Sunday 16 April 2017

Short Film: Underneath

17 April 2017

Hello everyone this is the short film that I've been working on, please enjoy!


Saturday 8 April 2017

ICT 8-9 april showcase portfolio

hello here is my video portfolio! :)
for any comission or hiring of work please contact: charmainememememe@gmail.com

Thanks :)


Tuesday 21 February 2017

Finally ended!!

21 Feb 2016

Hello viewers !

Its been a long time but i have finally finish my poly studies!! YAYYYY!! at the same time I'm abit worried. Now i have to find a future career path. Whether be it university or working, I do want to continue my career doing 3D for the past 3 years i did find myself and my passion for sculpting and drawing has grown.

Anyways here is my youtube portfolio! do check it  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPOT_urPlg&t=10s

ILL TRY TO POST WEEKLY ON MY PAST OR CURRENT ARTWORKS :)

IM GOING SYDNEY REAL SOON CHAOOSS

Sunday 11 December 2016

Sem 2 week 12: Electrocuted back to life.

11 Dec 2016

A lot of things happened this week , its quite amazing. Firstly work was unsurprising stale and everyone concentrated on the IS modules because a world issues report was due. I completed 2 backgrounds and are working on another 3.

Changes made: 
The look of the characters changed, they look more like they are wearing masks, however they do look scaries and it didn't really appeal to me and another member so we tried to voice out our opinion however majority won and though it doesn't affect part of my work, i still find the change a hassle because all the shot animated so far has be edited and we don't have much time left.

Also we took out some scene that was unnecessary like ting ting reflection part and we added more exterior scenes to depict the society more and at the middle so that our film will have more of a flow.
The end credit scene though no teacher made noise about it, we took it out to save time. However i loved that scene because it shows because of stanley's act of courage it affected other humans to also speak out. Luckily i manage to convince my producer that if we have enough time, they could animate that part :))) most probably it wont be added, but i think if i work hard enough i can get through to them.

Funny incident
To end off the week, my group caused a blew up a power socket. It was pretty funny, she just wanted to charge her laptop and plugged in her charger and ztttss, a odour was produce and half of our workspace power plugs stopped working.

Im worried about my health so im going to exercise this week and do work so JYJY everyone.

sem 2 week 11: Plausible Horrible week

4 Dec 2016

So far our project has been going well, I've lit a total of 15 background images. Until our Mid year Viva came along! Somehow our group seems to just have bad luck with Viva. We were the first to present for the day, As you remembered 2 of our group mates came late for a previous viva. This tie we made sure everyone met up an hour before the presentation. We called each other and everything.

Viva review

The first fault we made was to download the googleslides and not change the image sizes, so as we are presenting, the images were bigger and blocked our words. The audio wasn't working in the morning as well so it freaked our team out and we forgot to introduce ourselves before playing the animatic. Overall the teachers commented that our presentation was very sloppy.

On the art itself, the teachers praised us for the lighting and the colour sketches. However Jim one of our mentor slaughtered us as he question about the purpose of the magical reflection. His opinions and points were helpful though. Anita also found our animatic unclear and that our monsters doesn't look scary enough. Its not the first time we heard this comment before, we are going to discuss on how to change the look of the character.

This week i didn't do much work because changes are being made and it seems like most of the shots are unconfirmed. Oh wells, it would be a good break from being disappointed.

Sunday 27 November 2016

Sem 2 Week 10: Diseases flying around

26 Nov 2016

By popular demand for my viewers (hi craig and martin if you're there), its time for CHARMAINE'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK!. *theme song plays*

To keep the body in good health is a duty... 
otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. 
Buddha

Almost everyone fell sick this week, I unexpectedly stayed healthy even though there was so many germy people surrounding me. Its really important to keep health, through last week i learned that once you fall sick, your will to do work drops and the quality becomes crappy. Even our teacher fell sick and it really affected us because we haven't see him for 2 weeks and there was so many things we wanted to consult him about.There was Red Camp last week, where secondary school students came to tour our school. It was really uncomfortable having so many students stare at you while you composite and it made all our teachers unavailable because they were the tour guides. 



Dailies 
Thankfully the teachers went out of their way to squeeze out a few minutes for us to consult them. We had a 2 hour consultation with Philip on Thursday, and it was the most useful one so far because we haven't seen him in awhile. He helped me with my environment lighting and colours. What i mainly got out of it was i had to make the environment more desaturated and blur to bring focus to the characters. It aches my heart desaturating my work because i love to have colourful and vibrant drawing. However for the best of the team i shall follow his instructions. Here are some composites that i did which I most probably have to redo. An extra fact is that we just confirmed what type of brush we are using for monsters and humans.

Team Dynamics
I think our team is doing fine, though i do feel like we are behind time which makes me very anxious. We haven't had any arguments or upsets in awhile and everyone is getting very serious with their work. It shows we are getting use to each other however i do miss those times where there was a bit of drama. Not to jinx anything because i really do enjoy the peacefulness and i hope we get through this sem well! 

See you next week

Sunday 20 November 2016

sem 2 week 9: 1 more week till presentation

20 Nov 2016

Hello guys!! whoo hoo! This week was amazing, one of the best birthdays i ever had. So many people wished me and many more celebrating my birthday with me :). But now on to work

CPD 
This week i played a lot with the after effects filters, and like usual because my friends want to change the composition of their shot, i have to change the composition of my lighting, which requires me to re-render EVERYTHINGG!!. This week I've learn we cant do any super hard camera movements because to get the 2D perspective of the toilet shots is way too difficult. So at first i'd finish compositing all the toilet scene but now, I have no toilet scenes complete because we are scrapping the work to find new compositions. Sigh pies... I know this is the greater good of the project but it breaks my heart to see my work get wasted.

This week i intend to finish 3 more lightings. I've actually finished compositing the lift lobby scenes as well but alvin gave me a advice on how to improve it so i guess i have to re-render it.

Audio Design workshop
Though in our course we aren't taught audio design, our teacher invited a guest, Mr Kazz Sato, I could clearly see his love from his work and through his showreel you could tell his specialty is horror sound effects. He didn't talk about the technical aspects of the sound effects but talk more about what is suitable for what situations. How the weirdest items can make the most natural sounds. He reference to a few films that i love, like kill bill for the dramatic sound effects when they hit each other and singing in the rain where there was juxtaposition, because though rain is associated with saddness the man singing, sing in the rain is very happy. Another good note is that when the characters are speaking you should dim the background sound so as to hear the characters.

He had very good advice, he also told us not to give up on our passion because he has seen alot of talented people giving up just to have a stable jobs and he finds it a waste. This talked actually gave me more encouragement to do my work better because i do love what i am currently doing right now, though i have doubts.

Here is what i did last week:

Camera angles like these wont work
AN APPROVE SHOT YESSS!!

LETS KEEP IT UP CHARMAINE!