Thursday the 21st of September

My computer just crashes, so I'll retype my entire post again. grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

All of my rough animation has been completed. Most of it is cleaned up and ready for scanning, painting and tweening. I'm scheduled to have finished all of my character animation by the end of next week. If I'm to have my film finished, I need to stick to my schedule pretty stricktly. My rough schedule looks a little something like this:

Week – 7 – Roughs for all remaining animation to be completed in 3 days

Cleanup for all remaining animation to be completed by the end of the week.

End Week 8 - 17/09 Colouring of the remaining 7 scenes to be completed in 3 days.

Completion of half of the remaining scenes by the end of this week.

End Week 9 - 24/09 Completion of all animation by Wednesday.

All rough layouts and backgrounds to be completed by the end of the Week

Mid Semester Break

End Week 10 - 08/10 Completion of all major backgrounds by the end of this week.

End Week 11 - 15/11 Completion of all minor backgrounds by Tuesday afternoon.

Compositing of animation with backgrounds in 3D Space finished by end of week.

End Week 12 - 22/10 Camera Moves – Jitter and special effects to be completed by end of week – Semi - Rough edit to be handed in by end of week for assessment.

Wednesday the 6th of September 2006

Update: At the moment, 14 scenes of character animation are complete with another 8 to go. I've also made some progress in layout and special effects design.

I still think I can get the film done in time, once character animation is complete I think things will begin falling into place pretty quickly.

According to my original schedule I should have finished character animation 3 to 5 weeks ago. Assuming this would happen I've had to make sacrifices in other areas of production, mostly in the area of background design. What this'll mean to the finished film is that the backgrounds will contain alot more recycled content, with only a few backgrounds looking kickass. I'm trying to think around this and make it look like a stylistic thing, rather than a cheap-ass thing.

Anyway, I'm getting back to work. Till next time.