Home Stretch

Okay, So it's been like for freaking ever since I've posted anything to this blog. It's probably because...oh, I don't know, Because I've been working on the movie?

I'm officially in the home stretch right now. So much so that the two main characters don't even have to speak anymore. My goal was to finish it by Christmas so I could send it out as presents but it looks like( If I do it right and don't rush it) perhaps by New years, but, we'll see.

As usual, I discovered that the easier a thing looks ( a character picks something up) the harder it is to animate. And the harder it looks (exploding ship) the easier.

To whet your appetite, here are some stills from the movie:

That's it, EM

Edit as you go

I've reached the halfway point.
I've started to do full edits of the movie from the beginning to the point I'm at now.

I can't imagine animating the whole movie and then going back and adding the voices, music and sound effects. it would take a week of editing at least. And then, heaven forbid, you discover a mistake or you don't like the flow of a certain scene.
If I start editing now, I can fix mistakes as they happen AND when I reach the the last scene, the movie will be ready to go.

EM

FARM. Now a movie, not an episode.

I posted another Ad for the movie.


So far this thing is 20 minutes long and only half way done! I really hate the talking scenes. they take forever because first I have to translate the speech into a visual form so I can see where words start and end. Then animate the mouths to it, then the facial expressions, then the body language.
I like action scenes because you just make something go from A to B.

Episode one is 23 minutes long which is the same as a 30 minute TV episode, so I guess this is going to be a OVA which in japan are Original Video Animations or basically a movie version of a TV show.
With the animation looking 80% better than the first. It's starting to look more like a movie version anyway.

EM