Hey guy's just to share with you all some amazing stuff.

http://chrisj.com.au/thepassenger/movies.html
An awesome clip.

EDIT: whoops, I left out the link to the website! :P
Here it is: http://cardboard.theupsstore.com/
It takes some time to load..

Hey guys!
Came across this website which has a pretty cool introduction video and some other animations in there... nice concept and art direction.. all about cardboard stuff.. I guess it's worth a look :)
Might be of help to our film! ;D

No worries Yongs, take your time ;)

Oh I can't wait to see the storyboards! Hahahaha! How's it going, Yongs? Actually, if you don't mind can post whatever you have then we can work on it! :)

I just painted something for our MightSight "movie poster" haha! :P
Thought it was cool for a moment~ ><

Hi guys, latest update. Still doing....







ronald want me to send you this first? Or wanna give me more time to finish the blocking.

Hello!

Here's one of the winning entries for CGSociety's Secret Agent Challenge by Ishan Shukla. This entry won the Video Individual Excellence Award. I find it very cool and very impressive for an individual effort hence will like to share it with you guys :)

cheers!

Nice titles Zi Chao!
I think can somehow improvise until it leaves a deeper impression the first time we hear it, such that everytime we hear this title, we think of this film.

Hahaha, here's my humble attempt at improvising:
1)A man can still dream --> Still Dreamt
2)In another world --> Else World
3)Imagination --> Asylunation (cool~~)
4)See with your mind --> Mindsight

GOSH the intro anim looks super cool already!!! I think our webby will be awesome with this intro. Great effort Zi Chao! Keep us posted! :D

For now, let's LABEL our posts with "Mindsight" for documentation purposes :)

Hi all, wow its been a nong time since i've posted!
Here i am! In attempt to revive the liveliness in channelbox lol
Here are some suggestions for title of our short.



1)A man can still dream
2)In another world
3)Imagination
4)See with your mind

Here's the full story we've discussed, take a couple mins to read and visualise. If you guys have anything to edit, just feel free and do it.

[Cam is in P-O-V shot.

It begins in the Outdoors on a sunny day,
the character begins looking at the ground and sees his own shadow.(background is vibrant environment of the present we live in now)
He's like under the sun feeling the heat. Then he looks at the sun. (dark clouds are moving in to cover the sun)
When he looks back down he sees a cute and adorable little girl smiling at him! (background is like "28 weeks later" movie,empty and abandoned, dark and a feeling of infection)(though still resembles the once vibrant architecture and stuff, just the mood changed)

He calls out to the child in a panic manner, as if he's his long lost daughter.
But the kid playfully runs away. Our char gives chase and the kid turns into a corner.

Char turns into corner as well and sees a door. He continues on quickly and opens the door.
Behind the door theres 1 more door! (like the matrix shot with the keymaker)
behind it is and another, and behind this door there is a slightly longer corridor with a 90 degree turn.
He sees a slight glimpse of the kid running and turning at the end of the corridor and he gives chase.
After the turn, there's a door at the end of the corridor where the kid runs into.

He opens it and becomes a vast warehouse with robots and mech stuffs downstairs and they're on a platform
(a corridor-liked platform , like L4D the warehouse).
Char is awe strucked for a moment looking at the vast mechs and shit. But quickly takes focus back
onto the child who is running on the platform too. He gives chase and we can hear the sound of footsteps on metal.
The child goes thru the door and char follows too.]

But suddenly! after the door there is a vast artic plain, with the wind and snowing blowing at his face.
He steps out.
He can see the polar ice caps are melting, falling and crushing on the ground. Shaking the ground tremendously.
He sees the kid, and gives chase as she runs towards the dangerous place ahead where ice cracks and stuff.
The ice beneath him cracks.(the day after tomorrow)
He falls down into the dark bottom, panickly and try to grip at whatever but still falls into the dark bottomless pit.

The cam is now a long shot.

and the white slowly fades off and we see our char with his hands blocking the flash from his eyes.
The white fades away and reveals the guy in the asylum room with his uniform.
It then continues to zoom out and shows the CCTV of him in the room in tat pose and stands up slowly to
only run around again as if he's seen the kid again.
Further zooming out to reveal more TV screens of many more other rooms with other crazy ppl inside. and also
revealing the words "Asylum Security Room" or something.]

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Now, for research. Don't think i'm allowed to post any copyright pictures here, but its pretty straightforward. Like the present now, to resident evil those kind of environment, and to vast artic plains with polar ice caps falling. Gotta keep in mind theres lots of contrast and such.

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Channelbox Opening Animation.



Only blocked in about half the characters.
Final poses still not finished.
Probably need to edit the timing of the characters coming in, and the way they comes in.

Still alot to be done.

The next time i get to post might be a long time from now.

I Wish everyone nothing but the BEST in everything you do.

Thats all from me.
Cheers!
-Z

Hey guys!

Let's give a production name for our short film..
Say.. Asylum (can think of a cooler name, but for now..)

Okay, so here's the current workload distribution for Asylum:
Yong Yi: Character and Environment Design, Storyboarding Thumbnails
Ronald: Storyboarding Thumbnails
ZiChao (busy with NS): Research
All: Story refinement

Channelbox Website workload distribution
Yong Yi: Website and Blog design
Ronald: Official Website and Blog Css and Html Coding
ZiChao (busy with NS): Opening animation
Ms Jong: Official Flash website execution

oh Ms Jong, I've uploaded the b/w water-light-effect loopable flv :)

Just another sketch i did the other day before i proceed with the storyboards!

Hi guys!
As discussed last night, here's a new banner I've designed for the message board. The message board works by leaving comments to that message board post! ;) Also, the channelbox tool's skydrive icon is linked to our groups' skydrive already! Click the banner to go to the message board! cheers! :D

Hello, over the next few weeks, I'll be working to create a better environment for this Channelbox Blog. Hang in there, while you might experience some weird artifects going about this blog during this period. Thanks for your kind understanding.

Changes to be made include:
More Channelbox identities going around this blog design.
Adapt previous graphics to suit the new theme including avatars and icons.
Minor changes to be made to color scheme.

As a start, here's a new Channelbox SkyDrive Icon to fit this new theme.
Cheers! :D

Hello all! I'm back with some little variations of the Channelbox logo. Made minor adjustments to the fonts to see which fits best based on Yong Yi's comments. Drop some comments ;)

Sorry for the wait...i wanted to finish the whole page but ran out of ideas. I need to go watch more animation clips.

Btw here's what i have now. Mainly sketches for the main character and the little girl(kid) whom the character chases. The ones that i prefer are labeled with the numbers. Maybe i've spend too much time on the character as he'll be only seen in the end.

I'll focus more on our environments for the next update.

Comments are welcomed.

Hello guys, I've sketched some channelbox logos and brainstormed, thinking of ways to make that cube more channelbox.

I tried to form the letter "C" and "B" if you can see it along the way..
And I even tried to add 3 letters in a cube "C", "B" and "X". It doesn't really work for me and I felt it needs to read easily. So..



Clearly, I have arrived at a very straight forward approach which is just to put a "C" in the box.

We can have the long logo which is CHANNELBOX or have it standalone as the "C" box itself can also identify that it's us. So I propose 2 forms of this logo.



And I also added some quick treatment to see how we can play around with it. :)



c&c away!! :D

Just a clarification for the ending, just for records sake.
Here's the conversation we had online about the ending:

"he open door
see a vast artic place
with melting ice caps snow mountains at the background slowly falling off and cracking like destruction
he sees the girl in the distance focus on her then run after
then ground cracks like BOOM! trys to balance and falls down into the dark bottom pit
trys to grab hold of everything and anything
then he falls, deeper, debris covering his sight his hand covers over his face, back of his palm facing him like sheilding himself
then transition to either white or black
then camera now is inside his pupil (eye) zooms out and reveal asylum he sheilding himself still, but once shot establish he shielding himself for like 12 frames, he stands up and do the dumb action once again running, open door, woah face, looking around, chasing"

and our team mate Zi Chao is embarking on a Journey to become a Real Man a.k.a National Service. So he won't be out for 2-3 weeks. Let's all wish him the best! :)

Short Clip

Okay it goes like this... (Btw the clip's in POV until mentioned.)

It begins in the Outdoors on a sunny day,
the character begins looking at the ground and sees his own shadow.
He's like under the sun feeling the heat. Then he looks at the sun.
When he looks back down he sees a kid!

He calls out to the child in a panic manner, as if he's his long lost son.
But the kid playfully runs away. Our char gives chase and the kid turns into a corner.

Char turns into corner as well and sees a door. He continues on quickly and opens the door.
Behind the door theres 1 more door! (like the matrix shot with the keymaker)
behind it is and another, and behind this door there is a slightly longer corridor with a 90 degree turn.
He sees a slight glimpse of the kid running and turning at the end of the corridor and he gives chase.

Optional, Choose A or B

A
[After the turn, there's a door at the end of the corridor where the kid runs into.]

B
[At the turn it becomes a vast warehouse with robots and mech stuffs downstairs and they're on a platform
(a corridor-liked platform , like L4D the warehouse).
Char is awe strucked for a moment looking at the vast mechs and shit. But quickly takes focus back
onto the child who is running on the platform too. He gives chase and we can hear the sound of footsteps on metal.
The child goes thru the door and char follows too.]

But suddenly! after the door there is a vast artic plain, with the wind and snowing blowing at his face.
char looks around and sees the child standing about 10m away.
He dashes forward and hugs the kid. He looks at the kid and suddenly the kid explodes into some kind of white flash
,like a blinding light (burning safari kind) and the screens goes all white.

The cam is now a long shot.
and the white slowly fades off and we see our char with his hands blocking the flash from his eyes.
The white fades away and reveals the guy in the asylum room with his uniform.

It then continues to zoom out and shows the CCTV of him in the room in tat pose and stands up slowly to
only run around again as if he's seen the kid again.

Optional Additional Ending
[Further zooming out to reveal more TV screens of many more other rooms with other crazy ppl inside. and also
revealing the words "Asylum Security Room" or something.]

Thats All!
Thats the end of it. it should not be too long as the running and all should b quite fast. Btw we can have different crazy stuff
after each door, to make things crazier. See if you guys like any part of it. or maybe it can spark something new :)
and thx for reading!

Hi guys,

Shall we have some updates on the progress of the official website?
Here is a few things which will be good to be updated on:

1. The Actionscript development for the website
2. Any difficulties faced in making the website work in Flash.
3. Can we already have a preview of the website so we have change things which are not what we want early.
4. Channelbox logo designed and finalized.
5. Start to see some visuals of the opening.

Thanks guys :)
cheers
Ronald

Congratulations SIDM Graduands!



Here's a super nice photograph of us!
I think there's one photograph with Marcus in too, but I don't have it.

Thank you ZiChao!
I am very proud to have you guys as friends too! :D

For the channelbox official website
I've put the temp page already, I hope it's okay.
The background animation is almost done.
I'll try to shift the whole blog over to the official website in time to come.

3 cheers!

CONGRATULATIONS!
To the fusion 09 batch of SIDM for graduating!

And also,
Congrats to ronald and yongyi for receiving the diploma with merits
in addition for ronald, in receiving 2 awards from mediacorp and lucasfilm!
I am very proud to have friends like you guys

The channelbox website will be underway starting next monday~
I'll be sure to update on the progress/ logo design/ opening animation soon
Everyone and anyone are free to throw in designs and ideas as well!

Cheers!

Hey guys! First of all, I think Yongs is doing an awesome job!! :D Thanks man

I've got this background water-light effect thingy up and running. I hope the current look is okay. It might be a little too attention catching so I just toned down a little for you guys to see what it may finally look like.

You guys think it's okay? =) do comment
btw, I'm editting the timing of this water-light effect, so the animation won't come too soon.

Hey guys, I tried adding a glow on our menu bar and also tried adding some smoke like effect behind the channel box text to make it not so plain.
Also increase the brightness at the right side by a bit.

I've changed the text color as well. I'm not sure the stuffs added are for the better or worse, think i need new pair of eyes :\ Do comment.

Hey guys, here's another try of the color and the News page layout.

I've increased the saturation and birghtness along with the colors of the text. Also tried to add in a bit of the bg thingy going on.
But it's still not as vibrant as what i wan it to be. What do you guys think? any suggestions?

Btw i'll try adding glows and and there next.

Hello yongs and chaos,

Regarding the water wavey reference, I realised that there are actually 3 (or more) types of backgrounds, one of them is like turqoise waves, one is like hearts (very girly) and the last one is more like orange cloth.

I'm refering to the turqoise blue-ish green one... the one that has waves going horizontal... left to right.
And because they load up randomly, you may have to refresh a few times to see it. I'm afraid we might have refered to different ones :P

cheers!

oh btw, Yongs you may want to check this out. The services page in the following reference can be how our news feed looks like :) Have a look :D

Hello :)

I have typed out the stuff that is to be included into the official website.

Parts of the structure is already illustrated by Yongs, so I only illustrated some which are not mock-ed up yet.. I added the news page too, we seemed to have forgotten about it.

There's this section which has the write up of each of us. I have kind of written something for us but I know we will like to write our own. So unless you guys think the write up is okay, treat it as a template, feel free to edit a bit or type your own and copy paste it to me :)

Oh by the way, I uploaded a super big resolution of this into our SkyDrive in case this is too small. A new project folder is created too, we can start dumping stuffs there! :D

Hey guys, i did a color tryout for our website. I've added colors for the logo and also saturated the bg to try and make our website more vibrant. Feel free to suggest or even edit my pictures. :)

Here's some color tests i tried today.

I'm thinking to have the logo's colors implemented into the Channelbox title text as well. I personally like the green-blue one.

What do you guys think?