Roughed Up Wednesday, 25 February 2009
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The animated ‘rough’ for episode 2 is done. We are on schedule and Blair and Stephen can now compose music and create sound effects at will. Blair will be blogging his composing (which, by the way, he is doing in just one day – there’s a challenge!), so keep a look out for his posts.
What you see is the next stage from the animatic we showed you last week. Never let anyone tell you that animation is quicker on a computer. This process takes a lot of time and concentration. The ‘rough’ is somewhat, well, rough looking, as we are only concerned here with movement. You’ll notice that we’ve reused some of the stills from the animatic, where nothing impacts on the music or sound effects. You’ll notice too, a few props from episode 1 that we’ve borrowed for convenience – Jasper Fforde‘s The Big Over Easy was left by Aileen in the cafe in episode 1, but will be a different book in the final animation for this episode.
So, next? We need to make things look pretty. It’s a bit like decorating your house. The ‘rough’ is bare plastered walls, now we need to do the paint and wallpaper stuff. Oh, and tell the computers to generate the 2239 frames we need to put together for a week on Friday!
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