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Hiii everyone!

Time zones were checked so that no participant around the world would be left out. And now that everyone's Sunday is over, I can confidently announce the closing of GaaFuuWeek2026!

♦ Comment from Kuroo: This week was incredibly busy and fulfilling, all thanks to you. Thank you so much for your active participation. It’s clear at first glance that you put your heart into every piece. You all did a great job! I hope you enjoyed your time at this event and were able to appreciate the work of the other participants as well ❤️💚

Привет всееем!

Были проверены часовые пояса чтобы не отделять ни одного участника по всему миру. И когда у всех прошло воскресение с уверенностью объявляю о закрытии ГааФууНедели2026!

♦ Комментарий от Куроо: Эта неделя была очень насыщенной и наполненной только благодаря всем вам. Спасибо большое за такое активное участие. С первого взгляда понятно, что на каждой работе были вложены ваши чувства. Вы все отлично справились! Надеюсь, вам было приятно провести время на этом мероприятии, и вы смогли также насладиться работами других участников ❤️💚

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• In accordance with the rules, your work will no longer be reposted on gaafuuweek2026, as Gaafuu Week has ENDED. If you did not have time to complete your work and found this deadline unsatisfactory, I sincerely apologize! You can write about this in the survey in question 2.

• В соответствии с правилом репосты ваших работ на gaafuuweek2026 здесь больше не будут делаться, ведь ГааФууНеделя ЗАКОНЧИЛАСЬ. Если вы не успели закончить свою работу и данный срок был неудовлетворительным для вас я искренне прошу прощения! Об этом вы можете написать в опросе на 2 вопрос.

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Below is a short survey. Please answer the questions, thank you! 💗

This survey will remain open until the end of this year—until December 31.

А ниже вам предоставлен небольшой опрос. Пожалуйста, можете ответить на них, спасибо! 💗

Этот опрос будет актуален до конца этого года. До 31 декабря.

Survey:

Did you enjoy GaaFuu Week? What impression did it make on you

Please rate the design and organization of the event. In your opinion, were there any shortcomings?

Your ideas for topics. What main topics would you like to see in future GaaFuu Weeks?

Please write any additional requests or comments.

Опрос:

Понравилась ли вам ГааФуу Неделя? Какое впечатление она на вас произвела?

Оцените оформление и организацию мероприятия. Были ли, на ваш взгляд какие-либо недочеты?

Ваши идеи тем. Какую основную тематику вы бы хотели увидеть в следующих ГааФуу Неделях?

Напишите отдельные пожелания и комментарии.

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That's all for now. I hope next year's event will be even better and that more participants will join us!

И на этом все, надеюсь в следующем году мероприятие будет еще лучше и к нам присоединятся больше участников!

more animation - good progress with the scenes - main work on character’s body actions - will focus and add facial expressions soon on another animation layer to really tie it all in

This week was a case on continuing the progression on the animation. generally this was going well, however I did encounter an issue with animating the Grandma character. Every time I attempted to create a key frame on her rig, Maya would freeze and then crash - shutting itself down. This obviously wasn’t good, however it was odd that it seemed to work fine with the other character. After various attempts at fixing it, I decided to try download Maya 2020 to see if that had any impact. This seemed to be a success and I was able to animate again. Having spoke to Adam, it appeared that Maya 2019 version sometimes didn’t like IK rigs. 

With that sorted I was able to continue 

This week I was well underway with the animation process - experimenting with the use of animation layers to help potentially make my work flow more organised and effective. I haven’t actually used these before but am enjoying the efficiency they can create through reducing the amount of frames keyed on the timeline throughout.

This week I completed the xgen of the character’s hair. Overall, I’m quite pleased with the results and think that the look is effective. Having completed a first draft I sent off what I had for some feedback and it was suggested I look into some references to help shape the hair and make it look less ‘neat’. This was a valid point and I looked into the idea. I found lots of great references to help the development of my work. However, even with the guidance of this the look didn’t change that much. This was mainly because I preferred a slightly more polished look and didn’t want my characters to become too realistic from messing the hair up a bit. I tried to adjust the flow but struggled a bit and felt is would have helped to start from scratch, however, I didn’t have time for this and wanted to progress.

If I were to do this again I would like to have been able to get a better sense of hair flow and clumped strands, rather than one large collective as the hair. This of course it a learning curve and is something I’ll look to improve in the future - but for now I’m happy with what I have and am ready to move on.

This week I also received my first draft back of the music from my composer, Erica. I’d already briefed her with what I was looking for and feel I wanted - how I wanted to music to effect the overall film. But I was also quite relaxed with the approach and wanted her to have some creative freedom as well. The first draft was great - I’m really pleased! There is a bit to work on and I have a few suggestions so that it fits with what exactly I’d like, but it’s definitely a great basis and start. 

I’ve been able to work okay so far this week, however, I’ve encountered some issues with my project. Firstly Maya is playing up a bit at home and being quite laggy, but with some patience, this isn’t too bad.

This week I did some posing tests in Maya with my characters to see how they look and work in their environment. This process was really helpful as it revealed some poses that didn’t work great for the mesh and deformed the characters. This is a shame, but not the end of the world. I’ll need to rethink how to pose them in some instances so that the characters are still acting and moving correctly, while still being appealing.

One of the biggest issues I had this week was with Xgen. Having added the eyebrows and eyelashes to my characters, I found that during the posing tests, once the character was moved the xgen went crazy and totally messed up. This was a problem. After attempts to resolve the issue with the guidance of technicians, the conclusion was to simply import the characters into each scene rather than reference. This is okay, however, means that the xgen hair I was going to do at the end of the animation process will have to be done now since it won’t update in all the scenes. Therefore animation has been pushed back again for this to take priority. This also means that everything else (eyebrows, blend shapes, general look) will need fixing and touching up now as well.

This week has been a bit crazy and disjointed. The coronavirus is upon us and is effecting work and everyday life dramatically. So far I’ve been able to work okay, but am struggling on my own a bit. 

This week I attempted to get fully ready for animation and to begin the process as soon as possible, this, however, didn’t happen. I found that before I progressed I needed to add the eyebrows to my characters. This was important since they are key to helping illustrate the characters expressions. I had already done some rough blend shapes for the brows before I added them - this helped portray the emotion well enough. However, I was concerned that it wasn’t clear enough and when I did add the xgen later the eyebrows may not deform as well as expected. Therefore in order to save time, in the end, I decided it would be better to dedicate some time to it now rather than later. This was also the case for the eyelashes. They all generally look quite good, however its hard to tell on the render view since my laptop is struggling to produce the renders. 

This week I was fully underway with the rigging process - this was a process that proved to be longer than I anticipated. I encountered various issues, but also was able to find ways to tackle them - be it fixing it or finding another way around it.

I’m familiar with rigging at a basic level, so rigging a character with a bit more detail and intricacies were challenging and I often found myself confused with what the best approach should be.

I was particularly nervous for the facial rig since this is something that is totally new to me. I really didn’t know the best way to approach this, therefore felt the need to explore some the options that I could use in order to get the most out of my characters.

I opted for a blend shape rig, in the end, however, I did begin the joint based approach first and ended up placing joints across the face. Despite not needing these I still found it good practice to do and understand the various ways I could rig - particularly gaining a better understanding with setting the orientation to work with the various locations on the face to produce the best movement.

I ensured that the rigs for the girls were parented to a scaling constraint so that it would be easy to resize them to suit the set and the other characters - Grandma being the base to go from as the tallest character.