Production Schedule

Nov. 1: Character Designs
Nov. 8: Location Designs
Nov. 15: Create Movement
Nov. 22: Voice Overs and Music
Nov. 29: Touch-Ups

Treatment

The final project that I want to do is going to be about a robot from the future. I’m not really sure if it takes place in the future or not. She is programmed for evil, but when she hears about heaven, she wants to go. That is when she decides that she has to do good works ad make up for the wrong she has done in an effort to get there. It would be more interesting if there were a love interest involved to spice things up. It may have a narrative feel mixed with an experimental one.

I think this is important because it has sort of a personal way of expressing my ideas when it comes to religion and love. I had had to deal with some issues lately and this idea speaks to me. Hopefully, it is not a story that has told much. I think the futuristic aspect will have an interesting effect on how the story plays out and that is where the experimental side will shine and become important. The fact that the subject is a robot will add another dimension to the character. I do not like see-through, 2 dimensional main subjects. But, this will only be a short assignment so it will be a challenge to adequately fill out the character in such little time. The main themes will be dealing with love, religion, what is right versus what is wrong, what makes a robot different from a person, etc.

Putting the project together will be a lot of work. I was thinking about scanning textures into the Photoshop. There I will create texture masks like I did for my Rotoscope project, but I will definitely need to sort out what the problem was so there will not be any more glitches. I have already drawn what I think the robot should look like in Photoshop. Hopefully, I will be able to use the puppet tool in After Effects for a lot of the “motion”. I will do this so that it will cut out a lot of the work of tedious, time consuming animating that would be required. The After Effects practice exercises that we did during class would be invaluable towards me completing this project. I have also been looking at tutorials online from experienced After Effects users. I will probably use myself as voice actor to streamline the process. And also, it is because I want to do voice acting in the future and this would be a good chance to try it out.

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Ohisashiburi desu ne... (It's Been A Long Time)

Ok! So it's been a while...understatement. I've realized I'm not one to keep up with people, plus I'm really lazy so I haven't kept up with my blog at all. Thank you to all of you that kept checking in to see if I posted...(lol all 2 of you)...and sorry.

Anyway, school is going great. It is getting a little tedious because the Japanese school system is, to put it nicely, not the best. Actually, pretty insufficient. I've gotten my work under control--it was way too hard to work everyday so I'm only working on the weekends now. I've made friends. Most of my really really good friends that I've made from school went back already so I was pretty lonely. New students have come though, but I am rarely home so I don't see them. I hang out alot with friends that I've met at work, which is good because alot of them can't speak English.


I'm not as sick anymore. And it's starting to get pretty warm here so I'm excited!! Nothing really exciting has happened to me. I haven't really traveled anywhere...except I went to Nagano...


I went there with a friend in Feb. It's known for skiing and snowboarding, but I didn't do any of that. The morning we were left I got a sore throat and just felt horrible so we took it easy. We had to take a 3-4 hr train ride. When we finally got to Nagano station, we met friends that took us to the hotel that they worked at. They rented a car for us and it took about 2 hrs to get to the hotel. It was so much fun. We chauffeured, alot of snow, good food, and definitely nice people. I also got to go to onsen--Japanese hot springs...so good :) Sorry, though, didn't bring my camera.

One big thing that happened was that my roommate got sent back to Korea. The school kinda screwed her over by telling her that they would give her a scholarship for the spring semester so she could stay longer, but then a couple weeks into the semester they told her that she wasn't getting it and that she had to move out b/c she didn't have enough money. So horrible.

Oh! But one good, recent development is that I might be a model here. Yesterday a modeling scout named Shia, brought this guy to talk to me about modeling for a magazine. I am sooo....stunned that anyone would come from like 1-2hrs away to see me. They came to my job, had me pose for a couple of photos, and then we arranged for me to go to their studio in Gifu, which is the neighboring prefecture. They check out and are safe. Yay!!


I guess that's it for now. Everyday has kind of been the same. I do plan on taking a trip to Tokyo, again, and Bangkok.