During this week the team hold the soft opening and show faculties the latest cut of the animation. We got a lot of feedback and we found out people can understand our story pretty easily but for some parts where our main character is interacting with pages and boxes, the animation is unnatural and we need to improve upon that. Besides completing the rest of the incomplete part, the team needs to tune the pace of the clip to improve the interest curve. Also, faculties suggest on adding a bgm to better control the temple and emotion of the peace.
Based on those feedbacks, Zi met with Mo to discuss improving the animation and remade the magic curve for shot 2,3,6 and 7.
Clare made a new rig for the first rune so more 3d-like and complex animation could be made for the simple rune.
Qin starts to color the second rune and complete the 2d to 3d transformation of the candle after being devoured by the second rune.
Neal re-organized the lighting and added new material updated by Clare. We got the new sound track by Tianyi Cao.