IMPORTANT!

I aim to render and composite at least 50% of the whole movie by the end of the two weeks break. We have 49 shots in total. That means we need to have 25 shots done by end of the break. Right now, no shots are completely done.

Texturers, please do the lighting as soon as possible and give it to me to render. I have already mentioned to Jacque that I can no longer push you all. No matter how much I push, you all are very slow. So, Huda will push you all instead. Do not make things diffcult for all of us!

The more you three drag, you are affecting the whole group. The production bible team is waiting for your lighting and texturing to be done! The compositor would still need to render and composite each shots. I still need to send the whole clip to the audio people to edit the sound and music.

SO DO NOT THINK THAT YOU HAVE THREE MONTHS TO FINISH THE LIGHTING! The maximum time that I can give you all is only one month. Thus, please plan your time well.

For your info : Scene 1: 5 shots
Scene 2: 7 shots
Scene 3: 22 shots
Scene 4: 7 shots
Scene 5: 3 shots

Merissa, please help Cheryl if you can. She has the most shots to do.

Hui Sian, how is the smoke effect? please reply as soon as possible.

scn003_sht004

^ character only render


^ bg only render


^ final comp

scn003_sht004

scn004_sht004

production bible layout

this is the layout for the production bible-- character category, done by huda.

Bedroom Textures

Textures for bedroom are finished, save the family photos. Need Hui Sian or someone to help render the family portraits out~
Lighting is being worked on, hoping to finalize scn003_sht004 soon.

scn004_sht004

scn004_sht005

hi~ this is the render for scn004_sht005
one has blur on the carrots around which i blurred on PS to show you, can render the carrots separate from bunnies ...

sht004_scn003

again her feet & bg will be comp...
and add blur to FG (btw this is the old alice & bunny skin not the updated (healthy) one)

scn004_sht001

scn004_sht001
(Alice will be comp on top of the background layer because the hands are cuttin in..maya problem )

to Qing Xiong and Daryl

Please solve the problem of the paintweighting of Alice's bag and mum shirt sleeve. If you want sandy to animate the vertex of the mum's sleeve, please tell her to do so asap. Thanks.

To merissa and Evelyn only.

I would like to meet you both tomorrow (24/11). I would like to start render the wonderland scene. But first, I would like Evelyn to try render the outline, see if it's good. Thanks.

wonderland update

remove bump and put displacement instead, it's not so pixelated,

light link so she's in light focus, but her hand is in the path is in the animation, can i move the path/ or camera angle? caus i think thats why the path texture doesnt look nice?

labs closed next week,

and my maya cant work will try to install :S

updates

made the carrot behind smaller so can see floating carrot animation and audience can sense the enviroment better...

Important!

From Wednesday onwards, Daryl, Evelyn and me will be away in Beijing for a month. During this month when I'm not around, the rest of you must continue to do the project. Below are the tasks that you need to do.

Huda: I assume that you have finished your animation by wednesday. Thus, please do the production bible. Colour those that I told you to colour. Do the character and the environment, colour script categories first. The "monster house" art book will be lent to you. Please take good care of the book as the book belongs to Evelyn. IT'S NOT A SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK. If lost, you need to pay for it. Also, I will lend you the old production bible as your reference. Another thing that you need to do is to find reference/ research for the typeface of the title and the credits.

Hui Sian: You will continue to do your animation, especially the facial animation. Besides animation, you are to help out Huda for the production bible.

Sandy: Help out Huda for the production Bible. Also, you need to help out in the sound effects. You need to act as Alice and you need to make some sound effects like Alice sighing. You may need to continue editing your animation.

Merissa: Continue your wonderland lighting and texturing. For the sound effects, you will act as Alice's mum. You need to make sound effects for certain shots like scene 2 shot 1, when alice is looking at mum and mum turns away.

Qing Xiong: do the animation for the keychain and the leaves. For the sound effects, you will act as Alice's dad. there's some shots that requires some sound from dad like scene 2 shot 2, the shot which dad turns away when Alice looks at him, and also scene 2 shot 7, whe dad is cutting the steak.

Cheryl: When you have come back, do the texturing and the lighting for the bedroom. PLEASE DO A VERY, VERY , VERY NICE TEXTURING FOR THE BEDROOM SO THAT EVELYN DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY.

Note:
For texturers, update your progress in the blog everyday. Huda will come on wednesday and friday to check up on you. DO NOT GIVE ME EXCUSES SAYING THAT YOU HAVE NO TIME TO DO TEXTURING BECAUSE OF THE MODULES ASSIGNMENTS!

For the animators, please update you animation every wednesday and friday and send it to me via email.
For those who are in charge of production bible, post the images in the blog every week.

Cheryl, you are to come back to school immediately after your holiday to continue the texturing.

Bedroom WIP

Variations of the door:



Original colour:

wonderland updates

wonderland updates

Batch render farm

wonderland sht001 update

after rendering close-up of leaves and etc, i will need to tweak res. of textures accordingly...

wonderland sht 001

re-doing the lighting according to shot, but this is the compositioning of objects..

- table edited
- tweaked calender + lamp + bedside tables
- etc

Painting yet to be edited,
Alice's loose drawings to be added in..

Bedroom WIP

Bedroom WIP..

edited the bumps for the books and pencil case.

also tweaked the textures for the door and curtains and lamps and a little for the bedpost. (i'll render out the door tmr)

wonderland up dates

very rough edit on ps. to get the feeling of shot.

good to have blur on fore ground later on in compositing,

working on shot 1

wonderland updates

FINAL-ish: need to do tweaking of attributes of the blinn...less shiny.

edited the bunny statue modelling abit so look more like cloth (ears and body) and later on added stars to the big carrots and also change the tiled textured to 3 tones instead of just checkered. I am ready to start lighting and edit textures in each shot...

Bedroom WIP

v light and shadow comparison v