PLEASE COME AND SEE OUR ANIMATION PRESENTATIONS..!!
Time: June 10, 12 noon-3pm
Location: Forum Lecture Theatre

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Animated Scenes
Animated Title...

Last Dancing Scene...

This final scene was the first to be completed and it was the most time consuming scene throughout the whole animation. The movements and dancing of the character were incredibly hard and frustrating. Every little movement was considered to create the effect that the character is dancing.

Finally all different scenes are coming along and almost finishing, the last part is getting every single scenes and putting sound tracks along them.

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Animated scenes...
Problems with exporting movies files from Flash...therefore......"COMING SOON"..!! xD

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Work in Process..

Chosen Sound Tracks..
"You said I said(Instrumental)" - Introduction to animation..

"Nobody" - Runzning into Rachel scene..
"You said I said" - In the search of Ice Jungle...
"Dance With Me ft. Ez" - Meets G-Penguin in Ice Jungle and trains scene..
"All Out" - Last dancing scene..

All chosen music are provided by Marc.

Company Logo animation.. (Completed by Douglas)

One-line Synopsis: Jamaal leaves everything behind and finds himself on an epic adventure to follow his dream to be the first monkey R&B superstar.

Synopsis: In a ghetto home where food is the foundation of his family’s happiness, Jamaal is constantly under pressure from his father to become a world class chef. However, this is not the path of fame he wants to take; since the bliss age of four, he has always aspired to be the world’s first monkey R&B superstar.
Growing up, Jamaal has always heard stories about the 'ice jungle', where it is said a mysterious musically talented legend can be found. Along with his best friend Rachel, they decide to leave home in search of the legend in hope of something great.

Together, they depart for an epic journey and uncover the mysterious ice jungle to see the stories are true. Little do they know the legendary G-Penguin, the master of singing and dancing, is already awaiting them ready to unleash their hidden potential. They undertake continuous vigorous training day and night with the G-Penguin and realise their true capabilities to move to the groove and sing soulful harmonies.

As day by day passes in the ice jungle, the legendary G-Penguin allows them to leave one year later to return home and showcase to Jamaal’s father and the rest of the jungle their new brand new swag. Will Jamaal and Rachel’s fresh singing and dancing skills create a rumble in the jungle? Or was all the training with the legendary penguin a waste?

Monkey Movements takes you through a humorous adventure of passion, excellence and integrity to achieve a dream to be the best (and maybe the only) monkey R&B superstar ever to exist.

Company Statment: 2MRD Inc is a funky and fresh animation studio which focuses on creating short films for an audience of all ages and cultures. This is accomplished by the creative ideas applied to our innovative stories to create films for everyone to enjoy.

‘2MRD’ stands for the four members of our group: Michael, Marc, Rex and Douglas. We strive to inspire our audience with our stories, whilst bringing joy and laughter at the same time. As emerging short film makers, we hope to continue to improve our craft, grow as a company, and reach people with our work.

Company Roles:
Douglas Lim - Graphic Designer, Background Modeler, Animator
Rex Chiang - Sound Supervisor, Animator
Marc Tanilon - Director, Producer, Writer
My self - Art Supervisor, Graphic Designer, Animator

Descrition of Story: The setting takes place in a ghetto vibed jungle where Jamaal grew up with his father, Jaypa. It is kept fairly simple and consistent with sky blue skies, green trees and other different shades of colours to accentuate lighting and shadowing. The overall feel of the jungle is meant to be bright, joyous and ‘feel good’.

There are three main different environments in Monkey Movements which includes summer, autumn, spring and the Ice Jungle winter. Detail has been kept to a minimal level to accentuate a funky, fresh cartoon feel.

Finally most of the Flash Foilo is completed..!

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Finalising Character Designs..
Jamaal

Rachel

JayPa

G-Penguin

Character facial expressions..
Here are some expressions that we will be using in our animation...

Jamaal

Rachel

Biography for characters..
Thumbnails of characters for Flash Foilo...(Flash Foilo...almost completed..)

Characters..

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Organizing Scenes...
In our original story board the were 12 main scenes, however it appeared to us that if animated all the scenes in our story board it would no doubt go over our time limit that were provided.

Therefore we decided to cut out some useless scenes, for example:

We cut out scenes 2, 4, 6, 9, 10 and 11. However, we added in simplified scenes instead to connect the few major important part of the whole animation.

Scene1: Introducing Animation (Minor Scene)
Scene 2: Introducing Animation (Minor Scene)
Scene 3: Animated Title (Minor Scene)
Scene 4: Decided to run away and brings Rachel (Major Scene)
Scene 5: Explains to Rachel about the Ice Jungle, the master and taking her together (Major Scene)
Scene 5.5: In search of Ice Jungle (Minor Scene)
Scene 6: Discovers the Ice Jungle (Minor Scene)
Scene 7: Discovers the G-Penguin and trains(Major Scene)
Scene 8: Preforms in his own Jungle (Major Scene)

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Flash Folio
Sample of the flash folio...(working process done by Douglas and Marc..)

Sample of the credits..(completed by Marc)

Marc and Douglas mainly worked on putting bit and pieces together after scenes and animations are created. Marc mainly worked on the flash foilo and Douglas helped with boths sides of animating and the flash foilo.

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Background and Enivornment Design..
Drawn by Douglas..

We used this as a guild for all our enirovments and backgrounds in the animation, from this we moved and changed sizes of trees, grass and mountains to create our scenes.

For example:

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Trouble...
The fact that Rex had to unfortunately pull out of the assignment because of his health problem became difficult for the group to re-organise ourselves in different roles and picking things up where Rex has taken off. For that reason, we were kind of struggling to complete an quality animation.

However, mostly of the time we discussed, analysed and refined our opinions and findings in flash which made a lot things easier.
For example, we had problems with using the "bone tool" (taught in week 5) in flash where every time when we try to move around the body structure of the character, it always happen to change the whole character in every frame. As this became a really frustrating issue for our last scene, which is the climax of the whole movie. It shows how Jamaal can dance after a year's learning from the G-Penguin in the Ice Jungle.

Attempts in flash...
We decided to accomplish the hardest part in the animation first so after that part everything should become a bit more easier. And we thought it would of been the dance part for the last scene.

Last scene:
Part 1) There were a few problems with this trial test on the monkey dancing part, where we were planning to use to the bone tool to alternate body parts of the monkey however it was not as successful as we thought it would be. By moving and alternating parts of the body after converting them in to a symbol it changes all the shape that it was in in previous frames then when we try to use the bone tool in the symbol and animating it the movements did not stop and it kept looping itself.

Part 2) After asking and re-adjusting the character with the bone tool we finally got the movements coming along.

However the movements inside this animation wasn't as smooth as we thought it could be. And after using the bone tool in flash it somehow changes the character's body parts in a strange way, for example, it would lose the body's outlines, not being able to bend them to much otherwise the shapes of the body part goes weird, etc.

Part 3) Finally, after showing to a number of different people in class and asking advises, the results were not as great as we thought so we decided to use another way to achieve the effect which was to break apart all the main parts of the body, for example, the upper arms, lower arms, hands and then the same goes for the leg parts of the characters. Then we started to move each parts of the body to achieve the dancing moves. This way it seems to be smoother to the eye and also more consistency in the body parts.

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Preliminary Promotional Package Submision
Posters

Production Stills

DVD Cover

DVD Label

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Week 6
Presentation....

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Mid-Break
Assignment 3 in progress..

Main Character..(needs shadowing/toning for character...)

Best Friend...

Dad of Main Character...

Environment...(Completed by Douglas..)
1)Jungle..Main characters home..

2)Ice Jungle..(need re-arranging the trees..)

Another version of Monkey with shadowing (done by Rex..)

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Week 5
In this week, we learnt a variety of different tools in flash which would help us into creating our animation for our assignment 3. Here's are some examples we went through for our tutorial.

Flame

Crane

Here are some of our design characters..

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Week 3 & 4

Project Plan

Throughout week 3 and 4, we have been assorted into groups of 3 or 4 to work on a particular animation that the josh and a few others has picked out. Our group is a group of four people including Rex, Marc, Douglas and myself and we're working on Marc's animation pitch, Monkey Movements.

Heres the project plan that we've done for the animation. Our company's name is called 2mrd, meaning for all four of us.