I started off with the transitions of the change of weather, then slowly moving on to transitions of the first meetup of the rooster and hen, which are one of the main transitions I wanted to work on.

Main video

• Make the rooster and Turkey laugh softer (more of a bgm)

• “Hey let’s break up +Christmas is over”

  • clearer why they break up

• Long cut of them staring at eo

  • Animate the eyes of rooster

• Fade out

• Wedding

  dolly out to them kissing

  Linger more at the last scene, less abrupt ending

  
  

• Audio:

  • Ambience sfx

  • Cinema

  • Outdoor six

  • Soften chicken sound effects (shocked hen getting proposed)

Teaser video

• Don’t need to show turkey leaving

• Just show message of her breaking up

• door scene (defo can be improved)

• changed the multiple cuts of CU of rooster and hen to just one long cut each

• Animating eyes and beak of rooster

• dolly in and out

• Added and fixed the audio for some parts (some sfx hit the red coloured sound level so I had to reduce them)

-Louder gasp by rooster at the end

-softer laughter by rooster and turkey

-Changed audio for the bump scene

-animated shaking body movements when rooster cries

Joyann did the line art and I did the rendering + rooster's arm

1. Adding more frames to make a smoother animation

• Calendar, door

2. making animation smoother

• Instead of cut, changing to zooming in, so it does not feel disconnected

• Meetup of hen and rooster, offset the background of rooster to move before the frame appears, so it shows more continuity from the previous frame when hen appears

• Instead of stopping at each photoframe (last scene), keep panning slowly.

  
  

3. Animated the sigh for the roosrer, learning wiggling+ slider control for the rooster feeling sad

   
   

4. Added sfx to the dates (provided by Joyann)

   • cinema sfx

   • dining clanking sfx

   • bling bling sfx

     
     

• door scene (defo can be improved)

• changed the multiple cuts of CU of rooster and hen to just one long cut each

• Animating eyes and beak of rooster

• dolly in and out

• Added and fixed the audio for some parts (some sfx hit the red coloured sound level so I had to reduce them)

• rough plan of what to include in both Main+teaser reel

by Week 15

• Zi Shan + Joyann: blocking + base audio/bgm

• Xingnuo: storyboarding

by Week 16:

• Zi Shan: 50% Teaser reel completion

• Xingnuo: 50% Main timing reel completion

• Joyann: sfx for more specific scenes

by Week 17:

• Zi Shan: 70% teaser reel completion (from feedback given)

• Xingnuo: 70% Main timing reel completion (from feedback given)

• Joyann: 80-90% sfx completion (from feedback given)

By Week 18:

EVERYTHING DONE + PRESENTATION DECK!!!!!!!!

Next, if the same situation happens again in the future, I learnt that instead of panicking and continuing wiht our presentation, we should ask to fix whatever we have first, then continue to present instead.

Learning how to be adaptive is crucial, it does not have to apply just on design, but it can be applied to daily activities, learning how to react to different situations on time, having the critical thinking skills, etc. If I were to pitch my ideas to a client in the future, the best way is to think of it calmly, so as to not break the reliance that the client has on us.

Felt a little upset that the presentation did not turn out as expected due to my clumsiness, but I guess I would like to use this as a learning point, and I also want to sincerely apologies to my group mates who have put in a lot of effort into this as well