Me and my partner had a great sharing of knowledge and assets in this project. He is really good at 2D works (Drawing, Concept Designs, Story Boarding and all other concept development) and Stories. The story was basically his idea, and we further develop it by the help of friends, lecturers and classmates. After the story and the concept designs are all confirmed, I, by then came in to transfer it in 3-Dimensional World. While he was the concept designer, I was the so-called "technical executor". I'm not claiming that I did all the modeling, rigging, texturing - but we had a good sharing of skills on each and every work. I started off modeling the characters and he did the refinement to it. I did the modeling of the furniture first, the whole laboratory and when the time comes that we have to separate all the furniture to different scenes - he started to add more furniture to make all the rooms appealing and he also modeled the whole amusement park.
What I'm proud of and happy about our group is the teamwork we had - sometimes I'll do little refinements on some models he did and he will do the same thing on mine. Eek (Boy) was rigged by me but blendshapes by him, while Aya (Girl) was rigged by him but I did blendshapes for it. It was really a matter of helping each other to improve and make everything better.
The most exciting part, is executing the lighting. The lighting for the bedroom and amusement park was basically done by him and I just did a very few refinements to it. I enjoyed lighting the laboratory, the environment and the living room. It may not be perfect but as a beginner, and I can say that it was my first time doing environment lighting, I didn't really expect that it would be quite fun and enjoyable.
Heres' a 2D Colour Script made by Sean Chong and I did the 3D Colour Script.
When it comes to animation, the credits would definitely on him, at first I did the first laboratory scene, but after a number of revisions, I gave up on it and gave that scene to him and he did all the refinements to it.
Through out this 4 months ++ of doing our final project for Diploma - we had learned a lot, even though we had experienced rejections, we had little fights and disagreements, a lot of ups and downs, but it was all worthwhile, and all the hardships and pains had paid off in the end.
I really had fun, even though there are times that I really wanted to give up and to just stop, I didn't and he didn't, instead we became more eager - but at the end of everything I really enjoyed it, I think that's the most important experience/learning you will get from a teamwork :)
P.S to my partner, who had a lot of patience on me, thank you very much and sorry for being the grumpy woman haha! you're just awesome! :)
Turntables:
Some images of our characters:
AYA ("endurance")
EEK ("eagerness")
Some images of our environment:
