[rough footage]

Bunch of rough shots!

The mother first entering Claire's room.

The bunny hopping across the screen! I had one with more squash and stretch, but it just looked too cartoony for my taste.

Rough of her climbing onto the well. The well needs to be a bit bigger, and I need to add a frame or two of anticipation before she swings herself up there.

Pretty self-explanatory: Claire blinking sadly down at the well.

Doing all this super rough animation is making me a bit nervous, but I know that it is actually helping me in the long run with making sure the movements are better and the like! 

[rough footage]

These are the two main shots I did this week, both mostly rough. I did two other shots too, but they're very short and for some reason aren't uploading properly here, so I'm just glad these two are.

I need to fix the timing on this, and there's no audio yet, but this is when Claire's mom says she's grounded and walks past, picking up the dinosaur toys and exiting. Claire yells "that's not fair" at the end, but it's not synced yet. 

And this a rough of the mother exiting Claire's room with the toys.

I'll try to figure out how to upload the other shots I did for next week's blog, but it's almost 5 and I don't think I'll get them working in time to have them up this week. As I'm moving into shots with more complicated movements, I think I'm going to have to do animation that's way more rough than what I've been outputting so far. For example, this week I have to do the shot where she climbs up onto the well while talking, so that'll need a few passes before the move is clean.

[rough footage]

I'm no longer technically ahead of schedule, since I've been going home a lot this month and doing other fun things, but I re-scheduled out some shots and if I keep going into Christmas break, I should be done with all my rough animation by January. As of now, I have a minute and twenty seconds of rough footage done. Here are the three shots I did this week:

This is her looking down into the well at the boy, after walking up to the well in the previous shot.

This is...quite frankly, appalling; I need to redo it and fix the volume and frame rates, but I figured I'd put it up here to prove that I had actually done it, haha.

This is as she's walking away after having jumped off the well; the boy says "Will you be back?" and this is her response.

[two rough shots]

Not much this week! Two shots done. The first is Claire talking to her mother and then turning her head to listen as her mother's footsteps fade away, the second is when she's down in the well clutching her broken ankle and hears the boy's voice.

[revised animatic]

Probably could have revised the existing storyboards...but here it is with my rough animation and the dialogue cut in!

I'm going to try and re-board a lot of stuff, like the sequence where she's walking through the forest. But this is my temporary revised animatic.