A Notebook of Dream

Hiya, Here are Miffy Chen and Sean Zhang. We are studying the final year of Computer character animation in Teesside university and this is the note of the process of our final animation project. It will be a short 3D animation film with 2D visual style. Hope you will like it :D

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The full film

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Some photos in the Expotees 2014. It's so surprised to win the short animation film award this year and happy to get the first degree as the end of our Bachelor's Degree. We now both continue studying in MA concept art for games and animation in Teesside University. Thanks everyone for giving us a hand :D

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Making of Dream (character design)

by Miffy

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Got our free standing poster~ It's soooooo expensive to print a roller banner.......

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Our work has been chosen for this year’s cover art =D~~so exciting!~ we will be in room D3.13 on Thursday's Expotees. see u 15 May~

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We have done our sound recording yet. Thanks to Nagel Crooks :D

I bought our music from this web, which was recommended by our supervisor Siobhan Fenton:

http://www.audionetwork.com/

Music list:

Little Elise

2:41Magical undulating celesta & strings. After Fur Elise

Elfin Magic

3:20Magical, haunting vibes, pizz strings & Celeste, with a happy ending

Dazzle

2:30Cautious clarinet with pizz strings & vibes. Playful & intriguing

Skartoon 2

3:21Furtive & mysterious pizz strings & marimba with cheeky ska rhythm

Skartoon 10 (Sting)

0:07Descending pizz strings & percussion sting

I also found some useful audio effect web:

http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ (Free)

https://www.freesound.org (Free)

http://www.soundsnap.com/ (Free)

https://www.videoblocks.com (Free for the first 7 days)

By Miffy

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All the 2-D background

by sean

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The color key

by sean

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Compositing details

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We are trying to put the 3-D characters into 2-D background,this is a little difficult for me course i have never did this before,so it still need adjust. 

The 2-D background

then put the 3-D characters into the scene , and we change the mixture part in green to make it easier to composite.

use color key to remove the green desk.

and add shadows in 

then adjust the characters' color, and make the frount things blur.

In this shot, we used 3-D camera ,the background is painted in different layers. the images below just show the camera's position.

 by sean

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nearly finish our animation, festival robots is coming XD

by Miffy

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Poor Charlie and his "friends" haha

By Miffy

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Two more reference for walking

1.here is a good example for turning and walking sadly

http://youtu.be/dW9NtWoncDc

2.Lovely timing of the girl and it can be a reference for our girl walking happily

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start animating

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We are in ExpoTees XD!

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The short rigging test video of Caroline's robot equipment.

By Miffy

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reference for animation

I edited the animatic with some reference for animation.

By Miffy

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Caroline has been dressed up XD!

by Miffy