During Tue 04-04 and Wed. 04-05, I performed animation. On my media request form, I only put down 8 hours per week, not quite realizing just how little time this was. Running full-force into the brunt of time-shortage, I adopted the following strategy: work at night. I reserved two 4 hour blocks of time from 10p-2a on each day, and then worked for 7-9 hours. The later morning hours are not often spent conscious these days. Just yesterday, I got the very kind Stephanie Zorn to increase my time to 16 hours for the first two weeks, which will result in slightly less horrendous pressure.
The process of animation is going well, and with experience, I get better at making good lighting, and better at making good motion (at least it seems like I’m getting better). In approximately 24 hours of solid animating, I have shot ~1725 frames, not including the tests done in my home lab (which I may still use for some things), which comes out to about 2 minutes and 24 seconds. There is a long way to go, but at least progress is being made.
Following are some production stills, for your consideration. The purpose of these photos is for you all to get a visual sense for what is going on, as well as some of the problems I have faced, and solutions I have eximated. Therefore, apologies for the briefness of the text.
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