to the drawing board!

this weekend has seen me working tirelessly (is it dramatic enough for you yet?) on my section of the animatic. Aware that my boards needed adjusting i spent the evening going over the boards in pen so they could easily be scanned. I also completed some tweens to help with the pacing of the animatic as sometimes its difficult to lay out if you don't have sufficient drawings. I've separated each character and environment background into its own folder to keep the file nice and neat so anyone should be able to tweak this if necessary. This is by no means the final one and i appreciate its a bit scruffy, but its purely for timing at this stage as were concerned how long our tale actually is.

laying out the scene....plus evidence of adobe premier when it hasn't crashed....(rare!)

currently, my half of the film is 1min 59 secs including a 23 second intro credits! Its gone waaaay over its minute limit but its felt necessary in order to let the story breath and play out correctly for the viewer. Shall show the group how its looking tomorrow and we'll have to go from there either by cutting the story down or going with what we've got. I'd post on here...but ive just exported and the movies stretched where i idiotically selected widescreen at the very beginning...stupid...utterly stupid mistake there...ahem

As it is, there could be a potential odd few seconds to be cut from this but other than that not much time can be saved from it from how it is. Pretty pleased with my skills in premier...considering its a frankly annoying piece of software to use (mine tends to crash!) but its nice to see some movement going on and see the characters beginning to act.

Were gonna have to pull out all the stops this week in order to produce the highest quality of work ready for the second pitch...we can do it...who needs sleep ay? :P