Week 8 Updates

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Oops, this update is late but honestly I forgot because there's not a whole lot new to report --

This week I'm just working on a single (longer) shot, where the little girl tries to get the ball away from the little boy by kissing him. I'm almost done with rough animation. It's Tuesday!

Somewhere down the line I subconsciously decided I like the look of crisper lines. Also, I don't want the colorists I've hired to suffer too much with guess work. So I'm anticipating a couple of long tedious days this week doing line cleanup.

My goals this week are: finally starting hand off scenes to my colorists, which means first cleaning up some rough animation...I need to decide which shot will become my proof of concept (there are a few contenders), and hopefully I'll get that totally inked and figured out by the end of the week so that this weekend I can work on a background for it and really get into the nitty-gritty next week (next week is one of my busier, this semester).

I've pushed some things around in my schedule because I'm not quite happy with the first scene of my film and am thinking that I can probably devote a week to story to square that away -- or maybe just make sure that I really think it over during winter break, because that's a "free" month that I haven't scheduled any work during.

I also need to book a time to do some very minor voice recordings for my main character (though since I'm changing her introductory scene I don't know when to do that. If I fix the first scene over winter break, I might push that until early next semester).

That's it! Would post some more animation but I don't want to spoil it all!

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