這暑假回台灣~

6/25-7/11 我會飛台灣幫我阿姨做英語夏令營,周末我會有自由活動時間可以見見朋友~.
(鴨我想去你家看鳥和狗狗~XD)
阿芬我也很想你~會會面八~:D
老師不知道會不會碰到?

機票已定,所以八九不離十會去東京和台灣~ㄚㄚ~~~現在去可能要辦visa了...


This summer 6/21-7/11 I will depart for Japan and Taiwan trip with my cousins and my aunt. I hope to meet my old friends back in Taiwan. :) We will also be helping out our aunt and attend an english camp for Taiwan college students.

A tip for the artists

Favorite wip of the day...


Now for the chit chat:

A color specialist for the top 5 US magazines came to my house one day (my parents' connection) and showed me how to prep my work in color for the printer...

Often the artists will find the printer drop some colors from their CG work, and flattens or muddy up the image, here's why~~~

Computer can do colors in a wider range a printer can ever do. So in the attempts to match color in printing, the printer will often TRY to match up similar colors all to one color. Like if you have 5 shades of reds on the CG, the printer can only print one red, so it pulled all 5 colors to that one red.

For skin, often what happens is the artist is not aware of how much K (black/CMYK scale) they are using when they painted it, but whenever a printer prints BLACK, black is always going to be a heavier substance, it will always show up first on the paper. So you want to avoid your skin color or sensitive browns getting muddy, use info in Photoshop and try to find out how much K is in the mix. If it's anything about 15%, you have a muddy picture.

And ink has grain sizes, it's dot often increase by 25% when it's printed on paper, so your reproduction lineart is usually a bit thicker than your original.


Try to adjust all the K to C, Cyan, it's a better shadow color for printer to print than K. Even if the Printer takes RGB files, it really converts it to CYMK files before they print it, so always save your files in CMYK before you convert it to RGB for the printers. They didn't want people to submit CMYK because if the user's settings are not matching to their printer, it messed up their printing run. So they request for most commonly used RGB then covert them to CMYK.


Also, he mentioned that most monitors are only 85% accurate interns of color compare to print, they will always be off, and adjust the monitor to less brightness to match the paper will be the best way to go. :)



Picture below shows my current setting after he changed it, i was on some.... acient Adobe 96 setting he had never seen before.... :faint:



(this was a few months ago... amazing how much i remembered from the time he explained it... lol) Too bad i don't remember exactly how he did the customized black adjustment, when i find out i will share it.

Burning to DVD task

First job is to adjust the colors to the TV screen, no biggy, expected it. But then.... when it's skipping frames I went "ARGHHH!!!!"

I knew it, just trying to make a DVD play the way I want to is going to take up my remaining Sunday....

I am just burning the content to DVD, weird enough, i noticed i was losing frames when it's being played on DVD player, it looks rougher than it should, and some timing is not correct either. technical things.... argh.

And the mask sometimes look like weird streaks.... need to fix those.

I need those big machines... render farms, people... arrrgh....

Showing the almost done ver got a lot of feedbacks that is pretty useful to my learning.




Young adults tend to think the animation can be smoother (I agree~ XP The next one should be smoother) but i know it's because i am getting really close to professional standard and yet i am one step away.

It's possible for a single person (I singlely animated this...) to reach to feature quality of refineness, however, that's just going to make me miss the deadline, or it's not going to be colored...or most of the scenes will just be backgrounds and pretty stills, or the final compositing is just going to look bad. Either way~ something's gotta be less. That's animation... the unforgiving medium.



Anyhow, i have something to hand in now, i will hand this "rougher" version in for class, and fix it up during the summer as well as work on my thesis. lol This time i am organized enough to do it, while i will never go back to my second year film.



I showed the video to the kids i was teaching, and then to my aunt, funny enough, the kids got the story in the intro, and they even add voice over on it as they watch, but not my aunt, she didn't get the story. lol

Teaching kids from 5 to 13 reminds me of why i decided to go into this biz, we have been hammered with the industry information so much we forgot that we once thought this was a cool thing to do.

If myself as a kid sees me right now, she will probably think I am doing something really cool.

現在要交作業的工作就是把動畫轉到DVD上,果然碰到意料以外的問題...顏色需要調是小事但是時間,和動作上面的呈現都有差別讓我很 ^&%*

我想要專業的機器ㄚㄚㄚ~~~!

把這個動畫給小朋友看了,(5-11歲)全部看懂,給我阿姨看,她就沒看懂~笑~~~
青年人會挑動畫不夠細 (反省中~下一部會更細膩點)
是因為我的程度太接近日本專業,但是又少了一節,才會被這樣挑.
一個人做要做的很細膩的話....的確是挑戰,做的到,但是會很可能趕不上交稿日期,
反正我有東西交就好~剩下的慢慢修到高興為止...這部有意做來賣的,多花點時間也值得.
看看自己2年級的作品和這部比起來,我很滿意自己的進度,我跳躍了一大截. 下一部一定會更好.

給小朋友看自己的作品才回想起來當初為何選了這行做職業...曾經有過那麼一時覺得做這一行很"酷"
現在則是被職場裡的形形色色搞得"能做出自己的作品來賺錢就很好了"的心態...

現在想想...小時候的我看到現在的我...也許會覺得現在的我很酷吧?

almost done.

A few more things to tweak, and the music track really isn't done either, but i am almost done...
Horray for youtube butchering, i can't see read the credits, i will have to redo them.... OTL

Yes, Eric, i used that Edepth test song you made in the music lab, it was good. XD

I hope our photos looks better now. O.O Dan gave a good suggestion.

lipsync

It keeps breaking

Why CD?