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Throughout the live brief, other than taking charge of the schedules and assigning tasks, I took up the role of colouring layouts with Ting.

The layout artist for this project was Majua. Honestly, he's a very talented person when it came to layouts and they all looked superb! He managed to capture the essence of a kindergarten well. I remember watching Gakuen Babysitters one evening and asking him to get some of inspiration from it.

Snippet from Gakuen Babysitters.
P.S.: If you have not watched Gakuen Babysitters yet... give it a go! It's a very heart-warming series and I highly recommend it.



So, with our pastel colour palette in mind, these are how the final backgrounds that I've coloured looked like:








We added the 'Noise' effect to give the backgrounds a little more texture. For the background with the view of the lights, I added in the effect of 'Outer Glow' to show that the lights are on instead of leaving it looking flat.

Onwards to animations!

Turns out... this will be the final term that I'll be having life drawing classes! I'm not too sure how to feel about it, to be honest. It's quite nice to have a 2-3 hour shut down from staring at computer screens and just loosen up a little. Also, this doesn't mean that life drawing ends at the end of second year. In third year, we can join in life drawing sessions with the first & second years if we wanted to!

This term, our life drawing classes are quite weird in terms of schedules. Some classes were cancelled or postponed due to the snow, and some were due to unforeseen illnesses that the tutor was facing. So... all in all, it was quite a mixed term of life drawings. We've had sessions with Andy, Kathy and Jason– all of which were amazingly fun.

These are the few that I'm quite happy with:







The last picture was essentially my last drawing for life drawing classes and I'm really really really proud of it as I've never really played around with the chalks or different coloured paper like the other students have. 
Tata for now, life drawing! Thank you to all the amazing life models and tutors that made the sessions so worthwhile and fun.
Fun tip: If you ever come across a masterclass/session with Martin Morris or any life drawing sessions in general, GO FOR IT!

When it came down to choosing between the Kresen Kernow and the Diversity brief, our team went for the latter. Since then, we laid out a concept of an idea and decided on how we were going to approach the brief. Our team ended up looking at the root of the issue and for us, it seemed clear that the best way to go about this was through children and how it causes a domino effect. As children are naive and parents being their model in life, whatever a parent says or does, ultimately their child would then learn from them, and with children being as naive as they are, they wouldn't know the difference between right or wrong because in their eyes, their parents would never do a wrong thing, would they?

As some of you may know, BFX has been an annual competition and festival since 2012. I remember seeing a group of current (2018) third years making a intro video of themselves to be submitted to the competition, last year (2017). And they were better known as Team Sponge (shoutout to Thomas Wallis, Ryan Orgill, Amy Lucas, Daniel Martin & Luke O'Sullivan) on the competition.

Ever since hearing of their success story and what amazing fun that they have had in the competition, the time then came to us second years to receive a briefing from Sofronis (also known as Saf), via a Skype call in the very fancy SoFT Cinema. During that call, it really intrigued everyone from our year group and needless to say, people started shuffling into groups, planning what they were going to compile into their showreels for their applications.

I alongside with my team have already started planning for BFX ever since second year started. So, for us, it was really quite intriguing to see so many people so interested in the competition as we didn't know that there were that much interests going round. Despite it being a competition to be picked and every group having an equal fighting chance, everyone was still helping each other out and reviewing each person's showreels before they submitted. Truth be told, everyone else's showreels were amazing! I remember seeing some of them and I was just stunned by it and amazed to see how far everyone has progressed since the start of first year.

Then came the time when submissions for applications closed (28th Feb). And throughout the week, there was the sudden snow that hit us all (which I might add: was a hell lot of fun for us but not for the university, hahaha) and we all thought that this might delay in the results of the announcement of the shortlisted groups for the BFX competition. Turns out: it didn't delay anything at all.

On the 5th of March (p.s.: my birthday), as usual we were all busy doing work and I was normally just working from home. Out of nowhere, this unknown number dialled me and I ignored it because I thought it was one of those "Did you get into an accident recently, Miss?" calls (those are very creepy- what is up with those?). Turns out, that number dialled one of my team mates as well but she ignored it too because she, too, thought it was one of those calls. Then another of my team mate messaged me and asked if I were busy and wanted to let me know about something. The next minute, we were all literally screaming in our dedicated group chat for BFX, realising that we got in. So, my main question was: Was this a birthday gift? Were we on some prank show? Were we lucky or were we lucky?

Needless to say, I was stunned. I wasn't that confident in my skills especially when in comparison with everyone else's showreels that I have seen, so this was definitely... unexplainable. BUT, I'm excited to start on this journey and meet new people, work with clients and also work alongside industry mentors (we do that here in Falmouth University too, but... I'm not going to complain of having more nice things, haha).

So, here's the showreel that I submitted to them:



And so, this is where and how Team Egg's journey began...

Starring:
- Ting Loh
- Amanda Chin (hey, that's me!)
- Kuan Dang
- Kieran Trerise
- Samantha Zaleski

Will keep you guys updated!