This is the first draft for the father design. This story is basically about a father opens umbrella for his daughter since she is young. On the daughter's wedding the father found daughter's husband opens an umbrella for her. In the father's old age, the daughter came back to open umbrella for the father in rain.

I still couldn't get the storyboard finalized because there are some problems I have to fix. Firstly, the story beat should be stronger. Because in this story the conflict is not quite strong so to tighten the rhythm of the film is the most important thing. Secondly, the personalities of the characters are not strong. The whole film will be in a peaceful tone which is what I want but I am afraid of the pale character will lighten the emotion of the story. I should check more references to figure out how to build up characters.

Today I and my best friend went to gallery. We did drawings of each other in the gallery. I was waiting for this time for a whole semester. The time was frozen in that circumstances.
We didn't get chance to talk much but I can read there are more stories and experience in his eyes. I hope I can share them the other time.

This semester completely finished. That was a crazy time. I was exhausted but excited as I had being aware of animation. It is only a start, probably a good start, at least I did not feel I am good for nothing.

I have booked a ticket back to Harbin on 20th January 2010. When I left my city I thought I would come back every holiday and I promised to my friends, but 2 years passed, I have never made it. Most of them have married in these two years and I did not see how happy they were on their weddings. It is time to give them my best wishes. Maybe they don't know I miss them everyday; maybe the feeling cannot only be described as miss. It is a bit complex.

I will just save all the feeling; the emotion is turning into one of my most important inspiration. I will record the stories around me in animation.