Hi

I just finished my new website, feel free to have a look through most of my works on

http://www.rdsproductions.com/

For the past few weeks, i've been spending my time at animation stage, as well as make the details for all the elements in most of the scenes. I got some quality problem yesterday, and its really bad to present the work to the class with very awful quality. but now I just fixed it, what i did was export all the scenes from flash as PNG sequence and bring it straight to final cut. and I got pretty good quality now. but at the moment, I need some comments about the background sound (does it fit with this kind of informative animation, what sort of music i should use..?), I know I have to edit the 'kid n dad convo' in audition later on.. how about the graphic?anything I should add or change or sumthing?

Some of my character research, this is the reference for greenhouse gas character and the sunlight character.

(Street, R. The Best New Animation Design. United States of America, 1995.)




Another exploration of how the chubby character looks like, a bit fat character, has short legs and big head.

(Street, R. The Best New Animation Design. United States of America, 1995.)




the reference for the 'father' character. I try to make a baldy character (get the feeling of a bit old and mature >> so that this kind of character can communicate with children better)

Ubinas, D. Pick-Up Book of Cartoon-Style Illustration. United States of America, 1979

Character Development

Started from a pencil and paper first, then here are the character sketches and development for this project. This gives me ideas of chubby character, exaggerated characteristic and basic shape as it will aim for young children.

here's the graphic style that I will use for this 2nd concept..

Fixing the Concept

Target audience: children age 6-10 year old

Children’s personality:

- They are curious
- They have different way of looking & interacting with
their environment

- They still fresh (they don’t think so much issues)
- Love to play
- Love to watch cartoon, funny, superhero movies
- Love to be entertained.

Based on their personality above, I decided to create a short animation under the theme of global warming, it is going to be made in 2d flash style. My aim is to educate young child to care about the world in a humorous way. The storyline has to be made in a very simple way and children age 6-10 year old can comprehend the story well.

Characters:

1. a boy
2. a father
3. Mr. S (Sunlight)
4. Mr. G (Greenhouse gas)

Storyline:

GLOBAL WARMING SUPERHEROES

One day, there is a boy and his dad walking down the street, the weather on that day is very hot until they get sweaty. The boy starts asking his dad, “I feel so hot dad.”, then his dad replies to him, “you’re perhaps wondering why today’s really hot..”, then he continues, “This is because GLOBAL WARMING!”.

His dad then explains the cause of global warming by telling a simple story of how the sunlight is trapped in the atmosphere because of greenhouse gases block the sunlight. The story goes into the unreality world, there is Mr. S (sunlight) flying into the world and going back again to the sun, but in the middle of his way, (Mr. G) greenhouse gases blocks his way and starts hitting Mr S. Afterwards, a view of the earth appears sad and crying (because its weather’s too hot) and those Mr. S will appear around the earth.

Back to the real world, the boy asks his dad again, “how to prevent that situation?”, his dad answers “ for you as a kid, you can use your bike than a car/bus.”. . the boy then use his bike and he’s turning into some sort of superheroes, using cloth, helmet and so on. A picture of that hero will then appears in a TV, which the boy and his dad are watching it. After that, the boy asks again, “ what else dad?”, his dad said “Turn off the TV if you’re not watching it!”, Then the boy get a TV remote control and turn the TV off. He will then turning again into some sort of superman or batman.

END

Storyboard





Character Style



2d simple flash style and frame by frame animation.

1. a father
2. a boy
3. Mr. S (Sunlight)
4. Mr. G (Greenhouse gas)

okay, as tarwin said I have to create some examples of how the finish product will look like. So this one is one of the example of the factory scene (here, it shows the irony feeling, the reason is to engage the audience to prevent the Global warming issue.) Im gonna animate the smoke and also the truck at the bottom right there. At the moment Im still trying to figure out if this shot is probably best shown in silhouette version or not.. anyway, back to work.




This one is the silhouette version for the oil factory on a sea. I thought this style would be best fit if mixed with 2d flash animation. but, i gotta playing around more to decide the best style. any suggestions would help me!



Im still building up this Global Positioning system, I thought using this technology would be helpful to find out the area that produces greenhouse gases. I might change the way those building look like, gonna add some more details and stuff. I also add how the signal symbol, current time, an arrow to show the north direction and the small globe there which will be animated (rotating).

alright

After class presentation last Monday, I realized my concept are too broad and I need to narrow it down.

So right, I decided to only focus on show cases of globalwarming (the shot with GPS technology to find an area that produces lots of pollution)and also using facts and infos from mags and newspaper article.

Another point that I want to more concentrate on is the causes of globalwarming, instead of reviewing all the causes, I thought it would be better to focus on deforestation ( where the process of deforestation, cutting down the trees until they become many newspaper), also another cause is the fact that factory also got a place in producing pollution.

The last point that I want to more focus on is how to prevent global warming? The only answer I wanna say is use bicycle as a vehicle.

After I watched some videos from current tv (thx to tarwin), I thought I might categorize my project as a humorous + a bit of irony, but also educative and also this will be presented on a social campaign TV program. The reason for that because this video is targeted to young audience that needs to be educated (for globalwarming issue) in straight forward terms. In terms of the audio, I've chosen a fun background sound like a bird warble sort of thing and also a voice over explaining more about the issue (globalwarming).

MMD 3308 (Open/Self Driven Brief)


Aim: To remind human in the world the danger of global warming.

Brief: To make a short clip documentary about global warming.

Concept:

In relation to what subtopics/areas in this project that will be explained (mostly using visual graphic content and can be supported by the use of text animation:

• Specific Information about global warming

- Definition of global warming
- Causes by global warming
- General Impacts by global warming


• Show cases of global warming

- Show series of pictures/edited video that can prove that global warming is happening and will be a serious problem.
(Technique: by using GPS technology as a simulation to track where the areas that are get impacts of global warming.)

- Show an accurate information about Global Warming from other sources
(This could be a paper cut from magazines or newspaper that has article about Global Warming, This material will then be scanned and animated).

• Show examples that are believed as the cause of Global Warming

- The use of Air Conditioning, the increase of Carbon dioxide, Greenhouse gases, the use of paper and material from wood, pollution from transportation and also the use of electronic devices.

• Examples of incidents that will happen if Global Warming destroys the world and its population.

- Land will be smaller than the ocean due to the polar ice is melted
(This scene can use a 3d simulation to show different techniques and style)

- There will be no extra Oxygen left in this world
- Climate will change dramatically





Technique:

To tell a story about Global Warming using range different techniques and skills, mix of media such as 2d and 3d animation, Motion graphic, real live footage and also traditional technique (hand drawn image, scanned material and stop motion). All those techniques can be supported by the use of text to make the information clearly sent through this project.

What is Global Warming?

Increase in average temperature on Earth’s climate & oceans due to natural greenhouse effect caused by the greenhouse gases is said to be the global warming phenomenon.

From the day human started using fossil fuels, CO2 (Carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere started building up. Being a green house gas, CO2 can trap the warmness from dispersing to the sky. This speciality of CO2 now results in global warming.

Impact of Global Warming

Global warming can affect both plant and animal species. The major impact of the global warming will be decrease in polar ice caps, which results in rise of ocean water level, which in effect brings low lying cities under the sea.

The increase amount of fresh water can also affect the flow of Thermohaline circulation, the ocean current powering our climate. Hence any change to this current can adversely affect the world’s climate. Hurricanes of large magnitudes, floods, droughts and other extreme weather anomalies are the predicted results of global warming.

Global warming also results in ice-albedo feedback. When ice melts, these areas will either become land or ocean. Both land and ocean are less reflective and can absorb large
amount of heat. This in turn warms the climate and results in more melting of ice. Thus global warming can increase the effect of global warming.

http://www.globalwarmingawareness.info/

Its time to start posting on this blog for MMD 3308 assignment, even Im not there at the moment, but will catch up for all things next week when I get there.

As john and tarwin emailed me and gave an instruction for what I should do, I have read the brief and since its an open brief and self driven project, i thought its the best time to explore my skill to do kind of project that ive never done before.

I was thinking to do approximately 5 minutes in duration of a documentary clip. The aim of this clip is to tells a story, investigates a hot issue in the world today, like for example of a case Im thinking now is GLOBALWARMING. Sure that I have to collect plenty of information, text, picture, video and sound to do this project.

those images above are some examples of still images that ive collected from my research. just to give a rough idea of what I wanted to do, in terms of theme and technique.

Yesterday, I finished all the backgrounds for this game, below are just the screenshots (click here and just click next to continue). Today, we got another meeting again, Elise, me and Yun worked hard to finish the prototype by tomorrow, so that we can get another feedback from tarwin and troy. So, I help Yun tae finishing the character selection section(make the chinese letter) and also opening design(layout) that we might use.

Elise got prototype today,and yeah, we're getting there. Its awesome to see the character's play in the game, almost like a fishing game, the user have to pick the right zodiac to get a score and go to the next level. we'll work on the next level more during this weekend and try to finish the whole game by monday, so we got time for testing and also do folio for joel's class.

Wednesday, May 23, 07

Today is a full day of work, I have generated some possible backgrounds that we might use, Yun Tae helps me to create some of backgrounds as well, since practically we're only working in a group of 3..so elise has prototype ready to show tomorrow to tarwin and troy, hopefully we can get sumthing back from that..

So I just posted those backgrounds on my blog..

Those backgrounds are not really done yet, I have to compile some stuff from yun so that our backgrounds have the same style and feeling. Yun and I decided to make a lil amount of animation for background, so that user wont get bored in particular scene. Things like rotating the sun, animate the flag on top of the castle or maybe some sort of raining scene will entertain the audience who's playing this game.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Hi GREEN TEAM...

first of all..

Thanx to elise.. :D..for making this share blog, ive no idea before that different ppl can contribute to one blog..but thats fine.

oh.I just realized, we're now in week 4 for this project.. just to let you guys know, i've done the character's template for both chinese and western zodiac so that we can start making the prototype. I break up the character into 3 different pieces>>head, body and legs kind of.. and Ive tested it before like troy and tarwin said last week that we can make kind of chubby character(big head and small body), so I did try that, seems everything alright, as long as you guys put the head on top of the body and the body would be best fit on top of the legs..at this point we dont have to worry about match point anymore i guess.. :D

oh yeah, i got both templates online in

HERE..

Im still developing the idea for making the zodiac's background. i'll come up with some bg's tomorrow, as we got our meeting tomorrow, what time is it elise?

I like the style of the bg that elise has created, keep it simple and vector, i think all flash games just use simple idea in terms of story telling and the way user play the game. Like games from

mofunzone

are good example for this project, especially the RPG/strategy game on that site.

alrighty, I'll see you guys tomorrow then..


May 19, '07 8:17 PM

DIGITAL GAMES_flash

GREEN team...!!!

We plan to develop a world where the users interact through input entered into a system and to observe the interaction which occur between the characters they create. The characters communicate with one another by speech bubbles and randomised
ways of walking into each other. To developed these individual characters we will require multiply amounts of assets which will be determined by user inputs such as name, birthday day, birth year, gender, and favourite colour. The game has a similar style and gameplay to the game runescape, where most interaction is simple and each character is unique in look and personality.
These inputs would correspond to certain body parts and also reflect the way these characters interact with other people. i.e. aries people are outgoing and this is reflected
in the way the speak to the other users charcters which have been saved into the world.

Sound

The aim of this exhibition design project is to
explain visually a process of how basic or source of sound will
become a creative and complex sound. Some properties of
sound, which are frequency, sound wave, period, amplitude
and speed, are really important things to create music. Sound
can be transferred through all forms of matter, gases, liquids
and solids. Moreover, the matter that supports the sound is
called the medium, this could be any things surround us.

This moving image piece will be projected using only one
projection on to the wall, a big and wide wall. Considering the
visual effects used in this motion graphic piece will be looking
great in a big scale projection. Another way to construct the
exhibition space is this video needs four “wave table” (some
kind of table that is normally used for taking series of
photographs for stop motion piece), which can be placed at
both left and right side of the wall. This table will reflect the
light from the projectors nicely and make a double-sided
reflection at the front and at the back of the table and the wall
still get projected as well, since this table made from good
quality of white plastic and transparent materials.

In The Year 7510

Analysis of how life in “POST HUMAN” era is going to be, how human are getting changed (physically) into cyborg. Robots and all types of machines will be created in order to help human in everyday life. Life will be like a dream/illusion that can be recreated. There will be no limitations of technology development and people are integrated with high technology in developed world. Therefore, people will not be surviving without technology in their life.

Post-humans could be a symbiosis of human and artificial intelligence, or uploaded consciousnesses, or the result of making many smaller but cumulatively profound technological augmentations to a biological human, i.e. a cyborg. Some examples of the latter are redesigning the human organism using advanced nanotechnology or radical enhancement using some combination of technologies such as genetic engineering, psycho pharmacology, life extension therapies, neural interfaces, advanced information management tools, memory enhancing drugs, wearable or implanted computers, and cognitive techniques.