NEKOSHIRO ANIMATION

I'm responsible for making the animation of the lecturer Nekoshiro.
Here is a movie clip of the Nekoshiro. However, He need to be check again later.










Also, theres a sample version of our program here:

NEKOSHIRO - GRAPHIC DESIGN

This is the graphic design for the lecturer Nekoshiro of our project. I have designed him in 4 costumes:

1. Formal Suit:

For the introduction of the program


2. Normal Suit:

For each lesson. This will have different colors in each lesson.




3. Swimming suit and simple suit:

These are used for the quiz as well as the Conversation part of our project.

Nekoshiro - researching process

As one of my task is to create the lecturer, I have to research for creating the image of this lecturer. THis is a cat named Nekoshiro. And we will designed the 3 different style of Clothes for Nekoshiro:

1- 1 formal costume for the Introduction and the Quiz
2- 1 normal style of clothes for the 7 lessons, they will have different color
3- One for the lesson of Conversation

And this Cat will have three main emotion apperance:

1. Serious face
2. "evil face" to notice user of sth
3. funny face - for congratulation

And I have researched for several style of illustrating a cat:








The formal suit will somehow like this:


This makes me think of an "evil" face for the cat:

TIMELINE FOR THE PROJECT

In this week, though I have finished most of my parts in the project, still I have to check and make a suitable timeline for the project in the proposal. In the whole project, we got the four main parts. They are the Lecture part, the Lecturer & Animating Section, the
Sound Production and the Menu:

LECTURE
In this part, we will prepare the things belong to the lecture part of the project. They are including:

1. Direction in each parts of the lesson (status bar)
2. 7 Lessons:
- Vocabulary for each character (sub area)
- Review the lesson (mini-quiz) (sub area)
3. Basic conversation: in this part, we would teach the user several basic greeting sentences such as Hello,
Good Morning, goodbye, etc.
- Lists of conversation
- Review the conversation
4. Big Quiz: this quiz is to review the 104 characters in 7 lessons.

LECTURER and ANIMATING SECTION
There is a cat represent for the lecturer. His name is Nekoshiro
1. Design the standard of the Nekoshiro: standard, 3 suits-changing color, etc..
2. Animating the lecturer
3. Animating the characters

SOUND PRODUCTION
1. Pronunciation
2. Sound effects
3. Meow - sound of Nekoshiro

MENU (global navigation)
1. Design menu
2. Making links
3. Put everything together

LEADING SKILLS

Although I have tried to lead s team many times, still I can recognize many strong points as well as the defects. However, I have practise and overcome those defects after all. Once surfing the Internet, I have found these advices, I found some of them are very benefits to me in this team:

• Know your team.

• Meet your team.
  

• Train your team.
  

• Grow your team.
  

• Set objectives for each team member.

• Review the performance of each team member.
  

• Inspire your team.

• Socialise with your team.
  

• Thank constantly.

• Praise constantly.

• Communicate constantly.
  

• Eliminate.
  

• Delegate.
  

• Empower.

• Be on time.

• Be seen.

• Make time.
  

• Really listen.

• Accept honest criticism.

• Think strategically

• Have a mentor or buddy

• Have a role model

• Constantly revisit and review these tips.
  

• Plan your succession.
  

On my personal judgement, I found myself just reach about 30-40% these sections, however, I would try to reach to 50-60% by the end of this semester.

for more explanation: http://www.rogerdarlington.co.uk/Leader.html

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The Project Proposal is on the progress, we have a meeting to divide our task already.

PLANNING IN DETAIL FOR GANTT CHART

This week, we have to think of each step in our project. Firstly, we just think of some stuffs that we should do to complete this plan. However, they are all complex because some of them are just the same or the task is not really clear. Therefore, I have to re arrange the process of our project in a order, so that we can follow those scientifically.

Here is our process :

I . LECTURE:

In this part, we will prepare the things belong to the lecture part of the project. They are including:

1. Direction in each parts of the following:
2. 7 Lessions : + animating 10 letters in each lesson
+ Vocabulary for each character
+ Review the lesson ( mini-quiz)
3. Basic conversation : in this part, we would teach the user several basic greeting sentences such as Hello, Good Morning, goodbye, etc.
+ lists of conversation
+ Review the conversation
4. Big Quiz: this quiz is to review the 96 characters in 7 lesson.


II. LECTURER and ANIMATING SECTION:

there is a cat represent for the lecturer. His name is Nekoshiro

1. Design the standard of the Nekoshiro: standard, 3 suits-changing color, etc..
2. Animating the lecturer
3. Animating the 96 characters


III. SOUND PRODUCTION:

1. Pronunciation
2. Sound Effects
3. Meow - sound of Nekoshiro


IV. MENU:

1. design manu
2. Making links
3. Put everything together

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These steps also help us to put into the Gantt Chart share the works easily.

VVV TEAM

FISRT TASK WITH THE VVV ^^

When we did made up a team, I was assigned to be the leader. We have discussed much to come up with many idea, and finally, we finally choose to work with the Traditional Vietnamese food. However, on the first time we come to have a practical view at Nam Giao restaurant, we found it could not be as easy to be done as we have thought. This is because the sources of information for is not as much as we guess. Therefore, we have to choose another idea for our project.

Finally, we decided to work on the Hiragana Tutorial. As we are fond of the manga-anime, so we want to start with the Japanese, and Hiragana is one of the first basic alphabet that we should reach to. Otherwise, we also want to introduce this to the audience. Last week, we have a talk to devolop this plan, and I have tried to catch their idea and rearrange them to come up to a final proposal.

Also, we have chances to create our logos in the the class, and here is several of my drafts logo:

When we did made up a team, I was assigned to be the leader. We have discussed much to come up with many idea, and finally, we finally choose to work with the Traditional Vietnamese food. However, on the first time we come to have a practical view at Nam Giao restaurant, we found it could not be as easy to be done as we have thought.