Andy Li’s Blog - animation

2008-12-12

2008-12-14T00:00:00+08:00

Its my home’s view, from mid-night to another mid-night. Using a cheap cheap web cam.

Multi-touch screen on MacBook, Test 1

2008-12-11T02:22:00+08:00

It’s so nice to have a MacBook with multi-touch screen. But will you wait for Apple to implement it? I just made myself one.

PS. Sorry that my camera sucks… Maybe I will make a better version later…

Animation Showreel 2008

2008-12-08T01:51:00+08:00

The collection of works done in my Animation course.

Guess What I am?

2008-12-06T14:10:00+08:00

Mr Stick A and Mr Stick B are playing the game “Guess who I am”. Mr Stick A needs to act like a soldier. Mr Stick B keeps guessing wrong…
Assignment for Animation I. Made with Maya.

A Little Rose, my first stop-motion animation

2008-11-08T21:59:00+08:00

Above is my first stop-motion animation made with Keung and Eric. Plenty of improvement needed… Especially the camera movement, which is shaky.

For those who really want to know what the animation is going on… It’s about a lonely rose in a dark place, met a light object. The rose was filled with surprise and happiness. But that light went just after it arrived. So the rose lost its hope and fell.

“orz3” is our group name.

Movie: Corpse Bride

2008-09-23T22:56:00+08:00

The idea behind the story is quite obvious: There are too many strange things happening in our living world. Living people in the story are all unhappy, facing bad situations, and selfish. The dead are all the opposite, happy, look in the bright side, helping each others etc. The song of the deads when the first time Victor meet them have told how positive they are: “Die, die we all pass away. But don’t wear a frown cuz it’s really okay”.

Another thing that is funny: Even when the dead want to punish Barkis, they need to wait until Barkis die. It seems want to tell that even justice, can only come not in our living world.

攻殻機動隊 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

2008-07-04T00:43:00+08:00

Finally finished watching the whole series (26 episodes).

I really love the story, the characters and the meanings behind. Several elements I loved are presented in the story - CG effects, computer (or IT) related yet close-to-reality backgrounds, machines, wars etc.

Yes, as you may have noticed, that’s a little bit similar to Matrix. Actually there are many similarities between them, for example, the idea of everything you see may be fake, once you manage to handle programs, you can do nearly anything (virtually, at least). Also, the armor (我指機動裝甲, 有人控制那種, 不是攻殻車) in Ghost in the Shell are very similar to those in Matrix, or even more similar to those in Appleseed.

I think I really need to mention those 攻殻車 which are soooooo cute and human! They are machines that equipped with high-end AI. They help session9 attack, can be loaded with and/or controlled by humans. In the story, their AI learned too fast that they eventually came up with personalities, and started thinking of the meaning of life and death. They were worrying to be not under control. As a result, all of them (a total of 9) were sent back to lab. Although being abandoned, near the end of the story, when they heard about the news of session9 being attacked, they came together and helped, with a problematic grenade being their only weapon. And at the end, all three of them are sacrificed (another six of them had been destroyed after being sent back to lab).