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9/10/2017 - 6/11/2017 (Week 7-Week 10) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) 2D Animation Walk-Cycle + Turning around Lecture -No lecture was conducted- Instructions P3 Walk Cycle and Lip Sync (15%) Walk Cycle Due Week 8 AP Follow through and overlapping action / Arcs REF Side Walk. Continuum of Thought. Lip Sync Due Week 10 AP Exaggeration / Appeal AP Appeal / Squash and Stretch REF Gorrilla. Tutorial We all went to the Farm In The City, Seri Kembangan to have our class there. Mr.Hafiz told us to sketch the animals in there, and focus more on their dominant mass and less on details at first. Then, we are told to do animation of an animal turning around and post it this week on Google+. He also reminded us to focus on alignment of the animal body parts when we do the animation later on. I have decided to go for the Brahma Chicken. Turn around Brahma Chicken Brahma Chicken Walk Cycle Side Redoing : Redoing ( 1st attempt )...

27/09/2017 (Week 5) Liam Yue Wei(0327686) Video Editing and Production Exercise Lecture -No lecture was conducted) Instructions We were shown a video called "The Piano Tuner" and we were asked to determine which part of the short film is plot point 1, plot point 2, climax, resolution and so on. Tutorial The exercise for 'The Piano Tuner'. 'The Piano Tuner'. Feedback -No feedback- Reflection Experience I actually knew what was going to happen in the short film as I have watched it on the night before the class, such a coincidence. However, I did not notice the reason why the old lady killed the man, I thought it was nothing big. But after watching it again in the class, I noticed that the old lady killed the man because she found the minutes in the man's pocket, meaning that he can actually see even though he lied, saying that he is a blind man. Observations This short film was very interesting even if I watched it ...

11/10/2017 (Week 7) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Video Editing and Production Filming exercise Lecture -No lecture was conducted- Instruction We were shown a short film called  "Murdered", which is also a BMW Shorties 2012 Grand Prize Winner, directed by Chua Dick Woei. Then, we also have to be split into two teams to do a filming exercise on the storyboard we did for exercise last week. Synopsis of the short film that we watched, 'Murdered': Pak Long, a scriptwriter passed by a murder incident, and he got involved by killing the murderer to defend himself. Then, he used the murderer as his own character in his story, so that he can write a good story. In the end, his story was accepted. Tutorial The exercise for "Murdered": Exercise for 'Murdered' Sorting out the roles of the team  Abigail as director Vivien as assistant director Bulan as art director Aurelia as cameraman Chalani as assistant cameraman Actors Hanif ...

2/10/2017 (Week 6) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) 2D Animation Walk-cycle exercise Lecture During the lecture, Mr.Hafiz has shown us the steps to do the exercise for walk-cycle in Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Animate CC. Instruction P3 Walk Cycle and Lip Sync (15%) Walk Cycle Due Week 8 AP Follow through and overlapping action / Arcs REF Side Walk. Continuum of Thought. Lip Sync Due Week 10 AP Exaggeration / Appeal AP Appeal / Squash and Stretch REF Gorrilla. Tutorial We were told to record a video of people walking, both side view and three-quarter view. As we are going to do an animation of people walking as an exercise. It turns out that it is better if we can have a footage of people walking really strangely. I followed the steps that Mr.Hafiz posted on Google+ to get the looping video of Hui Li walking very strangely. Then, I used Adobe Animate CC to animate the movements of the walk. The final exercise is in the below. Side view fo...

4/10/2017 (Week 6) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Video Editing and Production Storyboarding Lecture -No lecture was conducted... but we did exercise during the class- Instruction We did 2 exercises during the class. For the first one, we watched a short film about a boy with Autism, and we carried onto writing down the scenes. For the second exercise, we were given a short video to watch and we were asked to make a digital storyboard by taking some screenshots from the video that we think is necessary. Tutorial For the first exercise, we watched a short film called " Guang ". Exercise 1 For the second exercise, we watched a short video from the  dropbox . Exercise 2 Feedback -No feedback- Reflection Experience I did enjoy the short films Mr.Martin has shown us, I didn't really get the last part of my exercise 1 right, but I guess it's okay.  Observation I did realize that the short film that we watched in the class to...