Group Project Artbook

Visual Journey
Gucci
ang

Before you continue
We would say thank you for our God, and our
lecturer and each team member for doing their
best in this project.
This is our first project as a team together, we
face hardship and priceless experiences.
We hope that you could enjoy the book and
learn something from it because we are very
proud of this project.

Content
Meet The Gucci Gang (1)
Pre-Production Stage (6)
Production Stage (26)
Post-Production Stage (36)

MEET
THE
GUCCI
GANG1

Akif Rashdan
Director
and Lead animator
Directing the team and
the animation
Leading animation and
3D stuffs
Character modelling and
rigging
2

Kong Chark Yiing
Post-Pro Artist
and Storyboard Artist
Editing Footages and adding
Sfx and BGM
Draw the storyboard and flow
of the shots
3

Andya Tiara
Nafisah
Concept Artist
and 2D Arts
Design the Characters
Produce the concept art and
helping to direct the color
Do the additional 2D stuffs
needed
4

Rida Maulidia
Environment Planner
and Props Modeling
Design the environment
Model the props and buildings
Helping on 3D technical stuff
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Pre-
Production
Stage
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We wanted to create a funny and enjoyable short that
touches on the topic of death. So we created two
characters. One represented death while the other
represented life. In this story, the embodiment of death
is the Reaper, while Life is embodied by a young girl.
The animation is represented in a light-hearted manner
as it is a comedic short. No actual violence are shown
in it aside from comical “death encounters”.
Story “A story of a girl who appears
to be unlucky to the naked eye
but avoids death attempts by
the Reaper with her lack of
luck.”
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Character
Design
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Choko Choki
Choko is a very cheerful and expressive
character. She tends to foget her surrounding
while focusing on her game. She is way too
addicted to her game.
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She is addicted to game, clumsy,
and does not paybattention to
her surrounding. While she’s that
carefree, her luck is awesome
in life but she’s a
total out of luck for her game.
Development
The original idea of this character was to make
her more nerdy and more “no life”
to her game. The glasses and the t-shirt
were to emphasis how addicted
she’s to the game. Meanwhile to reduce
time for modeling,
the clothes was made to be
simpleand not much to
be added (like hoodie/jacket
like the first idea)
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References
The art that we aim is simple yet appealing. So we keep
the originaly body proportion but less attribute
and simple clothes. And of course with a Japanese
anime style, but modified the eyes to be much more simple
to save more time and to not confuse beginner like us.
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Lil’ Reaper
Lil’ Reaper is silly, expressive but dedicated to his job.
He is also a bit short-tempered and tend to get angry when
he failed his job to kill Choko.
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Development
Lil’ Reaper has the most extraordinary
challenge for all of us.
At the first, he was supposed to be
a haunting ghost
that stay nearby the accident.
But then as the story developed, we
decided to make him
as Grim Reaper
who wanted to take Choko’s life.
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We intended to make his struggle to be funny,
so the design for his face was rounded
along with its features. He is also rounded
and have a simplified body shape
like the references
References
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Setting
References
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We aim the setting to be a
modern Japanese
household, with a lot of
2 storey building
and small street that
connects
to bigger street.
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Sketches to plan the buildings
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Script
Development
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Development
The story was planned to be a kind ghost
that wanted to warn the main character
about misfortunes that she would
encounter on that day. So the ghost would
push her or throw her stuffs
just to make the main character realizes
her surrounding and stop playing
with her phone.
The major changes made was between v3 and v4.
The Ghost changed into Grim Reaper, then we changed the list of misfortunes.
At first, we planned to have 3 events including Water Splash, Fallen Pot and Man-hole.
But, after consultation with techincal stuff in 3D about water splash, we decided
to take it down and proceed with the other 2 events, Fallen Pot and Man-Hole
and then ended with a big truck hit.
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Storyboard

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Scan to watch
2D Animatics
3D Animatics
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Production
Stage
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Character Modeling
Choko and Reaper modelling was went smooth. The design
is the same that was drawn, the proportion also have no problem
while the modeller had quite hard time to estimate some body-size
that’s hidden under the cloth.
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To finish the blocking, we had to use temporary
model with rough and planned rig. These are temporary
models that have been used. For Lil’Reaper, the improvement
that was added is only rig to the cloth. Meanwhile for Choko,
we had to model the hair from polygons which was the biggest
challenge.

At the first, the hair modeling was planned
to use Geo Maya Hair Plugin, but it seems
unfit because we aim for more cartoon styled
with simple style, so we changed the hair by modeling
it manually with polygons.
In this part, Choko does not have any significant
change except for the hair planning.
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Environment Modeling

Rough sketch of the floor plan
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These are the set that has been made. With
a lot of different house types, the variant
that you will see inside the animation
will be great.
To save time, we minimalize the usage
of textures and changed the building
color just by rearrange the Lambert’s color
so it wont take long time to render.

For the lighting and background, we used
custom HDR with skydome lighting. The
light was perfect so we just need one additional
direct light to finalize the render.
The render took longer time than we expected,
mainly because a lot of building that unused was inside
the shot, and complicated material such as mirrors.
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Rendering
We decided to make the color more depth by
adding Occlusion layer. To make the final result
not that flat but also not that realistic either.
The render setting that we done was not
that different. We use Arnold Renderer
with Camera increased by 5.
The time to render was surpising
because it almost took 24 hours to render. So
we decided to delete some building that’s not
showing inside the shot which helped a lot
during rendering.
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Gacha game
This part is shown inside Choko’s phone. This is the game
that she has been addicted to. The higher the rarity, the costume and
the background color changed, it is to show how “special” that character
is. The last picture was in-game showing the game
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Post
Production
Stage
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Footages Color Retouch
We used Gradient Ramp for shot that shows light more or
when the sky is showing. The gradient would start from orange-yellow
into dark blue at the bottom, after that we changed the layer’s blending
into Soft Light to make the scenery looks near evening, not too bright but
not too bright either.
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In-Phone Screen Footages
For in-phone screen footages, we did Keying
in After Effect. So we made the phone screen to be
green screen to make the process easier. Also added Motion Tracking
in moca

Compositing
We combine the image sequences after render in After Effects
and then finally moved all the footages and add sound effects
with its BGM in Adobe Premiere.
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