T1W6, Tuesday

Finished my thumbnails today. Put them into Flash and worked out some rough timing and staging. Have used several holds which ideally I'll be able to add some special effects and breathing loops to make them less stiff. Missed two days of class (Last Friday and this Monday) due to illness and am worried that I won't finish the assignments on time.

T1W5, Wednesday

Finished practicing "Videogame Enn" by finishing my copy of the modelsheet. Have started thumbnailing and have finished three thumbnails so far. Have figured out the basic proportions for my character "Puck" and have begun designing his costume. The five pronged leaf poncho turned out to be too complex to animate will likely change it into something more squarish.

T1W5, Tuesday

Have started to finalize the facial design of the character. Did a quick turnaround of the head to show the tutors. I need to make the leaf/hair more three dimensional especially the segment of the leaf that goes up, Spent most of the afternoon class practicing drawing Videogame Enn and took some video reference for my animation. Will be basing my thumbnails on screenshots from the video.

T1W5, Monday

Came in late today missed the details about the drawing assignment this week. Finished one practice pose for character design. Started practicing the character for Animation Principles 2. Should remember that the focus of this assessment is in the self critique rather than the quality of the animation.

T1W4, Friday

Finished the layout for shot 2. Started the layout for shot 1. Characters were well rendered enough in the thumbnail that I only had to trace it at a higher resolution except for Enn. Most of the work for this layout will be in sketching and rendering the background.

T1W4, Thursday

Almost finished first layout drawing. Still need to add an additional pose for Cee and if I have time to fix up Enn's hands a bit more.

T1W4, Tuesday

Did some thumbnailing this morning. Struggled with trying to draw the mannequin from a higher angle. Spent most of the computer class alternating between tanglefootcomic.tumblr.com and Google Art Project. Suspect that I am kind of burned out due to missing a couple of deadlines and trying to catch up. Will get some proper rest tonight and see if that improves things tomorrow.

T1W4, Monday

Started Layout assignment and am basing the two layouts on Shot 1 and Shot 2 from the storyboarding assignment. Shot 1 will have a more rendered background. Shot 2 will focus more on character movement. Am currently working on Shot 1. Still having confidence issues but the fact that so many others are falling behind reminds me that everyone is dealing with similar emotions.

T1W3, Friday

Finished first draft of storyboards. Still need to add facial expressions, adjust the sizes of the characters relative to each other, and redo the shots after the wine glass breaks. If I run out of time I will at least have something semi-complete to hand in.

T1W3, Thursday

Making slow progress on storyboard refinement and still have four and half panels to clean up before checking them with Nige and Dan.