I finished coloring, cutting out, and compiling my first group of clips into photoshop files tonight. Tomorrow I will start my first bulk group of animated clips. This ending sequence is the most complicated by far I have ever attempted, and is the most complicated of the film. A close second would be the next sequence I am doing, which is a fight in a grocery store. The one I am doing now is a war scene. They are so complicated because there is a great deal of fast moving clips in quick succession in them. What makes the war scene so complicated is that the backgrounds are film clips rather than still backgrounds. This creates an additional layer of confusion when animating as I also have to edit those clips to fit into each of the animated clips individually. After the war and fight sequences are done most of the rest should fall together (relatively) quickly. A couple of the others that may take longer are because I still need to do some inking/ pen work on them. This work is not as hard, but is time consuming. I am still aiming for December as a completion date on all animation and editing. Scoring the film, and sound effects may still take more time. The wonderful Andrea Anderson agreed to do the scoring, and I am very grateful for that. I worked with her in the past both on the Porkchops film and on a few of my smaller projects that fell apart for one reason or another. I really appreciate her support for my work and look forward to working with her on this project. I’m working out what my project work schedule will be once I start back to teaching in a couple of weeks. I should be able to average 1.5 hours per night, which is a little less than now but works out well. As it stands I now work about 2 hours a night broken into 1 hour segments, with a break in between. Animation work is hard on the brain, and the breaks are necessary for my sanity. I’ll do the same once work starts again, with 45 minute work sessions with a 20 minute break between. My goal is to be in bed no later than 1AM on work nights, but I’ll be aiming for 12 midnight. 1AM would allow me at least 6 hours of sleep a night, which is better than I am use to getting in a normal work schedule. Again, there is always time because of something is important to you then you make time. I may try to work a few hours over the weekends as well, but I’m not attempting that right out of the gate. Overall, things are going well with the project. Slower than I would like, but if that is my biggest problem then I guess I am doing pretty well.
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