This is about the Story of the Flies. We create a name for group which is VDF studio. Why we name it as VDF? It basically very simple, each letter are represent ourselves for doing this project which is Von, Daisy and Fara.
By doing this project, each of us have our own responsible and task for this project. As for me-Von, I’m a group leader of this project which handling on plan, arrange and keep updating our journal process time to time during planning stage, while for Daisy; she will be in charging of conceptual style for this project and for Fara, she is the now who present this idea to each of us, she is our story writer in this group. But when it come to doing this project, each of us will help each others and start voting when we come to make a decision.
Week 1: Storyline
As for week 1, we started to discuss on what kind of story to do for ADAA. So, each of us came up with at least 2 story by the end of 31st March 2016 and we came up with a vote and end up decide to pick the Story of Flies which is from Fara. Here is our Storyline for our Story of Flies:
Storyline:
Once upon a time, there is a fly who is struggling with his life. Every day he needs to face the same situation which is “seeking for food from human”. Hero need to find foods in order to survive. But, its hard to find food because as we all know, human hates flies so much. One day, he sneaks in to someone’s house. While he is flying. He smells food. He flies to kitchen. He saw there is a girl who is having her lunch. Hero has started to focus more on food and get nearer to the food. While he is flying, There is a giant hand ward him off. He loses his balance and he falls down. Hero see a girl who is ugly and get mad with him. Hero quickly get up and fly back. The girl has started to take out all the flies trap such as electric fly trap, sticky fly trap and fly swatter. She holds the swatter and she started to get ready to beat him. Hero is so scared.The angry ugly girl put a drumstick chicken on the table to attract Hero.The chicken surrounded by all the traps. Hero accepted the challenge just for the sake of the drumstick. First attempt, he almost stuck in the electric trap. Second attempt he has successfully get out from swatter hole. Third time, the girl try to swat him off again. But this time the girl failed to do so. Because of it, Hero fly far away from her because of the wind blown him away and he fall on the sticky trap. One of his leg stick in sticky trap. He almost die but he manages to safe himself. Hero feel so sad and started to question him self “why world is unfair for flies”. He is so hungry but he could not find any food. He started to give up with his life. He fly out from the window and goes to travel all day long. He loses his hope. When night has come, he feels so tired. He cant even fly anymore. He has no energy since he did not have his breakfast and lunch yet. He decided to stop and take a rest. The next day, the moment when he wakes up. He smells something good. He just realized that he has found his heaven on earth. He is in a cow barn that is full with his foods. Hero is so happy and he realize that, world is fair for people who never lose hope.
Our storyline idea will consist of gluttony and greed based on the 7 sins and the story was approved by Mr Kannan Vijayan. Then we start proceed to next stage which is Planning on Timeline(Gantt Chart) Reseach & Development, Concept, Thumbnails, Animatic Thumbnails in Week 2.
Week 2:
Stage 1 – Research and Development
We go through with lots of animation films and we screenshots it and use it as our references for our Flies Story. The references are basically based on the style of our character, background, scene, and others more.
Stage 2-Concept art Reference :
We came up with 2 concept art reference which is from “Just Delicious” , “Don’t Starve” and “The Face Shop”. Based on 3 animation, we use it as our references for our character and background style. The picture below is a rough concept ideas for our Flies Story.
Stage 3-Timeline Planning & Task Activities
We plan our timeline management through–>Gantt Chart
Here is how we break down our task. ->Task Activities
Stage 3: Researching on the character sound.
At this stage, we planned to do a voice over at the beginning of our Flies animation,the girl and background sound effect.However, for those voice over sound track, Daniel(our friend) will help us to do for all the character sound effect and the narrating part at the beginning of our animation. Here is the script and the list of sound effect that what we going to voice over it and do for it:-
Narrating part:
Once upon a time, there is a fly who seeking for food.
Let see how lovely the journey is(Chicky sound + Girl Voice)
“Oppssss huhuhu”- {Danial part}
Sound Effect
- Fly sound
- Fly wing sound
- Girl evil laughing sound -{Danial part}
- Slap sound effect
- Chasing out flies sound effect
- Girl’s angry sound effect-{Danial part}
- Put stuff on table (electric/sticky trap)
- Electric sound
- Beat by using swatter sound
- Angel sound
- Fly happy sound
- Sipping sound
Week 3-5 : Character design+storyboard+animatic+ Recording sound
During week 3 to 5, we start with our character design, storyboard, animatic and record sound for our project. We come up our storyboad in week 3. Next, we record the narrating sound effect from Danial(senior) on week 4. By right, Our animatic are done during week 4 once we finished our story broad and sound recording.
Animatic storybroad:
Concept art for our FLY(HERO) character:
Concept art for girl character
Week 5- Week 10
For this week update, we are almost 50% done with our animations.
In order to get this result, we seperate the work to three of us. Daisy were assigned to do some part of animations and background for this animations. While chew von pei need to do effects and animations. Last but not least . Fara need to finish up few animations scene and effects. Overall, this is a teamwork work.
Here is our video. Feel free to watch.
Week 11 : Evaluation week
In this week, we have our evaluation moment with our lecturer. We present our final work to our lecturer – Mr Kannan and he will give his review to our work so that we can make some changes in our work before we submit to the ADAA.
After making some minor changes, here is our final animation for “The Story of fly”.
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