The process making gasing

Subj : 2D Animation

After I make the story now I need to make the storyboards and need to think how to begin and make introduction for my animation. First I need to make a scheduled for the each frame I need to set the time for each frame. My animation should not more than 2 minute therefor I need to set the time nicely.

When I want to make this animation my lecture have told me how much drawing should I draw it count like one second contain six drawing therefore I must make 720 drawing for my 2 minute animation. Although it only take 2 minute animation but the process to make 2 minute animation was a very hard time for me.

For introduction I just make the view of the house zoom in and than go to the 3 kid next to the house. I think it will look ok because in my opinion we want to know something first we look from the surface therefore if I want to make audience keep to look at my animation I should attract them to see what happen next in my story.

For the drawing I made some of my drawing manually but some of my drawing I made it using Photoshop. In my opinion some of the drawing become easier when we do manually but some are not.

In this subject I also learnt how to make a background for some of the image. actually in animation character is not only thing that play a role to make our animation look good and interesting but sometime we can only use the view of the background as some of the part in our animation. This is because if we know the character only but we does not know where the place or what is the background of our animation it will make our story does not have a attraction. For me a good animation is when we manage to do a great character with a great background because  a great staging will make the audience feel the situation that we want to make like the situation in the evening at the village.

REFLECTIVE 
= I learnt not all the improvement in technology is a good thing sometime we need to go back in time do some of the thing manually and it will give you some quality and some of the feeling like to appreciate what the animation have to trough when they want to make some of the entertainment for us.
=I also learnt not easy to make an animation we only watch the finish animation on the television but we does not know the difficulties that all animation have gone through to make we sit and smile in front of the television.
= Other than that I also learnt how to apply not all but some of the basic principle of animation into my animation. This is because if we make our animation but we forget to apply the basic principle our animation our movement in animation will make it look like rigid and not interesting.  

Gasing

Subj : 2D Animation

On this task we need to thing something or a story that is have some culture. Because of this task were same with other subject so I decided to make one story but have two subject on it actually it is 3 subject the story.

I made the story about traditional game that I always see when I was child. My story is about 'Gasing' or in English we call it 'Top' it is a traditional game from Kelantan and it be played all around Malaysia. Gasing not only popular among the children but it also played by adults.

Gasing is a game that is made from wood that can be spinning it comes in many shape and size. Other than that gasing also have many type and each type have their own unique. For example the type of gasing such as gasing jantung, gasing piring, gasing kelamar, gasing telur, gasing berembang, gasing melayu, gasing cina, gasing buku benang dan gasing pinang.

For my story I want to show that the important of each part of the gasing that will make the gasing spinning perfectly and will spinning in a long time. This is some of my narrative for my story :

Introduction

In a village there is one boy name Abu. He has 2 best friend names Ah Seng and Mutthu. Every evening they will spend time together playing gasing. One day while they playing under a big tree in front of the house suddenly Abu’s mothers call him. She asks Abu to help her go to shop and buy some groceries for her. Abu leave his friend for a while.

Climax

While Abu goes to the shop his friend stops playing gasing and take a break. Meanwhile in the same time gasing, string, nail and Tapak Uri start taking to each other. They argue who is the most important part in a gasing game. Everyone wants to say that he is the most important part compare to each other. After that they start to fight to each other.

Ending

When the nail, gasing, and string are fighting each other suddenly Tapak Uri comes and tries to stop the argument. He explains to them that all of them are very important to make the gasing spin perfectly. They understand and befriend again. At the same time Abu comes back from the shop and get his friend back. They start playing the gasing game and they enjoy playing the game.

Closure

            Every situation that has been created has its own advantages and importance. like a top, they need each other to ensure that the top can spin properly if one of the top part of it is not perfect, it cannot be spinning tops with balanced.

REFLECTION

= From this task I know more about the history of the gasing and know the function of each part of the gasing.

= This task make me remember all the joy moment when I a little kid compare with nowadays majority the kid does not know what is gasing event they do not know how to play gasing. Kids nowadays always with their smart phone and I think it is not a healthy lifestyle.   

Inking process

Subj : 2D Character Animation

In my previous task I need to draw and design the character for my story and now after all was finish I need to inking the character.

I use the Adobe Photoshop to edit my drawing and I also learnt to use Photoshop for make my character moving like the swing of the hand and the movement of the top. It very interesting and I think I enjoy do this animation although it is very stress.

other than that I also learnt how to use after effect and premier in my animation. At first it totally difficult to understand with many tool it make me confuse and take time to really understand a little bit of use this adobe. I try to understand to use this adobe through my lecture, peer and also you tube.

After understand how to use all this adobe I start enjoy do all the process and the important part is I do not need to draw so many drawing I can use all this adobe to make my work more easier and I love this part so much.

 

Design the Character

Subj : 2D Character Animation 
Task : super hero

On this task we need to make our own super hero but our super hero must have the history and we must put some culture to our character.

For my character at first I think that I want to make a bugs bunny wear a traditional cloth and make it look like a Malay warrior. I already make their position in all side but suddenly my lecture said that this subject will be connect with another subject that need me to make a animation and put some of the  culture in the story therefore I change my mind and create another character for my animation.

My character was a top. I start draw the position for all the side of the top and I also make a view from different camera angle for the top. It quite interesting for me to imagine how the top look like because at that time I cannot fine the top in the shop nearby so I just can imagine how it look like. After that when I get the top I compare the real top to my drawing top I think it look like same I just need to fix a little bit for the camera angle view. When all done I start to draw a face to my character and I think it look very cute...

After my main character are finish I start to draw the other character that I want to put on my animation. I start draw 3 little boy that is comes from a difference family and difference race and religion. I made this character because I want to show the spirit of Malaysia, as we know Malaysia have 3 importance race that stay together in one country.

Other than that I also draw some of the part of the top like the string and tapak uri this all the part that we need if we want to play a top.

REFLECTIVE
=Learnt to draw the character that is suitable for my story and can understand what this task about.
= Manage to apply the history and some of the culture in Malaysia to my animation story.  

Inking the Gasing storyboards.

Subj : Imaginary for Narrative and Storyboards 

This time I need to continue my story in the last task after finish making and do a research about gasing I need to do  a storyboard about my story.

First I need to highlight the important part of my story and write down the list so it will make my work easier. After identify process was finish I try to make a short list for my story and start to do a rough sketches about my storyboard. It quite interesting to do the storyboard of our own story and we need to imagine the situation by my self not like before this I just make a storyboards base on the video that I have watched and it not difficult to imagine because I already see the movie and I can trace the storyboard base on the video. But this time I need to do from the fist like do a storyboard and then continue with editing and do the animation.

My storyboards contain 20 frame, I just make a simple sketches just for my reference to do the inking process. after finish my storyboards I start inking my storyboard one by one. At first I think it quite difficult to do the inking process without the correct tool like the pen but thank you to my lecture Mr.Sukor because he help me to get the pen and teach me a lot in do a inking process. I learnt how to make the inking look more interesting and not boring like use a different style of inking.

REFLECTIVE 
= I know how to make a different style of inking and know a little bit way to make the drawing look interesting.

GASING

Subj : Imaginary for Narrative and Storyboards 

For this task I need to make a story that have a culture and history so I think I want to make a story about traditional game that I always see when I was child. My story is about 'Gasing' or in English we call it 'Top' it is a traditional game from Kelantan and it be played all around Malaysia. Gasing not only popular among the children but it also played by adults.

Gasing is a game that is made from wood that can be spinning it comes in many shape and size. Other than that gasing also have many type and each type have their own unique. For example the type of gasing such as gasing jantung, gasing piring, gasing kelamar, gasing telur, gasing berembang, gasing melayu, gasing cina, gasing buku benang dan gasing pinang. Here some picture that I take from internet to show the type of the gasing.

Gasing Jantung

Gasing Piring

For my story I want to show that the important of each part of the gasing that will make the gasing spinning perfectly and will spinning in a long time. This is some of my narrative for my story :

Introduction

In a village there is one boy name Abu. He has 2 best friend names Ah Seng and Mutthu. Every evening they will spend time together playing gasing. One day while they playing under a big tree in front of the house suddenly Abu’s mothers call him. She asks Abu to help her go to shop and buy some groceries for her. Abu leave his friend for a while.

Climax

While Abu goes to the shop his friend stops playing gasing and take a break. Meanwhile in the same time gasing, string, nail and Tapak Uri start taking to each other. They argue who is the most important part in a gasing game. Everyone wants to say that he is the most important part compare to each other. After that they start to fight to each other.

Ending

When the nail, gasing, and string are fighting each other suddenly Tapak Uri comes and tries to stop the argument. He explains to them that all of them are very important to make the gasing spin perfectly. They understand and befriend again. At the same time Abu comes back from the shop and get his friend back. They start playing the gasing game and they enjoy playing the game.

Closure

            Every situation that has been created has its own advantages and importance. like a top, they need each other to ensure that the top can spin properly if one of the top part of it is not perfect, it cannot be spinning tops with balanced.

REFLECTION

= From this task I know more about the history of the gasing and know the function of each part of the gasing.

= This task make me remember all the joy moment when I a little kid compare with nowadays majority the kid does not know what is gasing event they do not know how to play gasing. Kids nowadays always with their smart phone and I think it is not a healthy lifestyle.   

DEAF DUMB DAD STORYBOARDS

Subj : Imaginary for Narrative and Storyboards 


On this week we are ask to watch a short video about Deaf Dumb Dad and than we need to interpret it into a storyboards. The storyboards that we must produce must be at least 15 frame and the maximum is 20 frame and above. In this task I make 20 frame in my storyboards first I need to identify the important part in the story and try to make it short but still can be understand the story line.

After I have identify the important part I need to do a sketches base on the part that I have choose, it is just a rough sketch. This sketch just want to make we understand the position, the staging, and the camera angle. Other than that I also need to identify the character,I try to simplify the character so when other see the character will understand and know the person's character in this story such as the girl in the story the character is someone look like a nerd girl, always being bullied by other in the class because of his father, and love to be alone. Therefore I made the character a girl look tidy and wear a round and thick glasses with a pony tail. For his father I just made the father character look fat and with a bald at the middle of the head, wearing a singlet and glasses it will represent the person was someone who poor and hard working father.

In this task I learnt that when we want to make a storyboard the important part that we must focus was the position of the character. When we make a sketch the background should not draw too detail just simple thing that will represent the thing on the background.

REFLECTION 

= Analyzing the story is quite easy but to identify the most important part in each of the story line  is not easy that I though. we need to focus when do this part.
= Other than that we need to study the character deeply so that it will make our work in simplify the character more easy and we know why we made the character like that.

Inking for Deaf Dumb Dad storyboards.

Subj : Imaginary for Narrative and Storyboards


For this task we need to continue what we have done in the previous task after we finis our story board we need to inking it nicely. for me it is first time  to do it using the ball pen. I usually only use color or pencil to inking my drawing but for this time I need to learnt to inking my drawing use a ball pen. It quite interesting for me because I can see the affect and the difference when using different material.

When we want to start do the inking process we need to think carefully and we need to know which part that we want to make it look clear and which part that we want to make it very detail. For me it is importance because it will give you a clear massage what we want to tell the audience such as when I draw for the first image that a girl standing in front of the mirror I learn that some of the image that inside of the mirror should not too detail because if I made it detail maybe the audience will confuse which one is real and which one image on the mirror.

REFLECTIVE

= From here I learnt to draw using ball pen it not easy for me but I try my best to control the ball pen and I feel that when I use a different paper when do the inking the result also different.
= When do the inking process we need to think to make it look interesting and need to know which the light come from so we can make the shadow nicely.
= We also need to make inking for each of the character correctly so it will show the character.

Making A Flip book

Subj : 2D Animation
Task : Structure 

flip book is one of the way to do an animation. For this time I need to do the basic principle of animation into a flip book and it will make me more understanding about the principle of animation.

Making a flip book is not easy and also not to hard, what we need to produce a flip book is the quality paper. If we just use a thin paper it will make the flip book difficult to flip and we cannot see the movement smoothly. There is good and bad using a thin paper, the good thing is we can trace the image easily and easy to make a movement with a nice arcs but the bad thing is when we flip it there is some page will not flip and it will be skip some of the movement.

Other than that when make a flip book make sure use a suitable size of the book because when you use a big size but have less pages it will be difficult to flip and at the end we cannot see what it's about.

 Other than that for me it is difficult to maintain the size of the image if we not use the light box. I cannot estimate the space between one action to another action and one pages to another pager therefor using the light box help me a lot to solve my problem.

There is some of the principle of animation that for me it easy to understand and easy to draw it in the flip book such as squash and stretch, arcs, and follow through and overlapping but there is a some for me it difficult such as the secondary action. I have difficulties to understanding what is actually mean by secondary action and lastly I use you tube and watch the example of the movie that is show about secondary action and FINALLY I understand what is secondary action. Secondary action is a movement that happen after the primary action such as an ant fall into the jelly the primary action was an ant will be bouncing on the top of the jelly and the secondary action was the jelly will be shaking.

When making a flip book we must draw the drawing movement a little by little so we can see the nice movement. From here also I understand that when we want to make the animation move faster we can draw the image with large space between one page to another page.

For the finishing of the flip book we must make sure that the end or the ages of the flip book are same so that it will be easy to flip and there is no page will be skip.