Thursday, May 04, 2006

today's a flop.
mainly because of the lack of communication, that applies to all of us.
lack of rehearsal and understanding of the story.

lack of coordination.


as much as i am pissed/irritated

i decided that we should be more organised.

to save time and increase quality/consistency.

i suggest we use flash for our animation.
nothing hard at all if you compare it to maya.


well i dunno if i sound kiasu.
but consider that i dun do it for the sake of doing
but i'm doing it cause i know it is possible to create something of quality.


ok.

here's my proposed details.

we need to do the time reel right.
1) i will edit the threatening part to rectangle feeling guilty after seeing the poor circle reaching out his hand to make peace. (before i pass the stuff to xuan)

2) i need hui xuan to scan the all the panels. (by friday night, earlier hopefully)

3) i will ask wei kiat to do the backgrounds in illlustrator e.g the 1st panel of the classroom (by saturday afternoon, i will force him to create msn account.)

3) liesl and adrian will liase with each other to settle the timing and make a temporary reel out of the scanned pics. (by saturday night)

4) mean time i will redo all the panels in photoshop using vector. all by me for the consistency sake. (done by saturday night)

5) i will give adrian all the digitally done panels to adrian for him to piece them into a timing reel. (sunday evening)

vector meaning we are going to execute this animation in flash
reason being:

1) minimal cost (animation paper etc etc)
2) less work (less drawing, no manual coloring, no shooting)
3) styles easier to be consistent and easier to edit

i'm sorry if i sound autorcratic (meaning i say yes u cannot say no)
but this has to be done in a very organised in efficient way after seeing what happened.
please cooperate with me at all costs.
any unhappiness let's put it aside.

ok that's all for now
further details and allocation of work regarding this project i will work out as soon as all of us have flash

i'm asking from andrea now.
by next week we should have.

let's be practical about this project and work systematically

dateline: 20/6/06
today: 5/5/06

we have exactly 46 days
which is 6 weeks and 4 days to complete our animation with pride.