Two shots--the first is more or less done, and the second just needs to be tweened and clothed.

I've also got three backgrounds sketched out, but once again my scanner is being difficult. So I'll just bring them into class on Wednesday!

[DINOSAURS!!!]

Not much to show this week...though I did get the rough final animation done on the shot where she giggles, then hears the boy and responds to him. So here's that...

And here's the final designs for Claire's dinosaur toys!

[animatic v.16]

In lieu of posting a bunch of shots separately, I'm posting a new version of my animatic. This one features all my new animation, plus a temp score by my composer and the final voices for the mother and the boy! There's still some tweaking I need to do to the timing, but it's getting fairly close to the final product. Exciting!!!

[rough footage]

Sorry for the late post...anyway, here's all the footage I did last week! It's a combination of new footage, cleaning up rough animation, and re-doing old shots.

I re-animated the shot of her saying "Okay, Mom."

As per Careen's suggestion, I reversed the shot of her running into the forest. I also cleaned up the roughs.

Her coming towards the screen as she answers the boy's call, walking off the path...

The finalized version of her walking to the well for the first time.

Finalized shot of her looking into the well.

Still need to add lip-sync and freshen it up, but this shot is basically done.

Working on this one still, but this shot is my baby. I just love it so muh-huh-huuuuuuch.

[rough footage]

I have secured both a sound designer and a composer, and everything I've heard sounds great so far!

First off, some half-finished backgrounds:

And some soundless rough footage:

That's her responding to the boy, saying "where...where are you?"

And this is her seeing the well for the first time.

[rough footage]

I have five backgrounds drawn, but not quite textured enough. Hopefully I'll be able to show them in a more completed stage by Wednesday.

In the meantime, two rough shots. There was another one, but I'm still working on it because the laughing looks like she's having a seizure.

This is when she's climbing down the rope and hears the rope creak. I still have to add her looking up at the end.

This one requires more in-betweening at the end, but this is the shot where she walks off the path.

[rough footage]

I secured a sound designer! His name is Steven Kimball and he's really sweet and seems really into the project. I'm still working out details, but he's totally on-board! So that's one less thing to worry about, at least.

My scanner is being wonky, so I have no coloured backgrounds to show yet, since I colour them in the computer. I do however have two shots to show you guys!

This one is when Claire is walking through the forest and sees the well, right before the OTS shot of the well itself:

And this one is my baby. I'm really proud of this shot, for some reason, even though it's not done yet. It's pretty self-explanatory; it's after the time lapse, when Claire is about to leave the well:

Feeling pretty good about where I'm at so far! 

[animatic v13]

The newest version of my animatic, because it should probably be up here!

[rough footage]

It's been hard getting myself back on track, but I'm trying to just approach it one day at a time. Right now I'm in a mad frenzy of emails, and I'm recording the mother's dialogue on Friday. Here's the rough shot I finished the other day; it's the first time Claire hears the boy, right after she is startled by the bunny:

[rough shot]

Only one shot done this week, since I was busy stuffing my face and sleeping. This is rough animation of Claire running into the forest. Also features the first fully coloured background!

[rough shots]

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

This is after the boy says "follow my voice" and Claire walks offscreen. The next video is afterwards--she walks towards the camera, it blurs out, and we see her again from behind walking off.

This is after her mom yells at her and we see Claire running back to the well.

[animatic v6]

This is the tweaked version of the animatic from last night and is the version I'll be showing the grads tomorrow!

[animatic v5]

There's still some tweaks I want to accomplish before the grad review on Wednesday, but in the sake of posting before 5pm...this one includes some more rough animation I've done and some shots have been re-staged. There's still some timing issues I'm working on, but I'll upload that version later tonight. Enjoy!

Oh, also, here's two colour tests I roughed out super quickly a week or so ago:

[new animatic]

Added some stuff as per Dave's notes on the climactic rope scene! The total running time is now 5:18 minutes.

[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.

[rough footage]

I was getting over a cold this entire week, so my output probably wasn't what it could have been. But I still got some rough stuff done!

From when we're looking into the well. This is just the rough lineart/texture for the background; I'm planning on touching up the well's interior in Photoshop.

This is only about half the scene. I still need to animate her doing some action I haven't decided (maybe brushing off her dress?) and reacting to hearing her mother come up the stairs.

Super boring footage of Claire from the mom's POV, as she's berating her for not cleaning her room.

Rough animation of after Claire has fallen in the well, when she opens her eyes.

Hopefully this coming week will be more productive than this last one has been, haha.