I'm finished with everything! Finally!

The mouths weren't as difficult to do as I imagined- though, I'm still positive that trying to actually lipsync would have taken far longer. I'm happy with the result, though. It's a good stand-in for this draft... but before I submit to festivals, I'd like to actually do lips.

I finished the final scene- which, despite being simple in idea, was a lot more complex to animated because the file is HUGE. Basically, it's a giant road that Staticat rides Jerry down, surrounded by lightposts that turn off as they pass. After Effects really did not want to render it out or even let me animate- it was constantly whining about how large the file was. But, I beat it into submission. It takes three hours to render out. It's only fifteen seconds, when usually things that are a minute long take an hour. Crazy scene.

I drew all the electricity, finally. Don't know why I had put it off for so long. I think it looks pretty cool.

I got the music from my guy! It's really magical. I was a little frustrated because I asked him to do another fifteen seconds of filler music and to get it to me by Saturday at the latest, which he agreed to. ...Aaand then he never got it to me. Eh, I worked something out. though.

The soundscape is a little more... lackluster than I hoped. This was my fault for not giving myself the time or the means to foley everything, so I just had to find royalty free sound effects on the internet. Apparently high-quality sound of horse hooves is impossible to do. Guh. The soundscape works for this draft, but I definitely want to foley everything on my own before I submit to festivals as well as re-record the dialogue with better sound equipment. You'd think the sound booth would be good for recording sound... but it was terrible and made everything clunky and echoey, but I didn't have enough time to rerecord everything.

When I upped everything to a bigger aspect ratio, some things weren't drawn large enough (most of Jerry, for example). So, a lot of my time was spent redrawing Jerry and then reanimating things because the larger files didn't transfer over perfectly. Time-consuming, but I think it was worth it.

I did the credits and I really like how they turned out!

-Jordan