End of year - Showreel Part 01

This is my 1st blogspot post of my showreel 
Today (November 24th 2015) 

I continued working on a animation that I started doing 2 or 3 weeks ago.
The animation will be used as part of my showreel. 
The animation itself is based on this ...
"Spoken like a true Meebo."
This link has the script that I am working off from.

I have done some character designs of them earlier

but the character themselves belonged to Tales of Zestiria and Bandai Namco Studios.
I'm a fan of the tales of series myself. These are for a Tales of Skits - Zestiria (Fanmade) 
I'm thinking of doing in the future and the one I'm doing now are better than this dialogue piece I did last year
for fun ...
Th-thanks
All I did well was the lip sync itself. But I need to work on a bit more on my acting.

So far I have managed to finish the 2nd part of Mikleo dialogue. 
"It's Mikleo, alright. Mikleo!"

I still have 2 more diaogue parts left until I can finish his dialogue parts off.
Other than that all dialogue parts of Edna's are done. 
But those will be posted out as animated gifs sometime this week.
Here's what it looks like on flash so far...

I'm working on each dialogue separate before combining all of it together.
Actually these are just a personal project I'm working on
just to practise on my acting and lip sync.

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Continued from where I had left off ...

Today (November 23rd 2015) - Reflection Post

The design document

I had to restart the idea at the beginning since my first idea was for a fantasy rpg game 

but I got bored with the idea halfway through.

As soon as I overcome that huddle I was able to think of another idea

to do for my project and that is how "Imperial chess" came to be.

The research 

It took a while to find all the information that I need.

But to put it all together it was quite simple. 

I started with the moodboards. Since I pretty much know

what the environments and style it's going to look like, 

I was easy putting the images together. It goes for the same 

when it comes to the characters, props and such.

I had a bit of a trouble working out the labeling for my Bibliography

since some of the images did not have a retrieved date on them.

I had to put the date of when i retrieved the images on it instead.

It was insteresting to find out information on it limitations 

of a iphone, since that is the device I'm using for my project.

The kickstarter

When it comes to the making of the website, 

I have to put all the research that I did all into one website.

Everything went smoothly expects for the pledge rewards 

and the stretch goals. When I was working on those I have 

a rough idea on what I want my rewards to be but I wasn't sure of 

how to lay it all out. So I went to see some of the existing kickstarter projects

and have a glander on how they did theirs. From there I was able to move on with

the cost of the pledges and goals.

The pitch trailer

There were some issues that bothered me, when it comes

to the final export of the trailer. Especially with the sound volume.

Other issues involved are the screen size, to which I had to change them from 

1136 x 670 to 1920 x 1080. I had issues with the export as well which take too long 

to export from flash so I found another software (sviwel) to make it go faster and it did.

The animation (5 seconds animation)

I want to do more to the animation but 

it will mean that I'll add more things to it. 

In the idle pose animation I had to do 2 roughs 

to get to the point that I want. In the first rough Cao cao

were moving his arms in a running posing to which he shouldn't be.

Instead he just need to move his body up and down.

The attack were a lot easier to do but I had some 

troubles with the timing. In a attack animation the character attack 

should be moving fast instead of moving slowly.

If I were to add more things to the animation 

I will need to add how cao cao will be using his skills attack, 

defend, using items and flee.

And that pretty much is it for my reflection post.

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Today (November 20th 2015) - Post production

I continued working on the post production

for my pitch video trailer. 

Today I forcused on the finish touches which is just

compiling the shots in After effects

Adding in the BGM using premiere

and exporting all of it out using adobe media encoder

it was a long progress moving up to this bit but

the pitch video trailer is all done and dusted.

 Reflection:

What went well ?

hard to say since it's mostly just the exporting.

What didn't went well?

I had to re-export the animation a couple of times

due to the file size and sound 

(the sound was quiet at some stages 

so I had to make it a bit more louder.)

It took a long time to export all of the shots off

from adobe flash as a png sequence 

so i found another software called swivel 

to make the progress more faster.

A full reflection on the whole project

of my individual specialist project 

will be out sometime next week.

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Today (November 19th 2015) - Post production

I continued working on the post production

for my pitch video trailer. 

Today I just forcused on re-sizing my shots 

and re-exporting them from flash 

but they were taking longer to export so I have 

found a quicker way to do it by turning them into swf instead of a

png sequence.

These are the steps of how i exported out my files today ...

I changed the jpeg quality to 100 before i moved on to the sound settings.

After that I exported the file out as a swf.

From there I used a program called swivel to convert my swf files 

into a mp4 file.

and that was a lot quicker than what i had done yesterday.

My step after this is to re-import them into after effects

and re-compile them into the final trailer (again)

hopefully this time the files work perfectly.

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Today (November 18th 2015) - Post production

I continued working on the post production

for my pitch video trailer. 

Today I was able to finish re-animating 

the text of introduction to the trailer.

From there I complied the shot and exported it out 

in after effects. 

It seems that when I exported it out

something didn't seem to the right with the sound files

to which i had to cut off some parts off to the dialogue and 

the music itself was louder than it should be (lower than the dialogue).

When I sync the png files with the dialogue it was off

the animation was playing at 30 frames per second to which it was 

supposed to be playing at 25 frames per seconds.

I exported the png files as 1920 x 1080 to which it supposed to be 

the same file size as the flash file that way the

images will sync up to the dialogue perfectly 

So currently  I am now  re-exporting

all the shots as png files in the right dimensions

and re-exporting them out again in after effects.

Plan for the rest of the day:

Is to re-export all the shots as pngs.

So that tomorrow I can re-import them into after effects

and have them sync up with the dialogue.

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Today (November 17th 2015) - Post production

I continued working on the post production

for my pitch video trailer. 

Today I did some re-recording of a dialogue piece

for the introduction of my pitch. Since in one dialogue line 

it becomes louder at one point then suddenly it becomes low again.

Before that I went on to this website 

http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

to find some bgm that fit with my pitch and I have found two songs 

that I can use

Other than that

my plan for later tonight and tomorrow

is to re-animate the text to the introduction of my pitch.

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Today (November 16th 2015) - Post production

I started working on the post production

for my pitch video trailer. 

I first begin exporting all the files out from flash

(the introduction shot of my pitch)

from there I used Adobe Media Encoder 

to change the settings and the compression of the files

and later I used Adobe After effects 

to put all the files together.

I am currently working making sure that the sound works well

and later if it does I'll add some bgm music to it.

About the sound ...

some of the sound files sounds loud in the way that I want it to be

but in the other files they become lower again. 

I wonder what I can do to fix that.