This semester, our team will complete the LIAF animated short film project together. I will choose the theme of Being Human, and the animation called Oh BabyBaby, which is led by our leader Maria Joao and with Muneera as the team member.

Teamwork and communication are extremely important in completing group project tasks because we needed to finish a 45-second short animation film, which will be combined with the 3D technology to complete the 2D character animation short film. Therefore, the tasks and schedule in the early stage can ensure the planned execution of the group project. For example, in this project, we had a simple group meeting to discuss the advantages and tasks that the three of us were good at in this project. Both team leader Maria Joao and I at the illustration level are relatively solid, and who mainly responsible for Rough Animation in the early stage of the storyboard, and we drew the illustration with TV Paint software, tween drawing and an animation test. I am mainly responsible for all the Clean Up and colouring of the animation. At the same time, Muneera specializes in 3D, so she was responsible for building models of background in the early stage. Maya software is used to complete the background part of the story scene. Meanwhile, Maria Joao is responsible for the concept image of the scene in the early stage, and Muneera is responsible for the final effect of the scene in the late stage. Audio and After Effects will be used by our team leader and Muneera.

In the early stage, the collection of materials and videos in the style of similar animated short films is conducive to advancing the preliminary work of the group project, because our animation style, cancels the need to refer to a pencil line, which is similar to a have coarse fine partition line, the characters also need pencil texture and colour, by texture shading effect allows the video picture to present a kind of relaxed sense of art, so the reference related video data of the same kind, for screening for clip art visual effect, thus saving time to achieve the desired results of the group project initially.

Finally, in this LIAF project, the team’s tasks and communication process are at the early stage, which is helpful in promoting the progress and implementation of the project. During the process, the collected materials and videos can also be combined to save time and achieve the artistic visual effect of the preliminary group project.