Day 28th, 25th Feb, Monday

Today was fun. haha....had shooting at my house=). First we went to school to submit our blogs. Which, once again i reached class late=(. haha. But anyway, yeah...i went school to print, but XOREX WAS SUPER LONG QUEUE, haha...so i went to print at the library. SMART greg. lol After that, i went to submit it to Wahidah.

Then we went to have lunch=) haha...and headed down to my house. On the way back on the MRT, we were like thinking of so many crazy ideas to do animations and visual effects after MOIP1. haha...so people, crewsade is not only stopping here, we're moving on!! LOL. Soon, we reached my home=). Then, Raj and Jem bro always has a mission to do once they get into my room...they will.....haha....transform my optimus prime figurine=) lol. Then after which, we began shoot. It all started at 5.20pm, and ended at about 6.30pm. HAHA, i would say that was fast, because all our previous shots were shot over 2 hours plus. hahaq...and i mean, every. Then after shooting, because of certain details thaqt was newly introduced, It resulted in me changing my character design. haha, my character will now look like an army guard=) more details about it coming soon=)

haha...tomorrow, we'll be shooting at wendy's house=) so, we'll see how she plays host. LOL =D GD NITE

Day 27th, 24th Feb, Sunday

Hey hey=), lol. I've only started to blog today, beecause my group was having day off from thursday till now. haha, thanks Raj bro, for letting us REST =D.

The interim on Wednesday was good. But, we were pretty upset with Wahidah penalising us for being slightly late. I am trying to be offensive, but the thing is, we were not warned at all about being penalised. And it seems so unfair, because after all the hard work we have put in for the interim, we were marked down for being a little late. I thought i could have been flexible for all. But, since Wahidah has decided, what can we say? HAHA. Oh well, just got to accept it. But still, you see ar, yes we may be late, but this is our first major project, first interim in our entire schooling life. haha...we never had something so big, i mean to us its big la. First timers, what do u expect. So Wahidah, i still think you should not penailse us. You can do so on our second interim, caused you've just WARNED us.That is why, i strongly think you should not penailse us for the first interim. Thanks=) hope u dont take it to offence, im just voicing out my thoughts, and some of my frens, your students. sorry =)

But, CREWSADE'S will not be affected by this little setback. Its nothing to us=D, NOTHING. haha. we still blowed everyones balls away from our video, and we'll still continue BLOWING!!, sounds wrong but yea. HAHA...we'll blow everything off you, RAJ and JEM bro, lol... you should know what i mean, lets blow 2D*** away!! lol. Thats our primary objective. haha....Wahidah wanted to see more of how we're going to present our work in the video, and she wants to see how the entire transition will take place. No worries, CREWSADEs' will work on it right away=).

OK, now the timeline. By this week, we will finish our shooting for everyone=) so that i may start animating my character in my interview, and so can Wendy in hers. Then for Wendy and I, will be completing our character animation by next week, latest next thursday. From there, we'll start with the early post productions editing, then we'll be having our own team's screening session. It works something like an interim, but its only within our group. Through this screening sessions, we'll be putting ourselves in the viewers position, so that we'll know how thet would react to our video. IF all seems fine, haha..CREWSADES' will move on to perfecting it, then we shake leg. LOL....so other groups had better beware, we may not seem to be what we are yet, but do not assume what we are, for its not what we are. LOL...damn confusing right? haha...greg bored mah. LOL...alrite, gd nite=D.

Day 23rd, 21st Feb, Wednesday

Today was a very very long and tiring day. Not because of MOIP1. It was all because of irri*****g module called, you should know by now. HAHA…Design History and Culture. I am, or should I say everyone is so freaking frustrated and busy with an extra load of unecessary burden by this module. Its taking up too much time and hindering us with completing our P1’s work. To everyone, I am sure they share they same thought that MOI P1 is definitely our priority compared to that module.

Anyway, I was very angry today with my DHC lecturer. I took the initiative to call and ask if I could just hand in the work and go off for shooting with my group, because we’re really press for time. Then he said I was placing my priorities wrongly. Imean, come on man, if you have something you think is much important, you would placwe that before you right? And at least I took the initiative to call him and ask. Yet he still thinks I am delibrately skipping his class. Anyway, enough of him for the day. Nest up, when we were in class, he told us about another assignment that we had to finish off first. Because why? HE FORGOT TO GIVE US on the first day. WTH!!! Ar!!!!

Anyway, after class, which ended like in 1 hours time. I went on to do my animation in the TV studio with jake’s group, because my group went off to film at jeremy’s place without me. THANKS TO JUSTIN!!(sarcastically). I don’t mean to be rude or offensive, I am just voicing out how I feel. OK, back to P1, I did my animation on andrea’s laptop, because I do not have flash in my laptop. SO IRRITATING. All was going well…UNTIL the programme quited unexpectedl.y, I have not saved my files yet!! OMG!!, First was DHC’s problem, now this.

I had to redo eveything in 3D animation lab, by then I was already like so tired!! So I rushed up one short 3 second animation as a rough one for tomorrow’s presentation. Sorry guys, I had to do such sloopy work, I will redo the whole thing after tomorrow.=) I promise. OK, that is all for today, I am really tired, good night.

Day 22nd, 19th Feb, Tuesday

Today was one long tiring day. I reaced scholl pretty late today at about 1pm, sorry guys!! =D. haha. In class, we showed Wahidah our script which Raj bro spent so much time to edit on it=), and it was now fully approved by Wahidag! Thanks!! Haha, she was being so picky about our scripts, which we thought was really frustrating and irritating. But guess what, lecturer’s always have to sacrifice their first image, now we understand why Wahidah was being so hard on us. Thanks!! =) After showing her the script, I showed my group mates the works I have done for my character for it to talk. They liked it=) woo hoo…great job greg. HAHA…I told you I’ll have more self-praises. LOL, but I still cannot start to animate my character yet=(, because we havent took the shot at my house where my character will be appearing. In my room, interacting with me during the interview. But, till then. I’ll keep drawing new poses for my character to achieve the best result. Meanwhile, I am also practicing on my After Effects which Raj is teaching me. This way, I may be able to assist in the visual effects too. Wendy is doing great on her mushroom, she has started to animate on flash already. GOOD JOB!! Jeremy, haha….you deserve the title of director of photography and cinematographer. Those shots that he chose, and the angles used during the interviews were great. He had the longest duration of pain to endure during the shots, because of the many many NG’s, he has to re-position himself once again, assume that many many positions he had on all the previous NG’s, it was totally not easy at all. Thanks bro!!!

Anyway, after we had showed Wahidah our stuffs, we sat down for a pretty long talk with her, it lasted for about 20mins. LOL, we then had better understanding between each other, on why somethings had to be done this way, and not that. OK…what I meant was that, we spoke to her about how we feel for the 2mins air time per person, we really find it too short a time, and its causing too many limitations on our works. But, she explained to us till we understood, haha. She is a good lecturer, she beliefs that there shouldn’t be a gap between lecturers and students, because eventually we’ll be working together in the same industry, hlping one another, and learning from one another=). Wahidah then talked about what the previous previous MOI seniors did, we were really inspired, because last time, technologies were not as advance as now. Those editing that can be done on our computer now was not available then, many things were done manually, not like all the presets effects we’re enjoying now. I raised to Wahidah a request on if my group wants to start an animation film on our own, how do we go about getting sponsors or getting approval. I know this is very ambitious, but look at how competitive the market is right now, it leaves us no time or reason to slack on. HAHA, she found it a brilliant idea, and allowed us to talk about it over coffee after our P1 is done. Thanks=)

Then, soon it was evening time. Which is filming time for us. HAHA, we were suppose to film Jeremy today. But we overlooked certain details which were not available yet, haha. SO, Jeremy dressed up for nothing. Sorry bro=), but, he should thank us, because we made him look good, haha. So we improvised, and moved on to shoot on shots that were available. Finally, we then decided to film on Wendy and ME AGAIN!!! Lol…this time, the module is 2D art fund. Today had lesser NG’s than yesterday. Thank god!! Haha…but we were really really irritated by the students around us. We shouted”silence on set, filming in progress” they didn’t bother. We were sure they heard us and knew we were refering to them, because when we “sshhhh” them, they “ssshhhh” back. They delibrately shouted and made lots of noise to irritated us and show their attitude. But, come on man, they would not want such things to happen to them when they’re filming too right? Well….all we can do is to endure. At certain times, Raj, Jem and I got really angry and shouted. But to no avail, so we just stopped shouting and just endured. Painfully…we finished our shots which lasted for 2hours plus. Wendy’s father had already come to pick her up, but we hqad to let her father wait for another 30mins, because we had to finish the shot. Thanks wendy and thanks uncle!! Haha, of cause, we quickly filmed wendy’s part first so that we could let her off early. After we were done, we let her off, but just when we thought we were done, we remembered there was still another ending shot that needed wendy. HAHA, so we quickly called her back, she was already at her father’s car. Awww…..haha. Thanks wendy!! But, we only took 15mins, haha. Then all was well and done. So we packed up for the day.

But not everything was over yet, we still had to stay in school to do our irri*****g module, Design History and Culture, which we think is really a redundant module. I shall not go into details about that, might sound offensive, but I mean none=) good night people, just for your info, Raj, Jem and I are still in school now, doing DHC!!!

Day 21st, 18th Feb, Monday

Today was a very long day for CREWSADE,inc. First, we went to school and let Wahidah check on our script again. Once again, we had some minor changes to attend to. Apparently, the Ideation section still did not satisfy the requirements set by Wahidah. So, we’ll edit on that again, apart from it. We’re good to go to carry on our shoots for the other modules.

I also informed my group that I will not be available for a few days because of my pool competitions. They were really supportive of my pool, they did not reject my request. Thanks bros and wendy!!! Haha. But, since I’ll be away for some time, I’ll be working extra hard on the days that I am free. I dissapoint you all, I’ll do my best to enter TEAM SINGAPORE!! YEAH! =D. Today, I’ve been doing on the different expression that my character will be doing. I’ll be giving myelf only three days to do these. After this, I’ll have to rush on animations. Time is running short guys!! Let’s do these! Haha. Wendy is also doing good on her character design. Today, we decided not to scan our character designs into the computer to animate, which was our initial plan. Because by doing this, we’ll then be doing double job, because after scanning it, we’ll have to trace the character out on the computer again. So we’ve decided to just draw the character straight on the computer, but with reference to our drawings. By Thursday, I’ll be animating my character already on flash.

Apart from discussing on our animation schedule. We already planned to shoot on my 3D art fundamentals interview today. Before that, I did a voice over for our opening introduction. The song used was really epic, haha. So my group thought that my voice was suitable for it. LOL, and I thought my voice suits only the cartoonish part. But what to do, because greg is just so versatile!! LOL. Hmm…ok, enough of self-praises, haha…many more to come=). Anyway, lol…back to the voice over. This was my first time doing a voice over, it was really fun. But we got really distracted, haha. Lots of laughs here and there, causing many many NG’s. We took ONE HOUR!!! Just to do a 1min plus voice over long. Haiz…sad to say. On our first day of filming, we had an accident on the set. LOL, because the tripod was on the table for a high angle shot on our production bloopers. Half way during the shot, lol…the tripod fell on this innocent Wendy who was sitting quietly below the tripod doing her manga drawing. Ouch…that really hurt. She was really in pain, sorry wendy. Haha…she even had nauseous feeling, we were so worried that we suggested going to the hospital. But, a strong girl like her, haha…needed none of that. Just a pack of ice on her head to reduce the bump, she was OK. Lol..so we carried on filming. Then we got a little playful, we played catching with that bag of ice. HAHA!

OK, enough of the fun part. Next, we went to the studio on the fifth floor to do my 3D art fundamentals interview. OMG….this was really one tiring take. WE had a total of 15++ NG’s!!! haha…and, the worse part was my take had a sequence of me walking down a flight of stairs, counting the number of NG’s, I walked a total of 30++ times up and down that b****y flight of stairs!! The really worse part was that, silence on the set didn’t work at all. Because those b****y people in the studio were making a hell lot of noise, ar!! Damn them! Haha. Haha…I was partly to be blamed for the NG’s, because I forgot my script and I was laughing so many times during the takes. Its not easy to do an interview I tell you, especially when so many drama mama sequence are in place. HAHA…and sorry guys. I know I was too troublesome, had you all to shift the sets, had you all to set up my scripts on the laptop for me because I was lazy to memorise the script. I was being too troublesome, but thanks for not making noise. HAHA, I love you guys! CREWSADE,inc. stands by all their group mates=). After, 4hours of shoots!!! That was how long we took, we completed our interview on me for ONLY 3D art fundamentals. Haha…imagine how long more we have to endure for the rest of the interviews. But, hard works are paid off after we had a well and good shot on the interview. Great job guys!!! Haha.

Some words for my group mates:
Raj- Take it easy my bro, don’t stress yourself up too much. It is not doing any good to your health at all. I know you want the best and it to be done fast. But, you’ve already been a good leader as well as you’ve done so many awesome visual effects. Take a break bro. We can do it! =)

Jem- Bro, haha. You too, got to really rest. You look so tired everyday. Take it slow and easy, you’re the director of photography and cinematographer man!! You cant afford to fall, we’ll all die! LOL. =)

Wendy- HAH…hope you ok now! Lol…next time, wear a helmet during our shoots. HAHA, anyway. You are doing a good job on your animation, lets do it, rock the scholl with our animated characters!! Haha. =)

Greg- WELL DONE!! Woo hoo=D

Day 20, 16th Feb, Saturday

Today's blog covers friday's one too. HAHA....well...on friday. We were editing our scripts according to how Whaidah wanted it to be changed. Certain changes that she mentioned, we didnt want to change, so we explained to her. She thought about what our reasons were, so she allowed=D. We also didnt do much on friday. Because basically we're done with everything that was needed to be done according to our schedule. This coming week is going to be very busy. Raj bro will be busy will visual effects on After Effects. Jem bro will be busy sorting out camera angles for our shoot on location and for interview.

During the evening, we went to Singapore Polytechnic for an animation conference held by Siggraph. It was a screening session on all the best animations, visual effects, games introduction and advertisements made by the best in the world. Then we really saw the standard the industry really wanted. Some of us felt pretty demoralised by it, I was one of those few who were demoralised. But, Raj bro told me not to. Because we can do it too=D. haha, we'resetting up a team, to submit our very own animation and visual effects portfolio to siggraph. Its something like a competition that they're holding. We will be competing with the entire world. HAHA, woah, ambitious rite? haha. This group consists of, Raj, Dion, Jake, Me, and maybe Jem too. haha, we're the young animators of Singapore=D.

I personally feel that, those people who did all those mind blowing animations and visual effects are not born talented. Maybe some of them are, but not all. All these can also be achieved by us, through hard work and research on our own. One of our MOI's inspiration comes from Raj bro. He did all these when he was in secondary school on his own. Research on how to use programmes like MAYA, and After Effects, thats why he knows so much more than us now. That is why, i'm also going to do the same. I cannot slack anymore, and this is also what i want to tell my fellow MOI friends. The industry is growing fast, and so should we. Lets all work alot harder for this period of time, and when we succeed, you will realise all the hardwork was worth=D.

haha, ok people. Thats all for today=D. NITES=)

Day 18, 14th Feb, Thursday

ABOVE IS MY CHARACTER DESIGN=)

Today was one of the slackest day ever, haha. we had to treasure it, because the days to come will be super tiring and stressful during animation and filming. Then we would rather slack, haha. But, this is CREWSADE,inc. Nothing can stop us. I just heard from my teamates about what Wahidah had said about cutting down on the epic things to make it simpler. No offence there, but i disagree with it too. Why? simple...because it will then look too singapore-ish. Look at advertisements nowadays, all singapore made advertisements are so recognisable. There was a day when Raj bro and I was out, we were looking at advertisemnts on TV. We were like trying to guess which country made the advertisement. And, guess wat? all the boring ones were singapore-made. It is so obvious, because we keep it too simple. Look at NAVY'S advertisement. I certainly find that they are the ones that have improved the most, when it comes to promoting themselves. All their CGI's Visual effects made it look so cool, and that's what captures viewers heart and attention. They could have juz stickded to their old method of just using typography, voice over and scenes of training. But these are so yesterday.

I know Wahidah just wants us to focus on our main point, and not stress ourselves with unecessary trouble. Thanks anyway=), but seriously, i think we should be encouraged and not discouraged to do all these, because if more people recieves such discouragement, some may just stop and revert back to their, sorry to say this, but "old fashion style". Which i think is what's kelling the industry. Yes, i agree sokmetimes simplicity is beauty, but it depends on case to case scenarios. I rest my case=).

Back to my lovely group, haha. We have been slacking today because, WE ARE ON SCHEDULE!! haha...right now we are just learning things from Raj bro. Jem and I are like super hardworking. We're learning all the visual effects stuff from Raj bro who gladly teaches us. U rock BRO!!! haha. After we have mastered all, which we have to do it soon. We'll be helping out in designing and coming out with visual effects for certain scenes too. Wendy will also be learning, but she is more interested in manga and anime drawing. But, nonetheless, she is very very very good at it=) GOOD JOB WENDY=) haha. yea..that's all for today.

Some words for my groupmates-
Raj- omg bro, your totally awesome man. haha...im going to learn whatever you teach me, and help you out soon=). And bro, you are doing great as a leader. HAHA...dont worry, just dont stress yourself too much yea. When you're stress, sing the song we came out with.haha..YOUR kkj, MY kkj, HIS KKJ, her KKJ. LOL.

Jem- bRO, YOUR AWESOME TOO MAN. Your talking skills and camera skills are superb. HAHA....good job!! LOL. Your drawing has improved alot too, but remember what i say, draw the correct way, if not you wont improve fast. HAHA, and your after effects are cool too, hurry learn together then we can help Raj bro out.

Wendy- Awesome mushroom character you designed. Great job! HAHA...and really nice animes too. Keep up the good work, dont get too stressed too, doing animation soon oredi, haha. You wont complain of being bored. LOL

Greg(me)- GOOD JOB!! LOL =D

Day 17th, 13th Feb, Wednesday

Hi people, haha. I'm so happy today. LOL...our group's script is accepted! Just some minor adjustments. Thanks Wahidah! GOOD JOB GUYS=D. omg...i love CREWSADE, inc. To the other groups...u can do it too=))). haha...today we planned our shooting days. We'll be starting our shoots early next week. Then Wendy and I will start on our animation. I foresee a very very busy time ahead. HAHA....but i know Crewsade, inc. can do it!

Apart from this, we did not really do much either. We are on schedule according to our timeline. so, haha...yeah!! ok people. tt's all, gd nites

Day 16th, 12th Feb, Tuesday

Hi everyone. Today my group completed our SCRIPTING!!! yeah!! haha...good job guys. Special thanks to RAJ BRO and JEM BRO who did most of the work=). Because Wendy had outside classes, and I had a pool tournament. SADLY...i lost my final round to qualify for the semi-finals. ARH!! It was 3-2, so close!! =(. But, haha...my bros and best frens consoled me and encouraged me to move on further. HAHA....i will!! Next time round, i'll do much better =D. This week is the last week to complete my character design, after which is animating period. GOTTA RUSH GREG=). Wendy's doing a great job on it too.

Today i left at 1.30pm, so i didnt really do much. More updates coming up tmr=)

Day 15th, 11 Feb, Monday

Hi everyone, we're back from Chinese New Year celebrations. Had all the fun we wanted already, now its back to the real deal =D. Lets move on CREWSADE, inc. OK, for today, our group settled on our individual script for the video during the interviews. Scirpting was quite difficult though, we had to summarize all we had to say within 2minutes. But then again it cannot be too brief, so we had to really sit down and discuss the importnt points.

Apart from scripting, we also continued on our character design, both Wendy and I have been doing a good job in having lots of ideas, and coming out with many designs. We have decided on our character today, and in a few days time. We'll be animating it, woo hoo!! But character design int as easy as what we expected. For me, because our theme is about EPIC, so i decided to use related things that has relations with epic. I chose ARMY style, it will look very "garang" which means having a "ommf". My character is based on a cute little creature that has looks of a puppy and a bear cub. It will be wearing army helmet. haha...so cute rite? It will be communicating with me during my interview=).

Yawn....very sleepy now. Have been busy with all these pre-productions. Very stress too, haha, because tomorrow is my pool tournament. HAHA...all the best greg! =) lol. Nites people, gotta go rejuvenate now=)

Day 09, 5th Feb, Tuesday

Hi people=). haha...how have all of you been? LOL. I sure hope ur group is doing fine=) because as i told u, CREWSADE, inc. is in the house...which means THREAT. lol...better workhard if u want to survive yea. =p....anw....all of your presentations today were great. Vey well explained and organised, GOOD JOB=). i especially liked a particular group. That group was awesome, phew...it blew my mind off. That group is CREWSADE, inc. HAHA....my group. lol...we rock!!

LOL....its like...come on man. RAJ BRO...u rock man..haha. look at our logo design, its awesome. You all have got to admit that man...haha. Without Raj's help, my dragon would not look good at all. AND...JEM BRO..awesome compass u did there. COOL....haha. Now...haha...wendy...awesome and amazing design on our movie's title, D'Odysseus. HAHA....keep up the good work guys=).

Today we went a step further again, we have decided to animate characters to be interacting with us in the video..haha. Wendy and i would be the 2D animators =). Raj will take care of the 3D animation, cool rite? haha...JEM, DIRECTOR of photography...dont play play ar. HAHA..... We have somne rough sketches of characters already, they too will hve the epic look. So we'll be revolving around the designs of pirates or olden warriors look. But they will not be actual human-like form. They will look cartoonish, at the same time epic.

Ambitious it may be, but this is CREWSADE,inc. You're talking about here, haha. Nothing IS IMPOSSIBLE.

Day 08, 4th Feb, Monday

Hi people, im so happy today. haha...i just love my group mates so much. They have so many creative ideas. We all worked together very well, all the ideas are closely knitted together to come up with a wonderful piece of work.

But, crap...i wasted $18 on a stupid taxi trip to school today. ARH!! other than that, i didnt really mind. Because i spent the money to meet my great great group mates in school=) ITS WORTH=). During the period of time when i was cabbing to school, i designed our group logo. I went to school and showed my group mates, they loved it. We then discussed what modules to present first, and how the transitions would come about during the change of scenes. We also settled on who will be showing what works.

In the evening when my group stayed back to do our work. I went to design my dragon in Macromedia Flash. And yes, i did it. I was entrusted with the job of an 2D ANIMATOR. woo hoo!! yea=) haha. The dragon was really stressful to do, but with the help and encouragement from my dear groupmates=) I DID IT. yeah!!!

Thats all for today, im sure tomorrow will be great too, because everyday is a good day to me=)

Day 07, 3rd Feb, Sunday.

Hello=) haha. Today is spring cleaning day for me=). First, i went to church in the morning, then had a hair cut. After that, i came home and pack my room...and yeah!!!its packed nw!!!! haha. I am so happy, Chinese New Year is coming. haha. At first we were suppose to have a group meeting today. But Jem and i were busy. So we changed to meeting much earlier tomorrow instead. haha..thanks RAJ BRO=).

Today rained quite a bit, so it was pretty troublesome to carry an umbrella around. Looks so NOOBERISH.haha.....then nw i'm going off for my pool training=). Having a tournament right after Chinese New Year, haha. See u all around=)

Day 06, 2nd Feb, Saturday

hello people=). I m still at camp today, but today is the last day=)

After the camp is over, I have to get home to do spring cleaning. haha