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Just thought of putting this which I posted on iCinema wiki on Oct 25 for my reference ...

Tortoise SVN on Windows is a breeze, but with Mac, it is not that easy.
I spent the thu before AVIE trying to get SVN client - SCPlugin, to work on my Mac Pro (Mac OS X 1.5x), and it kept showing it is an outdated version 1.4.x.
I decided today to give it a go again - and hmm, ok, perhaps I should download the i386 one that is a later version 1.6.2.

And now I spent the whole afternoon trying to SCPlugin...
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I really love to do the animation. And playing with interesting camera angles is fun!

"I'll add one where we shoot from underneath the spinning magical papers!" so I said to Simon excitedly, "a low angle shot." That became shot 34b - and with 37, 38, 39, I was done with key poses. 4 shots in one day on October 16 - the Friday of week 12!

So here, I've Anna looking bewildered by the spinning paper - one of my favorite shots.


Anna and Jaws looking at Spinning Papers


Jaws Jumps up excitedly towards...
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"Dear Shu, I hope you can finish Anna well." --  little Sarah, who just turned five on the second voice recording.

"Sarah asked to write this message and she recited it, Joy is not wrong about her texting" -- text sent by Esther on 31 Oct.

"I want to see the movie!", said Sarah excitedly in CG09 on the first recording on 13 Oct. "You gotta text her!" Joy urged Sarah.

So I guess, how could I disappoint Sarah? And seven-year old Daniel too! "Anna World" is their movie!

"How did Jaws get up the tr...
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Anna's World is a whimsical world of magic!

In my mind's eye, I could almost see it even as we were building it. It's not just the environment, it's also the sound, sights and experience that we wanted to build. Yes, the sound. Little Sarah and Daniel will be thrilled to hear their voices!

"I'll be putting in a lens flare!" so said Simon over the phone. "Cool!"


Anna's World - a whimsical world of magic!

"It's going to be really so beautiful and magical!" so I said to Simon, happily seeing the dai...
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One cannot imagine how much goes into a dress.

Anna's dress was specially and lovingly designed for Blue. A day after week 5 preso on 20 Aug, I started on the dress. I was so excited as it was almost the last piece of modeling for me (beside the hair and perhaps eyelashes, teeth and tongue). And it was the fun part -- after the grueling task of modeling the human body - one of the toughest modeling task one can ask for.  Unless of course one does not care for correctness of proportion, aesthet...
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In a state of bewilderment, and trying to come to terms with the reality and make sense of it all, we'd to decide what is the best and most feasible. Drop the course? The last resort....a possibility. It was already midway through the semester.

At the time, ironically, I'd just completed the dress of Blue after spending one day on it ... a beautiful bluish white elegant dress fashioned after a photo in Bambini Magazine. To allow her to swim gracefully.  It was modeled based on the nCloth examp...
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A gust of unusually strong wind blows, with dust hitting my teary half closed eyes. Walking out of COFA on the dawn of week 9 preso on 23 September at 5 am, I was bewildered to see Oxford street turning so red. We would not have a lot to show on week 9 preso -- only the establishing shots and shots of Jaws waking Anna -- as I'd just managed to make the blink blendshapes and Anna's sleeping pose, and not started on any animation... after grappling with the difficult paint weights of Anna and h...
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