[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.