MAY 2019 - W.I.P UPDATE

 FEATURE ANIMATION: LIFEGUARD x STITCH: SOMETHING ABOUT FRUIT

Have added 1 minute 40 seconds of animation this month, having completed the basic animation for the first of the two principle banging scenes for Act 4. To make it look nice it's posed in such a way that it only works from one side, which does double the time needed to do it but makes for a more interesting scene as I can use way more camera angles if a make a new base loop for each one. It's not 100% finished as I still need to do the final polish and none of Act 4 has it's sound done yet, but her mouth is pretty busy in Act 4 so that means no lip syncing! Luckily a have a nice folder of oral sound effects just waiting to go so sound should be easy for most of Act 4. The next scene will also be about a minute but will only really need to be shot from one angle so that means only one base loop will be required to build everything on top of, unlike the last one where I basically had to do a new one for each shot. If I can keep this pace, I think 4 months for 100% completion. June will be Act 4 principle scene 2. July the montage of other positions. August the climax. September we go back, finish the lighting, correct mistakes & make some alterations to Act 1. That's the plan but I really hope to get ahead of schedule. We'll see what happens.

ELDAR NARN

Finished Chapter 3 Page 26 today, putting me the other side of the flashbacks to last night, which did slow me down considerably. I cheated somewhat and each of the three cutaways takes place in an environment I had already built for other purposes to save time but it still took ages. We're past that now and back to getting to know Wyn and Gizzielle and to some more shots of Gizzi getting dressed. The action will shortly move from Gizzi's bedroom to her kitchen, where we will meet some more of her family and get an idea of where her story is heading (similar to what we got with Meredhel in Chapter 1).

Maybe not the most exciting month in terms of update news, both projects hit small slowdowns where scene changes required some extra work, but are still moving forward, no lost momentum, eyes on the prize. I definitely feel closer to the end and hopefully when I do next month's update the whole next scene of animation will be done.

PS: Had this saved as a draft for 3 weeks before I realised, that's why the May update came out in June! I'll try not to do that again.