The Malaysian studion Triple Q Innovation is producing a 3D animated series called Perakboy with Blender:
Kamaruzaman Jahidin writes:
A synopsis of Perakboy..
Ashraf@Perakboy, Ho and Muthu decided to go to excavation of Perakman near Tasik Raban in Lenggong, Perak, MALAYSIA. Suprisingly Ashraf encountered Professor Kaloot's Robotic Lab at Perakman excavation area. He was chased by the robots and fall into a small pond which contain silver. Ashraf was rescued by Ho, Muthu and Dr.Saidon. With the help of Dr. Zee, Ashraf was made to transform to Perakboy. Ashraf mission was to rescue and help local authority from the damages that Professor Kaloot and the robots has done to the nature.
About the project:
Triple Q Innovation Sdn Bhd, Malaysia is developing a 3D animated series called Perakboy in a joint collaboration with KPerak Inc. KPerak's main roles are to advise the State Government of Perak on policies to develop MSC Malaysia practices, multimedia operations and to support companies located in the area as well as promoting MSC Malaysia Cybercentre @ Meru Raya at local and global level. Kperak provides financial assistance and also handles the promotion of the property. However, the IP is completely owned by Triple Q Innovation.
Perakboy is based on science fiction. Hilal Azman (actor/director in Malaysia) is a storywriter with the original story/concept by Kamaruzaman Jahidin. It is a 26 episodes TV series (23 mins/ episodes) in HD/ DVD format.
Triple Q Innovation Sdn Bhd is a brand new company focused on 3D animation, modelling, Special Effects and 3D training. Triple Q Innovation was established in June 2011 and has done 3D video corporate, training and 3D animation clips. Perakboy is their first 3D animation series using 3D open source software called Blender.
Triple Q Innovation is planning next a CGI telemovie about an alien with a little girl.
Kamaruzaman Jahidin
CEO
Triple Q Innovation Sdn Bhd
Ipoh, Perak, MALAYSIA.
21 Comments
How much is it is being done in Blender? And what other software are involved, if you don't mind me asking? :)
Sony Vegas + After Effects = 25%..Blender 75%
Will you do camera tracking or mocap?
Also what is the part of live footage per episod?
Congratulation :D
Bahasa Malay:
Ini kelihatan hebat!Saya berharap masyarakat Blender menyokong anda dan budak Perak, dan bahawa anda berkongsi dengan Ton apa yang boleh diperbaiki dalam Blender.Saya ingin anda banyak kejayaan!
English:
This looks great! I hope the Blender community supports you and Perak boy, and that you share with Ton what could be improved in Blender. I wish you much success!
thanks blendiac!
This show could use a lot of work. The over all feel of the short is similar to that of 3D animation in 1993. The animation is floaty and slow in a lot of places. Good luck in the rest of your film making
Thank Anim8! Our team are young and they are improving. Pray for our success!
Ironman had a kid!
well. As long as that video wasn't a finished result then OK. I just hope you guys employ a good foley artists. The windows 95 desktop sounds are not cutting it.
I definitely agree that a lot of work is needed, not just in the technical field, but also in the story telling department. Hey, you Malaysian animators are competing with 'Upin & Ipin'!!
Upin & Ipin? there are far away to compete but it's not possible!
Iron man, much?
I think in terms of this being an animated SERIES the quality is pretty good plus it'll only get better as more episodes are made. I'd say the thing that bothers me most is the lack of attention to audio. For the opening where the child is exploring the factory, there is no sense of where the camera is located in the sound-space of the scene (getting louder when the camera is closer to a particular machine for example).
the motivations for why they turn the boy into a super-powered robokid are unclear. I am wondering if this series is inspired from Astroboy at all. In that film and series they had no choice but to turn him into a robot. However, in this story he seems totally fine after 11 months and simply walks into the crazy centrifuge. Maybe we should get a chance to hear his views on this? Is he being forced to fight or does he want to do it? If he DOES want to, why?
I don't know if this feedback will ever actually reach the development team but I thought I'd share my thoughts.
Nice work, I especially liked the slow-motion sequences.
Thanks! Asharf@Perakboy is the only son to Dr. Saidon! Ashraf@Perakboy is not totally damaged by the silver (perak in Malay). Dr. Saidon is a specialist in bio genetic meanwhile Dr. Zee is a specialist in bio tronic. Both of them invented the transform machine as well as make Ashraf@Perakboy into a super-powered robokid. Perakboy mission is to protect the land of Lenggong, Perak from being damaged by Prof. Kaloot.
there's still things to do with the texture, material and cleanliness of the mesh. you need more talented artist and better hardware. btw, its still a good start.
thanks
please bare with me for a minute. I liked your devotion to getting this up and running. Just some criticism based on my first impressions of this film.
I agree with most people here. Animation really needs refinement if this is going to air. Second, I too felt confused over the reasons for our hero to be turned into a robot. Does the suit stop the silver from hitting his vital organs? (if so then it is too Ironman-ish), the conversion of him from boy to robot was clearly inspired by astroboy, but confusing why it was in there...
there was a lot of Jeff lew style animation sequences in there which added impact but they characters generally lacked weight (if you don't have jeff lews videos best to check them out. They are old, but still timely) and gravity seemed almost non existent at certain points. IE Camera falling...
In the credits I think I picked the problem to some of the above problems... Too many directors and not enough workers. As the saying goes too many cooks spoil the soup. You have a great product with excellent sets. reasonably made models, and a possible good character to work with, just many points need to be addressed before it be worthy for public viewing.
Still looking forward to seeing how you progress on this... fun times ahead. :)
Whew. A big problem with blender is that it gets used by novices ALOT. It doesn't do the program any favours to see people praising sub-par work. That's how the comments started, but I'm glad to see at least some of you have good standards.
As mentioned above, theres definitely room for improvement. Some models are high quality (the camera) but others are lacking (the main character), animation needs a lot of work and the sound design is possibly the most lacking part.
Great loved it.