BMA 115, comic colouring and inking, 31 October

100% colour and ink coverage!!  Yay!!!  Shading and shadows, texturing, words bubbles, WORDS... lots more to do.  Oh, yeah.  And putting everything into the new format, too.

BDM124, stop motion, editing, 30 October

Ken and I finished shooting our final shots Monday so we could all dive into editing from Thursday.  Thursday and Friday, Anna, Ken and I sorted through the shot folders and picked out fingers, mistakes, wires...   really, here's what I did for twelve hours over the course of two days.  I messaged everybody to remind them when and where we were meeting.  And kept messaging Ken and Ryan to find out where they were, two hours after "I'm on my way" and "I had a late night last night" or no message at all came back.  Anna was great and showed up each day around ten to work on stuff.  When Ryan and Ken came in after 3 or 4, I handed out assignments and then checked that they got completed.  I organized our folder and put away all of the files according to pre, production, and post.  I renamed all of the shots by scene and panel as per our animatic.  I found the right animatic and put it into After Effects after I tweaked the sound files.  I imported each scene, sometimes several times, into the timeline and ordered everything.  That took lots of time, I must say.  Vaughn showed me how to time stretch scenes, which was very exciting as it means we, I mean probably I, won't have to re-edit the sound to fit shorter scenes.  We've got a rough cut of all shots except for the glowing eyeballs in after effects and I've handed the project off to Ken and Ryan.  And they're toddling off with it.  Ken is doing the glowing eyeball shots and Ryan is working on the credit sequence.

Great!  I've got a comic to finish.  I'll come back to stop-motion when that's done.

  

Film reviews, 8 October

http://madizzlee.deviantart.com/journal/The-Last-Witch-Hunter-557481957

Last Witch Hunter trailer, Anna black told me about these animations in support of the film.

The Martian
I went to the movies!  And it all looked real, so I'm not sure how to comment on the CGI or the environment creation when it all looks so seamless.

Film Reviews, 25 September

Bo-Jack Horseman

good title sequence.  pretty watercolour effects on Bojack. And everything looks delightfully low-key and easy.

BMA115, comic development, 26 October

I've put in about 10 hours of work on the comic this long weekend.  I've got 3 pages to ink, but I've been dragging my feet and colouring the other 8 pages instead.  That decision is sure to catch up with me.  It was the same story during the penciling process:  lots of time/energy spent on the beginning of the comic, then everything petered out at the end.  As a result, my drawings weren't tight at the end which means I now have to catch up in the inking stage.  It will all come right, I'm sure.  One week until hand in.

And still no covers!!!!

BDM124, stop motion, final shooting day, 26 October

Ken and I THINK we're done shooting... if we just plop the animatic fight sequence in instead of taking pictures of each frame.  We're going to ask Vaughn if he's amenable to this.  It will free up more time to edit the stop motion sequences.  One week to go!  Ryan's mobile made it into the shots, but Ryan did not make it to film today and Anna was at Armageddon.  There's still a week of editing to go... Ken did most of critter movement and I set up the shots, did the timing and directed placement and movement.  At the end of the shooting day (10-4pm), I did some monster/light movement and monkey movement.

BDM127, 2D animating, 23-24 October

28 shots to go.  Which is a lot, but definitely on the finishing end of things.  Thank God for the long weekend.

Breaking it down, I've got 7 sequences and 3 solo scenes to animate before I've got 100% coverage.  Then I can go back and add/fix/refine.