Forget and Not Slow Down

I finished cleanup on all shots last night. Next up is color. I try to work on it a few hours during the week before bed, but little by little it's getting done.

It's Almost Easy

August has been a busy month for me. Some work. Some play. Some unfortunate friends and family events. Haven't worked on the project in a couple weeks due to the latter. School starts next week (omfg...) and it's starting to get hectic.

I realize I don't post often; you guys are often lucky to get one once a month at max. There's never anything substantial to write about. I mean, I could tell you about my day and use my twitter account so you can follow everything I do, but that's lame. At any rate, here's the deal: there are 11 shots that still need finished character animation. So Act 3 is 75% complete in terms of char anim which is really good. Trying to finish what I can when I can. Every little bit definitely helps.

Release date is still up in the air. It'll be done when it's done, but you guys will like it...I hope.

Timing Completed

Yep. You heard it right. Timing and pencil tests have been completed for the last 67 seconds of the film. Now on to fleshing out the characters and implementing backgrounds.

Happy Fun Stuff

Hey gang. Production is going smoothly. From the 91 panels from the storyboard/animatic comes 43 different shots in Act 3. Each shot is approx. 1-2 seconds on average. I've been slaving away on drawing pencil tests for every shot and get the timing completed so when it comes down to it, I can just get right into it and draw the characters without doing much thinking or planning since it's already been done.

Out of the 43 shots, half of them are timed out. There are a few out of that bunch that I want to tweak the timing on but for the most part it's looking really good. Sometimes I end up drawing too many frames and the action gets slowed down e.g. a run sequence. Other times there needs to be more anticipation of movement and a few frames of a hold on a pose. Usually if it looks and feels right, then it is right.

The State of Cosmic Chase

This past week was a bit busy with the holiday weekend and all, but I managed to scan and organize all of the storyboards for Act 3. Ninety-one panels and some hours later, I managed to put together an animatic and send it off to Ido for review. The timing has been roughed and according to the animatic, Act 3 is about 1:30m +/- a few seconds which is very close to my initial prediction. That's about 60-70 seconds of animation to create. I don't know how long that will take but I'm hoping to rough out all of the animation for the entire act before doing any ink.

Everything's looking really good. We've got some great stuff planned and if the animatic is any indication, Act 3 will be totally amazing. I'm very excited.

Act 3 Storyboard Complete

Thanks to the help of my beautiful and talented girlfriend, the remaining scenes have been storyboarded out. Soon, I will create an animatic and time out each shot and make any necessary tweaks with Ido.

Right now, I'm constantly studying for spring classes and don't have much time to sit down and animate. In 3 more weeks, classes will be over and I will have 2 whole entire months with a clear schedule. I'd like to pump out some animation and clean it up and see if I can find someone to do colors for me which would save a crapload of time. I've done everything 100% on my own thus far and I figure it's about time to ask for help so this project sees the light of day. Once fall classes start, CC might take a backseat so we'll see how it goes.

New Location

Not a big issue but I decided to move the blog off of my server back to blogspot because there are more features when hosting with blogspot vs. your own server. Make sure to update your RSS feeds!

I've talked with Ido this past week and he basically rewrote Act 3 and it's even better than before. Storyboarding and pre-production has been started on it and will continue before any animation is done.