This is the first pose of Anna that I did - so serene, a sleeping child.
It reminds me of this song - Sleeping Child. My all time favorite! :-)

So serene, a sleeping pose

Sleeping Child -- Michael Learns to Rock

The Milky Way upon the heaven is twinkling just for you
And Mr. Moon he came by to say goodnight to you
I'll sing for you, I'll sing for mother, we're praying for the world
And for the people everywhere gonna show them all we care

Chorus:
Oh my sleeping child, the world's so wild but you'v...
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Frantically and flustered, I rushed to COFA. Will my white hard disk with all my precious backups of my various work and sound resources still be at general access lab F104? It was the afternoon of Saturday 28 Nov, and COFA Annual was coming to a close on Sunday. I didn't plan to go to COFA.

"Hi, excuse me, I err, had my hard disk on this Mac", I said to a lady who was working on the Mac which I left my hard disk plugged in the day before. She smiled and pointed to a hard disk on the desk. "O...
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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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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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“... the world went all red through the bit a glass...”  - five-year old Anna

And that's how my story evolves ...

My story is inspired by the true story of Anna in the book Mister God, This is Anna -- a tiny gem which I serendipitously picked up at a bookshop.

"the diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside."[1] These are the words of Anna. I was instantly captivated.



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So I realize creating eyelashes and getting the eyelashes to move with the eye blinks require techniques.
Lest I forget, I'll record the steps that I painstaking gathered from various sources.

Creating eyelashes:

1. Create poly planes for each of top and bottom eyelashes.
2. Use eyelash file texture for color attribute, and invert the eyelash file texture (using Photoshop Image>Invert) for transparency attribute.
3. Set Color Balance>Color Offset to brown (brown eyelashes for Anna!), Color Balance>Alpha is...

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Ah! It is a nice change to be at main campus – and doing interactive stuff for the icinema project.

Really fun! In earnest, doing for both our major project and icinema.

So here’s my icinema project 1 !

(To play requires Virtools Web Player)

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