Update

The final touches were made to my scenes that I was working on,

I edited the saturation on several scenes and removed the port glow, while VAL is outside of her port
The glow that emits from VAl while outside of her port was brightened or opacity turned down so that it is less solid and saturated

After Polishing the scenes, they were exported out, and put on temp drive for Jaquie to put together in Premier. I did end up going back through the scenes I had composited in case I had missed something and ended up having to edit and re-render scene 10_5, due to the port glow being to strong within the scene, after feathering the glow some more and lowering the opacity it was ready to re-render.

Update

So far I am currently adding effects to Val,
Majority of the effects are underway on VAL at this point I am fine tuning the effects, and comparing them to Fabri's Compositing so that the end result of VAL is not all over the place and remains consistent throughout the short film, "Welcome Home"

Week 12: Rotoscopint

First COMP: Green Screen

I did encounter a problem, that being during him waving, the green screen showed through.

COMP 2: Rotoscoping

Make a new comp
Double click new comp
Rotoscope tool
Select desired object ]

Timing of the current film (notes taken by Jaquie, writen up on computer by me) 3.1  = 0:42 - 0:52 - Port || 10 sec

3.2  = 0:42 - 0:52 - Port Flicker || 10 sec

3.3  = 0:42 - 0:52 - Port Flicker ( VAL Fades in?) || 10 sec

3.4  = 1:07 - 1:12 - VAL Starts twirling || 6 sec

3.5 =  1:13 - 1:16 - VAL faces the room open arms || 4 seconds

3.6 = 1:17 - 1:23 -  VAL looks around (Fish Eye Lense) || 7 seconds

3.8 = No Time Yet - VAL floats down to bottom of Port ||

3.10 = No time Yet - VAL looks at her hands ||

3.11 = 1:24 - 1:33 - Glitches out of dome - dusts skirt and walks || 10 seconds

3.13 = 1:34 - 1:49 - VAL twirls and points to computer || 15 seconds

3.14 = 1:50 - 1:55 - She dramatically droops, gets agitated and tries again. || 5 seconds

3.15 = 1:55 - 1:58 - Computer and Camera shake as she tries || 4 seconds

3.17a = 1:59 - 2:02 - VAL droops arms, looking sad, walks to edge of desk   || 4 seconds

3.17b = 2:03 - 2:05 - Head pops up glitching then disappears

3.18 = 2:06 - 2:20 - VAL Glitches onto box looks out the window

5.1 = 2:21 - 2:37 - VAL looks out the window

6.1a = 3:05 - 3:10 - VAL walks back to dome

6.1b = 3:11 - 3:16 - VAL walks past frame, stops to look at the picture

           3:21 - 3:24 - Walks off frame

8.1  = 3:30 - 3:32  - Walks to dome

10.1 = 3:33 - 3:36 - VAL looks down at Power button

10.2 = 3:41 - 3:45 - Starting to crouch down

10.3 = 3:47 - 3:50 - Leans to turn off the power button.

10.5 = 3:54 - 3:55 - VAL Twirls around

10.6 = 3:56 - 3:58 - VAL finishes twirling

10.7 = 3:58 - 4:03 - VAL’s face lights up

Week11: pewpewpew

Finnished the shooting thing

For the face tracking:
Make new Comp (Out of original Scene wanted)
Warp Stabilizer
Make track point visible
Delete any Undesired-ed tracking Location
Reverse Stablization
Add effects, shapes ect.
Reversible stablization

Visual effects

Underway with the animation
so far we have sorted out who is animating what, and I have done 2 scenes so far
they still might need to be editied however, i want to get some other scenes compleded before I go backtracking again.

Glorified tazer

Camera tracking:
Window be set to default to find the tracking menu

Motion tracking, it works better with a different contrast,
Automatic way, and manual way
Auto is in the tracking menu and is the more easy way
Manual is when you move the comp it self re positioning it every few frames

Week8: FeverDream

The animatic has been done and even better
We are gonna make dream team into a form of company? Production studio?
Some form of team, something that we can go, hey this is the group that made this,
Its gonna be awesome

Week>: 8

The timing on the storyboard has been sorted out, just needs review,
then it is straight onto the animatic.

adding to this I have finished the lexicon port, 

Script One:

EXT. Morning


Ace folds out a map tracing his finger along the sheet of paper searching for something.
From behind Ezaru is stalking up to him, up to standing behind him looking menicing.
Ace unaware is still focused on what he is searching for on the map.

Ezaru

SOooo you found where that old town is or no

Ace shreaks as he hears her voice out of nowhere, Ezaru now in a playful position. Laughing at the scare.

Ace

Ezaru.....

Ace is slighting smiling while watching the laughing dragon before ruffling up her head.

Im not too sure on other options yet, I think once I have a main script down I can create a list of techniques I can play around with and twist the script with
It will probably change

Techniques:
Camera-
Establing shot
Pan down

Editing:
Cut away, (from when the guard grabs rwby, to him flying across the screen)
(this could cause suspense or comedy, depending on how I use it.)


Other:

Placement of objects to help show who the characters are.

In the Rwby show, in season one, there isn't much in terms of lighting

Week:6:

Okay, so I have finished of the VA effect shot list for the proposal, Fabri is putting all the stuff into a PDF so I have put it in temp for her>
All I need to do now is a coversheet

Week6: Animator, they weird

Suzan Pit: American Animator

Her work to me, seems like a drug induced fever dream, it has no plot and is a vague collection of colour characters and movement.
To me it seems like something that could appear in a point and click type of game, a horror based one, while her animations are very colourful, I feels as if they fall into the uncanny Vally, almost disturbing yet far from it
It has a very Monty Python esk type of animation

Its like Salad Fingers and Sally Face had a kid, thats it, thats what her work is like/



Marjane Satrap: Novelist, cartoonist, illustrater, film director....

- Persepolis

its interesting, not something I would see again, the animation was simple and funny.

Week6?idk)

Character Bio.

Val:

V.A.L Virtual assistant Lexicon, Val is a personal assistant to its owner helping around the house, tending to need and to provide companionship.
Val, is sweet and kind, always ready for their owner to get home, a curious AI too she goes above in beyond to make her owner happy. Val, lives off of making others happy, and is quite the extrovert.

This Particular Copy of V.A.L Has been long abandoned in the post-apocalyptic future.

Week5?: MAGIC ALIEN BOI

Video's are acting up right now, so I shall SPAM SCREENSHOT

BEHOLD

Week4: Braindead

Ok so I found it hard to concentrate and process, what was going on but here we go,
I did lose some of the footage as I forgot to save the first version.

I got the ruff Idea on matting and layers but I think I will need to go over it several times for it to stick in my head.

I got the selection for the replacement or thing to effect a specific area, but I couldn't figure out how to animate,

Week4: Update

Added the chest, piece and fixed the skirt, I was having a little trouble as the edges were doubled up a bit.

Week3: BLEERRRGG

We had great progress on our project, We had set up a production line or pipeline as i think its called, which is sorting when and where. as for me, I made progress on the 3D Model,
I need to do some concept art for the locations however, I will need references of the location from Jakie first.

I was mainly smoothing out the arms and separating a few meshes, and ya know, the skirt did that.
:D 

Project Val Inspirations

Gate Box AI assistant (Main Inspo)

The virtual assistant was one of the inspirations for the story, Gatebox is designed to provide company and companionship to its owner, for people to have someone to come home to, The anime girl appearance was used as in Japan, where the product is distributed, it is a very common and friendly form of art, and much more appealing to lets say, a realistic humanoid.

The idea sparked from the idea that, an AI assistant was abandoned within an apocalyptic world. The AI was created to be of service and with no one to serve or help, what will she do.

Week3: adhd does not help in concentrating

EXPLODY BOI
after effects stuff, learned a bit, how to incorporate effects,

BOOM

aort

Ok so this is out of order but here is the first round of concept art

Second round of concept art was done by fabree and consisted of coloring and re-designing a few things. I then re-drew them and messed around.

 messed around with the designs a bit

Then the final designs

3DUpdate

Ok so, I added the butt boobs and feet, I have also done the clothes but I might re-do the skir as it is acting pretty weird but im sure its nothing I can't figure out.

OH I FORGOT TO UPLOAD THE FINAL CONCEPT ART
woops Here it is along with th 3d shtuff