3
C - 3
41 of course sir - were going on a space adventure - i said no - Dave
A - 8
L - Reuse 37
LP- Reuse 37
C - 4
42 boss - your fired - Sooji
A - 4
L - Reuse 39
LP- Reuse 39
C - 2
43 close up - Dave
A - 2
L - 1
LP- 1
C - 1
44 you wanna go on a space adventure - Dave
A - 6
L - 6
LP- 4
C - 3
45 yay!- Dave
A - 5
L - 5
LP- 2
C - 1
46 grab helmet - Mark
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 2
47 fit your fat head - Lettie
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 1
48 shove on - Lettie
A - 7
L - 3
LP- 2
C - 3
49 alien laugh - Lettie
A - 6
L - 5
LP- 2
C - 2
50 but wait! THERES MORE - Lettie
A - 5
L - 4
LP- 2
C - 2
51 alien laugh - Lettie
A - 3
L - Reuse 46
LP- Reuse 46
C - 1
52 your lauch pad! Steve Layout Bryan
A - 8
L - 8
LP- 4
C - 2
53 gotta goooo Space! - Andrea
A -5
L -7
LP-3
C -3
54 aint you comin with me? - Sooji
A - 6
L - 7
LP- 4
C - 2
55 me? buwahahah, ill meet you there -bryan
A - 10
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 2
56 yaaa!- Sooji
A - 4
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 3
57 countdown outside - Laura
A - 3
L - 6
LP- 3
C - 1
58 countdown through window - Laura
A - 7
L - 5
LP- 3
C - 3
59 one! blastoff! - Andrea
A - 6
L - 6
LP- 3
C - 2
60 press button - Laura
A - 5
L - Reuse 53
LP- Reuse 53
C - 2
61 door opening and suck out - Andrea
A - 9
L - Reuse 55
LP- Reuse 55
C - 3
62 Alien Laughing - Dave
A - 4
L - 5
LP- 2
C - 2
63 Space (earth) - Mike
A - 3
L - 8
LP- 4
C - 3
64 shooting star - Sooji
A - 5
L - 3
LP- 2
C - 2



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This took many hours, so if u don't like a scene that you received, try to trade with someone else. Takes to long to re balance points.

Please commit the hours and get your scenes (rough) workbooked for next week.
Thanks.

- Jake Fullerton

So Character building is going really well soo far! There is still alot to do but this is a great start!
Thanks to evryone helping out!

THURSDAY  feb 28th 11:30 Character Building Meeting

We will be meeting in the downstairs computer lab. Please if your in the character building group

show up.We could really use your help.

11:30 Wednesday

11:30 Wednesday
Flash Lesson Meeting

Order of operations:
1.Choose your scenes / Get your scenes
2.Flash Lesson
3.Work on your Flash Practice scene.
4.Questions

Meeting Moved to Wednesday due to weather.

Meeting Moved to Wednesday due to weather.

do not come tomorrow, if someone cant make it.
I will cover your lesson on a day that you can.

Please try to make it.

Sorry for the last second notice, blame the weather man.



thank you all for helping me out on this one.

MEETING

Snow storm warning!
There may be a snow storm tomorrow, I've heard of upwards of 15 cm...
people who live far away i don't want to make you risk the roads.

I need to know if moving the meeting to Wednesday is possible. Please post a yes or a no. or call me.

I need an answer from everyone so please do so. If i get an answer from everyone Ill make a post.

If not. Its still tomorrow, and well just hope for no snow.

Thanks all.
- Jake


Side note:

Laura, It was late when I typed that and because of that I guess I did not type what I was trying to say correctly. I was suggesting that you DO go home, and DO care. Simply suggesting that you come for a little while early on then leave. So you wouldn't have to sacrifice too much for school.
I want you to be home with your family, family > school.

FLASH LESSON

The Flash Lesson day will be on Tuesday as decided at the meeting.

Starting at 11:30am.

You must make this meeting, this is not optional. Laura, I know stuff has come up for you, perhaps you could come, then leave early. But you need to sacrifice a few hours and get brushed up. Everyone else, I haven't heard anything saying you can't make it. So be there.

You will also receive your scenes to be working on over the break. You will have a choice in this before the flash lessons get underway, so be on time.

Thanks again all,
Special thanks to Bryan.


See you all then!
- Jake

hey guys
anyway we can move the meeting up from tuesday?
namely before tuesday like mon,sun, or sat??
because i need to go home befor tues cus my parents
are goin to hk cus my grandfather is dying and i need
to help them wf stuff befor they leave
i think its a crucial meeting,,so id rather move it than miss it...
-lz

Spaceship Interior

There will be some minor changes to the sizes of the elements in the spaceship, but overall every objects that are here will remain in the updated version.

FRIDAY FEB 22 MANDATORY MEETING

FEB 22. 11 am

This is a meeting that I say you must make, you will be deciding what it is that you will be working on over the next month and a half.

Knowing your scenes before the break is mandatory!
as you MUST be working on your workbooks over the Break.

A Project Calender will also be given out to all members on this day

I understand that many people are worried with the progression of our film. But story is key, and by sacrifcing this time we have finally gotten our story perfect. Now that we are working in flash, the animation will not take as long.



ALSO
We will be deciding the day for the flash Lessons Tomorrow!

If you arn't there tomorrow you get no say in when it is. If you do not make the Flash Lessons, your scenes could possibly be taken away from you and you will not complete the year.

YOU MUST MAKE THE LESSONS.
Once you've learned the method you can start animating, without them you will be animating incorrectly.


This may seem harsh, but time is low and we need to push ourselves.
Help push with me by sacrificing 1 hour out of your lives to show your respect and dedication.

Please be there. If you are not present, you had better have a solid reason as it will be reported.
Respect, dedication and trust. These three things will get our film done.

Respect your team mates.
Dedicate your self the the set deadlines.
Trust others to do the same.

FEB 22. 11 am
- Jake Fullerton-

Animation Decision URGENT

HI!
I just sent out an email detailing this post. Basically we need to make a decision on what type of Animation we want for the film. Some of us are seriously contemplating flash and we have a go ahead form DQ. So now we need to know what the group thinks. Above are some links to EL TIGRE the show who's Animation we wish to emulate and the show Bryan worked on.

MEETING 2 PM TUESDAY: If you are not there you forfeit your vote.

Please read your email thanks ....p.s Happy Family Day


ANDREA

Design Pack

Now that everyone should have a demo reel up and running, I'm going to ask everyone to have their design parts completed and either posted on blog or gave me a copy and not original(NOTE: DO NOT GIVE ME ORIGINALS) by Thursday night.

-Dave

lisa's post

of kid's room rough and some items in his room o_O

the room is rough becauseeee.... i sort of wanted to change the style of the layout.. just to fit the story more.
i was thinking more like jacob two two's rough-ish type.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xtbjS210Jak&feature=related

i dunno.. just a suggestion.



-Lisa

Animation Parts For the DQ man!

Animation Parts For DQ

Jake - First Chair Knock
Dave - Jump Out of Chair
Sangho - Running Up the ramp
Jack - Diving on the button
Bryan - Ill meet you there
Steve - Whack! Hit the kid with mem wiper
Andrea - Kid Countdown
Lisa - Dome on head
Lettie - Alien Jumping back, when meeting the Kid
Mike - On the bed Lying on his back flying the ship around
Miyeon - Running out his room
Sooji - Boss Rotation
Laura - Picking up the head dome
Mark - Put box down

Find ur part here :D



Thanks
- Jake

our film title should b in the bottom left corner,oh and i fergot to put group name down too

Design List

People, we need to have some items/locations designed. Sign up, if you are not part of the story development people.

If there's anything you believe we need, don't hesitate to suggest it.

bed room(kids/boy/alien lover)(Lisa)
-poster of space and planet(Laura)
-toy rocket(Laura)
-lamp(Lisa)
-picture frame(Lisa)
-text books(Laura)
-desk(Laura)
-computer(Laura)
-computer chair(Laura)
-mobile of ship(Laura)
-solar system mobile(Laura)
-bed(Lisa)
-blanket(Lisa)
-pillow(Lisa)

farm(with corn patches and a path from ufo to house)
-silo
-barn
-ufo (Dave)
-alien tool box
-content in the box
-mind wiper(Laura)

ufo(entrance in back with ram)
-ufo leaving fx(Dave)
-leivating chair(Dave)
-computer, display, buttons(everything thin and flashy)(Dave)
-interior of ship(Dave)
-boss(Sooji)
-screen fx
-boss, boss chair, end transmission button(Sooji)
-vacuum tube/helmet
-air lock(Sooji)
-air lock button(Sooji)

That's all, please have some rough sketches for Tuesday!
Also, if you want to suggest a style that might be good for our final story, please bring some research. So far, I have a book on my desk that we could use as a bible if we can't agree on anything.

- Dave

P.S. I will update the list as people sign up for stuff.