Nearing The End

We are finally getting close to the end of the course. The animation in my film is pretty much all done but the film is not complete as i missed a lot of fix ups and half the backgrounds are missing.

My graphics collaboration turned out quite well, and my sound student managed to hand me the music and sfx today. I am currently putting them all together in premier pro.

3 Scenes To Go

Getting close to completing the animation itself. I managed to take out 3 hard scenes today. It consisted of a slap, but since i have completed a punch cycle in the past, this was nothing new to me. It was time consuming as usual, but there were no stuff ups so it turned out to be a whole lot faster then the 2 days it took on the punch scene.

The last 3 scenes are by far the hardest and i plan to save them for tomorrow. It consists of a front run cycle, front walk cycle and a side silhouette run cycle. I dont have much experience in the two front movement cycles, but the side run is nothing new to me. I am sure that the animators handbook is going to help me a great deal on this task.

I have also began to implement the backgrounds. There are many issues to pick out with the backgrounds such as inconsistent light source and the fact that they aren't high contrast lyk the characters. I am not going to fuss over these as time is running short on me.

I will not complete the film, but i will finish the animation and i will implement as many backgrounds as i can. I will also attempt to edit the film using after effects in the last few days of the course, but the essentials come first.

Productive Day

Today was a very tiring but productive day. I managed to beat my record of 10 scenes in a day increasing the bar to 12 scenes in a day. This brings me confidence in completing the animation in the film, and the way things are going i could possibly finish the animation (not the film) on friday instead of sunday.

Goal for tomorrow is either another 8-12 easy to medium scenes or take down the 5 hardest scenes in the film

Nothing New

I managed to complete 8 scenes today, making my goal of completing at least 6 scenes a day. I wanted to do more, but i was just too tired to do much after school.

The scenes were relatively easy and those 8 scenes managed to take down sequence 4 leaving 2 scenes from sequence 1, 9 scenes from sequence 3 and a bunch from sequence 2.

Goal for tomorrow is to take down about half of sequence 2.

Take Down 9

I have made big cuts in the film today. I took out 9 scenes of the 52 which i thought weren't as necessary as other scenes in the film. This bring me to 43 scenes of easy-medium difficulty with the exception of 2 which are harder.

I plan to complete the animation of this film in 7 days, leave about 1-2 days for fix ups and i have 3 days to put everything together.

With that said my goal for the week is to complete 6-7 scenes a day. I believe this is possible as i average 5 scenes a day and have proven to myself that i can take out 10 easy scenes with time to spare.

I don't think i will complete the film within this course but i will give it my best shot . . . just have to keep on my toes.

Gota Make Some Cuts

The end of this course is drawing near, and i am not as far as i thought i would be in the film this week. I have been working on the animation for the past few days, and i have made decent progress getting sequence 3 out of the way (except for 3 scenes that i may take out) and starting sequence 2 which is the 2nd longest sequence in the animation.

Sequence 2 will definitely be finished a whole lot faster then sequence 3 which took about 2 weeks. I estimate it to be finished in about 5-7 days and sequence 4 which is made up of about 8 easy scenes will take me about 2 days.

I have 13 days left in this course, and i still have work for the graphics design students. It's going to be really tight and the film will not turn out how i had planned it to be.

Tomorrows goal is to continue with sequence 2 animation and cut some scenes which aren't as necessary as others.

Number 10

I completed 10 scenes and 3 fix ups today. Although they were easy it gives me a little motivation as my checklist is quickly filled up with "complete".

I also gave my graphics arts student the picture and pose she requested for the poster, and she has requested another picture of Vienna and Corsair in a different pose.

Here are her ideas and rough concept sketch for the DVD cover and the sketches she gave me last week for the poster: