Semester 2, Week 1:

The presentation went really well! Sarah and Aodhan told us that the story is much clearer and they liked the direction the project has gone in. Sarah recommended revisiting the very end scenes to tighten things up. She felt like we could keep it within the apartment and it would feel more contained. I thumbnailed that out to see if it would be better.

There was also a concern of time. We’re working very quickly and while I think that’s commendable, we need to discuss what are possible places to reign in. We decided from here that colouring will be flat as shadows are taking up a lot of time right now and we have enough shots with them in that communicate the look we’re going for. We plan to add them back in after submission. Realistically speaking, me and Will could push ourselves and likely get the film done, but I’m aiming for all lining and colouring to be done. Comp pulls everything together, but it’s more important for us to submit a film that is fully animated, at least that’s what I’m concluding from the feedback we received.

This revised schedule is incredibly optimistic but they aren’t realistic. We will definitely need Easter to polish everything but this tight schedule is to get us motivated and on track as me and Will can be distracted. I myself is incredibly prone to procrastination so setting these tighter deadlines to work to forces me to work.

The last week has been full ahead with production as Will has finished all backgrounds for now.

I’ve been working on scene 4 roughs.

For simple shots like this, I cleaned up and coloured to take time from clean up later.

This is an example of my process! I start by keeping it simple and working my way up. I have a bad habit of not charting my progress, but I worked from keyframes to in-betweens, and then tiedowns for roughs. I need to learn how to be a cleaner sketcher I think, these roughs might be a little difficult to clean up because there’s a lot of lines.

The next week will be focused on finishing scene 4 and starting layout in After Effects.