EXHIBITING
The day finally come to exhibit our class works in media wall. Excitement and enthusiasm cover the whole North Spine whereby we exhibit our works. With glass of wine and pizza audiences and artists are mesmerized by hard works in this semester.
Good job everyone! Cheers!
ADDING SOUND
Of course the work will not be complete without the sound. The sound is to support the theme of nature and human’s activity.
Background music is taken from youtube sonder-chillmax. It is a music made by phone ringings. Other sound effects are city noise for the day sound, cricket chirping for the night sound, and lamp switch sound.
Testing onto Media Wall
The audio is not properly played during testing because of soft volume. Also, the music is not satisfying enough to the whole animation. Thus, I decided to change the audio.
Updating Audio
This would be the final work of Windows Civilization
Updates include changing background music to be more, changing dynamic of the volumes, make overall volume louder. Other than the sound, I find a way to remove the flickers. I have to render my file into frames (PNG images), then edit the flickered frames one by one. Yupe, it is tedious but finally the flickers are gone.
WINDOWS CIVILIZATION
RENDERING
First attempt to render is terrible. The video keeps flickering at some points, even though I have tried to render so many times.
Flickered frames (at 0:18-0:20):
Testing onto Media Wall
Overall animation is as expected, except the flickers.
Here is the final storyboard of my work:
(Daylight) Flowers grow
(Daylight) Flowers grow
(Night) Scene is darker
(Night) Lights turn on
(Night) As the spotlight is switched on, a character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
(Night) The spotlight moves to the right side and different character starts to walk in
The whole animation produces different mood and theme of the work. It is not only city nations where we can only see diversities. But, the growing flowers show that nature takes its course to our world which seems the characters do not care about. Depiction of our civilization in the dying world. Because of these reasons, I change the title from City Nations to Windows Civilization.
ILLUSTRATING
Not satisfying enough, I try to do more explorations. After a while I am reminded of Beauty and the Beast movie, whereby the concept art in the movie uses flowers to symbolize beauty.
Side story:
An accident happens, my external drive was spoiled and I lost all the data. I needed to wait for 2 weeks to get it fixed. Thankfully, I can retrieve all the files and continue to work on the animation.
ILLUSTRATING
Coloring Windows:
The most exciting part of the process is coloring!
Background Exploration:
After consulting with Ina, I find an idea to put the windows onto a wall (just like windows are supposed to be).
1. Searching on the textured wall and find that brick wall is interesting to put vintage feeling.
2. Tweaking of the wall’s color and texture.
Illustrating
Sketching:
Window designs are taken from interesting designs around Europe
Process of illustrating
1. An unknown design (most probably from Rusia)
2. A design from Europe
Motif: 
3. Chinese Motif
Motif : 
4. Arabic Motif
5. A design from New York
6. Gothic design from Ukraine
7. Japanese design
At first, I choose 7 windows to illustrate 7 continents in the world. However, after I do explorations some continents have similar designs.
Thus, reasoning of the current 7 chosen countries is to show major differences of window designs on different countries which are influenced by their culture.
Researching some backgrounds:
On this state I am still unsure of the suitable background.
IDEATING
City Nations
Process:
