DAA & DEE is a stopmotion video that we've done for our Final Year Project(Off the Board) in the year 2013, August. It is a light-hearted story of a Dad(Daa) and his son(Dee). This was done by 3 people namely Chung Mei Tiang, Chen Winnie and I(Xen Cheng) and our team was called 'UCG'...which I won't tell you what it stands for. :p
Workload Distribution -
Storyline : All
Storyboard : Xen Cheng
Cameraman(1) Xen Cheng; Cameraman (2) Chung Mei Tiang
Frame by frame photo editing(ie. adding in facial expressions/marks) : Xen Cheng
Sound effects and music : Chung Mei Tiang & Xen Cheng
House Design : Chung Mei Tiang & Chen Winnie
Props : All
Character Design : All
Character Facial Expression Design : Xen Cheng
Wall Doodling inside Dollhouse : Chen Winnie
Wall Doodling(Off the Board Logo) : Chen Winnie
Wall Doodling(Off the Board Logo) Digital version : Xen Cheng
Production Logo Design & Animation : Chen Winnie
Credit Roll : Chen Winnie
Process/Behind the Scenes -
Everything in this video were built from scratch. We attempted to build the characters from scratch either but we failed at 2 attempts so we bought 2 action figures and transformed them instead. It was a rather successful transformation I would say because nobody were able to recognize them at all! ;)
Dollhouse & Props building & design.
Our workplace was just this mini corner inside Winnie and Tiang's hostel room.
Character building, First attempt FAILED because we cannot even bend the joints with our bare hands, how are we going to animate it?
Character Building Second Attempt; looks fine but it wasn't solid nor stable enough so, FAILED.
Character Building(or transformation) Attempt 3; SUCCESSFUL, like finally! :)
Storyboard; Teaser.
Teaser Outcome.
Storyboard; OTB/Off the Board themed short video.
OTB/Off the Board themed short video.
Storyboard; Daa & Dee Final.
Final.
It was a great experience working with them on this project. Although the workload was quite heavy for the 3 of us but hey, we managed to pull it through. I hope you enjoy watching this project as much as we do. It's our baby.
