June 2019 - W.I.P UPDATE

FEATURE ANIMATION: LIFEGUARD x STITCH: SOMETHING ABOUT FRUIT

Hello Everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that it has been an incredibly successful month for the primary animation, although I have fallen just short of where I wanted to be by July. The plan was to have finished the second main banging scene by the end of the month and I still have about eight seconds of lip sync and detail animation to finish on the final shot. The reason I have fallen short is this scene became a lot more elaborate than initially planned and has wound up being about two and a half minutes long. Everything really worked out exactly the way I planned here and I felt this scene deserved a little more time to play out. 

I have also caught up with all the sound all the way up to the end of the scene. Total length is now (EDIT), which is a little concerning because I want to try and keep it under half and hour and there is still about 2 minutes to go. the plan is to go back and make make some cuts once i'm done because there are some shots that don't need to go on as long and can be trimmed for an easy minute shaved off the total run time. Also  i'm a little worried about the pacing in the middle so I think some cuts there might keep things flowing nicely.

Next is a montage of four different positions that I wanted to include, but don't want to transition into or spend too much time on. At most 10-12 seconds for each one, in one single shot. Now I know I like to make these promises and then come back next month having gone significantly beyond what I planned, But I really mean it this time! I'm hoping that compared to the two and half minutes I added this month, getting 40-50 seconds in the can before the end of July shouldn't be too hard.

ELDAR NARN

I am officially half way through Chapter 3 now, with page 37 rounding the first half out. Right now I am trying to find the right lighting setup for the downstairs and the kitchen in Gizzi's house. I've got two pages of panels posed, but I'm having some trouble finding a light setup I'm happy with. I was very pleased with 95% of the lights so far this chapter so I don't want the quality to suddenly drop halfway though. This means there might be a delay with the continuation of Chapter 3 while I get the lights sorted, but I'll have the poses ready to go so I'll probably have a good couple of pages ready once I'm fully alighted.

Eldar Narn is probably going to receive a little less attention over the next couple of months as we get closer to the end of the animation I'm going to try to focus on that more to get it finished sooner rather than later. It's not going on hiatus or anything but progress will likely not be as fast as it has been.

Well that's about everything I have to report this month. Supremely happy with the progress made and the final result for both Eldar Narn and the animation. In particular the lip syncing in the animation this month has been very good, some of the best I've done so far. I'll be back next month, hopefully with a completed montage, good headway made into the final scene and I fully lit kitchen.

Goodbye Friends,