Status Report for January 1, 2008

Happy New Year!  Some project-related stuff to blurb about:

1.  Our four 2-D animations are officially in production mode.  I’ve sorted through all the dialog bits, selected the keepers, and have started working on some model sheets for our characters.  The model sheets aren’t going to be too terribly elaborate — I’m the only animator, so there’s no need to go totally nuts on it.  Just enough to work out the scaling, number of teeth and fingers, all that fun stuff.  Once that’s done, I can work on some layouts…

2.  In less encouraging news, our two 3-D animations are officially wandering around with their thumbs up their noses.  The bee movie has a partial script and no storyboards, while our robot movie is patiently waiting — and waiting — for me to record some friggin’ dialog.  What’s the deal?  Since when did I become so completely incompetent at this?  Oh, wait a sec… I was never competent to begin with.  This is just par for the course…

**sigh**

So, I am simultaneously pleased as punch and ready to throw myself under a moving bus.  The joys of animating…

One thing I can do while I wait for an opportune moment to record dialog is start working on the robot models.  It’s been almost two years since I last looked at the model or interface code, which is like twenty years to an animator (animator years are like dog years, only animators aren’t anywhere as adorable as your average mutt, nor can they be potty-trained).  Maybe gazing upon the cryptic mess of code jibber-jabber will inspire me to roll tape on some dialog.  Or maybe it’ll make me junk the 3-D thing altogether and take up claymation.  Either way works for me…