61 days to picture lock

Hello hello, and welcome back.

-I have sent out the new script.
-I have recast Laure.
-I sent out a call for new ADR times to the cast. I am waiting for one more person to get back to me, then will set up a record time with Sparks next week.
-I am meeting with my composer this week to build the first pass of music.

After doing to a comp test to see how tracking in the CG face was going to work, I have decided to not pursue that. I am going to do as much facial animation in camera as I can. I came up with a killer solution to the face that's going to save me so much time down the road.

On the subject of "down the road," there is not much road left. With Picture Lock two months away, I will have to do 5 seconds of animation a day or make up for it somewhere else.


Back to work.

New Year New Look.

The New Year has started and so many things have changed. I have put some puppets together that really set me on fire, and I am happy to say thing are finally cooking in my home studio.

The mouth and eyebrows are going on in post. Something I have wanted to do the whole time and the new look makes it that much better. To round off the compositing I am going to us as many cg sets as possible. That may sound like a lot but every thing is going to be in Ae at some point anyway.

The new c stands are making my life fun again and they making things move much faster.

The new look is much less human and it makes every step that much more forgiving to animate and I hope that will show.

Back to work.

Race to the Finish Line - 12 weeks to go!

Playing catch up on my blog, as well as my thesis. No time to talk now!

Looking good.

I am hoping to have everything built and ready to go by the 8th Dec. There may be some painting to do but everything should be built. The new Laure is looking super sorry no pics. And a new animatic is on the way.

animatic time

Starting to read a lot better, but it still has a way to go.



ctnx got my design brain going.

was able to make some fun stuff and rule out some looks.

Testing testing 1.2.3..

So I made a test for the whole puppet pipe line and this is how it went this week.

1..Sculpt
2..Cast
3..Paint in latex
4..Armature wire body
5..Foam it up
6..Paint
7..Sleep

Here is how it looks with the test.

Some of the steps worked out nicely. And for the most part I would say I doubled what I know about puppet making with foam and latex. To be done with a hero puppet for the next week it is going to take all I got.

Voice Record

The voice record was a smash. I was running a little late, but when the ball got rolling things came together nicely. Laura and I were able to work with a native French speaker to get her voice were I wanted it, and Jim's voice was on the money the whole time. All and all it was a lot of fun and big step forward on the project.

This week I going to polish the animatic with the new audio and some temp music.

au revoir.