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To go beyond
Published: 2008-08-09 10:54:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 18073; Favourites: 477; Downloads: 330
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Finally! My first animation on DeviantART
"To go beyond" was my final year project in university, it was my second piece of 2D animation that I actually complete.
It is just a very simple story set in a corner of the world about the affection between two individuals. Lives fade, lives continue, live to go beyond.
The whole piece was done in Photoshop and Imageready mainly, and edited in After Effect.
And for the music..
The background music is composed and copyrighted by me.
You are welcomed to visit my blog entry regarding this animation: [link]
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This scene is so beautiful. The angle, the light, the animation over the moon..
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dear god, the music, animation and oh the style and history. waah. if the movie would take longer i'd probably start crying. this music, oh my god. i've never heard such beautiful melody before, were you the one who composed it?
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Yes I composed the music when I finished the whole animation, and it was just few days before my very very final presentation to get my grade. lol
I had a piece of main melody stuck in my mind for while, then I turned on the recorder and play it on piano with different variation, and then I extracted few segments of the record and "construct" it into a piece of complete music to fit into this animation. It was pretty magical I have to say.
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hell yeah it's magical. you're a genious!
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this animation touch me somehow
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wow very touching
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The style you made this reminds me european movies, i like the music, very simple and really touching. I hope the rest of your work will be better and better, good luck!
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it is so very touching... one of the most beautiful piece I've come across till now....
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the little girl's face looks so innocent... it so beautiful...
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OMGosh this is SO touching! Beautifully created..
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This is so beautiful!
The story, the colours
and the beautiful music are just so touching.
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Hello !! Beautiful film !! Very nice !!! greetings !!
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AMAZING! SURELY A SPLENDID WORK!
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Amazing work!
Love the music it gives th whole story a wonderful atmosphere! The story is really breathtaking!
Well done!
...and all the best for you
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wow, this is very beautiful and I love the style. A very well done and definitely deserved DD
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You've done a great job. It's a beautiful piece of work.
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Really a very beautiful piece, I went all teary eyed : )
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I love it, I almost cried with it. The colouring makes it so especial and the bakground music it's beautiful.
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When I pressed play, your story trapped me, and I couldn't think of anything else until it finished. I think that the music is what catched me, and then the drawing wouldn't let me go.
Simply magic.
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I'll have to come back when its not 5am to watch this. gotta go to school in 20 min X| hopefully I don't forget.
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wow! that was so amazing. I really love it!!! thanks for sharing it to us.
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omg!! this one wonderful!!! i love the story,,,
u compose the music tooo??
this is great work!!
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Beautiful. I love the music as well.
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Beautiful stuff. Touching, even.
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Wow, that is beautiful. Very strong background music too!
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wow... this is very touching. I love the animation and the music is beautiful!!! I'm deeply moved by this, congratulations!
You've done an amazing job, and thanks for sharing it with us
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Actually, I don't roam deviant art that much. I saw your video from my sister's laptop, shukugumo .
Your video is very touching. I like the story you have, I like the message you write, I like the melancholic music you composed and I like the soft colours you use. ^_^
The theme you've taken is very general "Lives fade, lives continue, live to go beyond β¦ and something thatβs forever - Love". But it's a thing that nobody has no experience to. Therefore, when I see your video, I can grasp the feeling - the closeness between you and your mom, also the sadness of when she left you - that you want to convey. To stop crying over a loved one is never easy and despite what people mostly say, we can still move forward even though we're not over with our grieve (at least that's what I believe). Oh, and though you did say that there are wrong notes in the music, I actually didn't notice. 
You managed to describe the character's emotion awesomely with those face expressions. The flow of the animation is a bit cropped in a few scene like when the girl walking then turned to running in the grassland. But the scene after that, the one showing the girl standing upon wavy grass, that leave me breathless. It's simply beautiful! (and that one is smooth
Don't worry, with such a beautiful animation, colours and story, a bit of imperfection is the one which made it into a precious art.
Thanks for creating this animation.
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Thanks for your kind comment, I feel so warm when reading it ^^
Actually after the presentation of this project(and mark was given, lol) my tutor encouraged me to keep on working on this animation again and again... This animation is a bit incomplete (the old time-running-short excuse XD)I do want to fill in more detail about the old lady and the child and especially the place they live if I ever remake it. I am not sure when but it's definitely planned in the future.
Thanks again for watching the animation, I am so glad that you grasp the feeling and enjoyed it ^^
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wow, that was really beautiful. The artwork was amazing! and you really wrote that music?! it was absolutely wonderful!!!
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I actually understand it quite well.
And I find it beautiful.
The way that the girl and the elderly woman's relationship blossoms so easily is amazing and endearing, and I can really relate to what the girl felt when her friend passed on.
This is truly great stuff. You've done a beautiful job.
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i have no words to express... is really a good animation. But i cant understand how did you do it? manually the drawns, and scaned so colored in photoshop?
and how to make te colours be so fluid in each part to be in the end some scene that is so soft the changes... you should be very pround.
hope you can anwser me ^__^
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The whole animation was drawn in Photoshop.. since this software is already "pencil and paper" to me lol.
I got references from 3D models and continuous photo shots etc, and then drew the frames in Photoshop, one frame one layer (For a walk cycle it takes only 8 frames to complete)
And I also switch the psd file to ImageReady from time to time, see if the motion is smooth.
I know there should be better 2D animation tool outside.. (another one I've used is Toomboon) but the brushes in Photoshop is just too great to pass >.<
The colouring part is a bit tricky, It's like decorating a full plate of cookies with few different ingredients, you pick the cheeries first and put one on every cookies, then move on to icing, lol. I lined up all the frames in a large canvas and same layer, and then coloured them all together. It helps to prevent the shading not jumping too much in each frames, but yet there's a sightly difference.
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so, do you mean, did you put each frame side by side to paint, or when you was painting did you use a "last frame reference" and change a litlle bit?
well all the ways, i think it was what witch take most the time , or not?
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Side by side to paint, because the colouring may jump too much if I go for the "last frame reference" approach.
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Too beautiful, I really love all the aspect of this film! XD
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