Tomorrow

Starts the december contest for the 11 second club! This is what I've been preparing for.

Tomorrow I have to download the sound and start planning. I was thinking that this time I could really plan the animation. Maybe do some sketches, really think it through. Until this moment, I have been going straightforward with the animation, and I've had some acting problems with that technique. Animating comes to a stop and I really don't know where to go next with the character. If I would block it first, so that it would be a quideline for the animation, I could probably work faster too. And I think I can do changes to the block if required by the shot.

Also I was thinking about planning the camera properly. I figured out in one shot, that if I come to an long shot, further away from the character, I don't really have to concentrate on the subtle movement. Also if the shot is short, the viewers have less time to read the character, so they only catch the main poses. Then there is no need for complex facial manipulation. Less work, more efficient.

I noticed that I forgot the lip sync totally. And that's a big portion of the 11's clubs challenge. I'll have to do some of that before I start with the whole thing.

We'll see what happens. We = me and the bots.