Lucky scene 13. A couple things I'm noticing as I'm starting to amass a pile of scenes that link together...

1. Main Character seems unemotional? Make him sleepier, especially in the longer scenes. It's 2:04 AM, dude needs some heavy eyelids. (note to self - revisit That One LONG Pain in the Ass Scene I Wasn't Happy With Anyway and re-do it, with exhausted gusto.)

2. Main Character's model is morphing slightly from scene to scene. I really didn't have a model pack when I started this, I just sorta dove in with a couple sketches and a rough idea of what he looked like. Good thing? Bad thing? "Artistic" thing? (Note to self - wait until production ends, several years in the future, THEN go back and fret over old, "crappy" drawings. Cry a little, while tweaking nose size in earlier scenes.)

3. Looking at all the finished scenes I've accomplished so far is - despite the mistakes I spot - really, really, really fantastic. :)

Non-debris related post!

Photos by Lissa Treiman.

NON-DEBRIS-RELATED UPDATE!

I have some art on the wall at Meltdown Gallery with the GirlsDrawinGirls "Girls of Summer" show! You should check it out, along with the work of 49 other talented ladies.

Gallery is located at:
7522 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

Been super busy with this, and other GDG projects, but I'm steadily chugging along with animation. Little by little, the scenes get done...proper update next week, I promise.

Story Cuts, Rough Cuts

I dove back into the Debris storyline recently, and I found myself cutting again--this time, a couple of sequences that I found redundant when I looked at the whole story. I really like the feel of the film a lot more now...the line between hallucination/reality is suitably blurred, but (hopefully) not to a point that will leave the audience completely baffled. At least, not baffled in a bad way.

That's one of the great things about working on something that's not a TV production...I can do things like go back and cut entire sequences, and no one gets pissed! HA!

ALSO - in Non-Debris Related News, GirlsDrawinGirls (the art collective I am a part of) will be exhibiting at COMICON 2009 - booth 5428!! Come by and say hi and check out some sassy pinup art drawn by sassy ladies. I will not be there this year, unfortunately, as I will be careening down the Colorado River in a rubber raft, 50 miles from a paved road. Wooo!

Here's a rough cut of Sc. 8!

Animation Goodness

Just chuggin away at animation! Here's Sc1...skunky goodness!

It's traditionally animated, in Flash. The animation is limited, but what movement there is, I've decided will be done the ol' fashioned way. I rough out the sequence on one layer, clean it up on another, and then use the fill tool to color. It is fun times.

6 scenes down, 109 to go!!

Animatin

Some screen-captures from sc. 1...I've started animation but it's going slooooowwwwww. The nudge keys, the fill tool, and slow-out have become my best friends. It's amazing how quickly you can alter timing and drawings! I'll post some animation when I've got a scene I'm ready to share...

Int Gas Station

Productive day! Finishing a whole sequence of BGs in one Sunday is a wonderful feeling. Am I going to keep going and try to finish a second sequence? OH YOU KNOW IT.

Here are a couple of BGs I was pretty happy with. The down-shot with the TV is my favorite of the bunch, I think.

May?! How is it May??!

I'm probably not going to have this short finished by the end of the year. Oh well. For the sake of motivaion, let's pretend that it's still possible somehow.

Car debris! So much car debris...

I'm having a pretty productive weekend! It feels like I've barely worked on the short all week, due to any number of distractions - bronchitis, shitty sinuses, friends doing fun stuff and inviting me, Facebook, Lost...but I'm back now. WITH A VENGANCE! More BGs to come tomorrow.