Week Eight: A New Scene

Hey there readers.

Well, thats another week over with, and the scene I've ben working on over the last few weeks was, as I predicted, completed at the start of the week. I hesitate to say done and dusted, and further dusting may be required down the line, but hopefully wont be.

So I started on a new scene. It actually feels good to work on a different scene, something different. Though this new scene takes place in the same locale as the last scene I was working on, so technically it's not that different. But the sense of progress is rather good.

Also this week, I realised just how long it takes to do shading and colouring. Due to some unfortunate instances Sam wasn't around the studio for a few days this week, so to avoid colouring in and shading the animation I did in his absence, only to find out there was something that needed changing, I left the shots as line art.

As it happens, the scenes were pretty good, only requiring minor tweaking. But this did mean I was left with, at the end of the week, 3 or 4 shots that were good but far from complete. So on Friday I thought "well, I'll get these coloured and finished today, no worries." Of course, this was overly optimistic, the shading and colouring sometimes seems to take just as long as the animation. This isn't a complaint, merely an observation. At least I'll be able to give btter E.T.As on things now.

Just two weeks left now. Hopefully I'll get this scene finished before then, I'm actually hopeful of getting it finished this week, and maybe I can get a quick scene I can finish in my last week... we shall see.

Take care.