Updated Leica Reel

Another password protected video.....yay. For people in my Senior Animation class I'll put the password on moodle when I have time. And for anyone else who wishes to watch this version please contact me and I'll give you the viewing password. Within a year or so I'll probably remove the passwords from all these videos so people can see the process of my film from draft to finished piece.

This is the latest version. I have changed the timing in a lot of scenes and shortened the beginning scene by 3 secs or so. Which may not seem like a lot but it makes a difference. Everything is pretty much timed the way I want it up until the last train sequence which I am currently working on, but I'm hoping that all animation will be complete by the first week of March. Then I can finish composting and working on backgrounds.

This version does not have sound on it. It was going to be the version I would give my sound designer to start working on, but - long story short - essentially I no longer have a sound designer and I am in the process of looking for another one. It would be easy to find a sound designer if I still had money in the budget for one, but I don't have any money to put towards sound. My original sound designer was a volunteer and now I'm looking for someone else to volunteer. Now I could do all the sound for my film by myself, but I would only be able to spend maybe 2-3 days working on it, plus one day to find/record sounds. At this point that is all the time I have to spend on sound because between going to classes twice a week, working on my grad film everyday, and working on homework for other classes.......there really is not enough time.

On that note I'm going to count this towards my class update that was supposed to be on March 2.

ANIM 420 - Production Blog - #2

I tried out a different codec - sorenson - when I was rendering this version and the colours turned out a bit better this time around. But later in March/April I'm going to have to do a lot of colour correcting because the final version will be in H.264 I believe, unless we have another option.

I have now made my animatics password protected because as they become more finalized, I don't want them to affect my ability to apply to film festivals.

If you are interested in viewing this animatic please contact me for the password. Or if your from my ANIM 420 class, I will have the password on moodle.

This is what my production schedule looks like as of Feb.8:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fdzdjby92bq1s4z

I really need more people to start colouring my work. I should make a new "help wanted" poster for the animation room.