Light Pair Blog Vol 10~ Referred animation for planning storyboard(Light Pair網誌第十回~ 計劃分鏡表的參考動畫)

The animation I make this time is 5 mins, my storyboard plan has to plan carefully. (Previously, the longest animation I made was 2 mins.) Hence, I watched an 10 mins anime for my reference of planning storyboard. The anime I chose to study was Keroro Gunzo Ep 156 part 1: Combine! Keroro Robot. The reason is the plot was similar to my animation (the "similar" means the genre, not the storyline). The study I made is in the following:

starting at 1:28 (after the opening sequence)~ Keroro team custom robots appear and subtitle appear.

2:28 to 3:28~ Dororo's reaction on the robots, after he disappears, Viper (the villain) contacts the team

3:29 to 4:28~ Viper wants to have a duel with the team and told them the venue. Then Keroro reacts on the challenge from Viper

4:29 to 6:28~ Robots Launch Sequence

6:28 to 6:55~ Keroro team vs Viper

6:55 to 7:28~ Viper becomes giant and counterattack

7:28 to 8:02~ Keroro team defeated, Keroro is in danger (climax)

8:03 to 8:28~ Dororo appears to save Keroro, then asks Viper to retreat

8:28 to 8:34~ Dororo is reluntant to pilot robot

8:35 to 8:46~ Dororo robot arrives and is ready to fight

8:47 to 9:17~ Dororo vs Viper

9:18 to 9:37~ Dororo gives Viper final attack

9:39 to 10:10~ Kerobine Sequence

10:11 to 10:28~ Robot combination problem

10:29 to 10:40~ the combination collapses

10:40 to 10:48~ Viper's retreat

10:49 to 11:10~ Dororo's disappointment and anger to Keroro

According to this reference, I can plan my storyboard like this:

0:00 to 0:05~ title screen

0:05 to 1:05~ Hikaru (F) is attending lesson in the class; classroom transformation;

1:05 to 2:05~ Sette de Vinte launches;

2:05 to 3:05~ meet Methane;

3:05 to 4:05~ Plutino vs Sette de Vinte

4:05 to 5:00~ Plutino retreats and end

or like this (3 mins version)

0:00 to 0:05~ title screen

0:05 to 1:05~ Hikaru (F) is attending lesson in the class; classroom transformation; Sette de Vinte launches;

1:05 to 2:05~ Meet Methane; Plutino vs Sette de Vinte

2:05 to 3:05~ Plutino vs Sette de Vinte; end

(Chinese version will be written later)

Next Volume: Light Pair Blog Vol 11~ Mechanic 3D Graphics

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Light Pair Blog Vol 9~ Schedule (Light Pair網誌第九回~ 進度表)

I had never talk about my schedule from the start of the blog. What I had completed now are:
我由開始寫網誌到現在從未提過我的進度表, 現階段完成有:

1. Comic booklet and DVD cover
2. Production blog (will keep on updating)
3. Comic rough drafts
4. Main characters design (hand drawn)
5. Mechanic design (hand drawn)
6. Main characters model sheet (Methane is not completed yet.)
7. World Map (rough)

The coming schedule is:
Beginning of November~ Mechanic modelling complete, background design and modelling complete (hopefully), storyboard complete
November to March~ animation complete (priority), comic booklet complete
April to May/June~Report and post-production

However, when the school starts, the coming assignments will make the schedule becoming very tight. I try my best to stick on the schedule. If I could not complete some parts, I would have to explain in my project report..

Next Volume: Light Pair Blog Vol 10~ Referred animation for planning storyboard
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1.漫畫冊和DVD封面
2.製作網誌(會不斷更新)
3.漫畫草稿
4.主要人物設計(手繪)
5.機械設計(手繪)
6.主要人物決定稿(美迪没完成)
7.世界觀(草圖)

之後的進度表:
十一月頭~機械電腦圖完成,背景設計及電腦圖完成(希望)和分鏡表完成
十一月至三月~動畫完成(優先), 漫畫冊完成
四月至五月/六月~Project報告和音效
可是當學校開學時, 到時的功課會令這進度表更緊迫...我會盡力而為的。若有些部分不能如期完成, 我會在報告解釋

下回預告:Light Pair網誌第十回~ 計劃分鏡表的參考動畫

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Light Pair Blog Vol 8~ Mechanic Design (Light Pair網誌第八回~ 機械設定)

Mechanic design is only used for animation version. The designs show here include the 6 fighter, Sette de Vinte, enemy fighter and battleships.
機械設定只在動畫中使用。 這裡展示出的設計包括6架戰機Sette de Vinte敵機和敵艦。

1. Nyugat fighter (two fighters in the upper part of the picture)
羽格戰機 (圖片上方兩個)
Its pilot is Hikaru (M). In the pilot episode, Hikaru (M) controls the plane before the battle as Hikaru (F) takes over the control later. It possessed the similar design as Oriental and other fighter. It can transform to cannon mode and combine to a robot with one and more fighter.
Weapons are laser beam, spiral cut, Lily cannon (cannon mode).

駕駛員是葵光(男)。在實驗集裏, 他戰鬥前操縱但後來被葵光(女)搶去操縱權。設計與其他戰機相似, 可變成大砲模式和跟一個或多個戰機合體。
武器有雷射光線, 螺旋切割和百合砲。


2. Nord fighter (the lower part of the picture)

諾特戰機 (圖片下方)
Its pilot is Snow White. It is the only magical fighter in the animation. However, it does not involve in the battle in the pilot episode. It just appears flying together with Nyugat fighter.
Weapons are come from Snow’s spell. Cannon shape is tulip.
駕駛員是絲露.維特, 動畫中唯一的魔法戰機。在實驗集裏没有參戰, 只是跟羽格戰機一同出現。
武器來自絲露的魔法。砲型是鬱金香。



3. Oriental fighter
奧蘭途戰機
It is supposed to be piloted by Hikaru (F), but since she is mistakenly assigned to Nyugat fighter, this plane will not appear in the pilot episode.
原是葵光(女)駕駛的戰機, 但她錯配到羽格戰機, 這機體不會在實驗集出現。


4. Selatan fighter, Hinunter fighter and Links fighter
錫拉旦戰機, 希能達戰機和凌斯戰機
Other fighters appear like Nord fighter in the pilot episode.
Cannon shapes are rose, sunflower and carnation.
其他像實驗集裏的諾特戰機般出現。
砲型分別是玫瑰, 向日葵和康乃馨。



5. Sette de Vinte
It is the main and only battleship of Hikaru’s class/Sette de Vinte. The bridge is actually transformed from one of the classroom in the college. This ship was taken off in an open space instead of the school. The captain is Boron Russet
Weapons are multi-rifle, missile drills, laser beam and Nebula cannon
唯一Sette de Vinte/葵光班的主艦。艦橋由學院的課室變成的,這艦會在郊外空地出動。艦長是布朗.惑斯特。
武器有密集長槍, 飛彈鑽, 雷射光線和星雲砲。


6. Plutino (the bottom one), Charon (right top) and PDF (left top)
布汀諾 (最下圖), 查朗(右上圖)和 冥王星防衛戰機(左上圖)
Plutino is the main battleship of Pluto military, the captain is Methane Pluto, Pluto Queen.
Charon is the sub battleship in Pluto military.
PDF stands for Pluto Defense Fighter, pilots are Pluto soldiers. Concept of the fighter comes from beetle.
布汀諾是冥王星軍主艦, 艦長是冥王星女皇美迪.布路度。
查朗是冥王星軍副艦。
PDF 是冥王星防衛戰機簡稱, 駕駛員是冥王星軍兵士們。戰機構思來自甲蟲。


Next Volume: Light Pair Blog Vol 9~ Schedule

下回預告:Light Pair網誌第九回~ 進度表

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Light Pair Blog Vol 7~ Comic Booklet and DVD Cover (Light Pair網誌第七回~ 漫畫册和DVD封面)

Recently I didn't update the blog because I was busy with the comic booklet cover and DVD cover in these three weeks. Why I need to take such a long time to complete these two covers? The main reason is the tracing part in Adobe Illustrator. Each character needed to take 2 hour to complete (including colouring and shading, but the shading of the characters for comic booklet was done in Photoshop). The covers are shown at the right hand side of the blog. Hikaru (M) is set to look different in comic to animation. In the DVD cover, the character in left top corner is the villain in the animation.

Next Volume: Light Pair Blog Vol 8~ Mechanic Design

最近没有更新的原因是這三星期忙於漫畫冊和DVD封面。為何我要用這麼長的時間完成呢? 主因是在Adobe Illustrator畫邊部分,每個人物需2小時完成(包括上色塗影, 但漫畫冊人物的塗影是用Photoshop塗的) 那些封面展示於這網誌的右邊。 葵光(男)的設定在漫畫跟動畫有分別。DVD封面左上角的人物是動畫中的歹角。

下回預告:Light Pair網誌第八回~ 機械設定

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About Music Player (關於音樂播放器)

The interface of the player is not created by me....I still don't have the skill to create player interface|||....I got it from Jwmp3player website. I only can edit some of the script, and upload to this site after trial and error. The song I had uploaded into the player are:

這音樂播放器介面不是我做的...我目前還没有這樣的技術|||....我是從Jwmp3player 網頁得到的。我只能修改, 和經過多回嘗試上載。我上載的歌曲有:

1. Tobikiri! Yuuki no Door (Fly Through! [the meaning of tobikiri I had to check out as I saw a website said it means super] Door of Courage)
Sung by Urara Kasugano (Mariya Ise), Character Song from Yes! Pretty Cure 5

2. Eien no Ring (Eternal Ring)
Sung by Cosette (Kaori Nazuka), Character Song from Les Miserable Shoujo Cosette

3. Born to be Happy!
Sung by Milfeulle Sakuraba (Ryoko Shintani), Character Song from Galaxy Angel

4. Flapper Girl
Sung by Ryune Zoldark (Narumi Hidaka), Character Song of The Lord of Etemental

5. Princess Christmas Night
Sung by Fine, Rein, Bright, Shade, Mellow, Altezza, Leone, Sophie (Megumi Kojima, Yuko Goto,Tetsuya Kakihara, Junko Minagawa, Sachi Sukigara, Kaori Mizuhashi, Misato Fukuen, Rina Satou), Christmas Character Song from Fushigi Boshi Futago Hime

6. Adrenaline ha Sagojyou! (Adrenaline is in high tension!)
Sung by Lamune Baba/Lamuness (Takeshi Kusao), Character Song from NG Knight & 40


1. とびっきり! 勇気の扉(飛越吧! 勇氣之門)/春日野うらら[春日野麗](伊藤茉莉也)光之美少女隊的人物主題曲
2. 永遠のリング(永遠的指輪)/コゼット[歌錫特](名塚佳織)悲傷世界~少女珂賽特的人物主題曲
3. Born to be happy/ミルフィーユ.桜葉[美露菲. 櫻葉](新谷良子)銀河天使的人物主題曲
4. Flapper Girl/リューネ.ゾルダーク [琉妮.索魯達克] (日高奈留美)魔裝機神的人物主題曲
5. プリンセス·クリスマス·ナイト(公主聖誕夜)/ファイン(法伊恩,CV:小島惠)、レイン(蓮伊恩,CV:後藤邑子)、ブライト(布萊德, CV: 柿原徹也)、シェイド(夏恩特,CV皆川純子)、 リオーネ(黎歐娜, CV:福圓美里、アルテッサ(阿爾泰莎,CV: 水橋薰)、ソフィー(蘇菲,CV:佐藤利奈) 、ミルロ(梅洛, CV:すきがら沙智)

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Light Pair Blog Vol 6~ Introduction of Light Pair comic(Light Pair網誌第六回~Light Pair漫畫版介紹)

Firstly, I would like to explain why I make comic booklet for this project. The main reason is that the episode I am going to make for the pilot DVD is not the first episode (this will explain in later volume). If I make the first episode for DVD, the animation won't be special (in my view). On the other hand, since the pilot episode is not the first episode, the audience will not understand how the two Hikaru and other characters meet together.

Secondly, about the stage of the comic booklet, I had completed the first draft (very rough one), and I was making the actual drawing. If the schedule goes smoothly, I will probably finish the comic by the end of next month.

Lastly, I would like to show some of my comic draft below. I am welcome for the comments.


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首先我想解釋為什麼我會為這課題做漫畫册, 主因是我將會製作的實驗動畫不是第一集(會在之後的Light Pair網誌解釋)。如果我以第一集為實驗動畫, 動畫的動作不會很豐富(我個人認為)。另一方面, 因實驗動畫不是第一集, 觀眾不知道兩位葵光及其他人物的相遇。
接着是漫畫册的進度, 我已畫了初稿(很草的草稿), 正在畫正式原稿。順利的話, 預計下個月底完成。
最後我會在下面展示一些漫畫册的草稿/原稿。歡迎任何意見。






Next Volume: Light Pair Blog Vol 7~ Comic Booklet and DVD Cover
下回預告:Light Pair網誌第七回~ 漫畫册和DVD封面

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Hot Comic World (炎熱的Comic World)

This year comic world...honestly I did not really enjoy it...It was not because of the quality of CW programs and the stalls. The main reason was I had to queue for three hours in order to get in the hall. I went there in the afternoon, and I started to queue from 2:30pm. The queue was very, very long, longer than last year. The queue was from the entrance, round over the back of the building, extend to the construction site which was behind the petrol station. When I saw the long queue, I was shocked and sighed as I would join in the queue soon. Queuing for three hours was really tiring...This is my first experience of queuing such a long time (I hope that I would not get this kind of experience again...). Sometimes I had a thought of giving up queuing and going back home, but I would feel regretful if I did this since I had arrived the destination, it was a waste of my trip if I could not enter. Fortunately, I had brought a bottle of water and umbralla, so that I would not feel too hot while queuing.

今年的CW...老實說我去得並不開心...不是因為今年的CW質素差, 而是要排隊三小時才能進場這點令我很不滿! 我2:30pm到會場那邊開始排隊。這條隊龍比上年長多了, 由入口繞過會場後面, 伸展到油站後的地盤那邊。見到這條隊龍, 我感到驚訝和無奈...因我將會成為這條隊龍的一份子...排隊三小時真的很累, 我第一次排這麼久(我希望我不會再有這樣的經驗), 有時真的想放棄回家, 但我覺得我花一小時的車程來這裏, 還未進去就回家, 有點不甘心...還好我有準備水和傘, 不然我會曬暈了。


At 5:30pm, I managed to buy the ticket to enter. Unlike previous years, I did not get any coupon (the printed coupon was not accepted this year), I bought the ticket with the original price. I was supposed to go to the hall which have Hong Kong and oversea stalls, but I mistakenly went to the hall which have mainland stalls. That hall was too crowdy that I only could have a peek of the products displayed on the stalls which I passed by. After squeezing and struggling in the crowd for about 15 minutes, I managed to get into my desire hall. Since I lived in quite far away from the exhibition hall, I had to go home at 6:30pm. The only thing I bought was a comic by FireDog. According to a newspaper article, FireDog company will be closed down soon...What a pity... Few years ago, I had a little thought that after my graduation, I may try to post my comics to this company for self-recommendation.


排到5:30pm, 終於買到票進去了...! 今年我没有優惠劵(因不接受列印版的優惠劵), 所以我以原價買票。本來想去本港及海外的攤位, 但我走錯到廣州同人會場! 那裡很擠迫, 我只能沿途瞄一下經過的攤位。"掙扎" 了約15分鐘後, 我終於能去到我想去的攤位|||! 因我家離會場很遠, 我6:30pm就要回家。今年CW我只買了火狗工房的漫畫, 看報紙說火狗工房將會結業...真是可惜...幾年前還想着畢業後寄漫畫投稿自薦....

The pictures below are photos taken in CW24:
下圖是在CW24拍的相片:







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