We're hitting the home stretch! I've completed all the elements (including the new ending) and have animated all the scenes (except for some parts of the new ending). I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from the class despite not being able to show some completely rendered sections that are more than a minute long... thanks to rendering issues. Note to self: Rendering WILL take MORE than eight hours. Ah, the life of an animator. Only thing left to do other than those ending bits are some smaller 'effect' things like crackling electricity and dust bits.
Mouths... blah. I still haven't really figured out what I'm doing there. I've had the mouths drawn for a while, but figuring out how to synch them to the animation without it taking weeks is a little daunting. I might end up just doing mouth expressions that match their emotions rather than lips that move up and down with every syllable without it looking bad. That's going to be fiddled with when I start working more with sound.
Speaking of sound, I've been gathering the sound effects and soon I'll start designing the soundscape! I just need to finish all the animation completely, which I expect to do this weekend. I'll then move on to the soundscape on Monday and Tuesday, and spend all of Wednesday rendering so I'll be ready for presenting on Thursday! So, stay tuned for that!
Andre suggested that I bump the aspect ratio up to 1440x960, since I had been working in a standard definition one. ...Which I'm not really sure WHY I was doing that- I think someone wanted that for a previous project I was doing so I was like "Yeah I'll do that for this, too!" and ... well, anyway, I'm going through and making everything bigger. It's not a lot more work- I have to redo most of the camera angles in After Effects but other than that, it's just changing the size of the backgrounds and since I drew everything very large, it doesn't take away any quality.
I'm going to design the poster soon, which will be fun. Yay!
-Jordan
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