Tuesday, 5 April 2011

DEADLINE!

Ok guys, here's the deal :)...
We spoke to Andy today in our tutorials and he suggested line testing what we have to far today, which we uploaded earlier and he also suggested booking out the rostrum room to animated because that way, we are in a controlled environment. This means that all the lighting will stay constant and the camera we'll be using will take higher quality pictures. GO1 is good for testing, but the lighting is inconsistent, with people coming in and out of the room, lights being turned off and on etc...

Andy caught up with me today and handed me a timetable spreadsheet with which time slot he has allocated us. We have the rostrum room on FRIDAY 15th APRIL -  we need to be there for 9a.m sharp to start animating. Andy explained that if the room is left unattended by at least 9.30, the room will be taken from us and given to someone else in need of it.

What does this mean?

ALL drawings need to be completed before then so that we can have the whole day to photograph the images and create the final animation. If there are any issues, please contact me or Laura ASAP as failing to meet this deadline will result in putting us way behind and having to work throughout the Easter Holidays with no way of meeting up with each other.
We would like the final week to be dedicated to finalising the animation and last-minute editing, creating the DVD menu and cases etc and authoring the DVD...

I understand people have other work commitments, but if we put in the hard work, this deadline can be easily achieved.
Sorry to sound harsh, but I know everyone's eager to do well and finish the animation and feel happy with the end result...

Keep up the good work :)

Laura's Line Test

We line tested Laura's part of the child placing in the first puzzle piece before we spent hours colouring in all the frames, so that we could see if the animation would work. We were thinking of possibly adding in a pause to portray the child thinking where the puzzle piece would fit in and also maybe removing a couple of the frames to make it run smoother.


line test 2 from Jade Midson on Vimeo.